John Donne

“Just because we don’t say certain things, doesn’t mean we don’t feel them”. This quote is especially relevant to the love affair that takes place in W. D. Snodgrass’s poem “Leaving the Motel”. The poem entails of the requirements that two surreptitious lovers must carry out after their secret rendezvous to sure that their relations stay hidden. As the narrator of the poem methodically runs through their responsibilities like a checklist, they establish a detached and matter-of-fact tone, which…

What makes you ‘you’? Perhaps the answer to the question varies from group to group; Perhaps, we are a collection of our physical, mental, and spiritual components, all unique and different. The Birthmark is a short story written by Nathaniel Hawthorne in 1843. The audience is introduced to a brilliant scientist, Aylmer, whose life revolved around his experiments and quest for scientific perfection. While controversial, Aylmer abandons his laboratory to marry Georgiana, a beautiful woman that…

In the villanelle structured poem, “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night,” written by Dylan Thomas is a transparent, yet raw expression of animosity and utter brawl towards annihilation of one’s life. Dylan Thomas embodied complex analogies, naturalistic imagery, and repetition to correspond to the elemental, impassioned theme of bereavement and fatality. While the poem advises one to be unyielding and relentless as death approaches until the last second, the author implies that death is…

The poem “The Thought-Fox” is written by Ted Hughes’ in 1957. The poem exists out of descriptive and figurative language; this language is used to emphasize the intrinsic and complex relationship between a poet and the poet literary creations. The poem is a six-stanza poem that is all quatrains, with one or two full end rhymes. The poet carefully used different punctuation and enjambment to the rhythms of the fox as it moves onto the page come through. The poem deals with 6 stanzas and 4…

In the poem "Death, Be Not Proud (Holy Sonnet 10)," the speaker addresses death directly. While death is typically perceived as "mighty and dreadful," the speaker articulates that this is not the case at all. For the lines that state: "For those whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow; die not, poor death, not yet canst thou kill me, " death is personified as a ruler that takes control and manipulates the minds of its people. However; for those with a diverse way of thinking, this "ruler" is…

nearly possessed by men during this time. In “The Rising Sun,” the man says “Thou, sun, art half as happy as we,” when speaking about his lover (Donne). In literature, the sun is typically a symbol for happiness, because of its bright colors and how radiant it is. Therefore, when the man is happier than the sun it shows how abundant his happiness is. Donne uses the conceit of the sun to compare how happy the sun is, to how happy the woman makes the man. This conceit shows this time period’s…

In Wit , a Pulitzer Prize winning play by Margaret Edson, the audience witnesses Vivian Bearing’s journey, and hopeless battle with ovarian cancer. Edson uses a soliloquy as a tone used to reveal the feelings and emotional state of Vivian. She uses the soliloquy to give Vivian a chance to express how she is feeling and what she is thinking in every part of the play. By using the soliloquy, Edson manages to cite sympathy, rather than pity, in the audience by showing the constant struggle that…

accompanied by her finally understanding life and death from a human perspective, rather than a scholarly one. Edson uses literary foils and mirrors, the evolution of Dr. Bearing’s character, Vivian’s fourth wall breaking interjections and flashbacks, and John Donne’s poetry as important tools to convey the theme of grace throughout Wit. Edson uses Susie and Dr. Jason Posner to exemplify Vivian’s character at different points in the play and provide comparisons as she evolves along her journey…

I am writing this letter to you because of your poem Holy Sonnet 10. Your poem has made me rethink my opinions, and gain a completely new perspective on Death. When I first read your poem, I was confused by it’s meaning and began to do my own research on it. Later I discovered it’s true meaning, which shocked me, and thus I am writing a letter to you because of how it has changed me and what my reaction to it was. As you wrote in your poem, “Death be not proud, though some have called thee…

English poet, a clergyman and a parliamentarian, he was concerned with politics for a very long time, also, Marvell was called a nature poet and he was one of the best metaphysical poets. Even though Marvell wrote less than some other famous poets like Donne and Jonson, his range was greater, “as he claimed, both the private worlds of love and religion and the public worlds of political and satiric poetry and prose, his overriding concern with art, his elegant, well-crafted, limped style and the…