Poetic form

In poems “The Lighters” and “Nursing,” Rennie McQuilkin articulates the variety and complexity of his feelings towards the sickening and passing of his mother. To vividly illustrate his sentimental attachments, McQuilkin extensively and effectively utilizes literary techniques such as contrasts, diction, and allusions in these two poems, leaving an accessible yet woeful depiction of his desperation and resignation in response to his mother’s suffering. McQuilkin frequently employs sharp…

The short story “Federigo's Falcon” by Giovanni Boccaccio and the poem “How Do I Love Thee” by Elizabeth Barrett Browning both develop the theme of love in their own ways. “Federigo's Falcon” develops the theme of love by telling the story of a man who gave up his most prized possessions twice for the woman he loves. “How Do I Love Thee” develops the theme of love by having the narrator detail how much they love their partner and by describing their unconditional love. Both pieces of writing…

The characters portrayed by Browning in his dramatic monologues are various and often rise from the world of the Italian Renaissance. From the artist Fra Lippo Lippi who has become a monk without his will, to Andrea del Sarto, a great painter who has subordinated his art to the demands of an exploitative wife, Browning manages to reveal the true value of art. The pictures of great artists blended with historical detail are embodied in his poems. Vasari’s Lives of the artistsis the source of the…

uses alliteration of the “c”.She describes this as a pleasant event that takes place in a carriage. She uses end rhyme in lines 2 and 4 and internal rhyme in line 3 and ØImmortality: (or eternal life) is the concept of living in physical or spiritual form for an infinite length of time. Dickinson’s approach on death is primarily shown through personification where she utilises death and immortality as characters. For instance, “Because I could not stop Death- He kindly stopped for me” This…

E. E. Cummings is not the traditional poet who follows in the footsteps of others. Experimentation with grammatical and linguistic rules enticed him to create his own distinctive writing style. “somewhere I have never travlled,gladly beyond” is written in response to two of his brief marriages which left him in a state of having experienced the highs and lows of love. Throughout the poem, E. E. Cummings utilizes imagery that relates to the senses and unconventional syntax. This enables him to…

It is the nature of man to question his own dubious choices. In the poem “The Road Not Taken" Robert Frost employs structure, setting, wording, and rhyme scheme, as well as the title to emphatically state that the heart suffers over that which it left behind. Frost shows that man naturally questions the ambiguity of each decision made. Frost structures this lyric poem to feel like a journey. He uses four stanzas of five lines each in a progressive unveiling of thought about an uncertain future,…

A sonnet is a poem with a unique form, it has a specific structure. It is a type of poem which originated in italy. There are two types of sonnets, which are the Italian sonnet and the shakespearean sonnet. All sonnets are made up of 14 lines but each types are divided in different ways. An Italian sonnet is composed of an octet (8 lines) and a sestet (6 lines), while a Shakespearean sonnet is composed of three quatrains (4 lines each) and a couplet (2 lines). In my paper I will be analyzing…

Erich Heckel was also part of the Die Brücke group. He was one of the more simple artists in this association. His works often showcased psychological insight and lyricism (Arnason 118). Many of his works were made out of woodcuts. Heckel created a colored woodcut entitled Standing Child in 1910 (Arnason 119). It is another work that features the young Frӓnzi Fehrmann. Ernst Kirchner’s Seated Girl is very modest compared to Heckel’s Standing Child. For this work, Frӓnzi is pictured fully nude…

John Donne’s “Death Be Not Proud” and Anne Finch’s “To Death” personify the abstraction of death through their manipulation of apostrophe and figurative language. Their vivid descriptions extend beyond a mere conversation with death, revealing their inner thoughts toward the inevitable demise of every human. Though examining the same theme, Donne and Finch develop vastly different tones. Donne’s tone of defiance juxtaposes Finch’s tone of resignation, cultivating these through the use of…

The poem Landscape and the Fall of Icarus by William Carlos Williams is based off of a painting by the same name. It invokes similar imagery and emotions, while emphasizing the insignificance of Icarus’s death. Although the poem briefly mentions Icarus in the first stanza, he is only acknowledged once more in the final line. The remaining four stanzas focus on describing the setting. Williams speaks of “a farmer… ploughing his field,” and of how “the whole pageantry of the year was tingling…