Holy Sonnets

Process of growing up Through the process of growing up many people gain knowledge and go through the loss of friendships and relationships. Robert Frost, one of the most favored and honored American poets during World War I depicts through two poems a trend that shows how one grows up and adapts to their surroundings. He is able to promote a colloquial, restrained language that implies message instead of just revealing it through strong verbal language of hidden messages within the text. Both…

The Circle of Life Edward Young, an English poet, had once said. “There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired.” Poems may use few words, but they can invest the reader as if they’d have read a novel instead of a few stanzas. This is because of an author’s use of the poetic craft to form their vision. Ted Kooser’s poem entitled Mother shows great examples of intense imagery, symbolism, and irony to arouse the emotions of anger…

In this essay I will be comparing famous poets, Walt Whitman Emily Dickinson and comparing their themes, background experience in style which contain the literary elements with some examples of that are imagery and their format literary movements and I will analyze these two poets. What women and Emily Dickinson may seem very different, but are much the same and have some similarities as I will explain in the following essay. In many ways these two things were different in Walt Whitman's…

Throughout history, civilizations have used poetry to record their history, convey their values, and honor their warriors. Poetry often highlights the emotions and intensity of a moment, thereby enabling the state of any given culture to be illustrated. Be that as it may, the Book of Songs, the Book of Odes or Classic of Poetry, is a collection of poems that dates back to 1000-600 B.C.E., during the reign of the Zhou Dynasty. These three hundred and five poems help to illuminate the lives of the…

Whitman in the poem "Song of Myself" incorporates a multitude of different elements and aspects of America in order to create a great American epic. The poem is a combination of a biography, a sermon, and poetic symbols. It is also filled with symbols and commentary to address the important issues of America. The poem also aims to unify all aspects of humanity. In addition, Whitman seems to challenge some of the rules of decency that were common during that time period by using imagery and…

Frost depicts time in such a way that it is obscured and inconspicuous through the use of dictions and techniques such as metaphor and imagery. His poem possesses a substantial amount of the elements of time that relates in with every moment one have experienced from life to death. The importance of time is also expressed as Frost living at a rather transitional time from traditional to contemporary, reflecting an evolution of the society and the ways of how modernism is viewed and perceived…

Alyssa Denike British Writers 10/24/17 B4 Ode to a Nightingale The state of mankind's development throughout the years has been brought through time by the theories mankind made up. Mankind creates all these fascinating ideas that all have the same base of thought "What is the Purpose of our existence. " We became scientists to figure out the universe, Writers to figure out new ways to display opinions on different theories, Mathematicians to figure out how everything works. We can't really…

E. E. Cummings lived from October 14,1894, to September 3, 1962. He was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and was encouraged by his parents to develop his creative gifts. He first started writing poems at the young age of eight. Between then and age twenty two, Cummings wrote a poem a day, experimenting with many traditional forms of poetry. Cummings studied Latin and Greek at the Cambridge Latin High School, and then went to Harvard University. He first started writing modern poetry at Harvard…

Poets use different techniques of writing to convey their main idea to the reader. May Swenson and Wanda B. Goines’ poems are different in structure and motif, yet the deeper meaning that the poems possess are quite similar. The speaker of How to be old is the author as the poem is not written in second or third person. The poem centres around ageing and the importance of one living their life to the fullest. “One must work a magic with time /in order to become old.” The register used is formal…

In the poem Casey at the Bat the author uses humor to describe Casey's experience. The author uses things like irony, metaphors, and exaggerations to make the poem humorous. The author uses many things to make thee poem humorous. These are some examples of humor from Casey at the Bat Some humorous things from Casey at the Bat include irony, an example of irony from Casey at the Bat would be toward the end of the poem when the author explains Casey's face expressions and body language to…