In a typical sense, a reader of poetry will only come to truly appreciate a poem, once he or she has managed by some degree, to obtain a sense of conquest over the disorder, meaningless, and enigma which characterises most forms of poetry. However it is quite often the case that the reader is unable to fully explore and comprehend a poem , while at times even unaware that it has anything more to offer than what is literally written on the page - an oversight that quite commonly can be attributed to having a limited understanding to the context of the poem. ... I have deliberately selected thes...

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• Grade Level: Graduate

When writing a poem, an author often uses allusion to enrich the text - calling on noteworthy figures, ideas, or events that emphasize the poem's deeper meaning. ... Immediately into the poem, Larkin writes "[w]hen getting my nose in a book/Cured more things short of school", revealing how through reading he was able to find remedy to his troubles. ... Lawrence Ferlinghetti's allusion to Charlie Chaplin in "Constantly Risking Absurdity" may seem rather small but through its direct nature, it proves significant in emphasizing the poem's meaning. Beginning the ...

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Vladimir Nabokov´s Pale Fire, first published in 1989 is considered to be one of the first Post-modern novels in the English speaking world, primarily because of its narrative structure; the novel is written as a poem with 999-lines by the fictitious writer John Shade. ... The foreword and commentary are far more extensive than the poem itself and this only underlines the fact that Charles Kinbote, the self-proclaimed King of Zembla, is trying to make the work his own. ... This imagined fictional tale creates room for interpretation, and although the reader may not be interested in literary...

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• Has Bibliography
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Here in the plays of William Shakespeare, poems of Edgar Allen Poe, the stories of Jonathan Swift and/or other predominantly male literary forms, that she encountered would she experience her first taste of true literary art. ...

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• Grade Level: Graduate