"One Art," by Elizabeth Bishop, is an emotional elegy in which losing isn't just an art, but a mastered skill. ... Although it may seem that "One Art" conveys the simplistic idea that losing items is a disaster, in fact, Bishop uses irony to express her thoughts: articulating her losses as insignificant matters, but admitting in the end to the uncontrollable affects of doubt the losses have on her and the self-knowledge and control she has gained from it. ... The number of lines (19), stanzas (6), repeated lines ("The art of losing isn't hard to master"), and meter make this poem a...

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It is an art. ... Second, literature ought to be the great-book namely "notable for literary form or expression". ... Ancient Greek thought held that poetry, drama, and other forms of fine art were imitations of reality, a reality that could be actual or potential. Indeed, their phrase for what we think of as "fine art" was "imitative arts", and great importance was attached to poetry as an integral part of the Greek education. Some questions naturally spring from this broad theory of art, for example: what exactly is being imitated by the poet or artist? ...

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Tragedy and Art William Butler Yeats The theme of "Lapis Lazuli" is that all forms of art can surpass the tragedies experienced within the world; therefore making it gay. ... Art can bring people joy even in the worst of times. ... In the second stanza the reader is introduced to the first of the three arts in the form of Shakespeare's tragic heroes, Prince Hamlet and King Lear. ... Civilizations rise and fall; yet it is the art that remains. ... Literature, music, and art are that which helps to make life gay. ...

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A sonnet is in verse form and has fourteen lines of iambic pentameter. ... The Relationship Between Art and Life Like much of Shakespeare's work, Sonnet 18 is all about the art-form of writing and expressing one's self through this medium. Sonnet 18 is, at its clearest, a poem about how art itself can give value to human life. Art makes us ponder the value of human life and the significance of purpose and meaning. ... In the 18th Sonnet, Shakespeare tells us that the relationship between art and life is this: each art form, in its own wonderfully unique way, has the ability of of cap...

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Yeats poetry has the unique ability to unify the dichotomous aspects of human existence in a lyrical manifestation of the realm of art, our memories fraught with contradiction, our current struggle with meaning and the processes of time and decay. ... The element of art is not served as a solution for the tensions and arguments within Yeats heart, but instead offers him the possibility of some form of transcendent solace for the dualities of his heart. ... The poem is in the form of the Ottava Rima - 8 stanzas with 8 lines in regular rhythm of 'abababcc', as it was traditionally us...

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ANALYSIS OF SOUND AND FORM IN JOHN KEAT"S "ODE ON A GRECIAN URN" THEME In John Keats poem "Ode on a Grecian Urn," Keats paints a verbal portrait of a man looking with admiration at an urn. ... Although the speaker may desire his life to imitate the art, at the poems conclusion, he realizes that his reality will not change. ...

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An ode is a rhymed lyric of Greek origin, in a form of an address, expressing admiration for a person or a certain event. ... She despised the abundance in art, but is modest and decent. ... The later poetry is not as perfect as the classic art. ... Numerous personifications refer to classical art. ... This makes the verse-form simple and regular. ...

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"Blake's art is one of putting the complex into the simple" William Blake's art is one of putting the complex into the simple, as evident in the poems published in The Songs of Innocence and The Songs of Experience. ... The rhyming scheme in the poem is very simple, taking the form of A, A, B, B, C, C and so on. All of these techniques used in The Lamb, and the fact that the speaker is an innocent child, add to the observation that Blake's art is one of putting the complex into the simple. ... Blake transformed these complex matters into a simpler form by using the same tech...

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It seems as though Baudelaire is bragging about how good of a writer in saying that he is God of the vision, and his work is a perfect art. ... This poem is kind of a reflection on how Keats feels about art, and in this poem, the art on a Grecian Urn. It also appears to be a journey into the world of art, aspired by an Urn, which is what the poem is based upon. ... He is speaking of the unheard melodies that are implicated on the Urn's art, and it seems like he views art as something that is eternal. ... As we can now see, these great works of the Romanticism period consistently show a fo...

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He does this by using opposing imagery and metaphors as a form of describing the two perspectives. ... As the speaker refers why he prefers to remain outside where his form of happiness (which he considers a higher form of happiness) is described. ... In stanza 3 he goes on to equate the call of the trumpet with Art. "(Art if you like)", he says is what he seems to find happiness in. The "individual sound" of art, "insists that I too am individual", illustrating his connection with art as a form of defining his own identity of being more individual than the dan...

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In its various forms it has maintained it value and popularity throughout literary history. ... In the poem, Keats praises the essential qualities of art and he sees them as vehicles for truth and beauty. He believes art is expressive, enduring and constant. Art has the ability to provoke thought and invoke the senses of ones mind and in his poem, Keats has attempted to rouse the feelings of the responder. ... The "quest" genre has many enduring qualities which, in their varying forms, have, and will in future, maintained their value and popularity throughout literary history. ...

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Elements are the "building blocks" of art, as putting the "blocks" or elements together create the principles. The elements of art can be broken down into simple things such as the shape, form, and structure of the piece. ... Since Blake's " The Divine Image" touches a very taboo topic for his time period that Man and God are truly of the same "image" you would expect a more subtle structure however it is very easy to convey his general idea on the topic because of his declarative form. ... Unlike many other declarative essays that have taboo topics, Blake uses extremely simple word as th...

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He also like to write his poems in elaborate, elegant stanza form. Both poets choose regular forms with consistent patterns of rhythm and metre. ... Ozymandias is written in the form of a sonnet. ... On the other hand Richard Cory is not in the form of a sonnet. ... Shelley's poem differs significantly from Robinson's in how he broadens his exploration to take in ideas about the lasting value of art. ...

