In many of the metaphysical poems in John Donne's literary canon, the poet assumes a voice that, as John Carey describes "...communicates itself through the dictatorial attitudes [he] adopts, through the unrelenting argumentativeness of his manner, and through the manipulation and violent combination of the objects of a sensed world in his imagery". Specifically, →
The use of language in " Casualty" is similar to that in " The Strand at Lough Beg" as Heaney juxtaposes calamity with violence through changes in the language. Seamus Heaney's two poems " The Strand at Lough Beg" and " Casualty" rely on language to create meaning about the sectarian violence in Ireland.
His works give an effective insight into the lives of the soldiers on the frontline, for example in ' Soldati' the numbness and futility of war is conveyed to us.' Soldati,' is a poem composed of four short lines where Ungaretti metaphorically speaks of death and the ' Soldati' as if they are ' leaves →
Indeed, the form of a single stanza is used to suggest that the speaker feels unable to distinguish between various thoughts as the thought of her lover is all-encompassing, and such is furthered through the caesura ';' distinguishing the clause ' however kind' from the rest of the line, suggesting that the speaker feels unable →
Through his approach of theme, tone, and his use of language, Marvell criticizes the love poetry tradition as it existed in his time in order to argue that we must seize the moment and see the reality of time and love. Marvell contradicts the traditional love poetry theme; love is eternal and →
Weaved into a simple rhyming couplet at the very start of " The Wife's" prologue it is a striking start to the poem which immediately lets the reader know how risky the narrator is going to be, and creates the significant image of somebody rating anything more important than the bible. The simple structure of →
When I read the poem on its own, I was moved by the simple power of the words: the way they seemed to effortlessly rhyme, or at least sounded similar in my head; the way they fell into place so there was a rhythm to the poem; and how the whole scene was created using →
The clear pane window shows class, as everything is superior and expensive with " crushed ice white glass", a linen tablecloth, and a " single rose" on each table. The words clear, glass, ice and white are cold words, and this is the second time the poet has used the word " white" in the →
Shakespeare's 116th sonnet examines the love of " true minds". As is typical of the Elizabethan and more specifically the Shakespearian sonnet, the imagery is intricate and Shakespeare makes use of the conceited metaphor. However, the exclamation " Oh, no! " whilst remaining constant to the rhythm, separates the poem and marks the natural break →
Thus, Walt Whitman's viewpoints on the daily human struggles of life in the form of mental, spiritual, and physical health are consistent towards the present day and time of society. In Whitman's poem " Song of Myself," he talks about his existence, his relationship with his environments, and the vast universe around him. Whitman talks →
Rhythm, being the regular recurrence of sound, is at the heart of all natural phenomena: the beating of a heart, the lapping of waves against the shore, the croaking of frogs on a summers night, the whisper of wheat swaying in the wind. Both Gwendolyn Brooks Sadie and Maud and Anne Bradstreets To →
But it is the poet in each of these ten poems who attempts to capture the magic of each respective painting, that make the intersection of art and writing so interesting. The most interesting part was in the third stanza when it seemed as though the author was alluding to the fact that one day →
The speaker in the poem is one of the victims in this evil of racism. Though the poem is old and is written in the traditional form, the meaning in the poem is not affected. It is crucial to give the general analysis of the poem at the outset.
Then one day a solitary gunshot and the assassination of Arch Duke Francis Ferdinand triggered what would be one of the most bloody and horrific wars the world had ever seen. It is believed that the actual assassin was a member of the a Serbian gang known as ' The Black Hand.' This intense rivalry →
This poem -which eschews the romanticism of late Victorian poetry for a more grizzled, earthy take on young love- warps Housman's themes, form and linguistic structures to create a more hardened, but also more democratic and realistic viewpoint; a viewpoint which happily captures the socio-political changes in postwar Britain. As Housman's theme of the perils →
La Belle Dame Sans Merci is about a knight who meets a beautiful woman, and is enveloped in the spell that she weaves around him. She represents freedom, and a life without restrictions, a life that is very far removed from the industrial age in which the poem is set. In a way it is →
Black." This brilliant personification and its harsh sounds add considerably to the image of the rocks that she is trying to create in our minds. I want to fill it with colour and ducks, The zoo of the new." Unfortunately she could not escape her own troubles to achieve this.
