Her more recent poetry is much more moving and is directly personal. Her older poetry depends much more on the use of rhyme and uses more classical verse form (her recent poems using verse forms with more flexibility.) ... I find Harwood's poems particularly fascinating, and this is one aspect that that really attracts me to her poetry. ... They other aspect of Harwood's poetry I find most fascinating is her ability to create mood and atmosphere with striking authenticity. ... I find her subject matter intriguing and interesting, and this aspect of her poetry is really what draws...

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Not only was it poetry but one of the poems actually was named "Poetry" (Moore 146). ... Once getting into the first section, "Poetry" and "Ars Poetica" began to define what poetry was. ... The poem "Poetry" (Moore 146) began to answer my question what is poetry. ... What is poetry to me? ... Now that I have this new found understanding of poetry I continued reading in order to get the final answer, what can I possibly get out of poetry? ...

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I believe he was kind of showing off within this sonnet because not only did this man know how to write poetry, he knew the details that came along with it as with the sentence structure and rhyming. Shakespeare not only know how to write poetry while using sentence structure, he also uses imagery in his sonnet. ...

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In analyzing the poetry of William Butler Yeats, my interpretation of his work has been strongly enhanced by his innovative use of textual forms, structures and features, especially in light of his response to change. Ultimately, the poetry of Yeats demonstrates a response to modernity and reveals that he has reconciled himself to the inevitability of change in a modern world. ...

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"A measure of great poetry is its ability to transcend time and place". ... Love and religion will always engage the reader and therefore it follows that his great poetry transcends time and place. ... Donne's poetry was not received very well by the Petrachan's because it went against almost all of their rules and his metaphysical approach to poetry offended many people. ... This also helps to show that great poetry like Donne's transcends time and place. ... Donne's poetry truly does transcend time and place and therefore his poetry is "great". ...

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The poetry of Robert Frost is often tinged with sadness; a poet with a deep appreciation for the natural scene, yet duly aware of the harsh realties of life. ... His poetry arises from an exploration of ordinary events and places, but is steeped in meaning and pathos. ... His poetry has such an effect on me he has an amazing ability to elicit a wide variety of emotions within me, ranging from shock to sadness. ... Immediately, Frost creates that familiar sense of detachment and loneliness which pervades his poetry. ... What makes the poetry of Robert Frost so appealing is the way in which he r...

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While at Harvard, his studies focused on English and the classics but his passion became poetry. ... Dos Passos, who later played an integral role in the publishing of Cumming's first poetry collection in 1923. ... Tulips provided readers with longer free verse poetry and Chimneys provided them with mostly sonnets. ... As a poet who lived on the edges of modern poetry E. ... In order to decipher much of his poetry, a reader must be educated on how to read it. ...

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E. E. Cummings, who was born in 1894 and died in 1962, wrote many poems with unconventional punctuation and capitalization, and unusual line, word, and even letter placements - namely, ideograms. Cummings' most difficult form of prose is probably the ideogram; it is extremely terse and it co...

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John Donne turns this tool into an art form in his poetry as he weaves absurd relationships between two or more seemingly unrelated ideas. ... By using metaphors throughout his poetry Donne makes the reader understand feelings in ways that they would have never before been considered. ... If he were to write his ideas in simpler terms his poetry would lose a great deal of its appeal and expressiveness. ...

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In 1895, Frost married Elinor Miriam White who was a major inspiration of his poetry until her death in 1938. ... "In Frost's poetry, his statement of man's relationship to man remains ambiguous. ... The poem also has two indications of internal rhyme in it, which occurs when the rhyming words appear in the same line of poetry, which is underlined in lines 39 and 40: "Men work together,"" I told him from the heart, "Whether they work together or apart."" ...

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The Poetry of E. E. Cummings E. E. Cummings, who was born in 1894 and died in 1962, wrote many poems with unconventional punctuation and capitalization, and unusual line, word, and even letter placements - namely, ideograms. Cummings' most difficult form of prose is probably the ideog...

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To the poet it is just that as it is a true representation of "real" love and real-life problems that come with it, it is not a fairytale as depicted by traditional poetry. ... In his poem "Sonnet 130" he demonstrates a clear manipulation of the idea of love, mocking the unrealistic comparisons made such as "My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun" and presenting us with a warped view on the nature of love poetry. ...

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Sonnet 130 According to Constance Jordan and Clare Carrol, "English colonists" traveling "to the New World carried with them an English Bible and if they owned a secular" work of literature it was more than likely the "works of Shakespeare" (549). Shakespeare was not only a literature icon in his ...

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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. ...

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The Power of Poetry: Why Do Sinners" Ways Prosper? Technical description of Gerard Manley Hopkins" poem: The poem in designed as an English and Italian sonnet. It has 14 lines each line has 10 syllables, 5 accents per line, which is the major metrical line in English called an iambic pentameter...

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As a little girl growing up, I spent a lot of time with a Hispanic lady because my mother worked all the time. She was like a grandmother to me. I loved to hear her speak of her late husband and how much she loved him. Her voice would change when she spoke of him. She described how she would sit and gaze at him when he perused the newspaper or how she would leave sweet notes in his lunch pail. ...

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