Poetry

Poetry has never been something that I’ve been incredibly interested in, likely because of the circumstances I encountered it in. As a result, I have a hard time finding a lot of motivation to write poetry. Something that the craft experiments in this class has done is that it has given me a set of boundaries to work within when writing. This helps me…

Kooser is a man of many titles. All ranging from poet laurate to Pulitzer prize winner. Yet, the many of many titles prefers to keep them quiet as he lives out his life in the peaceful planes of Nebraska. In those plains, Kooser writes his books of poetry. From his home in Nebraska, Kooser archives the world around him. Then he reiterates those archived experiences in many forms. The experiences of life, death, and all that occurs in between those two points. The experiences of the world are…

Poetry has been prevalent for centuries, present in all cultures. There is a grand variety of styles that poetry can be represented through. There are some types of poetry where one follows rigid guidelines like sonnets, where one follows a specific rhyme scheme and an iambic pentameter, or a haiku, which has three lines and the first and last line have five syllables while the second line has seven. Additionally, some poets follow no requirements, and write as they please, like free verse…

Modernist Poets Discuss the Impermanence of Glory In the period following World War I, citizens of all nationalities faced a dark disillusionment forcing them to grapple with personal identity and the purpose of life. People looked to artists of the age as builders of morale and shapers of societal perspective, yet the writers of that time had little more sense of direction than anyone else in the midst of ideological desolation. The only thing to be certain of was uncertainty. Two Modernist…

The poems “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost, and “Advice To My Son” by J. Peter Meinke each explore themes of how to approach our own lives. Each of these poems takes a different approach, theme and setting to convey their own message while maintaining similar themes. ADD ANOTHER SENTENCE HERE TO LENGTHEN ESSAY. Each of these poems follow a similar idea, about how the choices we make in our lives can affect who we are and where we end up in life, but each goes about it through separate…

Tennyson uses different yet similar techniques when writing as does William Wordsworth. They both use forms of alliteration and metaphors, but in different ways. The imagery of the Tennyson poem “In Memoriam” Lyric 56 is both realistic and concrete as well as abstract and complex. For example, he uses imagery to say “through nature, red in tooth and claw.” This is unrealistic and rather complex in a way that is also negative. The poem also states that the writer “cares for nothing.” Finally,…

“Old Man” by Ricardo Sanchez and “For My Sister Molly Who in the Fifties” by Alice Walker are lyric poems. In both poems, there are similarities and differences with the theme and mood. In “Old Man” the theme is that legacies are remembered forever when stories are passed on. Sanchez writes, “old man,/ grandfather,/ wise with time/ running rivulets on face,/ deep, rich furrows,/ each one a legacy.” (lines 7-12) and “but your reality, old man, lives on/ in a mindsoul touched by you…” (lines…

Compare and contrast of Emily Dickinson and Robert Frost Emily Dickinson and Robert Frost are two great writers, who focused on death and symbols in their works. What makes their writing styles different is more of Dickinson are more in a song format and are short. Frost focuses more on a story in his poems and they are not usually short. Two of the poems that has the theme of death is “If I shouldn't be alive” by Emily Dickinson and “Fire and Ice” by Robert Frost. In “I shouldn’t be alive” she…

Beginning with Bradstreet’s poem, the first difference in the way she approaches her audience versus how Stockton approaches hers is the tone. While both of these poems are praise poems, there are certain sections where it seems as though Bradstreet it trying to justify her admiration and convince the audience that Queen Elizabeth I is worth their attention and admiration. This need for justification is clearly rooted in the subject’s gender, “She hath wip’d…

does Wilfred Owen’s representation of the experiences of individuals contribute to his wider concerns about the “Pity of War”? In your response, make detailed reference to “Futility and one other of Wilfred Owen’s poems set for study. Wilfred Owen’s poetry set during World War 1 illiterates a wider concerns of the experiences of individuals contributing the the “Pity of War”. Wilfred Owen is critical of the unworthy treatment of soldiers and the ramifications of this behaviour along with the…