Prose poetry

with a unique and prose-like style present in John Masefield’s The Everlasting Mercy. While all three bodies of work incorporate the various elements…

Repetition consists of repeating a word, phrase, or sentence, and is common in both poetry and prose. Is the simple repeating of a word within a sentence or a poetical line? Metaphor ‘’the curtain of night’’ or ‘’all the world’s a stage’’. A metaphor is a figure of speech that identifies something as being the same as some unrelated thing between…

- A Master of Poignant Poetry Guy Masterson brings the trenches of the Great War to life in his one-man show Anthem for a Doomed Youth, one of four performances in his #LestWeForget series, at the Bakehouse Theatre this Fringe season. Whether performing solo or with an accompanying cast, he consistently brings excellent productions to Adelaide and this is no exception; the show features Masterson expertly and passionately presenting a moving compilation of poems and prose from both respective…

This past Thursday I attended the Hearst Center to view Crystal Gibbens as she read a few of her own works. Through my observations, I identified that Crystal was originally from a small town. Through her readings, she expressed her teenage-desires to leave her hometown and expand her experiences of different places. She later explained she was raised in Washburn, Wisconsin. She explained that many of her poems were reflections on events in her life. She shared her written poems about her…

Analysis of “Head, Heart” Lydia Davis’s poem “Head, Heart” chronicles a short, yet meaningful interaction between the entities Head and Heart. Head and Heart have recently suffered an immense loss and feel great distress. In this time of great sorrow, it is Head’s duty to act as consoler to Heart, to comfort Heart in its moment of despair. Davis portrays the entities Head and Heart in such a way that allows the audience to connect with the characters in a manner that allows the reader’s own…

even truer with poetry. For how can any translator effectively take the iambic pentameter and rhyme scheme of Shakespeare’s writing and fully communicate the witty puns, the clever metaphors,…

While Cummings started writing poetry at a young age, his first self published work was an autobiography. The Enormous Room was published in 1922 and contained Cummings’ experiences in jail during WWI. His next work, Tulips and Chimneys,was published in 1923 and contained numerous short poems. Cummings published more poems at around that time. (Biography.com). Cummings’ next work was the play Him, which was performed by the Provincetown Players in 1927. Then, he wrote Eimi in 1933, which was…

This reading tells about Americans poets of the nineteenth century, and how these poets laid an important and cultural foundation for American poetry. These different writers developed an audience for poetry in the United States. It begins focusing on two main poets. These poets are Whitman and Dickinson, they overshadowed all the other poets during this century. Walt Whitman was an American poet, essayist, and journalist. During his time of writing he was part of the transition between…

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 panels that presented on Czeslaw Milosz’s poetry and my own analysis of “A Song for the End of the World” helped shape my understanding of the importance irony and Milosz’s desire to depict the atrocities felt by the Polish during World War II have in his work. Milosz was a Polish poet who lived through World War II. The impact of the war is seen throughout all of his poetry. In the poem “Incantation” Milosz uses images commonly associated with World War II and the Holocaust, such as “bars”…