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The poem “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” is very unique in the way it is written. This poem show how the search for love has affect a man life. T.S. Eliot made up a character whose name is Prufrock, and he is a man with an unattractive look that has hard time in a search for love. Eliot wrote the poem in a way the reader can interpret Prufrock characteristics. In the poem Eliot use different depictions and analogies of how to describe Prufrock. Eliot give a few ways of how Prufrock feel…

Remembrance and Recognition. As Camara Laye once said “all dancers have a cumulative tendency because each beat of the Tom-Tom has an almost irresistible appeal. Soon those who were just spectators would dance too.” People enjoy learning about others and even expressing what their own lives are like. All of the stories, which take place in Senegal and Guinea. Given the region, the writing is different than America’s poetry. The poems in question are “Prayer to the Mask, Letter to a Poet,…

The poem With rue my heart is laden by A.E. Houseman is conveying the past and future. Though the poem might be short, it is split into crucial and profound events in the author’s life as he refers to his memories, as claimed, “For golden friends I had”. This quote reveals that the poet is remembering all his friends as he uses past tense language, “had”. By the use of “had”, we can assume that the poet’s friends are pasted away or not his friends any more. The poet not only states his memories,…

Bill Bryson, author of Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe, accounts his arrival in Europe for the first time. Bryson’s accounts explains his enthusiasm at his entry into the continent to his audience, the readers. In order to capture his excitement into his writing, Bryson used some syntax, repetition, and epithet, which in turn deliver his excitement to us through his work. One of the rhetorical devices that Bryson uses to successfully express his experience in Europe is syntax. Syntax…

Elizabeth Gilbert states, “Depression on my left, and loneliness on my right. They don’t need to show me their badges. I know these guys very well.” Similarly, in Robert Frost’s poem “Acquainted with the Night,” he uses effective figurative language such as repetition, metaphor, and personification to underscore the constant loneliness and depressed feelings of the speaker. One way the constant loneliness and depressed feelings of the speaker is conveyed through repetition. This is evident…

Edward Estlin Cummings: The Master of Art Genealogy and geography, along with numerous other circumstances molded Edward Estlin Cummings into an innovative poet and painter of the modernism movement. The inescapable presence of Harvard, and the desire to live up to his father's legacy as a Unitarian minister, Harvard Graduate , and Professor, played a major role in Cummings’ rebellious attitude towards his father’s traditional world. Cumming’s desire to find his own voice and reject societal…

Both poems refer to Breughel’s, a Dutch painter’s piece of art, the Landscape with the Fall of Icarus. William’s choice of title is the same as the painting’s while W. H. Auden names the museum. The painting – and thus the poems – illustrates the famous ancient Greek legend about Icarus and his father, Daedalus. According to the myth Icarus did not pay attention to Daedalus’s warn, flew to high and the sunbeam melted his wax wings. Icarus fell into the sea and drowned. This is the moment which…

In lines 299-304 Virgil comments on the time of year where the farmers are finally able to enjoy the rewards of their hard work. Virgil uses personification when he refers to winter since it is winter that brings times of restfulness and idleness, unties cares from the farmers, and invites festivities to the otherwise dull agricultural life. This personification it is obviously seen since hiems is in the nominative case in lines 299 and 302 and it is the main subject throughout these lines. It…

Articles of Criticism Slam poetry, like other art forms, is subject to criticism. Sarah Kay is no exception. Kay’s poetry has most commonly been analyzed for college classes, as the newer form of poetry is not as widely recognized or studied. The first article I studied was written by Hayden J, and explored the facets of Sarah’s theme throughout the poem, as well as concentrating on the tone of the poem. Hayden starts by talking of the impact of Kay’s performance. Kay’s performance shows the…

When it comes to living life, there is often that though inside one’s mind about the end of life, about death. It is a common topic that reflects upon the humanity of oneself and those around. Life and death are a topic that is versatile to authors of diverse genres. Virginia Woolf is one of those authors who was drawn to this continuum. Woolf’s childhood was filled with death, born in 1882, her mother passed in 1895, her half-sister died in 1897, her father followed in 1890, and her brother in…