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Plath wrote many of her poems, including “Daddy”, in a autobiographical manner where she expresses the sorrows that life thrusted upon her into works of poetry. From the overwhelming despair Plath was facing over her fathers death, a toxic marriage, and suicide attempts (Wikipedia contributors), she was able to yield an immensely powerful voice. She passionately expresses the memories of her father’s funeral…

78). Furthermore, thinking, as reflection ‘always implies remembrance; every thought is strictly speaking an afterthought’ (Arendt, 1978: 78). And ‘poetry whose material is language, is perhaps the most human and least worldly of arts, the one in which the end product remains closest to the thought that inspired it’ (Arendt, 1978: 78). Art and poetry by nature…

his poetry (Voices and Visions). Readers love his poetry for the way he constructs reality within the mix of nature. Frost calls it; the sound of sense, a sentence is a sound in itself in which other sounds called words may be strung. He also says, “I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense (Voices and Visions).” It makes us realize that Robert frost spent a lot of time reaching out to his senses and creating beautiful poetry…

Symbolism and Personification in Poetry Poetry in some way, shape or form, gives realistic ideas to even objects that reflect upon an everyday part of life by using symbolism and personification. When reviewing “Divorce” by Billy Collins the cutlery is personified and distinctively used throughout the whole short poem as (come back to this). In chapter four, Johnson and Arp tells the reader “Personification consists of giving the attributes of a human being to an animal, an object, or a…

The Prosperity of Carlos Drummond de Andrade There are many admirable poets in this world that deserve recognition, and one of these fascinating poets is named Carlos Drummond De Andrade. He’s considered to be one of the most accomplished and influential poets of the mid-20th-century in Brazil (Drummond). He’s connected to many readers all around the world and quickly became one of the best known modernists in the country of Brazil. Drummond’s realistic themes reflected his concern with modern…

his work Thomas Gray was one of the most influential poets during the 18th century and produced many widely known poems and works of literature throughout his life. Many events within his life contributed to his style and topics while writing his poetry. The works of Thomas Gray were influenced by the death of his close friend, Richard West, his time spent on The Grand Tour with Walpole, and the time he spent at Eton College as a professor and a scholar. Thomas Gray’s life is generally split…

Christianity in 1984) and many of her poems talk about religion. Due to her writing style, she was considered to be a “Black Mountain” poet. Black Mountain poets were poets in the 1940s and 1950s that attended Black Mountain college in North Carolina (Poetry Foundation). She and only a handful of others attended the college that was led by John Andrew Rice. He enforced four principles that were instilled in the university, which led to all students…

For centuries and even modern days people have believed that poems were more advanced than song lyrics. However as time moves on songs actually have developed. Songwriters such as Eminem have really taken songs to another level. Poems are thought to be dead but many poems are still are colorful and symbolic like the modern song lyrics. Songs such as “The Monster” by Eminem has evolved lyrics making them equal to poems like “Call of the Night” by Djuna Barnes because both have many devices,…

Frost himself said in his seminal essay “ Education By Poetry” that “ poetry provides that one permissible way of saying one thing and meaning another.”(Frost, 36) One of the exemplars of this technique is “ the life is a journey”, the invisible path change as we make choices. Frost illuminates that “yet knowing how…

enjoys poetry will notice one thing they like within the work of Pablo Neruda, since he wrote regarding nearly each massive theme in literature. From children and enamoured teens to the foremost serious intellectuals,…