Papers on Poets and Poems
A Word Is Worth A Thousand Pictures? - Shakespeare's Sonnet 18 And Keats' Grecian Urn
Words: 238 - Pages: 1.... of their poems by writing them down in verses for
people to read for generations to come. By doing so, both of the poets are
preserving the beauty of the subjects, which are the young friend of Shakespeare
and Keats' "Grecian Urn."
Beginning with Sonnet 18, and continuing here and there throughout the
first major grouping of sonnets, Shakespeare approaches the problem of
mutability and the effects of time upon his beloved friend in a different
fashion. Instead of addressing the problem of old age, he emphasises his
friend's attributes:
"Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate... (lines 1-2) .....
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Bryon's "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage": The Byronic Hero
Words: 984 - Pages: 4.... associated with the likes of his ancestors. In Childe
Harold's case he breaks this mold by running away from his father's castle and
exploring nature. Bruce Wayne on the other hand invents himself a new identity
that differs in every way from the preset mold into which he was born.
In the fourth stanza Harold tells us that Childe Harold is unhappy and
upset with the society around him. ÒThen loathed he in his native land to dwell,
which seemed to him more lone than Eremite's sad cell.Ó Childe Harold is
extremely miserable with the societyin which he is forced to live. He feels so
isolated that he compares his life to that of a he .....
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Poetry Analysis: “An Irish Airman Foresees His Death”
Words: 378 - Pages: 2.... colors represented different groups of people. The “Kiltartan poor,” exemplifies the Kiltartan people, who are unfairly ruled citizens of Ireland, who are poor because the do not have their own country. He then tells how no outcome of the war would do any harm to Britain, The Irish were the only ones with something to lose. And, that nothing would make the Irish forget the war. They would never be as happy as they were before they fought. Yeats’ then writes “Nor law, nor duty bade me fight, Nor public men, nor cheering crowds,” which was portraying that the Irish were not forced to fight, but it was a custom for a countr .....
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Analysis Of "The Age Of Anxiety" By W.H. Auden
Words: 2581 - Pages: 10.... the theoretical nature of man
3. Rosetta endeavors to create an imaginary and happy past
4. Emble passes his youthful judgment on the others'
follies
V. First act of Part II, "The Seven Ages"
A. Malin's domination of this act
1. Serves as a guide
2. Controls the characters through his introduction of
each age
B. Others support Malin's theories by drawing from past, present,
and potential future experiences
C. The ages
1. The first age
a. Malin asks the reader to "Behold the infant"
b. Child is "helpless in cradle and / Righteous
still" but .....
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T. S. Eliot's "The Hollow Men"
Words: 1263 - Pages: 5.... more precise. He learned the necessity of
clear and precise images, and he learned too, to fear romantic softness and to
regard the poetic medium rather than the poet's personality as the important
factor. Eliot saw in the French symbolists how image could be both absolutely
precise in what it referred to physically and at the same time endlessly
suggestive in the meanings it set up because of its relationship to other images.
Eliot's real novelty was his deliberate elimination of all merely connective
and transitional passages, his building up of the total pattern of meaning
through the immediate comparison of images without overt explan .....
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Comparison And Contrast Of William Blake's Poems
Words: 2744 - Pages: 10.... heard
The Holy Word
That walk'd among the ancient trees,
Calling the lapsed Soul,
And weeping in the evening dew;
That might controll
The starry pole,
And fallen, fallen light renew!
"O Earth, O Earth, return!
"Arise from out the dewy grass;
"Night is worn,
"And the morn
"Rises from the slumberous mass.
"Turn away no more;
"Why wilt thou turn away?
"The starry floor,
"The wat'ry shore,
"Is giv'n thee till the break of day."
The Chimney Sweeper (Innocence)
When my mother died I was ve .....
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Romantic Sonnet
Words: 1036 - Pages: 4.... speaker and
also in the setting on the work. Nature, in many Romantic sonnets, is in direct
parallel with the emotions being conveyed. Smith, for example, uses the water
to aid the reader's comprehension of the speaker's state of mind. Included in
this traditional natural setting is the use of the sea as stormy, deep,
extensive, and dark which ties the speaker in with the setting as the scene
applies to the tone of the poem as well. Also characteristic of the Romantic
sonnet is the retreat from the neo-classical age and its significant historical
references into a new age where it becomes common to speak of "nothing." In
William Wo .....
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Theme Presented In The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner
Words: 499 - Pages: 2.... to shoot the Albatross with his
crossbow. In doing this he illustrates his belief that he does not need
the good luck of the albatross. He also elucidates his readiness too
severe his bonds with the universal cycle of life and love. Following his
execution of the albatross, his luck suddenly changes.
His luck indeed seems to change, and the Mariner experiences the
punishment that comes with the moral error of killing the Albatross--
isolation and alienation from everything but himself. Then, the
"Nightmare," the life in death, kills his crew. He is lost at sea, left
alone in the night to suffer, and he has detached from his nat .....
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A Valediction Of Forbidding Mourning: The Truth About Mourning
Words: 860 - Pages: 4.... and doesn't want his lover to be sad, but it also conveys the message that when the morning comes it will be a time for them to part. Therefore, I ask, "aren't we all guilty at one point or another while in a love relationship of trying to convey a message to a loved one and they in turn have misinterpreted that message?"
The poem begins "As virtuous men pass mildly away, And whispering their souls to go." Here the persona is trying to convey to his lover that she should deal with his leaving as though it is a death. Not a death in which she should be sad, but of a death of a man that was a very good human being who will go peacefully and .....
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History In Langston Hughes's "Negro"
Words: 974 - Pages: 4.... "worker," "singer," and "victims" (4, 7, 10, and
14). The first example is a situation that has taken place in Africa;
the second in the United States. Finally, Hughes uses repetition of the
first and last stanza to conclude his poem. To thoroughly understand the
point that Hughes is making, one must take an enhanced inspection at
certain elements that Hughes uses throughout the poem.
In "Negro", Hughes gives the reader a compact visual exposé of the
historical life of blacks. He does not tell the reader in detail about
what has happened to blacks; therefore, Hughes allows these actual accounts
to marinate in the mind of the re .....
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