Poetic form

This captivates the reader and reels them in further as it allows a concise relationship to form between the character and reader. It also permits the reader to grasp an accurate, attached and sympathetic understanding of the monologue. The persona in the last duchess has been criticized by many theories. A feminist theory states that he speaks directly about a woman but never adds anything that she has said or experienced, he only speaks of her as though she is an ‘’object’’. There is also a psychological perspective that addresses the duke himself and states that it reveals the twisted thoughts, values and ideas of the duke, this was termed as…

the Swan is a popular sonnet that depicts the myth of Zeus and Leda. We find the poetic form of sonnets used across languages and times. In the late 19th century, the Limerick shaped up as a popular poetic form. Limerick is a five-line poem, usually a humorous verse. The origin of the limericks links back to the French literature in the medieval time period. Often used by playwrights, Limericks existed in the English literature…

ground, purifying and enlivening it. This humble purpose is steady with the Movement’s overall attitude of avoiding excess or adopting a pompous rhetorical tone. As Morrison notes: “Movement poetic practice is based on certain general principles about the origin, nature and function of poetry. These in term bespeak a different view of the poet—the poet as citizen concerned with social issues and politics. Poetry not only is made thing, it is a said thing and it is discourse” (Morrison 32).…

However, although Coleridge has often expressed a fear that his poetic powers have declined, I believe his melancholic feelings may have inspired his poetry more than he realizes. As my colleague, Christopher Murray notes, by writing this poem Mr. Coleridge’s melancholy is “productively transformed in the writing of the poem itself’ (Murray, 722). Although Coleridge has insisted to me time and time again that his poetic powers are waning, I believe that this may be one of the greatest poems that…

Hegel begins by describing poetry as a form that manifests ideas into concrete actuality, rather than abstract feeling (p. 960). From the inner imagination comes the formation of material in poetry–but this material is not made poetic by being harboured in ideas, but that it is being harboured in an artistic imagination. Here, Hegel defines the artistic imagination as to keep the abstract universality of thought separate from the sensuously concrete objects. Poetry employs language as an…

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’ is entirely new zone of experience and knowledge which he/ she is subjected to, by the poet because of cultural mobility that the poet indulges in, through his writing. This entails…

Comparative Literary Analysis Robert Frost once said, "Poetry is when an emotion has found its thoughts and the thought has found words." This quote is especially true when it comes to "Birthday" by M. T. Buckley and "The Secret Life of Books" by Stephen Edgar. Poetry is a form of communication that does not have just one interpretation. Every author speaks with their own personal signature, using particular literary devices. In both poems, the authors use diction, extended metaphor, and…

William Wordsworth, Wilfred Owen, Bruce Dawe and Gwen Harwood have all created a large array of poetic pieces. Each poem is an extension of each poet’s perspective of the world of which they use to portray specific messages to their intended audiences. The messages and tones conveyed throughout each author’s poems have similarities that create common threads throughout such as anthem for doomed youth and homecoming with their common theme of the repercussions of war and London and Composed Upon…

“On first looking into” the poem under study, one may discern some of its formal features. It is written by John Keats after first reading an awe-inspiring translation of Homer into English by Chapman. It rhymes ABBAABBACDCDCD and is dominated with the presence of the sound “I” that suggests a subjective individualistic quest of “poetic truth” in a seemingly lyric text. This is a sonnet made up of two stanzas which develop two aspects of a main theme: Homer’s poetry and its effects on the…

interpretation could be the fact that Hardy is perhaps looking back on the past century’s poetic works and recognizing its beauty while, at the same time, realizing the turn of the century means that society as a whole has to move onwards towards a new type of poetry. By analyzing, Thomas Hardy’s “The Darkling Thrush”, one can tell that the effect that this poem has on reader is that of encouraging society as a whole to move forward while still remembering the past. He accomplishes this through…