Iambic pentameter

Henrik Ibsen was a major 19-century playwright, theater, director and poet. Often referred as “The father of realism” and founder of modernism in the theater. People called him the “next” Shakespeare. He was born on March 20, 1828 in Skein, Norway. His parents’ were Knud Ibsen and Marichen Altenburg. Shortly after his birth the financial situation in the family collapsed. Ibsen’s father went in depression, and his mother searched for spirituality guidance. At the age of fifteen he was forced to…

In this essay I will critically discuss Blake’s statement as a philosopher who bemoans the state of man but suggests that there is hope for redemption. I will closely examine Blake’s famous poetry namely Introduction (Songs of innocence and songs of experience), the chimney sweeper (songs of innocence), Earths answer and others. Blake was against the view of dualism example Heaven and hell, Blake believes that dualism limits human beings in achieving their full potential however the language and…

The leading Bollywood lyricist, script writer and a literary poet of distinct voice starts his much awaited book, The Feelings, with these beautiful lines: I am a poet, who weaves sweet and pungent songs with the delicate and sublime words And whatever comes in my way, either thorn or a flower, I take it with a generous smile on my lips. Nawab Arzoo is known for some of the best songs which he penned in a number of hit Hindi films like Bazigar, Sathi, Bhabhi, Jaan Tere Nam, Dancer, Dil Ka Keya…

28 September 2014 English Studies 178 Second-Semester Poetry Course JA Scheepers 18403255 Poetry Essay- The Sonnet SEMESTER ESSAY English Tutor group 71 @Katherine Morris Image reference: (Lemes) ENGLISH SEMESTER ESSAY A: The Sonnet “Every mood of mind can be indulged in a sonnet; every kind of reader appealed to. You can make love in a sonnet, you can laugh in a sonnet, you can lament in it, can narrate or describe, can rebuke, can admire, can pray.” - Leigh Hunt, “An essay On…

What would our world be without everything being related in a way? It would be a lot different than it is today. In “Human Family” by Maya Angelou and “Remember” by Joy Harjo, both poets use personification, hyperboles, and repetition, to show that everything is related in some way. Personification is one major poetic device both poets used in their poems. In “Human Family”, by Maya Angelou, she exhibits that “The variety of our skin tones/can confuse, bemuse, delight” (Angelou 9-10). When she…

Poetry has been used over the years to express social protest or refer to a complaint about the misleading attitudes of society. The poet Rigoberto González is no exception and through both, his poems “Casa” and “The Strangers Who Find Me in the Woods” conveys current issues such as awareness of gender equality and a complaint about materialism. Although the author discusses different themes in both poems, its effect is equally shocking through the richness of rhetorical devices such as…

Looking at Figurative Language in Sonnet 18 Love is one of the most beautiful things, but causes some of the greatest tragedies in life. William Shakespeare wrote many stories that referred back to love in some way. In most cases he used figurative language to achieve this. When using figurative language Shakespeare is also able to allow the reader to develop his or her own idea on what the poem means to themselves. Shakespeare uses similes, metaphors, and symbolism to tell a story about a love…

Consolidating the definitions of irony presented in the Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, Muecke’s list of examples, and assumptions based on examples from class work, irony is quite obviously a three dimensional and fluid term. Studying the term from a logical side, irony is simply using language to deceive the surface point. The Princeton Encyclopedia lists seven definitions of irony; irony as a rhetorical device, dramatic irony, tragic irony, cosmic irony, romantic irony, postmod.…

The Road Not Taken (Web) The Road Not Taken is a poem about the interest and motivation to take different experiences in our life. Inside of a forest, the speaker face the decision of taking two roads. One of them is known from the speaker to be a common road, but he decide to take the less traveled and unknown road. From the speaker, it makes a difference to take the other road to have something to say about his life and experiment a new event. Mother to son (Web) Mother to son is…

The poem “A Time to Talk”, by Robert Frost, is a surprisingly deep poem about friendship and how we should take the time for each other. There is a lot of imagery and symbolism throughout the poem that represents and shows the strong friendship between the two people as well. The theme throughout the poem shows how the two men make time for each other. We should behave like them and take time for the people who care about us. There is a lot of imagery throughout the poem that helps the readers…