Formalist poets

critique, they offer readers an opportunity to explore different literary topics, such as The Uncanny and Monuments, which are common underlying themes in an abundant amount of literature. Bennett and Royle argue, through Bloom and Jonson, that “we bury poets as we raise monuments of reading to them and our sense that, still, they hold over us an uncanny, haunting power, which brings us to them, brings us back to them” (52). In other words, Bennett and Royle claim that as we admire an artist’s…

David Boyd has an interesting take on this, saying “After its glorious Arthurian reinstitution through Edward III, chivalry had gradually begun to lose its intrinsic social value or mission. Fast becoming a formalist exercise and increasingly criticized, it attempted to relive through pageantry, hollow manners, futile aggression, and silly challenges a glorious past that could valorize a somewhat problematic present-day nobility.” His view on knighthood at the…

Instructional Goal; Historical context and introduction to the Beat Movement: Day 1: 3-5 Min: Attendance and daily tasks, Bell Ringer Bell Ringer: Answer the following questions: · Can poetry help us in a personal way? · What ways can a poet affect society, if at all? 5 Min: Discuss as a class 3-5 Min Student will be informed of the end of unit project. 40 Min: Video: The Beat Generation- The Source; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6JqjCB_7_I *Letter will need to go…

As Christianity is deemed to be the religious scope of the eastern and western nation states, the Russian empire seems to hold the orthodox doctrine or what is lablelled by teologist as orthodox Christianity, soon coined by Weber ‘Russian Christianity’. The very word results from studies undertaken on the Russian politics, assuming the pagan demonic belief as deeply embedded in the Russian society and culture, Weber finds it redundant; in fact, it is rather Orthodox Christianity.(Buss, 2003: 13)…

Annotated Bibliography Robert Browning wrote "My Last Duchess” to demonstrate oppression, jealousy, and pride that the speaker (duke of Ferrara) presents when he is talking about his last duchess who he murdered because “she smiled too much.” It is assumed that the Duke keeps the painting of his late wife covered by a curtain so only he can reveal her smile which was just supposed to be for him. At the end of the poem the duke mentions a bronze statue of Neptune taming a sea-horse which suggests…

Poets of the twentieth century explored the implications of shifting uses of form that occurred over a period of one hundred years. Poems such as William Carlos Williams’ “The Red Wheelbarrow”, e.e. cummings’ “my sweet old etcetera”, Dereck Walcott’s “Parang”, bpNichol’s “Blues”, and Lawrence Ferlinghetti “Modern Poetry is Prose (But it is Saying Plenty)”, exemplify the multiple shifts that characterized the evolution of poetry throughout the 1900s. These authors use form as a means of embedding…

account T.S Eliot’s famous poem The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock. The character of Prufrock is not necessarily the reflection or the portrayal of Eliot himself. Alfred Prufrock is created in our imagination and perception with the language that the poet has employed- the use of various metaphors, allusions, connotations etc. Prufrock is indecisive, battered by life’s complexities and we need to understand him not through Eliot’s language, but through Prufrock’s language. To suppress the…