Heroic couplet

In Maya Angelou’s poem it’s a little complicated at first when you read through the stanzas you would think it was written in a heroic couplet sort of pattern but it switches up and seems very free verse but I guess that’s just Maya’s style of writing. There’s definitely personification and symbolism in the poem by Maya making her home Africa into a woman and using her different body…

put it on paper in the form of epic poetry. These poems are more like storytellers than the actual structure of a poem we see today and the poems were quite lengthy. The Greeks used poetry in music and theatre and they were mainly about the Gods and heroic deeds of people. For example, “The Odyssey” a poem written by Homer in 800 B.C.E, is paragraphed structured with no clear lines, as sentences flow to next line without the capitalization of the first letter of each line. It also tells a story…

Authors have utilized literary devices in their works from the beginning of time. However, with the advent of the Neoclassical age in 1600’s Britain, the societal virtues of balance, harmony, order, and reason began to receive much more emphasis. The sentiment permeated every area of life, especially concerning literature. Mary Leapor, an English poet and maid working in the 1700’s, exemplifies this new focus and threads many of these elements in her poetry to elevate it to the levels of the…

the literary devices employed in the epic poetry of the great epics of Homer’s Iliad, Vergil’s Enid, Horace’s and Dante’s divine Comedy to explore the thematic issues which elevates the portrayals of the heroic characters that are showcased on a higher pedestal as their heroic deeds are of greater significance to their contemporary societies. On the contrary, the Augustan poets employed the same conventions of the great epics with a view to satirize the trivial subjects which were…

likely supposed to be a song due to its rhyming couplets (Gates and Smith 110). Terry witnessed an Indian ambush of two white families, which inspired her to write this poem to describe the horrific event she saw (Gates and Smith 111). In her poem, she “conveys genuine sympathy for the white men and women who died in the fight” even though she grew up as a slave (Gates and Smith 111). Terry uses the full names of the Americans to honor them for their heroic actions. Terry writes, “Was shot and…

RESTORATION DRAMA RESTORATION PERIOD The restoration period which is considered to have started from 1660 and as the name itself suggests that it is called the restoration period due to the reason that Charles the second ascended the throne and monarchy was restored. The restoration period came after the puritan age which was supposedly of 18 years (1642-1660), people were deprived of many pleasures including entertainment which was the closing of theaters in that age. People were restricted…

humanistic and commonsensical”, far more so than that of the West (3). Watson supports this by describing the air of “restraint and decorum” in Chinese poetry (3). With little on war and violence and a restraint on sexual appeal, epic poetry glorifying heroic deeds or war victories is absent from Chinese poetic tradition (3). These characteristics can be seen in Confucianism, with an emphasis on civility and propriety. In addition, unlike the Western poets, intent on capturing the universal…

large collection of books, therefore she grew up reading in great amounts. Puritans believed in humility, plainness, and different roles of men and women in society. In “The Author to Her Book”, Anne Bradstreet makes use of iambic pentameter and heroic couplets to convey disdain towards her writing. The poem’s speaker tenaciously deduces that content of her writing, in this case her poem, is not laudable as a result of her dearth of schooling (1). She reiterates that it is not worthy of being…

a plea; urging a Protestant nation to see that if blacks are deserving of salvation and equality in the eyes of God, surely they are deserving of freedom and equality in the eyes of their fellow man. The poem is written in lamb pentameter and heroic couplets, a formal and traditional way of writing. Wheatley might use this form to build her credibility as an educated poet; therefore, illustrating that a black…

different aspect of a political figure. Shakespeare’s intention for positioning the audience to view Prince Hal as a heroic figure was to please Queen Elizabeth. She remained in control of any role-play which took place under her rule. The similarities between herself and Prince Hal exemplifies the many Elizabethan Shakespeare plays containing a reflection of herself. Thus, the heroic and lovable portrayal of Prince Hal hides his conflicting views on Queen Elizabeth, where the Queen was in a…