Sonnet 130

Keats' Ode to Melancholy focuses on the lyric moment of beautiful sadness. Keats describes finding beauty in the sad and temporary. Keats understands that in order to enjoy positive feelings one must also experience the beauty in the negative as well. Through the poem, Keats balances surrendering to depression with embracing the human range of feeling as a combination of fleeting emotions. In the first stanza, Keats describes multiple poisons to stay away from. He is both reflecting on their…

[Difficult roads often lead to beautiful destinations like in “The Highwayman”.]These are two short stories that are seen in different ways.The author’s of the short stories “The Highwayman” and “Zoo” develop their themes in different ways. The theme of the highwayman was love is a powerful thing and is developed through figurative language. On the other hand, the theme of “Zoo” is everyone has a different perspective of what is happening and is developed through irony. ( First, )the…

“The Raven” is a poem expressed in the form of a story that the author, Edgar Allen Poe, uses an amazing combination of symbolism, imagery, and wordplay to display the love and supernatural aspect that correlates to the deaf of the man’s love, Lenore. These elements help support the theme. The theme of “The Raven” is the sadness and grief that is brought along when a love one is lost eternalized and can never be fixed. The symbols are in the form of objects and figures. The imagery in the poem…

“Drinking Alone with the Moon” by Li Bo, encompesses Bo’s characterstics. The poem is written in first person perspective, most likely Bo’s perspective. The poem’s overall tone is happy. Bo, uses figurative language to enhance the poem, and further explain the narrator’s feelings. Examples of figurative language used in this poem are: personification, diction and euphemism. Although, the overall tone of the poem is happy, the first stanza tone is sad. “I drink alone, no friends with me” (2),…

The poem “One Art” by Elizabeth Bishop effectively suggests that an individual’s experience with the loss of a beloved person may develop the feelings of sorrow and disaster which are tremendously challenging to accept and overcome. Through the use of irony and a sophisticated and convincing tone, Bishop showcases the speaker’s lack of self-confidence through her mental breakdown approaching the end of the poem. Additionally, Bishop’s use of symbolism and eloquent imagery further exaggerates the…

What Is Your Question, Prufrock? As one begins to read T. S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” one gets the sense that Prufrock is having a dramatic monologue with someone else, which is based on the beginning sentence “Let us go then, you and I” (1). There are three characteristics of a dramatic monologue, one of which is the specific individual expressing thoughts at a specific point in time. Secondly, the monologue is directed to a listener who may not be specifically addressed.…

The very first idea introduced in Guillaume Apollinaire’s poem “Le Pont Mirabeau” is the timeless image of the Seine river flowing under the pont Mirabeau, a bridge. This image appears on a first reading to have nothing in common with the rest of the poem, which discusses a past love. However, based on evidence from the text, the idea of the Seine continuing to flow is the unifying metaphor that describes the continuing passage of time that ties the poem together. The first stanza of the poem…

With the basic fundamentals of poem writing, anyone can see that the overall message of “Robert Frost” poem “Out, Out” is about how people need to realize how their surroundings work and operate and why they do so. Robert Frost conveys a deliberate soothing tone for the reader to experience. With this outstanding tone it impacts how the poem flows so he also backs up that part of his writing with figurative language. The figurative language provides the poem and reader with a better…

Domestic abuse. This is something we take very seriously nowadays, but in the early- to mid-1900’s, it was not as easily reported. Why you might ask? There were not as many resources for reporting domestic abuse. Therefore, “My Papa’s Waltz” may not be about domestic abuse. This poem may very well be a recollection of a happy memory. The wording of the poem suggests this. For example, “romped” is a ward used to refer to playful movement, and rather than saying the poets mother was frowning,…

Where does the value of human life and importance of a conscience lie? This question has been at the center of copious philosophies for centuries. Famous Greek philosopher Socrates argued that, “The unexamined life is not worth living”. This quote state that being alive is worthless without a conscious and an understanding of your own life. Theodore Roethke concurs with this belief with his poem “The Waking” in Literature: Approaches to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama. Throughout the poem, the…