Busta Rhymes

Rhymes are usually used at the end of the lines in ballads, sonnets and rhyming couplets. However, in the present more free verses are utilized to give the poet more freedom to their thoughts. Additionally, strophes, stanzas, and verses usually structure…

Poetry is often defined as a “literary work that uses a distinctive style of writing to express an idea or feelings.” Emily Dickinson’s “My Life had stood- a Loaded Gun” serves to be one of the most controversial poems as many individuals take on various interpretations on the work of art. Several readers regarded the poem as demonstrating the inferiority of women to men, which was prevalent during the nineteenth century in which the poem was written. Other readers found the poem to be a…

Various songs have been sung about America and how beautiful she is, but rarely is there a poem that describes the voices of those songs. In I Hear America Singing (1860), Walt Whitman conveys his concept of America as a unified nation. His poem explores the differing sort of people that Whitman contributes to creating America. They are exuberant, and strong. Although the poem is focused on the people, the title of the poem, I Hear America Singing, shows that Whitman thinks of these people as…

The epic poem Beowulf has many different adaptations, some truer to the original than others. Even the poem is an adaptation of its original oral tale. These revisions may provide some clarity in the original tale. For example, the original tale was in Old English. Not everyone can understand Old English, so the story was altered for the understanding of a broader audience. Different versions of Beowulf may provide information the story was lacking. Some of the changes made are merely for…

The poem ‘Do not go gentle into the good night’ explains what a man is going through as he watches his father die, and what he wishes to tell him. To say ‘not go gentle into the good night’ is explaining how to die with purpose, to not simply just die, but to die with meaning. Dylan Thomas used strong words and sentence structure to get his point across and show a powerful theme. When I first saw the title ‘Do not go gentle into the good night’ I thought it meant fighting till the end. I…

Poems frequently use words that can have multiple different meanings to provide readers with various ways to understand the poem. When only looking at the basic definition of a word it does not allow the reader to completely grasp all of the ideas represented in the poem. In the poem “because I could not stop for death” by Emily Dickinson, the word death has numerous meanings that provide the readers with insight into the intended meaning of the poem itself. To thoroughly understand the use of…

Novel Review Of Mice and Men 1. Title—What is its significance? The title, Of Mice and Men, is being referred to one of Robert Burn’s poems, an 18th century Scottish poet. That poem was about a mouse which was carefully building its winter nest in a wheat field but only to have it be ruined by a ploughman, a man who uses a plow. Building its winter nest made the mouse dreamt of a safe and warm winter but faced the harsh reality instead of being frosty, isolation, and even death. The…

Great works of English literature often have at least one thing in common: a character is altered in either a physical, mental or emotional form. This provides the work, whether it be a narrative, book or poem, with deeper significance and relatability to readers. Two Old English poems that exhibit character development are The Dream of the Rood and The Wanderer. The two poems have completely different subject matter, but do contain the same literary device as a means of progression: mood.…

In Harper Lee’s novel, To Kill a Mockingbird innocence is spread throughout the novel. Innocence connects to the mockingbird since all they do is sing for us. There are three examples of innocence within this novel; Boo Radley, Mayella Ewell, and Tom Robinson. Boo Radley is one of the examples of innocence. For example, when Jem goes back to the Radley house to get his pants, he does not speak to Scout about what had happens until a while later saying, “ When i went back, they were folded…

According to Webster’s Dictionary, the definition of the word devotion is “the fact or state of being ardently (passionately) dedicated and loyal”. Also, according to Webster’s Dictionary, the definition of the word imagination is “the act or power of forming a mental image of something not present to the senses or never before wholly (fully) perceived in reality”. The themes of devotion and imagination are both interpreted into the film “Finding Neverland”. Devotion and imagination describes…