Poetry

While Romantic poetry is not the product of a specific formula, it is crucial that it contain varying degrees of the elements which maximize its effectiveness. Among these elements, the ability to reach within and arouse the imaginations of both the poet and the reader is imperative to writing meaningful, thought provoking poetry. Romantic poetry is incomplete if not written imaginatively, and though logic and reason matter as well, they only make up the outermost layer of poetic compositions.…

Following North, Heaney’s next collection of poetry was Field Work which largely documents his four years spent in Glanmore County Wicklow. The significance of this move is that it took him South of the border with the Republic of Ireland, a haven away from the sectarian violence of the North. Inevitably, this could be assumed as Heaney’s deliberate removal from the political situation, however, Joshua Weiner wrote: While the move south seemed to some a deliberate withdrawal from a previous…

Nature, Poetry, and the Role of the Criticism What is the purpose of poetry? This question has been debated within the literary realm for centuries. However, Joseph Addison and Alexander Pope provided an answer to this question. Addison addresses the topic of poetry and art in his writings for The Spectator while Pope’s views on the subject can be found in “An Essay on Criticism.” Both authors address the role that nature plays in art while assessing how the two compare. These two authors also…

They’re plenty of great writers in the field of poetry, but Emily Dickinson is one of the names that sticks out the most. Emily Dickinson was born on December 10, 1830 in Amherst, Massachusetts. Emily Dickinson was a poet who was well noted on her style and her vast amounts of written poems these poems were even written on scraps of paper. For the most part Emily Dickinson was a woman that people would see alone for the majority of the time, she quite often stayed to herself and only a few…

when they were incorporated into archaic Greek literature. On the other hand, the practicing of cursing (either in poetry or in real-life) seems to be common even during the archaic age, especially when it concerned the matters of the heart. It will not be surprising, if Sappho’s work was, to some extent, affiliated with curses. In this part of this article I will examine Sappho’s poetry having this assumption in mind. The practice…

Durand, in her essay, Ecology of Poetry, argues that the form and function of poetry, and especially of ecopoetics, should aim to reflect ecological processes rather than follow traditions of earlier nature poetry, which can be characterized by the ‘thingification’ of non-human objects through the view of human-subjects when perceiving natural object-landscapes, -animals, -organisms, etc. While modern human understanding of our interactions and relationship with our environment has cleaved us…

Preliminary Thesis: Emily Dickinson’s powerful and influential poetry was caused by her experience with death, her religious upbringing, and her choice of physical isolation. Emily Dickinson wrote over 1100 poems during her period of isolation from 1858 to 1865, all of dealing with themes like sorrow, nature, and love. She bound about 800 of these pieces in fascicles, or self-crafted books, which she rarely showed anyone except family members and certain well-respected friends (Amherst College)…

whole poem and drives the whole content of the poem. There is only the poet himself in an unfamiliar city. The bright moonlight makes him miss for his hometown and relatives, especially during night time. According to a literary work named “Chinese poetry and its symbols”, “the moon” is one of the most popular imageries that often appears in “the lonely places of despair”. In this poem, the poet uses “the moonlight” as an imagery to express his feeling of missing for his hometown and family. The…

Authors may use other literary works as a backdrop to help show a message or theme of their own works. In the works “Musee des Beaux Arts,” “Landscape With the Fall of Icarus,” and “To A Friend Whose Work has Come to Triumph,” the authors use the myth of Icarus and Daedalus as this backdrop. Auden, Williams, and Sexton use the myth of Icarus as comparisons in their poems, but for different reasons. The authors, Auden, Williams, and Sexton, allude to this myth in their poems to either show…

In the poem, Out of the Sea, Early by May Swenson, the subject is the love of nature. The speaker tells a story about how beautiful the sun rise is by comparing it to things that have never been imagined before. The speaker however, is a more complex character with different outlooks on the ocean. The way the speaker delivers his tone is through a calm voice, representing the ocean that he or she is conversing about. Based upon the word choice, we can infer that the speaker is a sailor that…