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. One story I remember the most was one she told about when he passed away; she thought they would grow old together, and a part of her soul died along with him. She said she loved that man to the moon and back. .
I never knew what she meant until I experienced love for the first time. Her love for her husband was like Barret Browning's "How Do I Love Thee" Ann Bradstreet's "To My Dear and Loving Husband" and William Shakespeare's "Shall I compare Thee to a Summer's Day?" and John Donne's "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning". These poems tell of love and the depths of love the speakers has for their beloved even if the love is not given back in return.
Ann Bradstreet's poem "To My Dear and Loving Husband," is an interesting poem because its style is romantic and the poet professes her undying love for her husband and makes it a point to make her husband aware of the extent of love and devotion she has for him. She uses imagery to convey her love to him. She writes, "If ever two were one, then surely we" (l. 1) She thinks of them as one being and there is nothing more important than her love for him. This poem uses Hyperbole, which according to the Portable Literature textbook is intentional exaggeration which is saying more than is actually meant. (Wadsworth 517) This girl has got it bad, it sounds like she is saying they have the perfect marriage. She writes, .
I prize thy love more than whole Mines of gold,.
Or all the riches that the East doth hold.
Considering the poem "The Cadaver,"" readers gain a perspective and lens into a medical professional's life as literary techniques enhance the audience's perception of the distressing events they are exposed to every day. Utilizing methods of imagery and metaphor, the physical words come to life, dr...
When I first attended this class, I was eager to have the instructors show me the relationship between science and poetry, as I could not construct a meaningful connection between the two subjects myself. ... Now, however, I do not doubt that science and poetry are related having learned that both the scientist and the poet utilize keen analysis, previous observations, and a "hands on" approach to learning. ... Similarly, the poet may take years to create poetry that is based not only on personal experiences, but the observed experiences of others. ... In conclusion, I am now able to cons...
The following analysis investigate, separately, a passage from Whitman's "Song of Myself" and Emily Dickinson's poem 334 -see Appendix- focusing on thematic contents and on the formal aspects which lead to their interpretation. ... The letters of Emily Dickinson Emily Dickinson distinguished herself not only for her poetry but also as writer of letters sent to friends, relatives. ... Dickinson transcended not only poetry conventions of her time (by her free-verse, her particular use of punctuation and capitalization) but also epistolary ones, especially those for women,...
Poetry Poetry is a very deep subject; it can show feeling and emotion towards something or someone. ... Poetry is an art an ancient one at that. ... The first poetry was recorded in about 3000 B.C. ... Frost's poetry help provide a link between the American poetry of the 19th century and the 20th century. ... Poetry may have a beginning but it seems like it will have no end, as long as humans are here, Poetry will live on. ...
On a closer analysis, Heaney is describing the process of writing poetry: the process of unravelling of thoughts and experiences within himself. ... Through this comparison of a simple man to a being with supernatural powers, the reader is indeed left with a sense of marvel and admiration of how beautiful and profound poetry is. Typical of Heaney's early poetry is the simplicity in his style of writing. ... Heaney describes this process of inventing poetry in other poems such as "The Peninsula" and "Follower". He uses everyday mundane tasks to describe the art of writing poetry, as in "...
In the art of poetry there is not one right way or wrong way to write or there is not type of discrimination that comes along with it. You can be whatever you want to be when you write poetry and not have to feel that people are judging you on anything you write. In the Heath anthology of American literature there are a few "gay" poets that talk about everything from love to struggles to just plain poetry. The poets try to grasp the art form that you call poetry. ... Bitain compares his poetry to everything that you can imagine or think of in our society. ...
Nature Imagery SYMBOL ANALYSIS There's a lot of nature in this poem. ... If that sounds familiar to you, that's probably because it's the most common meter in English poetry. ... (In the poetry biz, a syllable pair that contains a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable is called a trochee.) ... Small substitutions like this are fairly common in poetry, so just be on the lookout for any metrical oddities. ... ANALYSIS SPEAKER The speaker of "The Soldier," is the soldier. ...
As I researched for other classes I stumbled upon Intro to Poetry, to me I find most if not all music to be a form of poetry which is the reason I added the class to my schedule. ... This paper begins by introducing the argument between whether poetry and music are directly related, I will do this by demonstrating other scholar's thoughts on the matter of music and poetry along with my thoughts. ... How does music relate to poetry? ... In this essay Jay Rogoff first discusses the connection between music and poetry and references the works of Jon Stallworthy in "The Norton Anthology of...
Meaning in poetry is created from the reader making the connection between the literal and the metaphorical, and in doing so, "reading between the lines." At first glance, Yeats" poetry may seem to be merely spontaneous emotion, however, after close literary analysis, it is clear that Yeats" poetry is often fairly systematic and reveals an assortment of reoccurring ideas. When analysis of Yeats" works is undertaken, especially when discussing Yeats" ideas and thoughts expressed through his poetry, it is often useful to consider the context of the poems. ... These regularly reiterated ideas are...
