Ezra Pound

In his poem We Wear the Mask, Laurence Dunbar speaks rather elusively on the topic of human deceit. More specifically, the underlying message of the human tendency to hide emotions in suffering, reveals itself in the 15 line poem. Explored in the first two lines of the poem, Dunbar speaks about a figurative mask; a mask covering the face, hiding cheeks and eyes, with the mask taking over with its fake happiness, all a subdued lie. Continuing through the poem, the second stanza expresses grief…

As the novelist Haruki Murakami wrote, “Now, though, I realize that all I can place in the imperfect vessel of writing are imperfect memories and imperfect thoughts” (12). A work of literature is imperfect in the sense that it is more or less related to and restricted by the social context in which it is written and is a memory-carrier of its own culture. Sophocles’ Attic tragedy Antigone carries memories of sociopolitical concerns over the future development and fertility of the city Athens.…

Introduction This essay is an analysis of the short story "Fountain in the rain," which is written by Mishima. Yukio Mishima was conceived as Hiroka Kimitake in Tokyo, Japan, in 1925. His predecessors were from the high society samurai. Notwithstanding its consideration in compilations and school syllabi, "The Fountains in the Rain" Mishima has gotten minimal basic consideration in English. "Rain Fontaines" with a legend if like numerous male characters Mishima welcomes further examination…

Figurative language is the words or phrases that are different from the literal interpretation of the words. Cleanth Brooks argues that the paradox is the foundation of figurative language within poetry. A paradox is often contradictory language that requires further discovery to understand the meaning. Brooks examines multiple poems from his book “The Well Wrought Urn”. He examines Donne’s “The Canonization” which is a paradoxical poem that makes the act of death in love as true life. I aim to…

A La Juventud Filipina Jose Rizal wrote the poem a la juventud Filipina in 1879 when he was but a student in the University of Santo Tomas, and as the title suggests, was written for the Filipino youth. The first prize was conferred upon Rizal for this composition, at a competition held by the Liceo Artistico Literario de Manila. Rizal’s teenage years were the years when his nationalism and patriotism were being fostered more and more, according to Fr.…

Eliot’s poetry breaks drastically with much of the other poetry written during these years. Like the war poets, he realized that the poetic idiom available to him was tired and had to be changed. Differently experiences needed different styles and uses of language His poetry was formally more experimental and innovative and intellectually more thoughtful. Further, Ronald Carter and John McRae quote Eliot: Our civilization comprehends great variety and complexity, and this variety and complexity,…

Humans often find themselves ignorant of time’s passage and the consequences of their earthly errors. Robert Penn Warren’s poem, “Evening Hawk,” explores this concept and presents the idea that nature, as represented by the hawk, possesses a harsh judgement of humanity and its mistakes. The opening of the poem introduces an image of a hawk to observe the passage of time and human fallacies. Warren’s use of vivid language, both literal and figurative, conveys the mood and meaning of the work as a…

“A line will take us hours maybe; Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, our stitching and unstitching has been naught.” This quote by William Yates, articulates, just how much time E.E. Cummings put into his poems, because they all seem effortless or like a moment’s thought. Because of fact that Cummings almost never used capital letters in his poems, people often spell his name the same way, without any capitalization. What makes Cummings so interesting is his abnormal form his works take…

Robert Graves was a soldier in World War I; after the war, he became a full time author, critic, and poet. He was born into an upper middle class family near London, United Kingdom in 1895. His father, Alfred Graves, a scholar and poet, and his mother, Amalie von Ranke Graves, a strongly religious woman, were great influences to him. He was a superior student, and received a scholarship to attend a charter school at the age of 12. When he graduated high school in 1913, he was awarded a…

“For you they call, the swaying mass, their eager faces turning”, this would be shocking to Whitman, because the amount of voices praising Whitman’s works has grown exponentially since his death. Walt Whitman’s works have gone on an intriguing journey from the time that they were first published to the current era. However, as time has passed Whitman has become to be known as a celebrated and innovative poet. Whitman versatility is seen by the thoughts of death, desolation of hearts, and…