Poetry

The poetry of Rita Dove, Billy Collins, Sonia Sanchez and Yusef Komunyakaa are similar in many aspects, yet each poet’s work is very distinct. All of the poets utilize powerful poetic techniques to accentuate the underlying meaning. For instance, Dove describes the struggle of living during the Great Depression, and how many people decided to commit suicide due to severe living conditions through her passionate use of symbolism: “Under the Viaduct, 1932” …He liked it down…

Module 2 Discussion 4: Skepticism in social media poetry Social Media has been giving artists more variable ways to connect to the audiences. Many of them had become social media celebrities overnight. Young Poet, Rupi Kaur, who gained her fame by posting verses and simple illustrations on Instagram and became to New York Times Bestseller. Social Media is not the privilege for young poets, many veteran poets like Billy Collins are also using Social Media, like Twitter and Facebook to publish…

Listening to poetry being read by the poet offers a new interpretation on how the poem is supposed to be perceived and responded to by the linguistic details the reader adds to the poem. Each reader offers their own way of reading each poem. Especially while reading the poem, “Sleepless,” Vona Groarke would slow down at the end of the stanzas with especial attention to an emphasis on the last words of the poem, accenting each one deliberately. By her placing a stress on these words, she made me…

the different aspects of poetry. The textbook explained different topics about poetry, which consisted of what poetry is, the different categories, that different poems can fall under based on their qualities, the evolution of poetry from the 1700s to current times, and elements of poetry which include sounds, images, comparisons, forms and insight. Lastly, our textbook briefly looked at poetry within the classroom. My research this week involved looking deeper into poetry in the classroom, and…

Herrick. Together, along with additional writers they composed one of history’s most significant poetic movements. Movements that have been fundamental to change the course of poetry in and out of their eras. All throughout history, poets have emerged to exhibit their profundity in poetic expression. Writers often use poetry as a way to express their feelings or to escape the logical. The variability in poetic expression over the course of history are remarkable. It is important to make…

Poetry has been around longer than most would think, Homer the author of one of the most epic poetry The Odyssey has been around since the 12Th Century B.C and that’s just for him poetry goes further than that. But what does this have to with why poetry matters. Well think if something like this has been around for as long as it has it must matter somehow, but why and how? Well poetry to this day still influences many things like rap, and allows anyone to get out what they want in a very…

“Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.” Emily Dickinson lives on in the minds of people who love her and her poetry, even though she never sought the immortality that comes with fame. Dickinson had a very humble and religious upbringing, causing her to reject the idea of God but not entirely abandon the way she was taught to live and think. She lived a reclusive life in her family’s house, alone with her thoughts and emotions. Her failed love affair gave her the knowledge that…

I'll sing my own song and depart the next dawn." Lovelorn poet Batalvi, physically also resembled Keats. And almost all his lyrics were addressed to some "La Belle Dame Sans Merci." During his college times, Batalvi's poetry was agony for him, but ecstasy for his college-friends. While singing he himself, sometimes, would delve deep into his blues, but his friends would go back to their homes, humming lyrics of his poetic outbursts.…

element of poetry is strong, so is the element of the drum, and the implication of dance. Without the beat, its commercial value would certainly be more tenuous” Archie Shepp. For many years people have argued about whether or not rap is poetry and, the differences between the two. The most prominent question in this debate is, is rap poetry or its own form of literature. Both rap and poetry have been around for a very long time and have appealed to the senses of a variety of people. Poetry…

”(Pedro Calderón de la Barca). Emily Dickinson is considered to be a very influential poet of the twenty first century, though Dickinson’s work was not recognized in her lifetime.That said Dickinson poetry projects many different symbolic meaning onto the reader which are not clearly comprehended, her poetry in my opinion seems to have characteristics of religious believes and a mad obsession with death. Emily Dickinson is arguably the most famous American poet of the 18th century for her…