Perhaps the most revealing part of the covert confession is in the fourth stanza, in which the speaker exclaims, " Yes! that was the reason (as all men know / In this kingdom by the sea)" The exclamation, which disrupts the general pattern of beats, gives the impression that the speaker is convincing himself of →
The rhyme, alliteration or the poet's delivery is associated to the understanding of the message, however, the evaluation of sound as its own is regularly falls between the cracks. In the interest of hypothesizing the aforementioned supplemental effects of the performance in contrast with the text, a critical listening of the poem is to be →
Reid also utilizes poetic elements such as allegory and incorporates cats and dogs to teach people to take chances in life. In this poem, Reid applies allegory to clarify what the hidden meaning of the poem. This view is significant because people do not intend to take risks and live a fearful life.
The theme is developed throughout the poem by the way Patten has described the " river as wearing lily pads like medals" and " kingfishes were his secret agents", these quotes all come under how happy the river is and what a great life it is living. As the poem continues it →
This was a crucial issue in countless Harlem Renaissance writings as the writers grappled with being part of a country that celebrated liberty, and at the same time being constrained by the African ethnic identity. The essay focuses on ' America' and ' If We Must Die' out of the all the poems from McKay's →
This extra dimension of poetic expression, created by an author of a poem and as if constantly filled by his or her presence when a poem is being read, facilitates the establishment of a closer connection between a poet and a reader, and therefore is perhaps not less important than the thematic content of a →
The setting of " Icarus" by Fields transmits the ultimate irony in this poem the fact that such a mundane modern world is mixed with the glorious splendor and adventure of the past. When he was in the maze with the Minotaur, all he wanted was to get out and live a peaceful life. Yet →
They took advantage of the freedom of words and used poetry to express their views and opinions on social and personal issues, which was most effectively done through the usage of vibrant language." London" by William Blake is one such example of a poet using aggressive language to express his dissatisfaction with the oppression and →
Slessor's ' Beach Burial' is based around a distinguished event and a set timeframe, being the 1942 Battle of El Alamein in World War 2. The death and burial of the drowned soldiers, which form the main content of the poem, are likely be fictional, but still based on a historical event. Through this, he →
These quotes really help you imagine the loneliness of the man and the beauty of the woman. Keats uses symbolism to show the love between the woman and the knight. As the knight and the woman get intimate he states, " l set her on my pacing steed". This quote shows the woman and the →
Both poems suggest the responsibility of participation of war but not necessarily the obligation to join and the separate tones and imagery that imply the dark side of war and the decisions that need to be made. In " The Man He Killed" and " The Death of a Ball Turret Gunner" the message is →
The author is trying to show the reader how the athlete dying young may be a good thing because fame and glory begins to fade when you are alive but once a person dies they are much more appreciated and the man dies after taking a big win which results in the town viewing him →
She was a rarity not only because of her poetry but because she was one of the first female pioneers into the field of poetry. One of the most fascinating things about Dickinson's poetry is her overwhelming attention to detail, especially her " pin-point" insights on death. The main idea the poem is trying to →
The form of Owen's poem is, therefore, built around three main points: the appearance of the men, their experiences, and the effect this has on their lives. In Graves' poem the form is also key to understanding the poem, but perhaps in a less obvious way." Recalling War" has five stanzas, in a form that →
The composition of this mid shot places Neil in the edge of the shot, with the lighting focused on his father's face. Framing is used as we see the doors in the background creating a frame around Neil's father which emphasizes him. In order to fully understand the relationship between Neil and his father, we →
The discursively unhurried nature of MacLeod's stories traverses the intensity and poignance of moments of existential revelation and reflection on the past. However, the poetic and figurative style of MacLeod's works contributes, in fact, to dramatic and powerfully theatrical scenes of trepidation and libido. Discursive and relaxedly unhurried passages are used by MacLeod to contrast →
