Forms of Ownership Essay

There are many allusions presented to us explicitely and implicitely in this poem. The poets apparent loss of memory throughout the poem implicitely alludes to the speakers decomposing body.In the first line,the speaker refers to himself as “me” but by the second quatrain he refers to himself as merely “the hand that writ” this poem.The speakers memory is reduced further in the third quatrain to “this verse” and by line ten resolves to “when I am perhaps compounded in clay”.The state of the…

Suppressing senses in John Keats’s Ode to a Nightingale and Ode on a Grecian Urn Abstract: John Keats, as a pursuer of beauty, is well-known for his beautiful sensory language in his odes, but many of the odes intentionally limit the senses they inhabit. With particular references to Ode to a Nightingale and Ode on a Grecian Urn, this paper focuses on the reasons for suppressing senses and the methods of creating an abundance of believable sensation with limited senses. Key words: Ode to a…

The Pylons is a poem written in five quatrains of free verse, and describes the conflict between country and city. The titular object, pylons are a metaphor for technology, which the poetic voice believes to threaten to bring destruction upon nature and country. The concrete poem structures the stanzas in a way that, along with the black font, resemble pylons. There is no regular meter but the first and last line of each stanza sometimes end with full rhyme and sometimes pararhyme. The poet uses…

In the far away kingdom of Meritopia there lives a king and queen who rule over their land in both power and strength, KING ELIJA and QUEEN CAMILA. The King and Queen hold a strong belief system that is bound by tradition, laws and above all, the perception others held of them. This ideology is what holds the kingdom together and what sets it apart from many other kingdoms. As the years pass by and the kingdom’s success grows, the King and Queen feel that there is something missing in their…

I have chosen the poem The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost for my deconstruction essay. Deconstruction can be referred to the ‘theory used in the study of literature or philosophy which says that a piece of writing does not have just one meaning and that the meaning depends on the reader’ (Merriam-Webster, 2014). I chose this poem as it very popular and its basic meaning is very famous. The deconstruction of the poem may provide a very different meaning to each reader. Derrida said, ‘In a…

Frost supplicates us to question, “what does the scythe whisper?” yet if we stay grounded in reality, we must admit that scythes are incapable of human speech whether in whispered form or otherwise. Frost, in structuring his poem around a whispering scythe, allows the poem to imply much more than it actually states. Frost questions whether the reader or mower in the field can help but look behind and within the facts stated in the…

“Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day?” “Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day?” is one of my favorite poems/ sonnets. The poem is in iambic pentameter like much of Shakespeare’s other works. This is significant as it changes the way his audience will read the poem. It almost gives the poem movement, as well as emphasizing certain words and phrases. This movement created by iambic pentameter functions to establish a theme of cycles. These cycles work to parallel the cycles of life. This is…

“Eingang” opens the cycle Traumdunkel (Darkness of Dream), the fifth part of George’s Der siebente Ring, which counterbalances the growing emotional intensity that characterises the book up to the Maximin-cycle by sinking into the lingering darkness of dreams. The cycle consists of fourteen poems and was written between the spring of 1902 and the end of 1905, but mostly after Maximilian Kronberger’s death in April 1904. The heading “Traumdunkel” was first used as the title of a poem in autumn…

Poetry is a fervent display of emotions and experiences that can be traced back further than the 3rd century BCE and was even being created in preliterate societies (wikipedia.org/wiki/Poetry). It’s an artform that divulges the author’s beliefs, dreams, passions, and fears while still being open enough to be interpreted in a million different ways. Emily Dickinson and Ted Kooser were experts at creating poetry that could connect to multitudes of people. This paper will analyze two of their poems…

Incrementalism in the Classic of Poem’s Many selections in the Classic of Poems make correspondences between the natural and human world. While this style is easily characterized by alternating stanzas, with the first taking place in the natural world, and the second in the human world, the different effects these correspondences can have vary greatly. In some selections the correlation and analogy made is very clear, with little left to be interpreted. However, in other poems the association…