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Keats does three things in this ode to attempt to convey his thoughts: he uses a series of paradoxes in the poem to contrast the differences between the mortal life portrayed in the art on the urn and the frozen permanence of the urn itself, he makes use of a narrator who speaks to the urn and asks questions of both the urn and of the reader to show the mystery of the urn's art, and he also makes use positive and negative wording of the language in this poem to show his underlying feelings on the subject of the poem. ... Keats even refers to the urn as a "Sylvan historian" declaring t...

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Through these moments in history Browning discusses such themes as Love, Art, Beauty and Evil. ... In Paracelsus he abandoned the confessional mode and put many of the same thoughts and feelings into dramatic form. ... In Pippa Passes 1841 we find Browning using an experimental form which is closer to the dramatic monologue than to legitimate drama. ... In Fra Lippo Lippi 1855 he fused painting, history and religion into a demonstration of , and argument for, realism in art. ... However Lippo Lippi believes that art, which attempts to represent things as they really are, is itself a path to th...

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There are three forms of irony used in poetry for different effects: verbal, situational, and dramatic. ... Narrated in the perspective of a niece or nephew, the speaker reflects on their Aunt and her embroidered works of art. The poet skillfully structures the poem in a way where each stanza gradually builds toward revealing the reality of Aunt Jennifer's life and the irony behind her art. ... Finally, the third form of irony is quite different than the others. ... Just as an artist paints something so simple with a deeper story or meaning behind; irony can be considered a literary art f...

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Demonstrating a strong interest in poetry and art from an early age, Cummings enjoyed the full support and encouragement of his parents. ... In his senior year he became fascinated by avant-garde art, modernism, and cubism, an interest reflected in his graduation dissertation, "The New Art." ... These pieces feature experimental verse forms and the lower-case personal pronoun "i"--symbolizing both the humbleness and the uniqueness of the individual--that became his trademark. ... In 1917 Cummings moved to New York, was employed very briefly at a mail-order book company, and soon began working ...

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Yet, despite these various goals, Steinbeck manages to fit in rare forms of art. If such art is not his own handwriting, it is that of others. ... The poem, in its original form in the Sanskrit, was written by Chauras, a young Kashmiri poet. ... However, after being translated into the form in which it is read in Cannery Row, the poem is not much more than a mere love poem that brings tears to the eyes of Doc's invitees. ... I also believe that this poem was included in the story as much for its symbolic meaning as for its art content. ...

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Batter My Heart is written in Italian sonnet form, it has iambic pentameter with fourteen lines of alternating rhyme in the form ABBA ABBA CDCD, and an ending couplet; EE. ... Because of the form that the sonnet holds, it is easy for the reader to understand what the poet is trying to convey. This structure is mostly conventional to sonnet form but only a few variations make it different. Critics such as Dryden and Johnson accused Donne of breaking the "rules" of art. However, in the new era of disliking dogma of any kind, Donne's breaking of the "rules" is seen as art in itself. ...

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The art of seduction is a universal "hot" topic conversed by both men and women regardless of their race and culture. ... The art of seduction is the art of persuasion, ultimately an application utilized to reach one goal; to meet our sexual desire. ... There are countless tactics and techniques in the art of seduction and both of the poems illustrate the speakers" own stratagem in convincing their target. ... Respectively, in the following passages the speaker applies his motive into the line of his goal; "Now let us sport us while we may; And now, like am"rous birds of prey, Rather at ...

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"Art forms were totally unknown to her, and nature was always viewed not in a cosmic way but in its smallest and most intimate forms" (Whicher 87). ... To others she was considered to be "intellectually blind, partially dead, and mostly dumb to the art of poetry" (Monro 81). ... She has amazed many critics with her forms and she will continue to do so as long as people will take the time to not only read her poems in their heads but also with their minds, hearts, and souls. ...

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Ode on a Grecian Urn When Keats started writing, in the early 19th century, ancient art was in fashion and Greek images were very popular. ... Both the Romantics and Victorians addressed the idea of preserving the perfect moment and Keats' "Ode to a Grecian Urn" is one such perfect moment captured in art. ... The rest of the stanza changes its tone and the thought that this town is doomed always to be deserted, saddens the mood: "thy streets for evermore Will silent be; and not a soul to tell Why thy art desolate, can e'er return." ... He wonders how :"Thou, silent form, dost ...

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All forms of poetry are imitation, and differentiate only by how the author presents them to the audience. ... They differ in that Epic poetry admits but one kind of meter and is narrative in form. ... The general outline forms the plot, thus tiny details are not a requirement for greatness. In his closing defense of poetry (Section Twenty-six), Aristotle considers which art is higher: Epic poetry or Tragedy. Specifically, he claims that tragedy is the higher form. ...

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In "Digging", the poet detail the art of digging, and says, "By God, the old man could handle a spade./ Just like his old man." ... His trade is writing and he will utilize it as his own form of "digging" in the sense that, writing will be his way of continuing the culture, by writing of the culture, as he is essentially doing in "digging" and "follower". ... The audience recognizes, having read "digging", that Heaney's father's skill and perfection in his work, has been passed down in the form of Heaney's own ability to write and to add to the cultural identity of Ireland. ... ...

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The rhyme scheme is in ABAB CDCD EFEF GG form. ... The cycle of life is continuous and once something dies, another form of life will grow to replace it. ... "Gilding pale streams with heavenly alchemy- pertains to the art of alchemy, where a base metal would be turned into the most treasured of metals - gold. This reference to alchemy gives rise to the idea of illusion, as alchemy was a deceptive art. ...

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