John Taylor Gatto

First published in the 11 January 1818. Percy Bysshe Shelley was an English literate who wrote many poems and one of the most famous one is Ozymandias. In the poem Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley, he describes a meeting with someone who has traveled to a place where ancient civilizations once existed. We know from the title that he’s talking about Egypt. The poem starts out with several imageries such as “stone”, “desert”, “sand” and “half-sunk”. Here, the stone represents nature that has…

Such sites of cultural mobility where Ali discusses about ‘Bhairavi’ and ‘ghazal’ opens window to rich excavation from the exotic east. In the poem “The Season of the Plains” from his volume The Half Inch Himalayas Ali make mention of the ‘Banaras thumri-singers’. The verbal structure relates to an art form which defines the unique style originated in Banaras. The poet’s language here is referential of a region that relates to its musical tradition. For a western reader ‘Banaras thumri singers’…

Romanticism was a literary and artistic movement that began at the end of the 18th century and according to René Wellek, English poets of the time were part of a coherent group, with the same view of poetry and mind. By discussing Wordsworth's poem I Wondered Lonely as a Cloud and Charlotte Smith's Written at the Close of Spring, this essays demonstrates how in fact two great poets of the Romantic period had different points of view regarding nature as a main theme, their personal mindsets and…

Coleridge's Kubla Khan can be called a dream on a paper and rightfully so, for it is so hauntingly beautiful and so accurately composed as only a fragment of a vivid but forgotten dream can be.A major section of the poem is written in iambic tetrameter, with the words flowing as smooth as an incantation from the mouth of a sorcerer. It is, along with Rime of The Ancient Mariner, one of Coleridge's most famous and enduring pieces of work. The first three stanzas, penned in rich language, possess…

Jack London is well known for his type of writing which is naturalism. Naturalism is about human beings and their relationships to their surroundings. London used this type of writing in the stories To Build a Fire and Law of Life. These two stories have differences and similarities, but the outcome of them are different in a way. The cold can be dangerous, but the cold temperatures in these stories can lead to someone’s last breath. In the story To Build a Fire was based in Canadian Territory…

The poem I have chosen to analyise is “Déjà la nuit en son parc ammassait...” by du Bellay. The reason I chose this poem is because after analyising it, I was fascinated by the themes and what appears to me as, du Bellay's view of life. In my opinion, the poet explores not only the basic themes of love and nature but also the link between nature and human beings. In the first stanza, the poet personifies the night saying that it is the night that gathers the wondering stars “un grand tropeau…

Robert Frost was a critically acclaimed American poet whose work revolutionized twentieth-century poetry. Born in 1874, Frost orchestrated a return to the older forms of Western lyric poetry focusing on a style that showcased the world naturally and conveyed messages that invoked real, human emotion (Fiero 358). This style is what set Frost apart from other poets of the time period, such as T.S. Eliot, who used allusions to help support their literature. As a result, Frost earned raving reviews…

Babaiyan (2010) employs the concept of intertextuality. The author traces the influence of classical Persian poets such as Khayam, Nezami and Sa’adi on Nima and the influence of him on contemporary poets such as Shahriar, Akhavan and Ebtehaj. Mizban and Saffarzadeh (2010) compare Nima and Nazik Al-Malaika. Her “Cholera” (1947) is known as a revolution in the Arabic poetry. Both poets’ innovation changes the poetry of their nation. But they don’t entirely reject the poetic tradition of their…

John Muir’s Wilderness Works John Muir is a Scottish poet whose works focus primarily on the beauty of America’s wildest places. He has written about many western areas such as Yosemite National Park and the Sierra Nevada mountain range, as well as the northern state of Alaska. He earned the name “John of the Mountains” for his style of writing. Muir and his passion for undeveloped areas even helped design some of President Theodore Roosevelt’s conservation programs. His work for land…

Rubén Darío was a revolutionary for south America, his inspiration was greatly influenced by both french as Spanish cultures. Darío described Modernismo as “new generation of American writers [with] an immense thirst for progress and a lively enthusiasm”. He creates musical poetic illusion through the repetition of sounds in his work. In his poem ‘A Roosevelt’ written in 1904 and extracted from his set of work ‘Cantos de Vida y Esperanza’, Darío repeats certain sounds in order to create a…