The famous poet William Shakespeare once said "a rose by any other name would smell as sweet" and his words couldn't be any truer for the work of 17th century English poet Thomas Carew. Whether you refer to his poem as "A Song" or "Ask Me No More," Carew revolutionizes the love poem and redefines beauty in such a way that the recipient of these words could care less about what the poem is called simply because it would be just as romantic with any other title. Breaking from the Shakespearean sonnet that had become commonplace, Carew's poem exhibits a few...

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But one of these poets emerges from this group of people; an influential poet of the 19th century was Walt Whitman, author of the famous poems, "Leaves of Grass," and "O Captain, My Captain.... After the war, and retiring from the government department, "he suffered a stroke in 1873" which had him spend the rest of his life in Camden, New Jersey, where he continued to write famous poems and articles. ... For many of his poems, such has, O Captain, My Captain, he writes in a dark, mourning tone in his poems, for example, "Fallen Cold and Dead" (Poetry Founda...

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Anne Bradstreet, the most famous 17th century female poet, was only 18 when she arrived to Massachusetts Bay in 1630 on the Arbella. ... One of Anne's famous poems, Verses Upon the Burning of our House, was written after a disastrous fire burned down the Bradstreets' house in 1666, which left them homeless. However, the most famous poem that Anne ever wrote, The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America, was carried to England in a manuscript by her brother-in-law without her approval. Even though Anne did not give consent that this poem could be published, it brought her fame in both E...

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While containing the characteristics of an epic, Beowulf also has the elements of an elegiac and heroic poem. I believe this epic can be considered as a "heroic-elegiac poem-. ... Although this is found in Beowulf, the elements of an epic hero poem and an elegiac poem combined, more completely describe this piece of Anglo-Saxon literature. ... "Hrothgar, gray-haired and brave, sat happily Listening, the famous ring-giver sure, At last, that Grendel could be killed; he believed In Beowulf's bold strength and the firmness of his spirit - Not only was Beowulf confident and boastful of him...

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This piece of art happens to be the most famous artwork done by Sandro Botticelli. Venus is depicted as a long haired nude woman that drifts from the famous artworks of the period where nudity was not normally done and its divergence from the norm also appears to push it into fame. ... There are also clear references of Sandro's painting from Angelo Poliziano's poem Stanze per la Giostra. The manner in which the painting is arranged resembles a scene in the poem which appears to have been the theme behind the painting. ... The poem also happens to be a form of artistic creations whic...

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GCSE English Literature: War Poems Compare two poems from the selection which make you feel sympathy for the people involved in war. ... Perhaps the most famous of these poems is that of Owen's "Dulce et Decorum est", a poem based on a re-occurring nightmare that Owen says haunts him "In all my dreams". ... Moreover, on looking at the draft copy of this poem, one can see that Owen chose to change the adjective "clauring" to "haunting" as a description of the flares. ... This poem is extremely effective as an anti-war poem, making war seem absolutely horrid and revolting, just as the auth...

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Some of her works such as poems are even considered to be autobiographical kind of poems. ... For instance, her famous poem titled I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings inspired many women to embrace their talents in writing. ... Angelou's poem titled I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is a significant poem that presents her writing style through the unique stylistic details that reflect on themes and action. ... From the review of Angelou's works including the poem I know Why the Caged Bird Sings, it is clear that she followed the most significant rules of writing a poem. ... Despite the r...

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In her poem anthology, The World's Wife, Carol Ann Duffy introduces a female perspective to the stories of many famous men in history and literature, such as King Herod and Midas. In some of these poems she entertains the possibility that it was the women beside these well-known men who were the inspiration to their greatness, like in the poem Anne Hathaway (Shakespeare's wife). ... This poem illustrates how one's choices and actions can impact upon another. ... The ending of Medusa has a completely different tone to the rest of the poem. ... Carol Ann Duffy's poems celeb...

