Book of Ezra

Introductory Frame : Writing aims It is important to be concise and express your meanings clearly. As George Orwell (1992) said in “Politics and the English Language”, “If it is possible to cut out a word, always cut it out”(p. 182). Thus, I chose the passages in the sentence task for revision and extension part, both of them were the analysis of love poems. One paragraph is the analysis of William Butler Yeats’ love poem, another is the analysis of Anthony Ma’s love poem (SHEN, 2016, par. 1). I…

Doolittle’s American Dream She has been described as a “frenetic” traveler, an “innovative” author, but most of all, an American whose bond with her nation “was fundamental in her literary imagination” (Kelly 394). Hilda Doolittle, otherwise known as H.D., was all of these and more. From her poems, “Sea Rose” is a fine example of modernist writing in an age where new literary sights had become conceivable and American authors were set on its experimentation. Before this movement, traditional…

Explore how Yeats’s poetry engages readers through its poetic treatment of upheaval. In your answer make detailed reference to at least TWO of the following prescribed poems. The spectacle of a poet's work invigorated by his lifelong struggle against the artistic inertia of his nation is one that would shed strong light into any era." –Louise Bogan. W.B Yeats intrinsically links his poems towards Irish politics and his attitudes to educate audiences on Irish culture and history. Using these…

The Formation of the Beat Generation Through “Howl” Poetry is usually seen as a “pretty” form of writing. For the Beat poets of the 1950s and Allen Ginsberg, that is not the case. Their works signify a period of anti-censorship in poetry––a time of criticism for mainstream society. Ginsberg’s “Howl” is one poem of particular significance from that time period. On a superficial level, Ginsberg’s three part poem “Howl” appears to be his own adaption of the Beat era in which certain people are…

Naomi Clark J. Lindberg English 1101 22 August 2015 Slang in America The essay Slang in America, written by the early 1800s American poet named Walt Whitman, was an interesting essay to read. It really made me stretch my mind as to try to comprehend and understand what the 1800s poet was trying to say. Throughout his work he was trying to portray the distinctive American language; which introduces new words and the unique qualities of American life. Whitman believed that our language; the way…

at age 6, he published his first poem at age thirteen. In 1822, he enrolled in Bowdoin College. After his graduation in 1825, Longfellow earned a professorship at Bowdoin College and in 1831, married Mary Storer Potter. He also published his first book later in that year. In 1834, the ever studious Longfellow traveled to Europe to study foreign languages. From an…

Edward Estlin Cummings, a 20th century poet, painter, playwright, and novelist, impacted literature greatly. Nearly all of his poems challenged the accepted rules of writing through formatting and grammar choices. The topics of the poems created the most controversy, especially the poems he wrote focusing on nature, religion, and his sexuality. Due to his strict religious upbringing, Cummings conveys his inner strife and difficulties forming connections through his eccentric writing style.…

E.E. Cummings Born in October of 1894, Edward Estlin Cummings began writing poetry as the very early age of 10. With the support of his very liberal parents, e.e. was encouraged to develop his writing and explore his creative gifts. (Nicholas Everett, Modern American Poetry, 1994) Among writing poetry, Cummings was an avid painter, studying art in Paris after the First World War. Cummings was married three times, his first marriage ended in divorce and his former wife took their young daughter…

Exercise 2: Crux Buster, Harrison’s “On Not Being Milton” In Tony Harrison’s poem “On Not Being Milton” he writes, “my Cahier d’un retour au pays natal” (3). According to the footnote, the French phrase comes from the title of Aime Cesaire’s poem about colonized West Indian people and a journey back to their homeland. The translated version would read, “Notebook of a return to one’s land of birth.” The first two lines of this poem set the theme of the speaker returning to his roots in the form…

A few years later in 1923, Neruda published his first book, Book of Twilight. The following year, “Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair”, one of Neruda’s best-known works was…