His first published poems appeared in the anthology Eight Harvard Poets in 1917. ... The poems excised from the original manuscript that were later collected in XLI Poems and & are generally more erotic in content. ... Structured in a pattern of darkness moving toward light, 1 x 1 begins with poems that denigrate businessmen and politicians and ends with poems praising nature and love. In his late verse--XAIPE: Seventy-One Poems (1950), 95 Poems (1958), and the posthumously published 73 Poems (1963)--Cummings effects a softer, more elegiac note, recalling his early affinity for New England ...

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Traditionally, as coined by Petrarchan, a poem about love, the sonnet holds certain connotations to a reader that leads their expectations of what they are looking for when reading one. ... The unconventional subject matter of the sonnet reflects Paterson's statement in terms of the argument that the "eye of the beholder" is referring to the poet's individual perception of sonnet writing, as whilst the melancholic tone of this poem implies an inaccurate representation of what a love poem is to the reader. ... Shakespeare has used this type of unconventional writing in many of his poe...

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Different authors use various figures of speech to present their characters in plays or poems. ... Finally, this section will also compare the two characters with that of Satan, the major character in the poem "Paradise Lost" by John Milton. ... Satan: Milton's Paradise Lost In the epic poem of Paradise Lost by John Milton, Satan who is one of the characters is also depicted as a villainous character that is up to causing rifts and disturbance due to his quest for power and authority (Milton 58). He is the main villain of the great heroic poem presented as the epitome of evil incarnate....

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Although a man, the poem's subject possesses feminine charms superior to a woman, with "An eye more bright than theirs, less false in rolling" (5). ... The painful duality of the speaker's muse is loudly echoed in Shakespeare's structural choices for the poem. ... Sonnets in particular were used for professing love to female lovers and paramours, yet this poem professes adoration of a man. ... However, the true heart of the poem lies in the curiosity of its meter, which suffers like our subject with the constraining repercussions of excess. ... Indeed, the meter sets t...

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Discuss the use of imagery in at least three of the poems you have studied this semester, indicating how the poet uses imagery to propel the reader's attention to a particular understanding. ... The greatest example of this is Andrea Whitaker's poem, "World". ... Davies" poem, "Leisure". ...

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Lyrical libido refers to the development of the sexual nature in poems as a literary devise using erotic allusion, narrative, or imagery within various poetic structures. ... An excursion into poems from the 4th century BCE to the 21st century shows that throughout diverse cultures, religions, and societies, poets have been integrating the common theme of sex into their lyrics. ... Traditionally, a lyre accompanied the lyric poem. ... With this peak of male sexual fantasy, the magical proportions of a sonnet are practiced as the poem displays an abrupt Volta. ...

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This is illustrated in his romantic poem "Wild Swans at Coole. ... This is illustrated in the symbolism and motif of circularity throughout the poem. ... This recognition is particularly evident in his allusion to the Celtic myth, "The Children of Lir" in his poem "The Wild Swan at Coole". ... My interpretation of Yeat's poems has been shaped through the exploration of testual form and features. ...

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The Essence of Man In William Wordsworth's sonnet "The World Is Too Much with Us," the author's techniques enhance a feeling of not only hopeless despondency, but also forlorn dejection. Wordsworth presents first humankind's existing botched relationship to nature and quickly follows with his nosta...

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