Allen Ginsberg's Motivation for writing Howl Richard Eberhart, the Pulitzer Prize winning poet of 1966, remarks, "Ginsberg's Howl ushered in a new generation." Many 20th century poets have attested to the freeing effect that Ginsberg's poetry had upon them in the late fifties. But to allege th...
These works, although they have been subjected to much critical analysis, remain the "ultimate expression of Keats's genius" and as such "secure his reputation as a great poet." ... The poetry itself is a catalyst for Keats's obvious intentions between two opposing escapisms- into unconsciousness and into a painful acceptance of intense life- is replayed within the poetry with immediate effect. ... As scepticism reasserts itself, the poet is drawn back from the timelessness of the dream and into the temporal. ... To this extent, Keats's imagination runs wild; but his thoughts un...
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. Through the analysis of some sections of this poem, it can be taken into account the relations to the romantic vision of nature and religion in Wordsworth's poem. ... The poet compares himself to the yews and so to the death, I think because these animals live underground, and as...
