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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• Approx Pages: 22
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Barnard (1999) asserts that Keats is one of the great English romantic poets, whose prime belief was in art and beauty. ... Keats appeared as a poet who, through his art, escaped the "sordid and disturbing environment of nineteenth century life". ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Mary Ann Stoddart, 1842, defines the sphere of the poetess as: "All that is beautiful in form, delicate in sentiment, graceful in action will form the peculiar province of the gentle powers of women". ... To first consider the requirement, "beautiful in form" Goblin Market differs from the bulk of Rossetti's poetry in that it has a much less formal structure; the tumbling irregular meter employed in Goblin market is a rarity amongst Rossetti's work, her favoured form being the short lyric. ... (Leighton, 12) This metrical indulgence, gives Goblin Market a sensual art for art'...

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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...

• Word Count: 2598
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• Grade Level: High School

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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• Grade Level: High School

The twentieth century has seen more and more of this broadening of artistic trends, extending into the other cultural forms of radio, television, cinema and popular music. ... However, this tendency has been balanced by other writers who have made use of popular forms in order to communicate with a wider audience. ... Isolation and alienation, together with experimental forms of expression, came to characterise serious literature, while cinematic techniques and the elaboration of popular genres came to dominate other forms of cultural expression. ... Above all, poetry was not statement or fel...

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Walt Whitman(1819-1892), broke the literary tradition of his time with regards to content, form and style of his vigorous verse. ... Poetry of the Nature In this poem Dickinson creates her characteristic fusion of nature and art, of the rose and the poem (Fart,Carter,2005). ... The negative account of other, pedestrian speech forms, like the admission of naturally superior discourse , is not only a way of recognizing (and sharing one's recognition) of a reality that lies beyond ordinary words, but also of communicating a sense of appropriate restraint in one's own writing " (Dom...

• Word Count: 2619
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

It appears in divers forms (ex. happiness, merry, laughing) in the vast majority of poems (just to mention some of them see for example Infant Joy, Laughing song, Nurse's song) and together with the remarks on careless life in the presence of a care taking father give allusion to the garden of Eden which knows nothing about the evil. ... These two sets form a whole and often the poems have to be analysed in pairs . ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Besides it is divided into 133 cantos (including the prologue and epilogue), and in contrast to its constant and regulated metrical form, it deals with different subjects such as: profound spiritual experiences, nostalgic reminscence, philosophical speculation, Romantic fantasizing and even occasional verse. ... First of all, it is necessary to introduce the Victorian four elements in the total situation of a work of art: the artistic product itself, the universe representing nature, the audience and the artist. ...

• Word Count: 5237
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• Grade Level: High School

The Mask of Anarchy: a Reflection of Shelley's Revolutionary Introduction Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) was the only son of an aristocratic family: his father was an M.P. and his grandfather was a wealthy landowner. He educated at Eton College and entered the University of Oxford. There, he...

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Then, when humans were first able to string sounds together to form words and to compose complex words with multiple syllables they were in fact composing the first poems. ... Poetry is form of literature, spoken or written, which emphasizes rhythm and other intricate patterns of sound and imagery. ... Poetry in its simplest form is divided in segments called lines, and often lines are joined to form stanzas in poetry. ... This form of poetry was perfected during the Edo period of Japanese history during the early 19th century. ...

• Word Count: 4095
• Approx Pages: 16
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School