T.S..Eliot Essay

Out of all the situations we face in life, knowing that tomorrow is guaranteed is something that no person is for sure of. The poem, “Summer Solstice, New York City” by Sharon Olds is a perfect example of the uncertainties in life. This short poem deals with an immensely suicidal man meeting death's face to face at the edge of a building’s roof in New York City while he is surrounded by policemen. At first, this poem seems to be primarily about a depressed man being talked out of suicide by the…

The ‘Miniver Cheevy’ The narrative poem, Miniver Cheevy, was written by Edwin A. Robinson. It was first published in 1910. The poem tells the tale of a despairing lover who spends his days contemplating how things would have been had he been born earlier. Although the poem affords no exact setting, a reader will get to know that Cheevy lives in the fictional town Tilbury, which is quite similar to Robinson’s hometown in Maine. Robinson has maintained the use of this town in several of his poems…

In the poem, “In Just,” it talks about a balloonman and how he whistles far and wee. It also mentions how it is spring time and there are children playing. In addition, the author uses words that are not words at all, but are simply made up words. Additionally, the structure of the poem is unusual. The spacing changes as the poem goes; however, the author never breaks four lines then a one-line stanza, even when it goes to one word a line. Therefore, the author maybe going for a light, fun poem,…

Both poems refer to Breughel’s, a Dutch painter’s piece of art, the Landscape with the Fall of Icarus. William’s choice of title is the same as the painting’s while W. H. Auden names the museum. The painting – and thus the poems – illustrates the famous ancient Greek legend about Icarus and his father, Daedalus. According to the myth Icarus did not pay attention to Daedalus’s warn, flew to high and the sunbeam melted his wax wings. Icarus fell into the sea and drowned. This is the moment which…

Colors are all around us. Every living and nonliving thing on Earth has a color. Books,clothes,shoes,etc. F. Scott Fitzgerald uses the colors gray,blue, and brown to symbolize characters and things in the novel The Great Gatsby. Fitzgerald uses the color gray to visually show the dullness and poverty of the land. “But above the gray land and the spasms of bleak dust which drift endlessly over it.” It represents the hopelessness of the town even though at it’s sides are East Egg and West Egg…

Exemplification Essay Walker Evans’s depiction of life and the people during the Depression of the 1930’s is forlorn, pessimistic, and defeated. A significant example of this is demonstrated in Mr. Evan’s “South Street, New York”, where he has photographed three men lounging around in front of a building. The mood of this photograph can only be described as forlorn, with the men appearing to be homeless because they are lying and sitting on cardboard and newspaper, which is commonly associated…

Introduction: In The Museum of Ordinary life, Gabeba Baderoon states that, “In South Africa poetry has offered a ringing voice at a time of enforced silence, and a vision of prescence and complexity at a time when even the humanity of Black people was denied. Poets tell the secret histories of what happens in plain sight, and give voice to what is supressed. They register minute shifts in the air, in an era, and translate the orders of conciousness and the body into the delicate, powerful…

Wordsworth being a romantic poet has never shown this sort of a gesture as he has shown in this poem. This poem basically speaks about the lost connection to nature and everything worthy. Wordsworth wants to express how the world is moving further uncaringly losing humanity within, every passing day. The speaker wishes that he was a pagan who sees the world with the vision of divinity. Wordsworth is not able to accept this materialistic world filled with artificiality and therefore this poem is…

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…

Defamiliarization In Lewis Carroll’s “Jabberwocky” Jabberwocky (or The Jabberwocky) is a nonsense poem by Lewis Carroll that appears in the novel Through the Looking Glass (And What Alice Found There) which he published in 1871 (Niki Pollock, 2000). It is a prime example of how language can be used as tool for defamiliarization as he does with his use of nonsense words and imagery. Jabberwocky is a nonsense poem. That is no accident. It did not get mangled in the printer, it was not jumbled up…