Blank verse

According to the Poetry Foundation, Modernism originated by growing “out of the philosophical, scientific, political, and ideological shifts that followed the Industrial Revolution, up to World War I and its aftermath.” Furthermore, it “was a re-evaluation of the assumptions and aesthetic values of their predecessors.” As Modernism began, many writers including T.S. Eliot, William Butler Yeats, and Ezra Pound began creating poems with this new, innovative style. One such writer, Wallace Stevens,…

such a wonderful city, but even more Canada a wonderful country. In addition to Montreal, the poems The Rocking Chair, The Mountain, The Break-Up, The Grain Elevator and Political Meeting all directly cite places in Quebec, Canada as parts of their verses. His writings in these poems sought to forge an identity for French Canadians and minorities living in Canada, and how the Western culture was a part of them…

a framework to which the masses could compare themselves and others is not a foreign concept. The ideal human birthed from the biblically inspired writings of John Milton in Paradise Lost, is a dauntingly dismal depiction of said standard. The blank verse of the epic is written in such a way as to establish a sense that all occurrences are being observed and recounted to the reader through the eyes…

“Christians need to be loving… Christians should be living witnesses.” Those were two sentences I heard on the drive to the restaurant with a christian family friend. This family friend seemed to genuinely care about the lost people of this world, and more importantly the condition of their salvation. Or at least I thought so. Upon arriving to the restaurant, just as we were beginning to eat, a “gay looking” man simply minding his own business passed by our table to join his friends. Immediately…

the Stress Management Assessment tests from Chapter 2, there was a decrease in my stress levels, except for school, probably due to finals and my self-esteem/weight gain, but overall most results stayed the same. Reviewing my results from the first verses the second time I took this assessment, I concluded, by looking at my vitals, that I need to relax more and breathe a little slower. It also showed that I need to work on my health in regards to both sleeping more and eating healthier.…

Though it is not known for certain when his plays were written the impact they had is clear. Marlowe was an innovative thinker and started a new trend by writing his plays in blank verse. One of his first full length plays to use this new style of writing was “Tamburlaine the Great,” a story loosely based on the life of Timur, a Central Asian emperor. He liked to write his plays in a non-traditional sense, often using them to express…

Robert Frost is a much appreciated poet of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries to whom today’s commonly seen techniques are attributed. Many authors’ goal is to provide a contribution to society and influence the literature field in which they primarily work. To some, leaving a recognized impression is one of the highest rewards in literature. For authors similar to Robert Frost, a poet in the 19th and 20th centuries, they accomplished this goal with, what seems like, little effort or…

of my profession relaxed me somewhat. “You should leave the shall,” my husband commented as he walked in from our bedroom. He tightened a tie around neck, the type you would wear to parties or, more fittingly, funerals. He looked up to me with a blank expression. “It’s tattered and homely, and this is a very formal event. You need to dress for the part.” “This is a trial, not a ball ,Gabriel.” I reminded him gently. “If we find out that crone is a witch, will there not be a cause for…

The Modernist writers were aware that they were living in an age which was undergoing massive change. Virginia Woolf famously said “on or about December 1910 human character changed.” Awareness of this change radically affected their writing. The investigations of Freud, Marx and the new developments in the empirical sciences influenced their worldview and their works of art. The stable worldview that writers like George Eliot were used to was changing. The idea of the organic growth of an…

Enter. look at mirror and touch your face and pull your skin. I have been looking at myself in this small silver mirror, so much that I think it is a part of me. I sit in front of it in the powder room every day, gazing into a blank expression. I stare and see this woman, this woman who once held beauty and eyes full of mystery and secrets. But every single day it is fading, the beauty is fading, the eyes, which were once so full of emotion, are fading. I am becoming dull and lifeless, day by…