Sonata form

Due to my increased understanding and demonstration of what it really means to make a poem, I should get at least a low A. My growth was mostly shown in the difference between my two poems in tone. My original poem was written in a very straight-forward manner that was meant to be taken neutrally in a very literal manner. While not necessarily a bad thing this left the poem feeling very empty and “lacking” for a lack of better term. At the start of the poem I used the words “...simple room”, “..…

The way Shakespeare sees beauty is different from Keats and Petrarch, instead of praising his mistress he speaks only about her imperfection and he compares her appearance to the sun, coral and wire then tell how she cannot measure up to them, she doesn’t have a big eyes, nor red lips, neither a neat hair rather than a yellowish skin, hair like a wire, and bad smell. But even with all of these flaws Shakespeare shows his love by adoring her voice and the way she speaks more than her physical…

“Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.” This quote from E.E. Cummings himself illustrates just how Cummings incorporated his curious and wondrous personality into his poems. Like no other poet before him, Cummings took it upon himself to create his poems into not only a literary masterpiece but a visual masterpiece as well. Poets leading up to Cummings took a serious, more contemporary approach to their…

Mary Ruefle’s Selected Poems, and Tom Berrigan’s The Sonnets differ from the get go. On the most basic level the difference can be seen in the titles. Mary Ruefle’s poems are selected and thus carefully crafted, yet still incredibly simple. Where Berrigan’s embraces ambiguity and complexity with the formula he uses to randomize his sonnets Ruefle embraces simplicity and concreteness. Another stark difference between the two collections of work is the format in which both poets write. Berrigan…

In this essay I will be analyzing the poem “Same Song” by the writer Pat Mora.In this essay I will be using the Historical Criticism literaly lense to analyze this poem.In order to use this lense correctly I will need information about when the poem was written or I can use clues in the poem to help with that if it cannot be found clearly.After that information is found then I need to show how this period in time has an effect on the poem. When using this lens to analyze the poem I researched…

that a staple in their society and it changed their society for the worse. In Fahrenheit 451 the government gave people a certain technology to use. These people in turn gave up their social lives and some of their freedom. This can be seen as another form of government control. Why is it okay for the government to control and brainwash with no…

In the book of Whale Done, Ken Blanchard states that people should be more willing to accentuate the positive instead of the negative. When someone achieves great success in study or work, we are supposed to praise them and give positive responses to encourage them to keep up the good work. When mistakes or errors occur, we should redirect the energy and attention to the right things without blame. It is really a good idea which could help people have a healthier relationship with not only the…

While creating the foundation for the great country we know today, the Founding Fathers faced many challenges. They couldn’t change their citizens sinful ways so they tried to make a constitution that would keep the madness at bay. They also pondered on representatives to help their people be heard more effectively and efficiently. The people also must be satisfied with the government, so the Fathers had to provide them the things that a government is responsible for. Some other critical issues…

In the article “Prose Poem”, Stein describes her relationship with the person she is following and her affection towards them. Using words like: “one”, “whom”, “were”, “following”, and “working” exemplifies the tone throughout the entire piece. The reason for doing so is perhaps to exaggerate the deep feelings she carries for a particular person. Seemingly, she is using repetition in order to produce spin on the characters negative or positive impression and her as well as her thoughts towards…

however, were not by the poet. For example, Raimbaut de Vaqueiras wrote his famous poem “Kalenda Maya” to a dance tune played by some vielle(fiddle) players at Montferrat (now Monferrato, Italy). Several troubadour melodies are slightly different in form from the poem to which they are attached, and it must be assumed that these were originally composed for another poem, perhaps in another language. Conversely, many troubadour melodies were appropriated from songs in French and…