George Eliot

In “The Definition of Love”, the poet – Marvell describes the love he has for his lover. This Love is perfect, but he has just mind occupied, but never has possessed the body. Love is comparable to love God but for that very reason hopeless. In first stanza, the poet begins by comparing the three words: despair, hope and fate. All these are what define the love of the world. The beginning of this poem, the poet says that the love of a father, mother, poet rare and its aim is strange and sublime.…

Sophia Eddy Ms.Austin English 10c 12 March 2015 Robert Frost The poetry of Robert Frost, which was influenced by personal background and by the Romantic literary period, has contributed to the American literary heritage greatly. Robert Frost was born on March 26,1874 in San Francisco, California. His parents were Isabel Moodie and William Prescott Frost. His father was an alcoholic and died of tuberculosis when…

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, playing upon a refined sensibility, must produce various and complex results. The poet must become more and more comprehensive, more allusive,…

Torn by the inequalities and the inability to truly acclimate himself into mainstream society, Rodolfo Gonzales’, wrote the poem “I Am Joaquin” in 1967 . Rodolfo Gonzales created an epic poem that was able to convey the feelings of his community in conjunction to that of his own. What makes this narrative into an epic is the manner in which the conflict is not a solely against his self imposed identities, but instead the externalities of society, history, and culture. He places himself at the…

and how to use it Ralph but since he found it he took custody of it. This is a major part in the novel because if he didn’t take it then he would not be chief and the group would not split. This is connected to a book called “Animal Farm” written by George Orwell. In the novel there are two major characters named Napoleon and snowball. The way it is connected is because Napoleon uses his convincing skills to show how great of a leader he is. Although like Napoleon, Ralph does not take credit for…

The poem "The Unknown Citizen" written by W.H Auden, he expresses the predicament of losing individuality that the United States of America citizens face. The poem consists of bureaucratic and irony tones that illustrate the clash between government control and individualism. "The Unknown Citizen" is told from a bureaucratic point of view and they speak of an ideal man, who in their eyes is the model of the perfect citizen. The author writes this poem to emphasize the importance of our…

religious writing of his later career as the Dean of St. Paul 's. Donne 's poetry was influential enough to be considered the basis of the metaphysical school of poetry, as characterized by later writers such as Richard Crashaw, Abraham Cowley, and George Herbert. Although religious study and spiritual seeking were significant parts of Donne 's writing life, his best-known works are his love poems. The poems classified as Songs and Sonets in particular…

Through unfitting diction, setting seems inappropriately compared in The Dumka by B.H. Fairfield . Generally, the disproportionate contradiction the moods is due to word choice is evident in the poem. When Fairfield writes, “quite still, backs rigid, hands in their laps, and look straight ahead at the yellow light” (Lines 5-7), the description of the couple differs radically with the light. To clarify, yellow light contains a warmer connotation, but the diction used to depict the people…

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…

not fit in because I did know what to say or how to act. Even though I was able to have fun with the rest of the children, I was afraid to do anything for fear of being laughed at. Similarly, in T. S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” Eliot utilized an indecisive, inhibited man who struggled with his thoughts to illustrate his intellectual superiority over the rest of 20th century London and how he did not fit into modern society.…