Romantic poets

Comparing and contrast of “Those Winter Sundays” and “My Papa’s Waltz” In describing “Those Winter Sundays” by Robert Hayden and “My Papa’s Waltz” by Theodore Roethke we see that both are reflecting on a childhood experience with their fathers. There is a showing of compassion and understanding in both poems yet fear is also described. The speakers are reflecting back on a past childhood memory with their fathers but we do not understand if they are pleasant or resentment. Although they deal…

Lastly, the poet also states that love for the sake of sympathy and pity will also not be accepted by her because that is not pure love. Overall, I believe that Browning has a romanticized view of love. She believes that love should be pure and not based on any superficial qualities, like personal gain. If…

In 1633, John Donne published a metaphysical poem titled The Flea. This poem consists of an erotic theme where a flea is used as a metaphor in order to demonstrate the affair between the speaker and their lover. In the same year, The Altar was published by George Herbert. This poem illustrates the religious notion of how one must sacrifice themselves to God through the use of an altar. In the following, The Flea and The Altar will be compared and contrasted in terms of the physical shape of the…

to Stop All the Clocks “Stop all the Clocks, Cut off the Telephone” by W.H. Auden and “How do I Love Thee?” by Elizabeth Barrett Browning are both poems that are expressing the author’s love for someone. However, with the aforementioned poems, the poets are in a different point in their experience of love. While Browning is writing for someone in that moment, Auden is writing in mourning for someone. Together, these poems show the power of love through life and after death. In “How do I Love…

Yeats’s poem ‘’Leda and the Swan’’ and Dorothy Hewitt’s ‘’Grave Fairytale’’ have content that is both mythological and violently sexual. In Yeats’ poem the speaker retells a story from Greek mythology. It is that of the rape of Leda by Zeus. In Hewitt’s poem, the speaker creates a new version of Rapunzel’s fairytale. This essay will discuss the relationship between mythology/ folklore, violence and sex through the analysis of both poems. In Yeats’ poem, the speaker resents the rape scene,…

From childbirth to adulthood one seeks happiness. This happiness can take form as toys, love, and companionship. However, one's desire for happiness is not without pain and suffering. For instance, Andrew Marvell's "To His Coy Mistress," depicts an unnamed speaker yearning to obtain a Mistress's love, but is overcome with anxiety due to his idea that life is short. Furthermore, in "When I have Fears," John Keats displays his desires to achieve fame and love, but becomes defeated upon realization…

In every American household there is the ultimate goal to achieve the “American Dream”. And every household holds a different version of the “American Dream”. But what is the proper version of the “American Dream”? How can we achieve it? Who has access to it? For the majority of people, myself included, one would argue that the “American Dream” is to utilize the system of capitalism, to achieve financial success, materialistic belongings, have a family and to be healthy and stable when retired.…

Our case study of the AD patient speech shows the specific verbal behavior of the person, who suffers AD for 6 years. The specifity reflects the differencies in the lexical retrieval and selection during recitation of the poems and in the everyday conversation. The strategies to recollect the target word in the poem are based on the text features first of all; when the semantics of the line, rhythm and rhyme fail to facilitate the search for the target word, the patient switched to her real-life…

In the short poems, “The Flea” by John Donne and “To His Coy Mistress” by Andrew Marvell, the theme of carpe diem, or “seize the day”, is incorporated in these poems. In other words, the theme is about enjoying life in the moment and to make the most of it because life is short. In both of these poems, the writers express that theme by attempting to persuade women to seize the day. In other words, they are poems of seduction. In the poems in Andrew Marvell’s “To His Coy Mistress” and John…

Doug Glanville’s essay “Still Standing” Is a thought provoking reading that talks about how a protesting football player made Glanville ask a very powerful question, “Why do we salute the flag?” The essay is mainly about how Glanville was raised to pledge the flag. Also how he had this pre judged mindset as a kid due to parents and media that he later finds out is clearly wrong. The essay begins about how he first heard about Colin Kaepernick and his protest and how he immediately relates it to…