Iambic pentameter

“Love is in the air, every sight and every sound” John Paul Young sings. This song dates from 1978, and yet those lyrics remind us of the poems from the Romantic period. To echo the song, the poems used in this essay will have the word “love” in their titles. To me, when I'm told about “love” and “in the air”, I immediately think of the Romantic movement, that's why all the poems I chose are from this era. This line may lead us to many different interpretations, because the word “air” has a lot…

John Donne’s “Lovers’ Infiniteness” is a part of “Songs of Ourselves Volume 2, Part 1”, which is an anthology based on the themes of love and family. This poem consists of 3 stanzas each consisting of 11 verses. With the use of metaphors, imagery and partial rhymes, John Donne’s poem depicts a forlorn lover, who believes that one must love wholeheartedly, with nothing left behind for yourself. The first stanza’s first two verses depict an immature, greedy lover, who demands everything for…

So Mote It Be So mote it be, like Amen, is a customary term to end a prayer, close a meeting, ending to a spell or ritual, and to simply be in agreeance with someone. Utilizing the phrase implies both a hope and a wish for the realization of a manifestation. It is an archaic Saxon verb which translates into may or might, and has its roots in Old English. The term “so mote it be” dates to 1390 A.D. from the oldest Freemason document, known as Regiuis Poem. The poem clearly detailed how…

English analysis essay For my analysis essay I chose both a poem and a song. I chose Invictus, a poem by William E. Henley, and “This is me”, an original song from the upcoming movie The Greatest Showman, performed by Keala Settle. Both the song and the poem revolve around the idea that, no matter what life throws at you, no matter what other people say, no matter what happens, you can choose to keep going and hold your head up. You are the master of your fate and the captain of your soul. I…

In “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” by Christopher Marlowe and “The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepard,” by Sir Walter Raleigh, both poets focus on the central idea of love. These poems were written in Pastoral Tradition, which celebrates the beauty of nature, and almost has a perfect setting. The details given in the first poem describe a shepherd who thinks idealistically and romantically. Whereas in the other poem, the Nymph believes realistically and disproves the belief of the perfect world…

Love does not need conceits to be true. Both sonnets are written by William Shakespeare. They were written on the year 1609. In many of his works the theme love seems to his favourite. “Courtly Love” In Sonnet 18, the writer describes how the person he is talking to is more temperate and fair than the beauty he sees in nature. And often is his gold complexion dimm’d; And every fair from fair sometime declines, The writer concludes that the beauty of the person he’s talking to is not so…

Poetry is a writing form that allows deep meaning to be summarized in just a few lines. Popular poetry topics can range from anything between love and hate, and joy and despair. Much of the time, poems are created through use of writing devices that are not always understood without deeper inspection. In Do Not Go Gentle, Dylan Thomas uses a repetitive villanelle form, nature imagery, and patterns of sound to create a message of defiance towards death of old age. The poem is organized as a…

When people communicate with each other, how someone says something is just as important as to what they said, this applies to writing literature as well. In literature, the form is extremely important for it helps to contribute to the content. For example, poetry is a form that enables the writer to write about suppressed feelings and complex emotions unlike any other form of writing. Also, poetry gives the reader a new way at looking at things. By offering a new perspective, it creates new…

Gregory “constituted an awkward task for the poet.” –James Pethica. As he had to meet the request of Lady Gregory but at the same time not glorify war or make his muse a victim war. This short sixteen-line poem has a simple structure: lines metered in iambic tetrameter, and four grouped quatrains of alternating rhymes, allows the poet to depict his opinions of war, “My country is Kiltartan Cross, My countrymen Kiltartan’s poor.” The polyptoton repetition aligns Yeats attitudes with the…

Loving A poet by the name of Alfred Lord Tennyson once stated "tis better to have loved and lost than to have never of loved at all''. In this essay, I am going to be going over three main topics. First of all, I will be talking about how loving is good and how it enables us to be happy, have fun and helps us form our personality. Next, I will talk about how loving has its faults such as judgment, heartbreak, and depression. And lastly, my opinion which states that nothing is one hundred…