Francesco Petrarca (1304-1374), or Petrarch was an Italian humanist and poet and is considered to be the first modern poet of the Italian Renaissance. Many historians consider him the "modern man" because of his innovative poems focusing on individuality. His use of the sonnet form of poetry influen...
Turn, Turn, Turn Wallace Stevens's poem "The Death of a Soldier" illustrates life and death in both the natural and human world. Steven's structure and rhythm contribute to the poem. The stern tone, disorder of trochees and uncertainties: fuel the reader's awareness plus desire to know. Negative...
The first two odes affect the reader in many levels. The main thing that they both do is make the reader think about the aspects of mortality. The usage of nature in both of the poems helps the reader get a feeling of what the character is going through. In the next ode "To Autumn", deals with th...
Romantic literature has three distinctive characteristics which include a persistent reference to Nature and her influence, intimate self-revelation of the poet's emotions, and the use of contraries. Each one of these characteristics are displayed in the three following poems: Wordsworth's Tintern...
Good Morning/Afternoon Mr. Johnson and fellow critics. It is fair to say that John Donne is acknowledged for his explorations beyond physical aspects in life during the period of the Renaissance. This "rebirth" in his poetry is essentially illustrated through his use of devices and his expression ...
Refugee Blues is a poem written by W.H. Auden. It takes place in Europe during World War II, and it is written in the voice of a German Jew and what he and his loved one had to go through during Hitler's reign. W.H. Auden grew up in the United Kingdom and later became an American citizen. It was ass...
