Confessional poetry

10 MASTERS DEGREE IN ENGLISH (MEG-03) THE BRITISH NOVEL ASSIGNMENT (BASED ON BLOCKS 1-9) Maximum Marks: 100 Programme : MEG-03 Section I is compulsory. Attempt four questions from section 11. You must attempt -five q uestions in all. All questions carry equal marks. Section I 1. In what ways can we look at fiction as history? Give suitable examples. 20 Section I1 How does Fielding's social consciousness affect his point of view in 'Tom Jones'? 20 Discuss the use of humour in 'Pride…

In Keats’s “Ode on a Grecian Urn” and in Stevens’s “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird,” both authors create different perspectives of a singular object, a Grecian Urn and a Blackbird, as a focus to highlight their individual style and form while also articulating various meanings of that singular object. However, Keats uses these variations of the Grecian Urn to exemplify his romantic style by constructing longer stanzas that paint entire images and emphasize emotions generated from that…

Biography Saul Stacey Williams is an American poet, actor, writer, rapper and musician born in Newburgh, New York on February 29, 1972. His mom was a school teacher and his dad was a preacher. With two parents in very influential careers, it is no surprised on where Williams got his talent from. Growing up in Newburgh more than likely had a huge impact on Williams and influenced his talents, considering it is one of the most dangerous cities in New York and in the country. Williams is currently…

Every dream begins with a dreamer. A dream is something we all have and look forward to coming true one day in our lives. Most people set goals to help accomplish their dreams, because sometimes you just can not go to sleep and dream about something, and then expect it to come into existence; however you can go to sleep and dream about something and start to make plans and set goals to help that dream come true. Langston Hughes, “Dreams” and “Harlem” both share a similar meaning; even though in…

The Map That Tried to Mirror the World: An Analysis On "The Map" by Elizabeth Bishop “The Map” by Elizabeth Bishop is a three stanza narrative poem that explores the intricacies, simplicities and representational fallacies of a map. The poem is complex in the sense that it features how the map is simply an analog for reality; a medium unable to truly or completely capture the authenticity of the real world. In contrast to its elaborate theme, the clarity and simplicity of the title is also…

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…

The art of poetry is a vast discipline in which the creations of the poets take on a multitude of different forms. Not only are there a large number of poetic structures that an author can choose from, there are also many parts within those structures that can be modified to lead to an even more diverse array of final products. The author has a great many choice when it comes to choosing the structure of their poem, they can vary the number of lines per stanza, the length of each line, and the…

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…