1. The Life and Poetry of E. E. Cummings
The poem "Poetry" (Moore 146) began to answer my question what is poetry. In the beginning of the poem she describes how poems should balance the figurative and the literal world in order to help the reader's understanding. ... In the next line it describes a poem as a "globed fruit" (MacLeish 138). ... Throughout the rest of the poem she describes how a poem should not be over analyzed but more experienced. ... The next poem was "You Fit into Me" by Margaret Atwood. ...
"The Harlem Dancer" is a poem written by McKay in which many different poetic apects emerge as we read the poem. ... People might think that this poem is a story of a dancer from Harlem. ... In this poem, the tone is cheerful, but at times there is some discontent. In the beginning of the poem, there is a description of happiness and laughter. ... This structure of the poem also includes the situation, speaker, and setting. ...
"The Harlem Dancer" is a poem written by McKay in which many different poetic apects emerge as we read the poem. ... People might think that this poem is a story of a dancer from Harlem. ... In this poem, the tone is cheerful, but at times there is some discontent. In the beginning of the poem, there is a description of happiness and laughter. ... This structure of the poem also includes the situation, speaker, and setting. ...
Frost is a poet of sadness, and in this poem, he is exploring his own psyche. ... I enjoy this poem, because it displays Frost's capacity for independent thought. ... It is notable that the poem is written in blank verse. ... However, Frost's use of tone is an appealing aspect of this poem. ... However, like all of his poems, this poem can be read on a metaphorical level and beneath the cynicism lays truth and reason. ...
I find it particularly interesting when in the beginning of the poem she observes ! ... However, this poem is definitely not that conventional. ... The fact that this poem is written in sonnet form could perhaps mean that Harwood was trying to enhance the meaning of the poem by contrasting it with the traditional sonnet form. ... Within the first few lines of most of her poems we are struck with the graphic and distinct atmosphere of the whole poem. This is clearly seen in the poem "The Violets", a poem about a young girl who has slept the day away, and is very upset to find when she wakes...
Tulips and Chimneys presented readers with a collection of Cummings early poems. ... All in Green My Love Went Riding is a poem set at dawn in a mountain valley near a river. ... Rushworth Kidder compares this poem with Ezra Pound's poem The Return because Cumming's use of "lean hounds-, "swift deer-, and "silver dawn- seem to replicate Pound's "silver hounds- but also because it remains vague about what is being described (as on the emotion of the poem). (22) The green in this poem reflects Cummings love of nature and the natural state of things, but the "four lean hounds crouc...
In the poem "i thank You God for most this amazing,"" E. ... Cummings uses such literary devices as symbolism, imagery, allusion, and syntax to show that the speaker of the poem has just experienced a rebirth.The speaker is thanking God for allowing him to see life in a new light and to be reborn again for a fresh start.By using these various literary devices, Cummings is able to show the extreme gratefulness the speaker in the poem feels because he has found a new outlook on life. ... Cummings' use of structure and syntax contribute greatly to how the poem is interpreted.The most...
Let's analyze the first two lines of the poem, "How Do I love thee? ... I read this poem a few times before realizing that the poet is speaking of the love that he has for his lover will be immortalized in the poem he has written for her. This poem speaks of his lover almost like she is the perfect woman. ... All four poems are similar because they all deal with love. ... Out of the four poems I analyzed, Bradstreet's poem moved me. ...
The type of Poem that "The Tuft of Flowers- is is a lyric poem because it paints a picture or images that evoke a single sharp, emotion. To understand the setting of the poem, one must first understand how grass was mowed in the time period in which the poem was written. ... The butterfly is a significant symbol in this poem. ... Frost uses peaceful images to relate the feeling of his poem. ... "The most striking feature of Frost's poem is his use of a paradox to illustrate the purpose or central theme of the poem. ...
Donne uses some very evocative imagery in this universally relevant poem. ... Although this poem was written more than three hundred years ago, the theme of love still remains relevant as it always will, this fact makes the poem, and its themes, "accessible" to readers in any time and place. ... Batter My Heart is a very controversial poem about religion. ... Donne is writing this poem in desperation. ... The poems have a universality that seems to live on throughout time. ...
Not only does this make his poems much more entertaining but it also helps to express his ideas in a very vivid manner. ... One good example of Donne's use of absurd metaphors is in the poem entitled "The Flea". In this poem the flea is used in a humorous matter in order to down play the female's reluctance to give up her virginity. ... This poem is about a man leaving the women he loves in order to go on some type of extended journey. ... The metaphor in this poem that I find especially engaging comes in line 25 when Donne compares the two lovers to a compass. ...
Traditionally, as coined by Petrarchan, a poem about love, the sonnet holds certain connotations to a reader that leads their expectations of what they are looking for when reading one. ... The unconventional subject matter of the sonnet reflects Paterson's statement in terms of the argument that the "eye of the beholder" is referring to the poet's individual perception of sonnet writing, as whilst the melancholic tone of this poem implies an inaccurate representation of what a love poem is to the reader. ... Shakespeare has used this type of unconventional writing in many of his poe...
Technical description of Gerard Manley Hopkins" poem: The poem in designed as an English and Italian sonnet. ... The language of the poem is old English, very high diction, very formal. ... In Gerard Manley Hopkins" poem the speaker appears to be a devoted religious man. In the poem the speaker is asking many difficult questions about the problem of evil in the world. ... The speaker in Gerard Manley Hopkins" poem and the poet himself has a very close metaphoric distance between them. ...
"All Sorts of Men" Lucy Hutchinson's poem entitled "All Sorts of Men" is an instructive poem written by a respectable, well-educated woman in the middle of the seventeenth century. ... Structurally the poem is just as methodical as the poet's argument. ... The poem's development is aided by this flow of verse that emphasizes its structured qualities. ... The persona begins her poem directly by stating the problem she perceives in society. ... Through the course of the poem, it becomes apparent that this "end" is a trinity of power, wealth, and happiness. ...
Ezra Pounds poem "The Jewel Stairs' grievance" was a little confusing to me to be honest. ... The poem doesn't really give too much information referring that the poem isn't very detailed and lengthy. ... While it states the description of the "Jewelled steps", I can't really tell if she's inside her palace or outside of it; the poem doesn't necessarily describe this. ... The poem seems to take place in the late autumn season in the cold where leaves begin to fall from trees. ... The repetitions at the beginning of each part of the sonnet res...
This is illustrated in his romantic poem "Wild Swans at Coole. ... This is illustrated in the symbolism and motif of circularity throughout the poem. ... This recognition is particularly evident in his allusion to the Celtic myth, "The Children of Lir" in his poem "The Wild Swan at Coole". ... My interpretation of Yeat's poems has been shaped through the exploration of testual form and features. ...
This is traditionally a love poem about unrequited love, but it is obvious at this early point in the play in the way that the sonnet is shared between both Romeo and Juliet, that the spell that has been cast over Romeo has been cast over Juliet as well. ...