Confessional poetry

The effect of stepping back in time is also demonstrated through the differences between the novel’s two romantic love interests. Rose is introduced by her full title of “Miss Rose Bradwardine” (Scott 41) whereas Flora is “The Chieftain’s Sister” equating her to the old highland traditions. Time is malleable and something Waverley moves backwards and forwards through; this equates with the narrator of the novel and Scott himself, describing class issues and political rebellions and fights for…

Everyone has a destiny, something they are meant to do with their lives. Charles Bukowski, author of “so you want to be a writer?” believes that if you have got it, you got it. We should look for our natural talent instead of doing something we do not have a passion for. In his lyric poem, which is a lyric not because of its sound but because of its emotion, Bukowski expresses the themes of natural talent and that if it is right, you won’t have to try. We should not do something we do not enjoy,…

E.E. Cummings, in his poem “Anyone lived in a pretty how town.” The plot of this poem talks about people in an ordinary town, everyone in this town always stick to the same paths the people before them stuck to. They all follow the passage of growing into adult hood and leaving their childish behaviors behind them. It talks about how they marry each other and then their children stick to the very same ways as their parents nothing ever changes in this town it’s all the same. But then comes along…

During the second half of 18th century a great number of poets with the label graveyard poets arose with a shared interest in mortality and the afterlife. The most predominant of these poets was a poet by the name of Thomas Gray. Thomas Gray as a graveyard poet was a precursor to the romantic period and gothic trends of the 19th century, and with very little writing raised into popularity with his work the Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, which reflected on the shared mortality of man and…

Similar to how one views a coin as being either heads or tails, the nature of time is viewed by poets as one of two things: either time is fleeting or time is eternal. Those who recognize the former see the passage of time as destined to occur as well as an end; whereas, those who recognize the latter have the mindset that time will never give way to an end. Poet John Keats, a proponent of the former viewpoint, carries the centralized idea of time throughout his works in order to illustrate the…

According to Baird, "My Papa’S Waltz." Masterplots II: Poetry, “Otto Roethke loved his son, but could not approve of his path in life; Theodore loved his father but was unable to demonstrate that love in ways that his father could understand. Worse, Otto died while Theodore was still a teenager, so the father…

Glory is fleeting. This expression means no matter how popular or famous someone gets, their fame and glory do not last. According to A. E. Housman’s, “To an Athlete Dying Young”, he illustrates how precious life is and how people tend to remember public figures of great promise that dies young. Housman’s “To an Athlete Dying Young” uses metaphor throughout the entire poem to illustrate the Athlete’s glory and his view on death. The poem reveals the concept of dying at the peak of their…

hushers” to describe the group of people she is portraying her speech to. The form of a poem follows a certain pattern, rhyme scheme, meter, or has a certain topic/focus, or all of the above. Haiku, limericks, sonnets, and sestinas are all forms of poetry that use conventional arrangements of meter and rhyme patterns. These two poetry’s have different forms of literature. The poem “For My Daughter” by Weldon Kees is a 14 line sonnet. Its rhyme scheme is ABABCCDEDEFFGG. The poem, which is very…

Theses Statement The speaker of “The Road not taken”,while he travelled, finds himself, alone in a fork path, in the woods. He considers two paths in the road, which were equally worn and overlaid with un-trodden leaves. He is caught in a dilema of deciding which path to trod, finally, he decides to choose one, “the one less travelled by”.(DiYanni,2008) He decideds to save the other path for another day, knowing fully well that he is unlikely to travel by this route again. “I doubted if I…

He only had classes for a few hours of the day. He spent most of his time reading in various placed around the campus. It was also during this time that Poe's relationship with John Allan turned quite bitter. Edgar started to display his habit of drinking and his love of gambling. Assuming that his expenses would be paid, Poe continued to loan and gamble himself into over two thousand dollars of debt. When John Allan heard of this, he traveled to Poe's college to see for himself. He was…