T.S..Eliot Essay

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 this essay I will be talking about a Modernist era writer. This writer mostly wrote poems, and his name was Robert Frost. Some of his most famous works include “Mending Wall”, “The Death of the Hired Man”, and “Birches”. All three of these poems were actually quite hard to understand and dissect, but after reading them a few times over i was able to do it. The first poem we will take a look at is “Mending Wall”, written in 1914. After that we will pick apart “The Death of a Hired Man”,…

Realism which deals with the presentation of things as they are in reality, has found immense presentation in the works of several poets and playwrights especially from the late 19th century to the present day. These writers are in a sense iconoclasts, who want to bring before man the real picture of life and society in their true hue and colour. For them life is never a bed of roses, in fact, they always intend to focus on the hardships and struggles of common man. The Romanticists have always…

Indian English poetry since 1970 has been characterized by failure, hopes and despair, immediacy and anger, search and struggle for identity, human relationship and growing sense of dissatisfaction. It is a kind of strong reaction against romanticism and idealism of its predecessors. It not only tries to establish individuality and reconceptualise values but also tries to redefine culture. Poetry consists of verbal and contextual features, choice of words (diction), syntactic and semantic…

In this essay I will critically discuss Blake’s statement as a philosopher who bemoans the state of man but suggests that there is hope for redemption. I will closely examine Blake’s famous poetry namely Introduction (Songs of innocence and songs of experience), the chimney sweeper (songs of innocence), Earths answer and others. Blake was against the view of dualism example Heaven and hell, Blake believes that dualism limits human beings in achieving their full potential however the language and…

The stark differences in globalization, connectivity and technology between the 20th and 21st century become evident as one reads Oscar Williams’ poem titled “ A Morning in the20t hCentury”andAlbertCamus’snovel“ T hePlague”.Williamsinhispoemmentions the typical sounds that have come to represent that time. He speaks of the “spiral of dark sounds” of a train, milk bottles, horse’s hoofs and a truck. He talks about the wide reach of Europe’s “helpless hands called newspapers” and war that has…

Gwendolyn Brooks in “The Bean Eaters” uses symbols and setting and imagery to speak about an older couple and their routinely life cycle. During the climatic period of time the couple endure the same routine day in day out, without changing a single thing. The setting paints a picture of an elderly poor couple living in a penniless environment. In “The Bean Eaters” Gwendolyn uses figurative symbols to best convey the theme of her poem. From plates to silverware to dolls and old clothes, objects…

Darkness, gloom, and doom each contribute to the apparent mood of the early parts of William Williams’ poem “By the road to the contagious hospital” in his book “Spring and All.” Oppositional to the expectations of the average person towards the name of the poetry book, this poem may originally disconcert the further reading intentions of the previously noted individual, as the poem begins with considerations of a conspicuously harsh landscape, which would be an injustice to the culmination of…

The migrant experience engenders growth and cultivation of the human identity, however the aspects of cultural belonging and the emotional remonstrance affiliated with adaptation, assimilation and personal transfiguration are concomitant to the journey. Peter Skrzynecki's poems ‘Postcard’ and ‘Feliks Skrzynecki’ from his acclaimed ‘Immigrant Chronicle’ capture the aspects associated with the migrant experience in vivid detail, his abstract use of motifs, personification and metaphors explicitly…

David Orr in “The Politics of Poetry” (2008) starts off by using Tom Buffenbarger’s attack against Barack Obama as a bridge to claim that poetry and politics are particularly connected to each other. In order for him to analyze both and come up with a conclusion Orr cites works from different authors. One of the works that Orr mentions is Shelley’s, who writes that poets are “the mirror of the gigantic shadow which futurity casts upon the present” (p. 1) Orr then juxtaposes it to Franklin D.…