Because some were skeptical of Phillis really being the author, due to her age and their racism, her publisher added a note at the beginning of the manuscript. ... Phillis was freed by her master in 1773. ... She married a free African American, John Peters. ...
In his poem, "Flame-Heart", Claude McKay expresses his longing for his homeland in a romantic fashion with non-racial themes. He uses vivid descriptions to show a great love of his home, Jamaica, conveying it's loveliness. Rhyme scheme and stylized nature also play a role in McKay's highly reminis...
However, in the trenches he realized how horrific the war was and started to make notes about the conditions at first. Then later in a military hospital he edited and collected these notes into the poetry of Wifred Owen. ... 'Dulce,' on the other hand, is written in free verse with an alternate line rhyming pattern. ...
Daddy Sylvia Plath 1932-1963 Sylvia Plath wrote "Daddy" just four months before her death by suicide in February 1963. In the months, before she took her life she wrote two to three poems per day in a frenzy to purge her system of the chaos of her thoughts and emotions. Daddy is a confessiona...
He refrains from using meter patterns and rhyme, and writes the poem in free verse so that it feels more like a genuine letter to her husband. ... She notes that "the leaves fall early this autumn" and "[different] moss is grown [and is] too deep to clear away" (Pound 20-21). ...
The connection between the speaker and nature is immediately set up as: 'I heard a thousand blended notes, While in a grove I sat reclined' (line1-2). ... At the end of stanza one a depressing comparison is suggested by the speaker; that nature is happy and free as mankind isn't. ...
Through images of eyes and wealth veiled in double meanings, penned in the freeing and restricting form of a sonnet, we find that the subject's dual nature endows him with great power, yet the greatness of this power is what ultimately limits him. ... For one's eyes to be "bright" suggests one is free-spirited, lively and jubilant, unhindered by pain or hatred that might cloud the eyes. ... Indeed, the meter sets the melancholic tone of the poem, ending each line on an unaccented syllable and, quite literally, a "down note". ...
However, the poet's acceptance of the inevitability of the death frees his fears. ... Sidney Colvin notes in the book John Keats: His Life and Poetry "in the light of the tragedy to come its two first quatrains now seem to thrill with prophetic meaning" (259). ...
(lines 69-72) Service riddles this final passage, with parallelism, alliteration and mid-line rhyme to end the poem on a memorable note. ... However in the Yukon, he feels free and at peace with himself and nature despite the hard work that he must put forth to survive. ...
The "tulips" of the first volume are free-verse lyric poems that present a nostalgic glance at his childhood. ... 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 Transcendentalism and English Romanticism. ...
Now, if the lady is intelligent, as he seems to be, she will note the reference to the shame, sin, loss of virginity and the possible pregnancy. ... I think that another message within the context of this poem would be to allow all lovers to be free from the constraints of society. ...
