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Under Akam poetry comes what is supposed to be the most internal, personal and directly incommunicable human experience, and that is love and all its emotional phases. All that does not come under this internal and interior experience is classed as Puram. While love poetry is Akam, all the other poetry, elgiac, panegyric and heroic is Puram. In Puram poetry, the study of Nature is mainly objective and consists in similies and metaphors,whereas in Akam poetry Nature is background and sympathetic…

Consisting of eighteen lines, “Thoughts in a Zoo” by Countee Cullen most closely resembles the form of rhyming couplets with an AABBCCDDEEFFGGHHII rhyme scheme. Typical of poetry from the Harlem Renaissance, “Thoughts in a Zoo” deals with race, but unlike many Harlem poets, who tend to make racial tension the primary focus, Cullen deals with race in a subtler manner…

VI. LENORE Poe comes back to his successive topics of death and excellence in "Lenore," where, as in a number of his works, the soul of an as of late expired young lady overwhelms the portrayal in spite of her absence of a physical nearness. As in some of his different ballads, for example, "Annabel Lee," the dead cherished is seen through the eyes of her male living mate and thus comes to exemplify the apex of excellence and flawlessness in her demise. The accentuation on her reasonableness and…

One example of this is her poem “To my Dear and Loving Husband.” The poem describes her love for her husband and her happiness as a wife. There is an end rhyme scheme which makes every two line feel like a couplet. The tone is romantic and joyful as seen when the she states in the very first line, “If ever two were one, then surely we.” The poem is personal and continues talking about the love she has for him. There are still an allusion to religion from the…

The Captain, who was at the scene of the battle, describes Macbeth with high praise- ‘For brave Macbeth… Like Valour’s minion carved out his passage’ which suggests that Macbeth fights like bravery personified and doesn’t let anything get in his way. When he faced Macdonald, he ‘ne’er shook hands, not bade farewell to him’ showing that he didn’t waste time and knew his job in the battle. Although the fact he ‘unseamed [Macdonald] from the nave to th’chaps’ is supposed to show his bravery in…

poems with dashes rather than periods and other punctuation marks of that matter. A lot of Emily Dickinson’s poems were written with short lines usually in quatrains and she only rhymed a few of her lines. Emily’s stanzas were known to contain couplets and triplets. Emily didn’t write too many poems that used a very intricate rhyme scheme. It’s even said that she used slant rhymes and partial rhymes theses little techniques she used in her writings weren’t necessarily conventional at all. Her…

The Pure Simplicity of Deep Meaning This poem begins with a question addressing a lamb by a child asking about its creator in “The Lamb”. The poem starts off with the question “little lamb, who made thee?” William Blake does not hesitate to bring the title into place. The lamb represents purity and innocence; children are innocent as well which makes the lamb and the narrator have a connection. Later we learn that the lamb and the narrator have the same creator. This goes along the same context…

From Beginning to End and Back Again: An Analysis of Cycles in Bei Dao’s ‘At the Sky’s Edge’ At the end of Süskind’s Perfume, Grenouille realizes how much he actually hates people and decides to return to Paris where he allows himself to be torn to pieces and consumed by those drawn to his perfume. Grenouille was born to a fishwife that left him and many other illegitimate infants die, but unfortunately Grenouille was rescued and lived a life void of love and emotion. Grenouille turned out to…

The extraordinary details of Mary Shelley’s life have informed many critical responses to her work; perhaps most significantly in the case of Ellen Moer’s seminal essay ‘Female Gothic’ (1985) which argues that Frankenstein is a ‘birth myth’ by a woman suffering neonatal depression (79). Although Shelley’s personal life does resonate with her text, in treating her work as a kind of unconscious therapy, as Schechet does in Narrative Fissures, or a direct representation of her familial…

This poem is written in iambic pentameter with heroic couplets and is based on a real incident which occurred in the 18th Century between two aristocratic families. Pope also used supernatural elements such as the use of a “nymph” and a “sylph” , which were a quintessential feature in epic and mock-epic poetry…