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Skrzynecki's Crossing the Red Sea is a poem which depicts the traumatic journey of migration and human triumph over adversity. ... The religious conations used in the poem help to create a direct link to the famous 40 year journey where Moses led the Israelites out of Egypt to the Promised Land. ... The poem shows the human triumph over adversity in a difficult journey. ... David Moore has also captured the emotions of immigrants at the end of the trip as they arrive by ship to their new home in the famous photograph "Immigrants arriving Sydney 1966". ... In Skrzynecki's poem and Moo...

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This famous, and lengthy, poem has several sections which all house different themes. ... "Drum Taps", another poem collection written from Whitman's reaction to the Civil War, speaks about the futility and ignorance of men pitting themselves against one another in the poem "Reconciliation" ("For my enemy is dead, a man divine as myself is dead"). The sequel to the "Drum Taps" collection ("Sequel to Drum Taps") contains the famous eulogy on the Civil War president Abraham Lincoln; "O Captain! ... Another of his poem collections, "Sea Drift", Whitman swings to transcendentalism the poem...

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Wordsworth's most famous poem, "Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey" was included as the last item in his collection of "Lyrical Ballads." The poem expresses the author's nearly pantheistic love of nature and his longing for humanity's eventual reunification with the natural world. ... Early in the poem, the author focus resides upon the physical and aethetic pleasures that surround. ...

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His poems and stories chill the blood, even today. This bibliography is written on the life of the famous American poet offers great insight into his life and his passions. ... Following the success of "The Raven"," Poe wrote his "Philosophy of Composition,"" which describes the framework and reasoning behind his narrative and structural choices in his most famous poem. His words are surprisingly beautiful considering the poems content, "beauty is the sole legitimate Province of the poem; pleasure which is at once the most intense, the most elevating, and the most pure, is, a believer, found i...

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It was in Harvard that Eliot's personality really started to shape under the influence of the critic Irving Babbitt, who led his classes in literature, and Professor George Santayana, the famous American poet of the period and expert in Oriental Philosophy. ... In the seven years between 1917 and 1924, when he was working as a clerk in the Colonial and Foreign Department of Lloyds Bank Ltd. in London, Eliot created the bigger part of his poems that made him world-famous, and also wrote numerous critical, publicistic and philosophic works. ... His poems of the 30-es and the 40-es ("Journey...

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Inferno (Italian for "hell"), is the first part of Dante Alighieri's 14th-century epic poem "The Divine Comedy." ... In the poem, Hell is depicted as nine circles of suffering located within the Earth. ... The poem starts on Maundy Thursday in the year 1300. ... Dante passes through the gate of Hell, which bears an inscription, the ninth (and final) line of which is the famous phrase "Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch'intrate," or "Abandon all hope, ye who enter here." ... Virgil forces Charon to take him by means of another famous line: Vuolsi cosi cola dove si puote, which tra...

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Other famous poetry belonging to the same era also qualify as Romantic poetry based on the same definition, but none quite so fully as The World Is Too Much With Us. ... In this poem, Wordsworth idealizes nature at the same time he expresses his disapproval of mankind. ... As the poem progresses; however, the mood of the poem improves as Coleridge continues to fantasize over what all his friends might encounter on their walk. ... The rhyming scheme utilized in the poem is also uniquely Whitman's. ... Even still, the last two listed poems are still definitively recognized as examples of R...

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However, Tennyson's oevre is too large to encompass every single poem poem of his. Thus, I will focus on one his early poem "The Lady of Shalott", considered as "art poem",which provides an insight into Tennyson's ideas on the figure of poet by portraying an isolated artist-like figure in conflict with society, in other words which represents best the charactersistics of Tennyson's artist-figures and Tennyson's internal struggle between "social responsibility" and "artistic detatchment"(alaya). ... (Arnold, "Preface to Poems&...

