Poetic form

Abstract. The topic of the research paper is on KAMALA DAS as a Confessional poet with special reference to her Poem DANCE OF THE EUNUCHS & An INTRODUCTION. Kamala Das is perhaps the most interesting and controversial figure in post-colonial Indian English poetry. She writes with outspokenness and frankness unusual in Indian context. Her private experiences and observations are portrayed in her poetry but those experiences and observations seem to become universal. Her voice also symbolizes the…

The Children of the Night, one of Robinson’s most popular anthologized poems. Edwin Arlington Robinson was supposedly destined for a career in business or in a science since his dad was a wealthy New England merchant, but was he guided towards his poetic pursuits by a neighbor. He consistently dedicated himself to his work throughout his entire life. Robinson’s best known poems are titled Tilbury Town Cycle. Robinson’s attitude was conveyed into this poem by his tone, suspense, and…

styles, including the slangy, offhand colloquial and the honed lyric. She gives narrative prose poems a whirl too. But the most memorable poems are those in which the awareness of being a “halfbreed” creates a powerful inner tension manifested in the form itself. The “Half Human/ Half Devil (Halfbreed) Muse,” for instance, viscerally conveys the speaker’s feeling of being torn apart: the syntax is deliberately…

written in 1845. It has fourteen lines in total. It has ten syllables per line. The type of poem supports the theme of the poem. Sonnets are considered the poetic language of love. The type of poem helps support the passion in the poem and magnifies it even more. The love in this poem , would not be properly displayed if it was written in any other form of poetry. The rhyme scheme for “How Do I Love Thee” is not the usually rhyme scheme for an English sonnet. The rhyme scheme of this poem is…

In fact, throughout his work it is made visible just how versatile such a literary element can be. The means by which this sonnet lends itself to be heavily concentrated when focusing on a central theme, affirms its place within an everlasting poetic tradition. This system of dialogue is optimal way to elucidate upon a single belief or concept. One such example of this method is located within the poem “If I Could Morn Like A Morning Dove” rather than having one part of the poetry being in…

Poems are designed to convey experiences, ideas, or emotions in a vivid and imaginative way. They usually use literary techniques such as similes, metaphors and rhyme to make their work appear more personal, memorable and persuasive. The poem Beowulf is an old English poem about a young warrior and his quest through life. The poem was written in England between the 8th century and the early 11th century by an anonymous author, who was referred to as Anglo-Saxon poet. The poem is set in…

Depiction of Eroticism in Vikram Seth’s poems Abraham Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs states that one of the most primary needs in mankind is that of sex and therefore it can come as no surprise that eroticism is one of the oldest avenues in which writers have expressed their passion from advent of literature. From the Biblical Song of Songs that uses a euphemistic approach to sexuality to modern poetry that is content to depict sexual acts blatantly, although eroticism may have altered in its…

A Personal Response. Blake’s poetry is considered to be some of the simplest forms of this art, but in pieces of literature such as “Little Boy Found”, “Little Boy Lost”, “The Chimney Sweep”, and “The Lamb”, truly understanding the meaning of each word can change the overall meaning of this piece. Reading between the line is what makes a reader truly comprehend Blake’s viewpoints and ideas that he is trying to say within his poems. Readers thought that Blake was writing about things that did…

Edna St. Vincent Millay’s “What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why (Sonnet XLIII)” explores the tragedy of inevitable loneliness. Much of poetry is considered self expression, and with that notion in mind, and for the sake of this analysis, I will assume that Millay is documenting her own feeling or experience even though it is definitely in the realm of possibility that Millay is speaking from the point of view of an third-party character or separate persona. “Sonnet XLIII” divulges a…

Poetry is forms of writing that can help numerous people write their views and feelings in a modest way. Gabriel Okara, Louis MacNeice and Rudyard Kipling all convey their worries and memories through their poems, ‘Once Upon a Time, ‘Prayer Before Birth and ‘If’. All of these three poems have a common theme, which is childhood. “Once Upon a Time” by Gabriel Okara is a free verse poem. The poem is written in a first person point of view and contains irregular stanzas. The speaker could be a…