Poetry

appreciates the paradoxical desires of the writer to break free of long-practiced and redundant structure, yet she understands the human need for order and arrangement. She acknowledges the fact that there is no such thing as an uninfluenced line of poetry; whether the influence is a grammatically and culturally correct form, or an emotional or ideological belief that is shared by poets and authors. According to Waldrop, “Whether we are conscious of it or not, we always write on top of a…

Poetry is a type of art of composition, written or spoken, that conveys a message. Poetry has existed since anyone can imagine. Poetry has been a way to express our emotions without really expressing them to others face to face. It has been a way of comfort to some who can use it as their own tool. A majority, no offense, don’t really write poetry. Actually, no one really considers going to poetry to express a message. There are a small percentage of people who actually use poetry for their own…

The thought provoking essay “Poetry as a Way of Saying” by Cleanth Brooks and Robert Penn Warren, provides an educational direction for a reader’s comprehension and understanding of the “naturalness” of poetry. They claim in this critical text that “mere immersion does little good unless the reader is making, however unconsciously, some discriminations, comparisons, and judgements” and that “by trying to understand the nature and structure of poetry. . .readers may accelerate and deepen the…

Poems frequently use words that can have multiple different meanings to provide readers with various ways to understand the poem. When only looking at the basic definition of a word it does not allow the reader to completely grasp all of the ideas represented in the poem. In the poem “because I could not stop for death” by Emily Dickinson, the word death has numerous meanings that provide the readers with insight into the intended meaning of the poem itself. To thoroughly understand the use of…

There are many allusions presented to us explicitely and implicitely in this poem. The poets apparent loss of memory throughout the poem implicitely alludes to the speakers decomposing body.In the first line,the speaker refers to himself as “me” but by the second quatrain he refers to himself as merely “the hand that writ” this poem.The speakers memory is reduced further in the third quatrain to “this verse” and by line ten resolves to “when I am perhaps compounded in clay”.The state of the…

Death is a very controversial and versatile topic in both our real world and in literature. Writers and poets are able to express their opinions on the idea of death and consequently sway the reader’s outlooks as well. The poems “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”, written by Robert Frost, and “Because I Could not Stop for Death”, by Emily Dickinson, are both great examples of two distinct attitudes towards death and how that attitude is carried out throughout each of these pieces of…

quirks. She studied botany and had a large herbarium at her home “(Emily Dickinson : Poetry Out Loud)”. Dickinson is used as a prominent figure in literature, but during her lifetime she was better known for gardening. As well as being an avid gardener, Dickinson also developed a love for baking “ (Anirudh)”. Throughout her poems, none of the themes suggest Dickinson had an active romantic life “(Emily Dickinson; Poetry Foundation )”. During her state of depression, Dickinson refused to speak…

to leave their home, many of which had lived there for decades.“Approximately 3.5 million Africans were removed from ‘white’ areas” (Clark 70). Entire communities were uprooted forcibly through military scare tactics. With being driven out of their homes, many people also lost some of their culture. Their way of life was infringed upon and their attitudes towards whites were becoming more and more unforgiving. Police intimidation was extremely prevalent during the apartheid. Whether it had to…

The war poet and war poetry in general were terms used firstly within context of the World War I.. From the beginning of the war times, poetry was written mostly by civilians, not by poets. Such poetry had no established identity. It was later, between 1914 and 1918 when this type of poetry acquired notion of genre, and so-called soldier-poets became a species. Enormous increase in writing poetry related to the war occurred. War poetry became very realistic, describing situation as it was…

assonance which became one of Owen characteristic of his poetry. In 1915, Wilfred Owen joined the British army. Until 1917 he was expressing his experiences only to his brother and mother through letters and not anyone else. During his first incidents in WW1, he experienced gas attacks and people dying.…