His poems always speak of the brutality of war. ... Another similie is also used in the first line of the poem. ... The mood of the poem is bitter, resentful, gruesome and depressing. ... The poem seems to describe events that Owen has experiences himself. ... Owen strongly increases the impact of his poems. ...
Many of his poems are a reflection of himself and his childhood. A good example is the poem, "Birches. ... Though he only published a few poems, he made his money teaching in Derry's Pinterton Academy. ... This poem was later included in the book, Mountain Interval. ... I feel there is a lot more heart put into this poem and all the poems written about his childhood. ...
The fact that Blake himself described the collection of poems as shewing the contrary states of the human soul', must be seen as an invitation to view the poems of Innocence and Experience in relation to one another. ... In the world of Experience, "Nurse's Song" takes three of its eight lines from the earlier poem. ... The poem has two stanzas, each containing five rhymed couplets. ... The companion to this poem, found in the Songs of Experience, is The Tyger - read together, the two poems give a perspective on religion that includes the good and clear as well as the terrible a...
In 1950, the decade in which this poem was written, only ten percent of the British people attended church. ... Larkin's use of language in this poem is particularly significant. ... "This is a poem of desire and commodity, or rather desire as a commodity" - Steve Clark. ... There is an element of the poem representing the falsity of love in the post-war consumerist society. ... Larkin's poems reflect a "never had it so good" era where mass consumerism have become the new religion. ...
"My last Duchess" is only one of many poems, written by Browning that is full of secrets, curiosity, and accusations. ... Young seems to love Browning's work, just not this particular poem. ... He also discusses the history of the poem, just like Lois Marchino. ... Priestly weighs the options of what exactly the poem means very carefully and lets you make your own decision. ... It is unclear whether or not he likes the poem. ...
The poem "What You Are Doing Now" by Gary Hyland, is a very peculiar poem. The character is "you" and the poem is about what "you" are doing now, which is reading the poem. At first, "you" dislike the idea of reading a poem, and then "you" begin to really like it. But then, "your" teacher tells "you" to write an analysis of the poem, and suddenly, the poem is not so nice anymore. "Then your teacher announces that you have thirty minutes to write an analysis of this poem and when you look the poem spits in your face and stops." ...
APPRECIATION OF JOHN KEATS" "ODE TO AUTUMN" "Ode To Autumn" is a compelling, influential and inspirational poem that many critics have considered to be one of the most impeccably written poems in its time. ... For me, the poem opened my eyes to the new world of the season of autumn. The persona of the poem shows great admiration for autumn and praises all its aspects. ... This gives a penetrative sense to the poem. ... "Time" is a third theme incorporated in the poem. ...
Browning's Dramatic Monologue Readers favor Robert Browning's story poems in a form he perfected, the dramatic monologue (Kennedy 1169). ... Throughout the poem the Duke repetitively expresses his concern of other men fancying his wife. ... The Duke was especially jealous of Fra Pandolf, the man who painted the picture of the duchess in the poem. ... He directly makes comments to the envoy withdrawing persona from the poem. ... In this particular poem it is after the death of the Duchess. ...
William Blake attempts to discover the very moment when evil was created in his poem "The Tyger-. ... Even at this early stage of the poem, Blake is making it abundantly clear that he wishes the Tyger to take on a menacing and, fundamentally, evil fazade. ... To try and make the poem more historically significant or more universal to a larger group of people, Blake uses two popular images to signify God. ... Thus, Blake makes the poem more universal as well as to appear timeless. ... Here, the reader is lead to incorporate more Greek mythology into the analysis of the poem. ...
Milton intended Paradise Lost to be an epic poem; this meant the poem had to meet specific requirements. One of these requirements was that there had to be a hero in the poem, following the epic style of Homer and Virgil. ... These examples of Satan's character show that Milton did not intend for Satan to be the hero of the poem. ...