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In this poem, important aspects of the life of his times- political and religious- find expression in it. ... In this sense, readers can realise that characters are described as different type of universal human characteristics along the poem. ... Before the grand jury had acted Dryden published this poem in order to influence their verdict. ... David -in the poem- finishes this poem saying; "The law shall still direct my peacefull sway and the same law teach rebels to obey-. The poem is famous for its brilliant portraits of the king's enemies and friends. ...

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Shakespeare's main source for this infamous play is Arthur Brooke's 'Tragical History of Romeus and Juliet', a long, dense poem. This poem in turn was adapted from a French prose account written by Pierre Boiastuau, who had used an Italian version by Bandello proposed in 1554. Bandello's poem was further imitated from Luigi da Porto's version in 1525 of a story by Masuccio Salernitano. ... Key words of the poem are connected to each other using rhyme, for example, in the third quatrain – "despair" and "prayer"; Shakespeare is referencing...

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Many of his poems are about man's destruction of sacred natural and religious order. ... One of Hopkins's most famous (and most debated) theories centres on the concept of "inscape." ... Another line from the same poem conjures an image very similar " Are sisterly sealed in wild waters- to be blunt, the fate of the nuns on board the ship is sealed! ... The theme of "dappled things" and the direction of the poem emerges only when the images flow into each other by echoes of alliteration. There is no statement of intent at the beginning of the poem that prepares the reader for the en...

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Edgar Allan Poe was known to the world for his horrific, jaw dropping short stories and poems and also for being a literary genius of his time due to the unfamiliar writing style he presented. ... One of the most well-known fictional characters in literature is the famous Sherlock Holmes. ... In order to create the horror and tension in his stories and poems Poe uses dramatic and verbal irony. ... A poem that contains great symbolism is "The Raven" this poem brings forth many symbols including the most obvious one, the raven. The raven in this poem he utters the word "nevermore&...

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"A man paints with his brains and not with his hands" - Michelangelo While the famous artist Michelangelo might have been employing the word "paint" literally when he crafted this quote, when taken in a more abstract sense, the words of wisdom echo a theme developed hundreds of years earlier and immortalized in The Odyssey - the idea that prowess of the mind is far superior to that of the body (or its impulses). ... In the very first pages of the poem, Zeus "remember[s] handsome Aegisthus, the man Agamemnon's son, renowned Orestes, killed" (1:34-35). .....

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Many historians consider him the "modern man" because of his innovative poems focusing on individuality. ... Although Petrach is well known, today, for his poetry, he is also famous for his contribution to the humanist literary and cultural movement of the 14th and 15th centuries. ... He was responsible for discovering several texts and letters by the Roman author Cicero, who's Brutus became one of the most famous books of the time. ...

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In his famous poem "Black Art,"" he writes about the need of "poems that kill"" and "wrestle cops into alleys and take their weapons leaving them dead". ... In another poem from 1972 called "Who will survive America " he openly threatens the society and shows his contempt for the Christian belief system as part of the white dominant society. ... In one of his most known poems he offers criticism on the white dominated media society, which, in combination with alcohol and drugs, causes inertia and political passivity. The poem, called "The Revolution will not Be Televised"," is a strong appe...

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In Ovid's collection of poems Amores, he also writes of his erotic adventures with his mistress, among other women. ... In this poem, Ovid is at the circus watching the horse races, sitting next to a girl that becomes the fixation of his physical desires. Ovid begins the poem with the confession, "You watch the races, I watch you" (line 7). ... Ovid concludes the poem by telling the audience that he received a smile from the woman of his admiration. ... Donne concludes the poem in saying, "To teach thee I am naked first; why then/What need more covering than a man" ...

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The opening images of the poem are drawn from accounts of the Mau Mau Uprising, an extended and bloody battle during the 1950s between European settlers and the native Kikuyu tribe in what is now the republic of Kenya. ... In addition, at the time the poem was written, the poet's country of birth, the island of St. ... As Walcott is divided in two, so too is the poem. ... Just as the uprising was never cleanly resolved, Walcott, at least within the poem, never resolves his conflict about whose side to take. Poem Summary The first three lines depict the poem's setting on the African...

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