Chinese poetry

Shakespeare’s successful career continued to grow rapidly as his 154 sonnets were published. As more people read deeper into the sonnets there have been multiple theories on who Shakespeare was writing about specifically in the sonnets. For example, with the first sonnet up to sonnet 126 the poet introduces the “fair youth” which the reader can then infer that the poet might be talking about a male. However, the dark lady is introduced in sonnet 127, and then brought up again in sonnet 128.…

Dylan Thomas’s poem “Do not go gentle into that good night” is a nineteen line poem divided into five three-line stanzas and a sixth stanza with four lines which is written in a very specific form “the villanelle” and depicts a speaker who is really emotional about his father. One of the things that concerns him most is that his father should embrace life to the very end although he knows that death is something no one can avoid. The speaker on the other hand argues for the stillness that death…

Poetry in the past years has become a focus on the craft and skill of what the poet is able to use while writing, which can create very beautiful poetry. However, a very strong form of poetry is the kind that relate to people and look into humanity of people along with their psychological state. A poet that was best at doing this is Galway Kinnell. Galway Kinnell is an exceptional poet that grew up in and lived in Rhode Island. He died in 2014 at the age of eighty seven years young. He had…

others would argue that living is the reward and death is the end. Keats pours his own emotional depth into this poem because of the various losses he suffered before being diagnosed with tuberculosis. Perhaps he was channeling in the fact that poetry, beauty, and fame were important, but death would be the end of it all. The sonnet challenges mortality the most because it seems as if the speaker is ultimately content with dying eventually. He will take pleasure in the joys while he is on Earth…

sure that genres of the four songs were varied. As this activity evolved, my students have submitted music to me ahead of time and, if appropriate, I often use them. Every Monday, there’s always at least one student that asks, “Are we doing Music Poetry today?” I have even had a handful of parents tell me that their kids have asked not to make appointments for them outside of school on Mondays so they will not miss this…

Billy Collins, former United States poet laureate, penned many famous poems, including “Nostalgia,” “Japan,” and “Picnic, Lightning.” His poem “Picnic Lightning” is a five-stanza piece centering on the idea of “chance.” Collins chooses to begin his poem with a quote from Vladmir Nabokov’s Lolita. Collins’ style of writing lacks many traditional poetic devices such as a structured meter, but Collins uses other devices to deliver his central purpose. In “Picnic, Lightning,” Collins creates a…

Have you ever fall in love when you were kid? Now imagine that you are in the 19th century somewhere in china, and this is where the poem takes place a small village called Chokan. Love story is named “ The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter” by Ezra Pound. The poet tries to show her feeling while writing the letter. At the beginning she starts with the describing her first meeting with her husband, than she starts writing how her life is changing periodically and she ends poem with a sad tone.…

Poetry is a creative way of expressing one’s self to the public. It is one of the most effective tools that people use to point out wrongs in society and reward the right virtues. Apart from developing the plot in a poem, the setting of the poem has much information that it adds to the general understanding of the poem. First, it helps in developing the theme in the poem. Poets think deeply about the themes that they would wish to present to their readers before starting to write. As they plan…

The modern period was a stage of displacement and interference, and modernist poets reacted to this instantly in a variety of ways. Robert Frost believes that Nature is never circumstantial for poetry, but is rather a vital character in his works. Throughout his poems, Robert Frost defines the existence of nature in which he talks about the struggles that is within the natural world and also use the destructive side of nature. Robert Frost is a poet who describes nature into his own unique way…

Seamus Heaney’s poem, Follower, focuses particularly on his love and admiration for his father as he sees him as this god like figure at a young age. It illustrates the key themes that can be identified throughout the anthology such as childhood, memories, identity, personal experiences, growth and change throughout time. His poems often have a reminiscent tone, and there is a clear established link that his surroundings and upbringing within a rural area have impacted majorly on his work. In…