The poet uses the element of alliteration. This is evident in the words flames, flamed and fire; and later in the poem feel, fall and flowers. The visual imagery that he has created gives the reader a compassionate view to the wife's emotional grief while surrounding her with a fountain of newly born life. The →
The poem Homecoming retells the agonising existence of the end of war and the poem Life-cycle shows the religiously followed football in Victoria. The fact that I never was repeated caused the mood to change, as the reader was instantly aware that the poem was spoken from the infants' point of view. The poem flowed →
The two poems ' Disabled' and ' Mental Cases', both written by Owen, are about war and cover similar but also very different situations.' Disabled' displays the thoughts and feelings of a young man who has lost his limbs after suffering the injuries of war.' Mental Cases', on the other hand, captures the damage →
The adjective ' breathless' and past participle ' half sobbing' when paired on the second line dramatise the narrator's loss of human physicality, and the latter action ' I put my arms round a tree' might be read as an appeal to nature to fulfil her incomplete identity, with the encasement of the phrase with →
A the time of the war Great Britain was divided, there were the people that talked of war and there are the people that were stuck in the cruel, harsh reality of war, and I feel that not all the poets have written there poems with a direct link to horror. The oxford book of →
In this way, Brooks' poem shows that poetry can " give name to those ideas which are, until the poem, nameless and formless". Both Brooks and Lorde view emotion, and the poetry that comes out of it, as a way of resisting oppressive norms. Brooks' focuses her anger about being systematically oppressed into the language →
11 2008210003 TKL301/ TAKE-HOME EXAMINATION ARISTOTLE'S DEFENSE OF POETRY AGAINST PLATO IN THE LIGHT OF LITERARY CRITICISM As literary critics, Plato and Aristotle have different opinions on poetry and also it's social effects. In this way, Aristotle's Poetics is a kind of answer to Plato's arguments on poetry.
Essay consists of three parts: an introduction, which is the first paragraph of an essay, the body which includes several paragraphs, and the conclusion, which consist of one or more paragraphs and is structurally the last part of an essay content. Poetry is an ancient literary art. The word essay for the first time was →
The Lottery & The Bourne Identity In Shirley Jackson's " The Lottery," the structure and the arrangement of the incidents arevery important because they are what drive the plot forward. The incidents in this story are structured in such a way that they slowly reveal odd behaviors that could lead the reader to anticipate the →
Consciousness is the awareness of one's surroundings and identity; the awareness of universal concepts and the relation this plays upon the individual. The image of the mother and child is the complete picture of both innocence and beauty.
Through her use of these techniques in the poems " In the Waiting Room" and " One Art" we can see how Elizabeth Bishop's wielding of personal experience functions beyond the bounds of ' confessional poetry' and becomes more about reconciling the sense of loss in her life". Now that she has lived as a →
Shakespeare was a leading member of the group from 1594 forthe rest of his career. By 1594, at least six of Shakespeare's plays hadbeen produced. Shakespeare's plays and poems have become a required part ofeducation in the United States.
Originally used to signify a shield or a coat of arms, the term ' blazon' transformed it meaning through the description of virtues or positive attributes, usually of a woman, in late sixteenth century poetry.' Blazon' can either denote a noun, signifying the actual list of virtues, or a verb, signifying the process of →
This poem accurately shows how clean and authentic love is to facilitate with no love you have naught. It is true that if the person has too much money but not loved one's to share or enjoy the use of that money then that person feels lonely. Every poem lover especially the one who loves →
Although she makes many mistakes and her judgments lead to the ultimate tragedy her intentions are good." Yes, I was swayed by duty and consideration for others; that was why I lied to my son day in and day out".She loves and wants to protect her son and to do so →
The section Happy is England Now is situated at the start of the anthology, Up the Line to Death. In this section, the editor, Brian Gardner has arranged the six poems in such a way that it is clear these poems are largely pro-war. Although the ideas of death are mentioned, they are used →
He was famous in his own lifetime and was the first poet in the history of Latin literature to be the subject of lectures given by a contemporaryteacher. In 19 BC, Vergil set out on a trip to Greece and Asia with the intention of revising his masterpiece.
