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In the poem “Introduction to Poetry” by Billy Collins, the speaker of the poem is in a sort of teaching role as he/she speaks to what is assumed to be a class. The speaker gives instructions using imagery on how to enjoy and correctly examine a poem, but the class only wants to determine the meaning. The multiple uses of imagery describe how those being spoken to in the poem (and those reading the poem) are to explore, understand, and enjoy all poetry. Without the imagery that Collins applies in…

Songs are poems set to music. They come in all different varieties, genres and styles but often the message conveyed is similar. In modern music the message or theme usually relates to love or substance abuse. A few decades ago, the messages were comparable, and even though society was quite different then, the themes in music were relatively the same. Two such examples are “Come a Little Bit Closer” by Jay and the Americans and “A Woman Needs Love” by Ray Parker Jr. Both of these songs…

How does a study of Donne’s poetry enrich your understanding of human connections and mortality in W;t? The role of humility in the human experience, primarily in relation to mortality and human connections, is clearly exhibited throughout John Donne’s poetry and the play W;t by Margaret Edson. The intertextual parallels further enrich one’s understanding of how suffering facilitates the development of demureness through the process of discarding intellect and embracing emotional response.…

William Carlos Williams and Billy Collins are both fantastic poets, with similar structure (or lack thereof) and style of poetry. In each of the combined eight poems, they all contained little to no rhyming and followed unique structure, with little to no repetition in any stanza (the only exception being Williams’s “The Red Wheelbarrow”). Likewise, both poets typically employ the use of an upbeat and optimistic tone in their poems, though they will both switch to a more neutral tone if the…

1. Did this poem make you laugh? Why or why not? ANS Yes, because the poet try to stress that the louse shouldn’t walk toward the middle class lady head but toward the beggar or ragged boy instead, but the poet also presents another contrast idea by the louse. For this insect, no matter how elite middle class is or how beautiful she is both doesn’t matter to the louse, it doesn’t care about the social class but just want a delicious dish. 2. (A) What is the louse doing? (B) What does the…

Elizabeth Barrett Browning is one of the most well-known and admired poets of her period. Some of her well-known works include Sonnets from the Portuguese, The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point, A Musical Instrument, and many more. The Sonnet from the Portuguese is an example of an Italian Sonnet, also known as the Petrarchan sonnet. An Italian Sonnet is a sonnet that includes an octave, eight lines, usually following the rhyming scheme abbaabba. Next, the Italian sonnet transitions into a sextet…

The Good Morrow is one of John Donne’s well known poems. It’s a love poem that consists of three stanzas. It belongs to the metaphysical school. In this poem Donne praises the true love he shares with his beloved. Moreover, he celebrates spiritual love which is better than just physical relationships which is the main conceit of the poem. The first stanza starts with a rhetorical question to express his wonder and to understand how they lived before they fell in…

Imagism has played an important role in shifting the way poets write a poem as it focused more on the images rather than the theme of a poem. Some of the modernist poets began focusing on imagery by describing things in simple and few words and not focusing on the themes behind the images in poem, instead they let the image itself be the focus of the poem. It is like emerging languages with picture in order to create an image that stimulates the mind of the reader. It is considered as a way used…

In the three poems that we have talked about each one has their own personal setting, their own personal tone but, they all have a lesson of parenthood. The lesson in all these three poems is Be thankful for what you have and live life to the fullest. P2 In “Do not go gentle into that good night” by Dylan Thomas, The child repeats “ Do not go gentle into that good night”.(Line 1,6,12,18) He tells this to his father throughout the poem and compares his father to other men who ride the sun…

Three Controversial Messages Messages Through the Poems of Auden and Cummings There are three messages in the poems, The Unknown Citizen, Old Age Sticks, and Anyone lived in a pretty how town. All of the messages have to do with the way we live our lives and our outlooks on life. All of these poems have controversial themes and can be hard to understand. They show the looks on life and these three messages through different characters. These characters consist of an old person, an ex-patriot,…