Chinese poetry

The lifestyle we choose to live come with a variety of factors that accommodate our personal needs. Sometimes there are things that we don’t like to do but are part of the way we contribute to society whether we enjoy it or not. The idea of satisfaction can range from a broad comfort or to a specific joy that causes us to want it and enjoy it. In the poems “Numbers” and “I Am Trying To Break Your Heart” the speaker both discuss a sense of satisfaction that they both receive. The first poem…

A Soldiers Sacrifice in “They” and “Disabled” In Siegfried Sassoon’s “They” and Wilfred Owens “Disabled”, both poems describe the physical and emotional trauma that soldiers experienced in the trenches and on the battlefield. Those left on the home front did not understand the circumstances that the soldiers were under and were shocked when their boys came home suffering from “shell shock” and PTSD. “Social reactions to shell shock victims varied from sympathy or anger at the war to confusion…

Moments of joy like finding love, succeeding in your career and celebrating birthdays with the people closest to you, truly makes it worth living. But in life we must all learn the inevitable facts, that what goes up, must also come back down. Rumi’s poetry teaches us that the highs, can never last forever, and we must therefore learn how to also embrace both the high and the low points of life. Whether it is due to losing someone you love, guilt, heartache, loss, rock bottoms, and goodbyes, we…

“Self Portrait in a Convex Mirror” by John Ashbery is a work of convoluted reflections engaging Renaissance painter Parmigiano, his painting “Self Portrait in a Convex Mirror”, Ashbery himself, and the soul. The poem’s source of inspiration is a physical piece of art, suggesting the poem belongs in the ekphrasis tradition. Immediate tension arises as the painting and the poem belong to vastly different traditions. The technique of ekphrasis in a postmodern tradition has challenged scholars as it…

William Blake (1757-1827) was an English artist and poet whose works “The Divine Image” and “A Divine Image” were created during the Romantics Era. The political, cultural and historical events of this era molded the focus and perception of human nature in his poems towards God and religion. The titles are inherently influenced by teachings of the Bible, which state “so God created man in the divine image, in the divine image he created him; male and female he created them.” (New International…

Poetry is an ancient form of art that has been around since writing has become widely used. People throughout history have used it to describe emotions, the natural worlds, and stories and events. Poetry has been one of the main descriptive mediums in many cultures, with different cultures using different types of poetry, from haikus from the Japanese, or epic poetry made most famous by the Greeks with Odysseus. According to many famous philosophers and poets, poetry contains certain units that…

An Analysis of William Blake’s Life as a Poet William Blake was a travelled and experienced writer, growing up in Paris, moving to London, and finally ending up in Felpham, Sussex [1]. Throughout all this time William Blake, was a businessman, poet, and artist, all of these accomplishments severely impacted Blake’s literary works. In Blake’s poems, “The Tyger” and “The Lamb”, Blake uses repetition and rhyming throughout both of these works, but their meanings are extremely contrasting. “The…

In his poem “William Street”, Slessor use language that appeals to the senses. He does this in order to allow us to go on the journey with him and experience it through his eyes. Slessor appeals to our sight when he says, ‘The pulsing arrows and the running fire spilt on stones.’ From this we imagine arrows pulsing on and off and the lights of pubs and bars streaming across the street, making it seem alive and bustling with people. In the third stanza Slessor appeals to our sense of taste and…

poets are very different and some are revolutionary. Almost all poets before Whitman wrote with a pattern in their poetry, but Whitman changed that and became the father of free verse poetry. In Dickinson 's poetry it reflects her loneliness in her life and most of the people in her poetry are in a state of want. These poets are very different and have really changed the direction of poetry over time. Whitman and Dickinson poems are similar yet very different at the same time. In Walt Whitman 's…

The American poet Robert Frost had once been invited to President John F. Kennedy’s inauguration, and was to speak in front of thousands of citizens and politicians with a poem he had written for the occasion. The poet had stood before the crowd, wearing a slightly impatient expression as he brought out his papers to read (Bloom 1). The sunlight that day had been harsh, and that did nothing to aid the old man in his attempt to read the blinding white paper. Swifts gusts of wind did not help the…