John Taylor Gatto

‘Sailing to Byzantium’ is first published in 1928 as part of Yeast’s collection and it contains four stanzas. The poem ‘sailing to Byzantium’ is mainly about different between art and ordinary life. In the poem poet transform himself into work of art and he explores his thought and musing on how immortality art and the human spirit may converge. The poem ‘Sailing to Byzantium’in particular is its rich symbolism. Symbols are essentially words which are not merely connotative but also suggestive,…

Dark Beauty in Shakespeare’s Sonnets Sonnet is a poetry form that has lived its golden years in England during the Elizabethan times. Among them, Shakespeare’s 154 have been poetry lovers’ favourite for centuries. What is essentially done in those sonnets is, of course nothing other than praising love, particular lovers to be exact, and their beauty. However, in some particular sonnets, Shakespeare challenges the conventional beauty standards of his time, which was “fair (white) skin, rosy…

Abstract: The love poems of Kamala Das usually breathe an air of unconventionality and urgency. Mark the following extract in this connection-“Of late I have begun to feel a hunger/To take in with greed, like a forest-fire that/Consumes, and with each killing gains a wilder,/Brighter charm, all that comes my way.” Kamala Das’s poetry is concerned with both the external and internal worlds, and her response to the external world, in particular despite her inner restlessness, is marked by an…

In “Pied Beauty” by Gerald Manley Hopkins and “Composed Upon Westminster Bridge” by William Wordsworth, both poets express their feelings upon the beauty of nature but on different ways. Hopkins fascinates for the variety of nature that God has created for the reason that it makes the nature to be unique in their own way. On the other hand, Wordsworth wonders at the silence and tranquility in nature that breaks through the morning in London. In title of the poem, “Pied Beauty,” we can make an…

Abstract: Jayanta Mahapatra’s imagery and symbolism heightened the significance of the meaning of his poems. The ancient symbol of fertility stands as one of the most favourite metaphors for Mahapatra. The metaphor of ‘rain’ can be considered as the mirror of the poet’s psychological condition. His use of the metaphor of ‘rain’ finds fine expression in his numerous poems. Rain is an all diffusive metaphor in Mahapatra’s poetry. Rain not only binds man with the universe as a suggestive symbol…

William Wordsworth combines nature and human interaction to paint a vivid picture through the speaker in the poem “I wandered lonely as a cloud”. The speaker is lonely and is wandering in a world that is bare and high over the hills and valleys. He all over a sudden comes across golden daffodils that blow his mind away through what he describes as the best that he has ever seen in his life. The daffodils are life like and the dance moves and cohesion with different parts of Mother Nature only…

In Cousin Phillis, Hope Farm is portrayed as a pastoral idyll, idealising the virtues of rural life that is unaffected by the implied ills of modern civilisation. Unlike Dickens’s dystopian industrial city of Coketown, it is teeming with natural beauty, “so full of flowers” that they overflow from the court and stretch across the pathway to the back of the house (Gaskell 10; pt.1). When Paul Manning arrives at Hope Farm, he is exposed to “the soft September air” that is “tempered by the warmth…

George Santayana (1863-1952) [Madrid, Harvard, Rome]. A poet and essayist as well as a philosopher, George is an outstanding representative of Critical Realism, a form of naturalism. The objects of knowledge occupy either of two statuses; they may be existing substances or subsisting essences, though it is impossible to prove the independent existence of either type of object. Santayana stated that we believe in the objectivity of substance on the basis of animal faith. The ultimate substance…

William Wordsworth was an English poet that was famous for his romantic poems. William was the launcher of the romantic age of English literature. He was born on April 7, 1770. He joined Hawkshead grammar school in Cambridge. Around 1790 he went through France and Switzerland, after one year, he went back to France again. William character is a bit difficult and complicated. He was self-centered and hard. He preferred solitary to social life as all writers and poets. William has a unique…

Robert Hall Weir’s song, “Let it Grow” and Pearl S. Buck's book, The Good Earth are amazing pieces that center around the theme of nature. Both authors apply different types of literary devices to express the relationship of the earth to the characters in the poem and the song. Such include figurative language and figures of speech. By using a variety of these writing techniques, readers can better understand and interpret what the author is trying to inform us. One component that is shared is…