Poetic form

In the poem, “Fish Fossil,” by Ai Qing, the speaker dramatizes the meaning of life, to live life to the fullest and do not let anything get in your way. In the title, the speaker uses the word “fossil” to symbolize past memories of his life. The entire poem is an allegory where every line portrays a deeper meaning to it rather than the words the speaker uses. The speaker begins the poem by referring to how energetic and successful he felt, “With such agility in your movements”(1). Also, as he…

In “Queries of Unrest” written by Clint Smith, the author thoroughly conveys his message of darkness, death, fear, and power by his strong use of repetition, symbolism, and imagery. Throughout “Queries of Unrest”, Smith uses many literary terms like repetition to get his message of the poem out. For example, he uses “Maybe”, “darkness”, “scared”, and “cry for help” many times in his poem. When he uses these words and phrases he uses them to express doubt and fear about his life and what he’s…

“[R]omanticism means, to most students a unitary shadowy phenomenon which can be extrapolated as forming a middle ground bounded by six poets: Blake, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Byron, Keats and Shelly” (Aers et al. 1). This paper deals with a work by the firstly named author: Blake. It is about the poem “The Chimney Sweeper: A little white thing among the snow” from 1794 from his collection of works named Songs of Experience. The poem is a companion poem to the formerly written “The Chimney Sweeper:…

In the villanelle structured poem, “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night,” written by Dylan Thomas is a transparent, yet raw expression of animosity and utter brawl towards annihilation of one’s life. Dylan Thomas embodied complex analogies, naturalistic imagery, and repetition to correspond to the elemental, impassioned theme of bereavement and fatality. While the poem advises one to be unyielding and relentless as death approaches until the last second, the author implies that death is…

Dreams Left As Dreams: Analysis of “The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty” “The motivational speaker Jack Canfield expresses that ‘You only have control of three things in your life - the thoughts you think, the images you visualize, and the actions you take’.” There are many ways that people find joy in life and sometimes the only way that they can make something of it is inside their head. In “The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty” by James Thurber, Walter Mitty is an older gentleman who constantly goes…

A sonnet is a poem usually consisting of fourteen lines linked by a regular rhythm and one of two mayor rhyme schemes - that of either an Italian or Shakespearean sonnet (Prescott, 2010). Such forms will be analyzed in the works of two of the greatest poets of all time – John Donne and William Shakespeare. They are worthy canonical figures that are still acknowledged and studied today, were influenced by cultural and historical features of the era in which they wrote and included aesthetics…

In the Romantics Era there were many important qualities of Romanticism and one of those ideas was a story or explanation inside human awareness. Romantic writers such as Coleridge and Wordsworth believed that poetry is a way of grasping the insight of life. The Romantic writers, Coleridge and Wordsworth, both portray nature but in opposite ways than one another. Coleridge is the type of writer that underlines the grievous, supernatural and magnificent part of nature, while Wordsworth is the…

“She Walks in Beauty” by Lord Byron "She Walks in Beauty" is a short lyrical famous poem that written in 1814 by Lord Byron. It was published with several poems in 1815 called “Hebrew Melodies”. The poem was written about Byron’s cousin, Anne Wilmot. Which he met her the night before where this poem was inspired by its beauty. Anne was in mourning, wearing a black shimmering dress set with spangles. "She Walks in Beauty" can be seen as a love poem about a beautiful woman but it is not. It is…

How is the theme of tragedy presented in Lament and MId- Term Break? The poem lament is a famous poem written by Gillian Clarke. She was born in Wales and she was a poet but also a playwright, editor, and a translator. The poem lament is about the gulf war, which happened in August 1990 to February 1991. This is when Iraq invaded Kuwait; soon the USA and UK interfered by bombing Iraq. The word lament is an elegy this word is an expression that is used to show sorrow or grief. The title of the…

In the time since its discovery, many artists have interpreted Homer’s story of Achilles’ shield. They have created and shared paintings and poems, each showing a slightly different version of the famous piece of metal. One artist who describes the shield of Achilles is the poet W. H. Auden. His rendition of the shield differs markedly from Homer’s original. Homer’s depiction of the ancient Greek world on the shield is a microcosm of humanity, displaying both peace and conflict enveloped by…