Romantic poetry

John Keats was an English Romantic poet born in 1795 in London. Much of Keats’ work was not well received by critics during his short life. His reputation grew after his death at the age of 25 from tuberculosis. He had a difficult childhood and experienced the loss of most of his family, which probably contributed to his concerns about his own life and mortality. In “When I have Fears That I May Cease to Be,” Keats expresses his fear that he is alone in the world and his young life may be cut…

William Wordsworth believes “The World” is too awesome for us to appreciate it. As people become concerned about time and money that they let their powers go to waste. As time goes by they want to begin to accumulate things, in due time that is when nature becomes nonexistent. This sonnet offers us an angry outline and gives us a pretentious attitude on how far the nineteenth century was living from a Wordsworth ideal. It disgusts him because nature is so delightedly available, it somewhat calls…

his leave from the military when he dove into the Cedar River. Hearst’s life changed that day; he became paraplegic after the incident. For a while after the accident, he could still work on the farm, but his condition later worsened. Hearst used poetry to cope with his disability. His hate for his disability was communicated through his disability. He felt as if the day he dove into the river ruined his life. Hearst felt alone after his accident, even though he was surrounded by many…

Conrad Aiken was the US Poet Laureate from 1950-1952. He was the first poet laureate to be selected for two years. The poems that were selected were “Music,” “Summer,” “The Grasshopper,” and “Exile.” “Music” was chosen to learn about Aiken’s views of instrumental sounds. “Summer” was chosen because the first two words “Absolute zero” (1) and later in the first stanza “the rock explodes, the planet dies” (3). These words hook the reader and prompt one to continue reading. “The Grasshopper”…

“It's time I thought of myself” is just one on the many selfish comments Windrider makes in the novel Dragonwings by Laurence Yep. His self-centered decisions caused Moonshadow’s dream to be prolonged, but Moonshadow never resents him for it and instead admires him. The entire book is based on Moonshadow’s admiring perspective, so readers don’t see the self-centered side to Moonshadow’s father. Windrider gives into his selfish desires, ultimately disregarding the feelings of others and…

Dr. Seuss was a major success in poetry because of his various eccentric characters used in his poems. Wendy Mass states this to demonstrate the idea: “Children and adults loved the mischievous cat [from The Cat in the Hat] in the stovepipe hat who did all sorts of things that good little boys and girls weren’t supposed to do.” (61). She uses this quote to support her idea: “I will hold [the fish] up high/As I stand on a ball/With a book on one hand! /And a cup on my hat! /But that is not ALL I…

John Collick, in his article “Desire on the ‘The Eve of St Agnes’”, explores the idea of language and symbolism of desire in the poem ‘The Eve of St Agnes’ by John Keats. Collick holds the notion that Keats was a Romantic Era poet who viewed life as a pessimist and vicariously exemplified that in his works. Throughout his article, Collick critiques Keats’ ambiguity. Keats is known as ‘a poet concerned with dreams, visions, and images…’ (Collick) however in ‘The Eve of St Agnes’ it 's quite odd…

The power of nature; nature’s role in the Romantic’s works Throughout William Wordsworth’s poem “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” and Lord Byron’s work “Darkness” both human nature and the natural are explored separately and in their cohesion. “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” mainly focuses on the blissful side of nature and the impact it had on the narrator in the moment and during the present when in reflection. However, Lord Byron’s “Darkness” illustrates the cold and brutal side of nature, how…

Lord Alfred Tennyson’s poem “The Lady of Shalott” is an exemplar of the poetic ability of famous writers to reflect the physical and emotional elements of a story within the music and aesthetics of poetry. In this essay I will examine the technical and aesthetic elements that create this famous ballad. While paraphrasing this poem, I will analyze how those elements create the extreme success of the poem. Through close analysis of Tennyson’s poem, I will reveal these elements that have made “The…

“No Second Troy” is a poem by W.B. Yeats about his love relationship with a beautiful Irish woman called Maud Gonne. The poem is one of the greatest literary love stories of the twentieth century. It indicates how beauty can cause a tragic distraction with the reference to Helen of Troy. “Leda and the Swan” is another poem written by W.B. Yeats, it retells the fantasy from the Greek mythology of how Zeus - the most powerful god of all - raped Leda, the daughter of the king of Sparta, taking the…