Romantic poetry

The poem that I choose was April Midnight by Arthur Symons. At 16, he moved to London and joined a group of authors know as the Rhymers’ Club and join many other famous authors. Symon’s formal poetry explores romantic love, loss, and the passage of time. April Midnight was published in his collection called Silhouettes in 1892. I chose this poem because it is so different from what we hear about nowadays. April Midnight has more of a carefree theme is tries to portray and now of days, people are…

turned but to the consolations of nature.” Dickinson’s view of nature was different than many Romantic writers because she thought that nature was the best way to heal and really experience the world around us. This will help my essay because it supports a claim that she is a transcendentalist by her relating to nature, and she feels like she is independent. Bennett 116 “While Dickinson’s nature poetry is directly toward representations of the material world, it is also true that she…

Shakespeare's sonnet "My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun" begins with what might be called a reverse simile (an anti-simile?). Throughout the poem, the speaker alludes to common figurative language for describing a woman's beauty in the love poetry of his day: e.g., eyes like the sun, lips like coral, breasts as white as snow, rosy cheeks, perfumed breath, musical voice. What is Shakespeare doing with these familiar examples of figurative language in this poem? Does his poem end up…

Robert Burns was born January 25, 1759 according to the Poetry Foundation. He was the Bard of Ayrshire and was a scottish poet. His early life was that of a humble one his father was a tenant farmer who personally educated his children. When his father died Burns was bankrupt so he and his brother took over the farm. When he was fifteen he was inspired to write his first known poem because he fell in love. Since then he developed a love for poetry and continued. In 1785 he had his first child…

the others. During his London years, he had managed to go to art school, and his artistic background made him more aware of the colors and shapes of his surroundings: Sassoon called Rosenberg a "painter-poet" as he painted such vivid pictures in his poetry. Rosenberg's poems are not exactly about the action of war, he speaks not of battles, but of what the men are doing. His 'Louse Hunting', which shows the hideousness of trench life, portrays his artistic ability to effectively illustrate his…

situations, for example the poem “ On this I stand”. Cullen was a desolated but a fighter man who demonstrates sadness in his poems but also fight for being a successful poet. In particular “the loss of love” as an evidence of the Cullen sadness poetry show that creates a sad emotion about his lone less life, this poem is the most important and famous of Countee’s work because the emotions that he evokes . This poem is about how a person feels about the loss of…

decided to put the rest of his love and passion into his poetry and became one of the most famous and well-known poets of all time. Hughes was born on the first of February in 1902 in Joplin, Missouri. [Although] he was born in Joplin, he mostly grew up in Lawrence Kansas. When his father moved to Mexico after the divorce, Hughes and his mother moved around a lot until he moved in with his grandmother, Mary and he then began the start of his poetry career. [After] his grandmother died when he…

different meanings, and affect the different readers in many ways. Poetry uses a lot of imagery, figurative language, rhythm, and sound. Poetry can be read by one reader to him or herself, but it is best when read out loud to an audience. Poems come in every size, many poems are short or at least shorter than an average work of fiction. Lyric Poetry pg. 484 Lyric poetry expresses the thoughts and feelings of the author. Lyric poetry is typically a short poem that is used to be recited on a…

is a clear connection between his poetry and the visual art and literature produced during and shortly after his life. Trakl uses unique poetic devices to render the cultural atmosphere of apprehension and isolation present during the First World War. He empties the body of humanity and consciousness enabled by cocaine to escape and create a space in which the creative mind can exist separately from the emptiness and decay…

The supernatural machinery developed in Alexander Pope’s The Rape of the Lock as Sylphs, nymphs, gnomes and salamanders , which are crucial in mock-epic poetry, strongly develop the literary mockery as well as brings the fundamental action of epic to the metaphysical world. Within the poem the readers are presented with the explanation as to where the spirits originated from, in essence they were once women recognized for certain traits such as Sylphs who were once beautiful women and…