Book of Ezra

love poem by Fawaz Allaboun turned out to be a challenging task. Allaboun is a Saudi poet and a Professor of Classical Arabic. He earned his PhD degree in Arabic language and literature at Al-Imam University. He published a collection of poems in a book called “Allabouniat.” Another collection of poems is forthcoming. The first problem that I encountered was in the different words that express the various degrees and state of romantic love in Arabic and the untranslatability of some of these…

creditable structure that can only be found in oral Indigenous stories, Wagamese does not impose an “established critical language”, but rather overlaps the form and content of his writing. He applies this method to subtly express the themes of the book through repetitive patterns and details of images, symbols, and phrases, throughout the story, as well as to transfer the narrative, likewise to the transforming effects of a ritual. In addition, when Saul is first placed in St. Jerome’s,…

Is Yeats a good poet? - Angélique Dongo Yeats' excellency is clearly portrayed in his poems. His work is full of vivid, descriptive imagery and deeply analised personal feelings and strong political opinions which are evident in Lake Isle of Innisfree, Wild Swans at Coole, September 1913, Easter 1916 and Sailing to Byzantium. eats believed that art and politics were intrinsically linked and used his writing to express his attitudes toward Irish politics, as well as to educate his readers about…

“The Unknown Citizen,” written by W. H. Auden, is a poem that describes the life of man lived a life that most people would see as ideal. The man illustrated by this poem did what society expected him to do which resulted in a model life. This poem, however, can be seen in more than one way. Some may see the story in the poem as a description of a man who had an unfulfilling life because he did only what was expected of him. Instead of trying something new, exploring the world, or making a…

on cities and the people, the changing political and economic climate, and any advancements that may have taken place because of the war. This movement brought along poets such as Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens, and William Carlos Williams. Out of the modernist movement came the imagist movement which was helmed by Ezra Pound. The imagist movement was created to directly describe the image the poem was portraying as clear and concise as possible without adding major symbolism throughout the…

Danielle Mullins H English 12-4 11/12/15 “All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace” While first reading Richard Brautigan’s “All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace” readers may not see between the lines, but when the underlying message is coherent, Brautigan’s abstract work, and the events that shaped his life illustrate the poem. The message of Brautigan’s poetry will captivate the reader and allow better understanding of Brautigan’s life and reasoning. Richard Bruatigan…

of people, land, wells, water, rivers, prayers, etc… this kind of resistance against the narrative of the occupier is meant to confirm another identity and presence of the subaltern who are not powerful enough to write an official history. In his book Culture and Imperialism, Edward Said points to how imperialist regimes use tradition as a determinant of national identity, by means of seeking to produce “pure (even purged) images” constructed “of a privileged, genealogically useful past, a…

of his most famous poems, “Richard Cory”. Edwin Arlington Robinson was a poet in the Modernist era significant to American poetry because he described such dramatic and vivid scenes, such as “Richard Cory”, by using reticence and simplicity. "Poet Ezra Pound is credited for bringing the techniques of literary modernism to the United States in the early 20th century"(Modernism, 894). However, the Modernist Era arose in the 20th century and throughout WWII. Modernism was inspired by the…

T.S. Eliot first published The Waste Land in 1922 after World War I had concluded as commentary on the chaotic nature of modern Europe during the war and thereafter. The Waste Land is a complex and intricate poem that weaves between speakers and a plethora of different languages. The Waste Land also alludes to esoteric texts that Eliot seems to have an intense desire to return to. Eliot 's fragmented poem juxtaposes polyphonic voices and allusions to literature as a means to isolate the…

In accordance with Virginia’s Woolf’s essay titled “Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown,” the idea that human relations changed circa December 1910 is explored. In Woolf’s words “in or about December 1910 human character changed” (Woolf 2). This change, which she asserts was “not sudden and definite,” (Woolf 2) leads the reader to believe it was gradual. The Victorian and Georgian Era are stark in contrast regarding the everyday individual (and said individual’s relationships). Where the Georgian lived a…