Poetry

through words in poetry. This movement as contemporary art repudiates ‘beauty’ standards, and the Romanticism of the 19th-century while it admires the quotidian, the perceptual and a new industrial and urban world. Consequently, imagism completely changed the way in which poetry was written; there was no concrete pattern to follow so that the free verse was widely used. The rhyme patterns disappeared and the words used were…

artificiality of society. It is interesting to consider how these topics affected Emily Dickinson specifically as a woman poet. How is suffering connected to women and the roles they expected to perform? One value of suffering that is apparent in Dickinson’s poetry is that it forces its bearer to build up resilience. “Power is only Pain, / Stranded — thro’ Discipline,…

In the poem, Eating Poetry by Mark Strand, the speaker uses imagery and a free verse poetry form throughout the plot of the text. In the beginning of the poem, the speaker begins their story by announcing to the reader that they have been eating poetry as ink runs from their mouth. As the plot culminates, the reader learns that as the speaker continues to viciously gorge himself on the poetry, the poems continue to further reduce him to his truest state of being: a savage. Throughout the text,…

Why did you start writing poetry? I started mainly writing poetry in about 6th grade because of a unit and then my mom showed me a book from the 1800 and we had a poetry in the family so I got interested in starting What was the name of that poet? His name was Greenleaf What was your favorite thing about him? I like just how interesting it was because he wrote a lot of cool things, I don’t remember a lot of the book. How do you begin a poem, what is your inspiration? Usually when I starts…

The Art of Poetry Poetry is a subject with its own language: Rhythm, hyperboles, analogies, metaphors. However, one does not need to use fancy rhetorical devices to write such a powerful form of writing. Poetry is not just about rhyming. Rhyming? Words cannot be thrown in randomly in order for it to “sound good”: It is the thought that counts. Poetry is not a way to ridicule anyone. Ridicule? Use what your parents taught you: Respect. Poetry is not writing a literary essay. Instead, it is the…

The attitude of love life in Ezra Pound's poetry. The memory of love in someone's mind has always been found in someone's poetry. It is hard to deny that poetry is one of the most fascinating writing and creative arts. There are so many poets in the history that get perceived as an admirable poet. It is not surprising that Ezra Pound is one of them because he had written the most beautiful poetry which is called The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter. This poetry is the glorious one that expresses…

Donne and Herbert, both religious poets often radical, clever, and unconventional, and thus not surprising both have been considered leaders of a “metaphysical” school of poetry. Their similarities result from a time where everyone was a religious something. The protestant faith brings about an attitude of humility towards God in both poets. Both poets discuss their relations with God through the use of poetic form. Subsequently, writing roughly round the same time and theologically (both were…

John Dunne, William Shakespeare, and Francesco Petrarch all exemplify Renaissance poets who struggle to make sense of the intertwined experiences of desire and despair. Though their respective works are quite different, Dunne’s Holy Sonnets, Shakespeare’s Dark Lady Sonnets, and Petrarch’s Sonnets lead to the consistent conclusion that desire causes despair. Because it is human nature to desire that which is nearly impossible to attain, to desire is to set oneself up to fail. Accordingly, the…

In Billy Collins’ “Introduction to Poetry,” he uses imagery to describe reading a poem with activities people are familiar with. For example, in line 2-3, he claims he wants the reader to “Hold it up to the light / like a color slide.” A color slide is a small rectangle of film that — held up to a projector — reveals an image. If the reader took a written poem and held it up to the light, there wouldn’t be much of a difference. However, if they looked at the poem as a metaphorical color slide,…

Rap: Unfortunately, Not Poetry “Hip-hop lyrics–not just my lyrics, but those of any great MC — are poetry if you look at them closely enough,” said Jay-Z, one of the most prominent rappers known and respected internationally (Sanneh). On the surface, rap and poetry can be compared quite easily; they both can have similes, metaphors, hyperboles, and rhyme patterns. However, even though rap and poetry may share these things, they are different because of the topics each speaks about, the inclusion…