Yet, with his unique gift for writing, Hughes turned the pain engendered by his parents' conflict into the noted poem, "The Negro Speaks of Rivers," published by Crisis in 1921. ... Through these experiences, a new rhythm emerged in his writing, and a series of poems such as The Weary Blues were penned. ... He said, "I tried to write poems like the songs they sang on Seventh Street...... Hughes's poems, short plays, essays, and short stories began appearing in the NAACP publication Crisis Magazine and in Opportunity Magazine and other publications. ... He wrote sixteen books of poem...
The affirmations of the former poem were not written out of ignorance of human suffering, and the vituperations of the latter poem cannot be understood apart from the contumely which Pope suffered at the hands of his adversaries "Lady Mary Wortley Montague, Lord Hervey, John Dennis, Joseph Addison, and Lewis Theobald, to name a few. ...
Dante wrote the poem for his colleagues and therefore wrote it in vernacular which was Italian. He named the poem La commedia (The Comedy) because it ends happily, in heaven. ... His poem is most complemented for his symbolic meanings behind each of the cantos. ... In the opening of the poem, Dante finds himself lost in dark woods, which symbolizes his new life of exile. ...
Keats genuinely appreciates the story the urn is imparting and though it is silent, he believes its images can tell the tale more effectively than his poem is able to: "who canst thus express A flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme:" The events occur in a "leaf-fring'd" setting of "deities or men" in "mad pursuit" of reluctant "maidens", a passionate, heated courtship scene, paradoxically portrayed on a cold, motionless urn. ... Eliot refers to these lines as a "serious blemish on beautiful poem; and reason must be either that I fail to understand it, or that it is a statement whic...
The Odyssey of Homer, perhaps one of the greatest epic poems of all time, portrays Odysseus" journey home. ... Though Odysseus" wit and loyalty is heavily emphasized throughout this poem, what would a Homeric hero be without the advantage of superior human strength? ...
Obi misses home and writes romantic, lyrical poems about Nigeria during the winters in England. ... When he returns to Lagos he sees the slums he has not been to and the nostalgic poem he wrote about nature and how "sweet" it is to lie under trees under the "tender glow of the fading sun," is juxtaposed against the dead carcass of a dog "the dogs that taxi drivers hit for good luck. ...
Dante the Pilgrim was once a spiritual and holy man, but as of recently he had felt less than holy. Yet, he still wants to remain spiritual. To do this, Dante must recognize the true nature of his sin(s), renounce them, and pay penance for them by travelling though the nine levels of hell. Dante the...
On March 1, 1969, Jim Morrison exposed himself to 13,000 people during a concert in Miami. The band left the country the next day on a planned vacation, but Morrison turned himself in to the FBI in Los Angeles upon his return. The press had a field day prior to his arrest while he was out of the cou...
"The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown."1 Therefore, it makes sense that if mortals cannot bear the darkness, they [should not] not go there. If man dislikes "black night and yawning chasms,"2 then should he not even consider them? Shouldn't man seek out the sunshine, instead? The remedy is very simple: Avoid the darkness and seek the light. But, no. ...
Dante, spokesman in his Christian day, writes a guidebook for Hell and, in doing so, questions his own rocky past and his chances for Hell, for Heaven. Dante, a Christian poet living during a Christian age, sets out to write a poem about his fictionalized version of Hell. I believe Dante...
"Parallels between Kafka's life and "The Metamorphosis"" Many authors reflect an aspect of their life in their novels, poems, or theatre. Such is the case of Franz Kafka who in many of his books, reflects his attitude towards life, his parents and frustrations. These three characteristics may be...
She knocked me out, though she was the only one that I ever showed Allie's baseball mitt to, with all the poems written on it- (p.70) Holden also shows deep, grand love towards his only little sister Phoebe, whom he loves more than anyone. ...
Henry David Thoreau Henry David Thoreau was a man who expressed his beliefs of society, government, and mankind while living under his own self-criticism. He drew off his own life experiences to write his works, but with those experiences were his transcendentalist points of view he was trying to...
