Prose poetry

Her second book, The Dead and the Living (1984) “…was the Lamont Poetry Selection for 1983 and the National Book Critics’ Circle Award for Poetry in 1984….” (Bridgford) Her next major work, The Gold Cell, came in 1987 and “…cemented Olds’s reputation as an intimate and often shocking poet….” (Bridgford) Over time she has churned out numerous books, poems…

Poetry has never been something that I’ve been incredibly interested in, likely because of the circumstances I encountered it in. As a result, I have a hard time finding a lot of motivation to write poetry. Something that the craft experiments in this class has done is that it has given me a set of boundaries to work within when writing. This helps me…

conclusion that although time may pass and we may grow old, time is “amenable” (12). It does not matter if someone changes with age because that person will always be the same one in your memories. This presents a difference between regular prose and poetry, since poetry uses poetic devices such as symbolism, imagery, similes, etc. to present a hidden meaning. Instead of simply stating that the subject of the poem’s hair was turning gray, the speaker uses imagery within nature. It creates a…

In Anne Bradstreet’s poem, “The Author To Her Book”, she compares the poems in her book of poetry The Tenth Muse to awkward, disheveled children, through an extended metaphor. She uses personification and the extended metaphor to express her feelings of betrayal after discovering the publication of her poems without her consent or knowledge. Throughout the poem, the speaker chides her unkempt children and even attempts to fix them up, before sending them out into the world. Bradstreet and her…

Poetry is pretentious. Or at least, that is the myth. Poetry in the twenty first century has not been a main platform for people – it seems that it is either too much work or impossible to decode. To me, poetry was always daunting. I was afraid that my emotions would overflow into a writer’s work, so I would not be able to understand the true intention. There was not a specific incident that made me feel this way; it was always just a part of my mentality. The following collection of poems is…

"Royal Aristocrat" begins the trio with an aging man, flashing back to his days of rowdy, youthful work and resorting back to pencil and paper in writing poetry. The next of the three poems, "Death in New Orleans, a Romance," continues the account as the man writes in pencil; however, in the end the man dies, "leaving [his] body behind" to transition into the final poem, "Writing in the Afterlife." Here,…

between the lines, but when the underlying message is coherent, Brautigan’s abstract work, and the events that shaped his life illustrate the poem. The message of Brautigan’s poetry will captivate the reader and allow better understanding of Brautigan’s life and reasoning. Richard Bruatigan was a master of poetry, words, and life. Brautigan was known to be seen walking the Berkley streets in the late 1960s. Brautigan’s work is the connection between the two decades- the late 1950s,…

Composition/Poetry Final Essay 05 February 2018 Vivid Imagery, Diction, and Tone in Wilfred Owen's "Dulce Et Decorum Est" Wilfred Edward Salter Owen is one of Britain's most famous war poets, despite his few published works in his short lifetime ("Wilfred Owen"). Born on March 18, 1893, in Oswestry, Shropshire, Owen lived a remarkably uninteresting life. He spent his first few years after graduation in technical work. Owen, interested in the arts from a young age, began to explore poetry at…

Robert Frost holds a highly esteemed and exclusive position in American poetry because of his theory on poetic composition, his modern perspective, and his matchless style. How one views the composition of poetry affects the timelessness of his or her work. Frost’s theory on poetic composition allowed him to be tied (joined, attached?) to both the nineteenth and twentieth centuries ("Robert…

In The cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe vengeance is served viciously. Two Friends, Montresor and Fortunato destiny is determined in two ways only, revenge and murder. In the story Poe uses a feeling of betrayal to build a mysterious and seductive character before ascending to his remarkable strategy to a state of suspense. In fact, throughout the story, the reader slowly realizes that Montresor is an unreliable narrator; that whatever insult Montresor believes Fortunato committed is…