1. Larkin: Response to Desire
"Dylan Thomas's poems are exuberant, often florid and occasionally obscure". a) How far do you agree with the above assessment of the collection in "Selected Poems"? Dylan Thomas's "Selected Poems" offers a wide magnitude of poetry, ranging from poems that are filled with exuberant, elaborate,...
Plath's Powerful use of Imagery and Metaphors In the poem "Daddy,"" the speaker, Sylvia Plath confesses her true feelings about her deceased father. Throughout the poem, many instances illustrate a great feeling of hatred toward Plath's father. She uses strong imagery and powerful speech to sh...
A Castle In Lynn "In the hometown tonight, in the quiet before sleep, a man strokes himself in the darkened theater of memory", Best old" remembrance, he gets to play it as slow as he needs, as his hand, savvy tart of a million reruns, plays the tune, plays the parts Mary Olivers informs us in her poetry handbook that sounds in a poem are not random but chosen (Oliver p.17). ...
Also, the fantasy style poem brings about a strong contrast with the style used in the more recent poems of Hughes and Heaney, who have chosen to use more realistic representations in their poems with the boy and the man, and the rat and the deer, and therefore demonstrates how these poems might have been based upon real-life events. ...
What is literature? We have to answer some basic questions when we study theory of literature. What is literature? What is literary study? Are they both different? What is the distinction? These questions are followed by the questions about the nature of literature, its functions, etc. Theory of lit...