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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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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It uses a very formal diction, has a closed form, and it uses the images that are on the urn to describe what the urn looks like. ... The poem is a fixed form. ... He was writing about the art that was on the urn. ... The author perhaps believed that art is beautiful and that truth comes from the arts. ... Art will be around and seen until it is destroyed, but a person will die and be forgotten. ...

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It was an era when major artists were fundamentally questioning and reinventing their art forms. ... Yeats' stylistic evolution continued farther from traditional form to fit the modernistic definitions even more. ... The music of art and poetry. ... The soul dwells infinitely in phenomenal forms, everything is possible as everything is known to the soul. ... Imagination, eternity and art are akin. ...

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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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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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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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Poetry is a form of art that is used to put the author's emotions and stories on paper. The author uses this art form to get his or her points across and allows the reader to feel what the author is feeling. ... This was a short four line poem that shows what poetry can do that no other form of writing can do; say so much by writing so little. ... With all of these thoughts reviewed I came away with the idea that a poem should be taken for what it is and that is what you the reader gains from the art work. ...

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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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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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Second, the glosa form of the poem (an early Renaissance form first developed by poets of the Spanish court), with its opening quatrain written by another poet, followed by four ten-line stanzas, their concluding lines taken consecutively from the quatrain, and the sixth and ninth lines rhyming with the borrowed tenth, is in itself a dialogue between two poets: the poet who wrote the quatrain, and the poet writing the glosa. The glosa form itself then reflects the theme of a dialogue of poetry across civilizations. ... She is also a visual artist whose works are represented in The National Gal...

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Eliot used these divisions and the transitions between them to try to create an effect he described as similar to the musical form of the sonata. ... Puns and other forms of wordplay occur with some frequency. ... Through the repetition of words and the use of structures, he creates a rhythm not dependent on previous poetic forms. ... The corridor, the rose garden itself, the boksz circle, the pool, the lotus are iconographic images and they form an extremely complex meaning. ... Rather, the collage-like arrangements of this section form a nearly coherent whole, a meaningless song that sounds...

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Prose It is an ordinary way of expression of ideas written in sentences or in paragraph form. ... The art of rhythmical composition, written or spoken, for exciting pleasure by beautiful, imaginative, or elevated thoughts. 1. ...

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He does however allow some emotion in so that you can appreciate the feeling the view gives him and the impression it makes, "..such exquisite art that you regard them with delight and astonishment.... The passage is formed into paragraphs. ...

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@(lines 2 & 13) This was contrasted to the second part where the wood seemed to take form; it came alive. ... Edward said it was the Sunday shop that allowed the carpenter to do Amore that just dream of it, but.. in his own quiet way, to realize it, within his own art and craft....

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"This land like a mirror turns you inward" "And you become a forest in a furtive lake" (MacEwen 1-2) Through a simile, an outside land is used to reflect an idea of the reader, which takes the form of metaphoric forest; however, she changes this image by saying this forest is submersed "in a furtive lake," making what the reader imagine become suddenly unfamiliar. ... For the reader, it can be only what they see within/as their soul or core: identity, art or maybe nature. ...

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Everything about his poetry bespeaks high modernism: its use of myth to undergird and order atomized modern experience; its collage-like juxtaposition of different voices, traditions, and discourses; and its focus on form as the carrier of meaning. ...

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In line 6 there's an imperative form "do whatever followed by thou wilt - - a deviation in the metre pattern that reinforces the rethorical force of the argument. ... The verbs in the 3rd quatrain "carve- and "draw- belong to the same semantic field ( the art ) and imply that Time is an sculptor or artist. ... In L12, it expresses the idea of a pattern or form o ideal by which material bodies were derived that is Neo- Platonic. ...

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