Holy Sonnets

4. Roger McGough (9th November 1937) Roger McGough is the second of the three authors featured in The Mersey Sound. Described by Carol Ann Duffy as "the patron saint of poetry", he is arguably the most famous of the Liverpool poets. His unpretentious yet subtle poems characteristically address everyday concerns through supple rhyme and dextrous wordplay. 4.1. Biographical notes and main works4 Born on the outskirts of Liverpool in 1937, Roger McGough studied Geography and French at the…

Poetry has been prevalent for centuries, present in all cultures. There is a grand variety of styles that poetry can be represented through. There are some types of poetry where one follows rigid guidelines like sonnets, where one follows a specific rhyme scheme and an iambic pentameter, or a haiku, which has three lines and the first and last line have five syllables while the second line has seven. Additionally, some poets follow no requirements, and write as they please, like free verse…

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Kapoor1 Chapter – 1. Introduction Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills writer (16 Gregorian calendar month 1854 – thirty November 1900) was associate degree Irish author, author and writer. when writing in numerous forms throughout the Eighteen Eighties, he became one of London's most fashionable playwrights in the early Eighteen Nineties. He is remembered for his epigrams, his novel The image of Hellene grey, his plays, yet because the circumstances of his imprisonment…

Conversations with God “Conversations with God” is a book by Neale Donald Walsh that tells of the disappointments he underwent in his life. He had a habit of writing his thoughts down in the form of letters. It was during a very difficult moment of his life that he was forced to pen down an angry letter to God almost with a will that came from within the subconscious. He demanded to know why life was a struggle to him. To him, it was like everything was falling to crumbles. He was particularly…

In the story Anthem, the characters don’t have original names. They have a name from A-Z and numbers following this format: X-XXXX. Anthem was writing in 1937 by Ayn Rand. She wrote anthem to worn the western civilization about terrible collectivism. Collectivism is where every individual is another and where they think alike. The council are the people who were in charge. They gave equality 7-2521 and his brothers their job for life. Equality 7-2521 knows he different from the rest of them and…

It begins with a reference to himself being like autumn when it says, “That time of year thou mayst in me behold when yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang upon those boughs which shake against the cold” (Shakespeare, Sonnet). This is a clue to the type of fondness he is depicting because fall is experienced at the end of the year when there is less light and warmth and the final days are approaching. Next he compares himself to a sunset. Once again it is beheld at the…

The narrator counts to nine as he inhales “the holy air” and observes the changing colors of the trees. He seems to be savoring the last moments of the summer, resonating tranquility in front of change similar as in mono no aware. Mono no aware is an aesthetic pleasure of melancholy evoked by passing…

‘’My last duchess’’ by Robert Browning is a poem that explores many themes, themes that were regarded as rather unusual in a time like the Victorian age . Many critics spoke highly of Browning’s techniques; he used diction, rhythm and symbol. Those were really evident in most of his dramatic monologues. According to the Victorian web, ‘’the last duchess’’ delves into the theme of marriage and relationships, since the dramatic monologue revolves around a painting of his previous wife and is…

“The poems show love to be a complex and powerful emotion.” Discuss the ways in which the poets have presented the different aspects of love in the poems you have studied. The poem “La Belle Dame sans Merci” is written by John Keats in 1819, he is a romantic poet and was born in England in 1795. The poem is written in the form of a traditional ballad and is presented with eight beats per sentence for each twelve quatrains and a simple rhyme scheme of ABCB. The French title of the poem helps…