In the following example, the repetition of the ' f sound in the first two lines lends them a rhythmic and musical quality: The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew, The furrow followed free: We were the first that ever burst Into that silent sea. From " The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" →
Bushrui and Jenkins summarise the heavily weighted amount of academic and authorised literary criticism targeted towards Gibran' s work: " One of the major difficulties in any scholarly attempt to study the life and works of Kahlil Gibran is the irreconcilable attitudes of those who have deified him and those who have dismissed him as →
With close to two thousand different poems and one thousand of her letters to her friends that survived her death Emily Dickinson showed that she was a truly dedicated writer. Emily Dickinson was born in Amherst, Massachusetts on December 10, 1830 to a prominent family, her father Edward Dickinson was both a lawyer and the →
Robert Frost's ' The Tuft of Flowers' and ' Stopping by woods on a snowy evening' explores that an understanding of place and the intellectual experience may result in a greater experience of self through the ramifications of the romanticist settings and the persona's isolation. Hence, through the natural and romanticist →
Furthermore, as previously mentioned, biographical criticism, while no longer used by scholars, still remains relevant, as it holds strong ties to the claim wherein it states that in order to evaluate a fictional text, the reader should focus on the biography of the author, as the life and experiences of the author will enable the →
The repetition in this type of rhyme is not in the spelling like it is usually in other types of rhyme schemes but in the pronunciation. This type of rhyming according to poets and other poetry experts is usually highly conventional that is represented in a highly symbolic form yet it is simplified at the →
In " The Interrogation of the Man of Many Hearts and " That Day", the character of the beloved is conspicuously absent, leaving the lover in an attempt to sculpt the beloved into existence using language. Love is shown to be something that fails, as the lover has nothing to go by but interpretations and →
It's quite relevant to realize that t is is not the only line that has much importance. While getting farther into the poem, this line s first mentioned in the first stanza, line three, "(I think I made you up inside my head)," and then r updated at the end of every other stanza. This →
Bruce Flohr ENG 104 March 30th War as a Theme in Two Poems from World War I War is as old as mankind, and so is poetry, so it should come as no surprise that war is often used as a theme in poetry. Thomas chooses to focus on the uplifting hope of patriotism and →
It is not only the author's style or message of the work, it is the voice of the poem itself and it is not always identified with the author. In fact, it is the description of the imaginative person that occurred in specific situation. It goes without saying that the voice of the poetry is →
Similarly in Roger Dean Kiser's short narrative Elvis Died at Florida Barber College.the oppressive relationship between the orphan and his matron negatively affects his experiences.ensuing in a suppression of individualism. Complexities besides arise from the deficiency of power in relationships as shown through Neil and Mr Keating where the important figure of the wise man →
On a hot, hot day..".sets the scene of where this is happening, the country is very hot. In the second stanza, there are a lot of ' s' sounds and they carry through the stanzas like a snake and thy also tell you about the snake, "...slackness soft-bellied.."., you can imagine the snakes belly, " →
Death seem to be the reoccurring theme in this poem. Not only is winter referred to as death, but the cat seeks out to find or not find death with the poet. This could mean that the cat is able to sense the death magically. The cats way of telling whether or not the poet →
Although de los Santos does not explicitly call these feelings unrealistic and bad for womens self-esteem, the language choice throughout the poem makes it clear that the ideas are unrealistic, and that believing in them with one hundred percent of yourself is probably a bad idea. The poem opens with the image of finding " →
This poem is designed as Duffy's recollection of her mother through her mother's own memories, and her recognition of all she was before the responsibilities and commitment on having children came into her life. Duffy recognizes the sacrifices that her mother made for her children, and celebrates the optimism and hope of her life when →
I think the most prominent image of the island is at midnight, when it's " all a glimmer" and at noon, when there's a " purple glow", I can clearly picture in my mind the moonlight reflecting off of the water and fields of purple heather (which if a flower native to the island). In →
c)In continuous prose (that is, in paragraph form rather than bulleted points or notes), write an account of this poem, showing how the techniques used created the effects that lead to your interpretation of the meaning of the poem. The effect the poem has on the reader gives rise to feelings about the content. →
Her song is only set in two tenses the past and the future. Like the song reveals, the job involved everything, from opening the front door, to emptying the chamber pot. As a whole this verse only focuses on what physical work she was expected to do. The next verse goes on to show the →
As exemplified in Quicksand by Nella Larsen, " Heritage" by Countee Cullen, and " Heritage" by Gwendolyn Bennett, Western cultural domination due to white supremacy, the slave trade, and colonialism prevents Africana people from understanding their identities and their culture. Helga Crane's late conversion to Christianity in Quicksand by Nella Larsen reflects how Western cultural →
The next day the class and teacher came in and the teacher went crazy and never came back to the school. Of course he did not drop the play and his dad came to the play and was very upset.