Poetry

Negradas, Rouvinn Uy BA Communications Arts 4 2010-67914 Lit21B An Analysis on the Collection of Poems by Keith Douglas Most of Douglas’ poems are confessional and direct. While reading his poem it seems that he is taking my imagination to the precise moment when he was writing it. This precision leads the reader to examine his personal experiences and memories but at the same time it is not ever expressive of intense emotions. One of the many evidences in which he takes his…

It is widely acknowledged that gender issues are still found in a variety of societies across the globe today. It is also commonly recognized that gender issues have been prominent over the course of history, even in some of the world’s most highly praised societies. What often go unnoticed, however, are the radical literary works within those societies which have, over time, confronted gender dispositions in an attempt to mobilize readers against the typical societal consent that often occurs…

The most common way a person or Author expresses their feelings is throughout a poem. People or Authors can write poems and express multiple points in order to create an image for the reader. Love being the most popular. I personally believe writing a poem to a person can create a bigger impact on the reader than a general poem. The book “Annabel Lee” was the last complete poem composed by Edgar Allen Poe. Like many of Poe's poems, it relates to the theme of the death of a beautiful woman.…

Are the writers really protesting the war? The writers during the war was protesting it while writing. In many articles it show you where you they protest using imagery, irony, and structure. In the poems and writings the writers make the audience imagine and feel what they are saying about the war. For example in “War Is Kind” by Stephen Crane it says “your father tumbles in the yellow trenches, / Raged at his breast, gulped and died” (13, 14). The author show protest by making the reading…

engendered widely differing views regarding the merits of his work. His reputation stands on two distinct accomplishments: the witty, sensual love poetry of his early career and the serious, devout religious writing of his later career as the Dean of St. Paul 's. Donne 's poetry was influential enough to be considered the basis of the metaphysical school of poetry, as characterized by later writers such as Richard Crashaw, Abraham Cowley, and George Herbert. Although religious study and…

Juana is far from the ideal woman but Lope playfully writes that he finds her attractive even if she has some ugly parts to her. Lope parodies the Petrarchan ideal by crafting his poetry from a desire for an unideal lady. Unlike Garcilaso’s lady, Juana is given a name, however her common Spanish name, added to the fact that she is a washerwoman, seeks to parody the convention further and here ‘idealized female beauty is subverted through the glorification of a more commonplace feminine object.’…

The rhythm, or meters, used in Dickinson 's work is similar to the system of meters used in hymns called simple meters. A meter is a unit of the rhythmic and syllabic structure of a poem. Moreover, the most common of these meters is called iamb which is defined by a rhythmic pattern consisting of an unstressed syllable directly followed by a stressed syllable. This pattern is repeated throughout the line. More specifically, Dickinson 's work typically uses an iambic tetrameter or an iambic…

awarded the Mark Twain Prize for humour in Poetry, and has also taught poetry at various colleges (“Billy Collins”). Collins is known for conversational like, clever poems that also draw readers with humor, but also slides into the meaning of poetry itself (“Collins” Foundation). This style is certainly true with his poem “Introduction to Poetry”. The structure and theme used make this poem an all time favorite for many people. “Introduction to Poetry” is a free verse poem written by Collins,…

Anglo-Saxon literature often offers a dichotomic view of the world. The mixture of old Germanic traditions with Christian ideology colours most pieces and frequently the analysis of said pieces as a result. James Doubleday writes that their culture is one that “thought of the universe and human experience in dichotomies” (Doubleday, p.8). Said dichotomies include the portrayal and interpretation of gender. For most scholars, the Judith of the Old English poem is often either praised as a…

Mortality is a topic frequently addressed in poetry. In Edmund Spenser’s “Amoretti LXXV: One Day I Wrote her Name” and Dylan Thomas’s “In My Craft or Sullen Art”, both poets write about mortality, however take much different views. Dylan Thomas warns against the fleeting nature of human life and urges people to embrace life without fear, whereas Thomas seems quite nonchalant about the idea of death and seems to believe that he can be immortalized through his poetry. Thomas uses the imagery of…