I would also like to stress that Robert Frost was very, very popular--superstar popular. ... I have read somewhere; I cannot really remember where, that this poem is one of the best-known and one of the most-often-misunderstood poems on the planet. ...
These times were most important to Whitman's way of thinking, and had much influence on his both democratic and urban poetry. ... Most of his significant educational experiences were self-taught from trips to museums, libraries, and lecture halls. ... No longer did Walt visit the countryside while he was on his own, so the urban setting contributed greatly to most of his early journalism, prose, and even some poetry. ... In 1855, twelve of his works were published in a collection entitled "Leaves of Grass", which stands today as one of America's most popular literary works. ... Cr...
Two main texts that share the enduring quality that still makes them popular today are "Ode on a Grecian Urn" by John Keats, a pre-1900 text, and "Harry Potter" byJ.K.Rowling, a twentieth century text "Ode on a Grecian Urn" is a quintessential example of a text relating to the "quest" genre. ... Truth and beauty are two of the noblest and most nebulous causes found in history. ... This is one reason why text associated with the "quest" genre are still popular today and still have their values. Texts in the "quest" genre remain popular amongst readers today because they all follow a sim...
Robert Frost was considered the "most popular modern American poet of the twentieth century" (Literature Online 1). ... Frost spent many of his years farming, which is perhaps where he acquired his "Popular image as a farmer-poet" (Literature Online 1). ... He became popular as a man for being true to his words and thoughts as well as for being a sincere and courageous person. His poetry became known and popular all over the world; his poems were translated into many different languages. ... Frost's poems are praised because most of them have closure; the answers are not alwa...
One of the more popular war poets is Wilfred Owen (1893-1918), who began his career as a poet sometime before the War, and whose earlier style of writing, observed in poems like 'Sonnet Written At Teigmouth, On A Pilgrimage To Keats's House' (1911) was derived from that the Romantic ideology, which stated that poetry 'should be personal (to the point of appearing confessional), sincere (which meant limitations on satire and humor) and richly loaded with imagery' (Purkis 82.) ... The poem shows Owen's individualism through his subversion of popular' imager...
Unlike most prologues this one is in the form of a sonnet. ... I think the last reason he may have used is sonnet is that when Shakespeare wrote this play (1600-1700) sonnets were a very popular form of poetry so people would have wanted to come and see his play. ... Verona (Italy) was very popular during the Shakespearian period because of its art and fashion. ...
Most of them inform us about the heroic deeds of mortals or divine beings. ... Sappho who lived about 600 BC, was the most famous melic poet. ... Historical writings were especially popular. ... The most successful democracy of ancient Greece during the 400's BC was Athens. ... The most powerful oligarchy in ancient Greece was Sparta. ...
From 1917 to 1920 Eliot also edited a small unprofitable magazine Egoist and later another quarterly edition, Criterion, which was the most distinguished international critical journal of the period and where one of his most significant poems, The Waste Land, was first published in 1922. ... His most famous and popular work of that kind is Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats (1939), which was later assumed as a source of the modern musical Cats by Andrew Lloyd Webber (the musical was first staged in London in 1981 and was on for 21 years, enjoying great éclat, until it was taken ...
Still haunting after a century, The Raven remains one of the most popular poems of all time. ... The main characters of his poems and stories are unilaterally alone, and the setting is most dark; "Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,/Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore" (Poe 12). ... The raven is one of the most intelligent birds, and its dark plumage suggests the vast wisdom of the unconscious. ... However, the raven has not come to offer solace to the wounded poet, and his singular reply mocks the heart of the poet with that which he ye...
Some say that they were happily married, but most of my research concluded that they did have problems. ... John could never please her and she treated him for the most part very badly. ... Some of his most famous plays include The Rival Ladies, Ladies a la Mode, Mock Astrologer, and An Evening's Love. ... His most important prose work is the already mentioned, An Essay of Dramatic Poesy. ... The King's son, James, is a very popular and well-liked guy. ...
Neruda loved the sea, and it became one of the most important symbols in his poetry. Neruda lived by the sea at Isla Negra, where he spent most of his time at. ... The third stanza above is by far the most powerful and heart-wrenching depiction of Neruda's despair. ... The old saying, "the home is where the heart is" most certainly pertains to Pablo Neruda. ... Pablo Neruda after over 100 years is still one of the most widely known and highly popular poets in our time. ...
This collection includes probably her most well known work, "Phenomenal Woman."" ... Unlike the fashion magazine's beauties, she exults in being different- (Bloom2 44) "The poem is enormously popular among common readers despite scarce reviews by critics- (Bloom2 45) Also in this collection is the poem, "And Still I Rise,"" which in a sense, sums up Maya's growth as a woman and as a person. ...
Lines 4-5 of stanza 1 become the most vital part of the stanza, as this is where the allusions are mentioned. ... Angelou strengthens her claim in the proceeding stanzas through the use of visual imagery, integrating an example that contradicts popular belief and establishing that wealth isn't as appealing as it seems. ... Like Lindsey Lohan is always getting in trouble for the most obscure crimes or Kanye West frowning in every single picture Kim Kardashian takes of him; someone rich might not actually be able to live his life contently without a society around to support him. ... And I ...
Frost uses many components of poetry that helps him lead to a theme that most people are faced with on a daily basis; choices. ... He feels he choose the road that most people do not take because it is less traveled and not the most popular, secure one. ...
He was popular with black and white readers of his day, and his works are celebrated today by scholars and school children. ... It is his most anthologized poem after he wrote "We Wear Masks" because of the lines, "I know why the caged bird sings, ah me, When his wing is bruised and his bosom sore, When he beats his bars and he would be free." ... The most famous line "I know what the caged bird feels", tells us what the poem is basically about, that Dunbar knows how it feels to be imprisoned and not be able to so as you please. ...
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) - American poet, one of the most popular and celebrated poets of his time. ... From then until his death, Bryant was known as one of the most distinguished poets in the United States. 4. ... Emily Dickinson- Heralded as one of the most gifted American writers, Emily Dickinson authored nearly 2,000 poems. Most were published after her death in 1886. ... Cummings (1894-1962) - American poet, who was one of the most radically experimental and inventive writers of the 20th century. ...
This is the reason I believe that most of his poetry is misunderstood by most the people who read it. ... It is much easier not to tell the truth when you have been caught after doing something wrong and that is the path that most people take (the road that is most traveled by). ... " This poem models idealism because it is saying that we must choice a both for ourselves and not pick one that has not already been traveled, Frost is telling to create your own path that is against the popular view. ... " This poem is different from most of his works because he decides to favor one qua...
The poems protagonist the Mower prefers nature in its purest state as opposed to the idea of the cultured gardens that were popular at the time. ... "The artificiality of pastoral poetry is most explicit in the courtly language and dress of the, "shepherds," (Schwartz, 1996). ...
Predominant was the free use of indirect speech, the use of comparison, overwhelming use of personification, irony, metaphor, hyperbole, symbolism, discontinuous narrative, and psychoanalysis etc. and allusion to myths and stories from another time was also popular. ... Unordered life is portrayed by most of them. ...
I will take a look at the poetic theories propagated by these four authors, as to provide a general overview of what the most important issues concerning poetry were at the time. ... Hallam is primarily known for being the subject of one of Tennyson's most important works – "In Memoriam"..According to Hallam, the poets of sensation – such as Shelley and Keats, but also Tennyson – compose what may tentatively be called 'true poetry': poetry of which the "predominant motive [is] the desire of beauty" (Hallam 184). ... Being one of Tennyson&#x...
