Sonnet 130

Sailing to Byzantium starts with hinting to what is coming up next in the poem. A progression from “that country” to Byzantium, a land where art lasts eternally. Written by William Butler Yeats. Published in 1928. Various philosophical thoughts were tackled. Mortality and Immortality,age and youth,artifice and nature. The poem starts by mentioning “that is no country for old men” the country that the poet referred to is unknown. It could be any country.However, it could be the country where the…

The Story of an Hour vs. The Interlopers “ ...For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.” (James 4:14) Words of truth from the book of truth. We have no idea how long our lives will be on this earth. This concept is brought to light even more in the two short stories we will be discussing, “The Story of an Hour” and “The Interlopers”. These two stories share some similarities and some differences that we will be looking at. These two…

“The Unknown Citizen,” written by W. H. Auden, is a poem that describes the life of man lived a life that most people would see as ideal. The man illustrated by this poem did what society expected him to do which resulted in a model life. This poem, however, can be seen in more than one way. Some may see the story in the poem as a description of a man who had an unfulfilling life because he did only what was expected of him. Instead of trying something new, exploring the world, or making a…

Me: Hello and welcome to poetry examination plus on iRadio, during todays podcast I will be analyzing the poem ‘The Little Black Boy by William Blake’ with the help of poetry expert Garth Dee. While analyzing the poem we will address areas such as how the William Blake has represented his values attitudes and perspectives, how he has used language, which engages and influences his readers; We will also talk about how the poem has impacted and influenced teenage readers. Hi Garth welcome to the…

The opening lines of “Meditation on the Nativity” indicate that this poem is an imaginative variation on the conventional theme suggested by the title. In the fulfillment of God’s promise to humankind, archetypal fears are assuaged; legends and fables are realized and take on specific form: “Painters’ perceptions, visionaries’ long/ Torments and silence, blossom here and speak.” Jennings does not analyze the mystery of the Nativity; she mediates on the human significance of the divine pattern…

The play, Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare, is a tragic love story involving two families in a long-standing dispute. The daughter of Lord Capulet, Juliet, and son of Lord Montague, Romeo, fall in love, yet their love is forbidden. They marry in secret and follow through with a plan that unfortunately and unintentionally results in their deaths. Juliet stays loyal and devoted to Romeo throughout the entire play. This adds to the storyline, as loyalty is a large factor within the play.…

An analysis of Billy Collins poem, The Best Cigarette written in the 1990s, Collins' was Americas poet laureate from 2001 to 2003. In this poem The Best Cigarette, Collins' recounts some of his mainly positive memories that reflect him doing something that is associated simultaneously with the habit of smoking a cigarette., for example in the scenario after having sex with his partner he talks of the 'heralded' cigarette, to him this cigarette is his prize, something he likes doing. The act of…

It must be mentioned that, "Housman was a person for whom poetry, instead of being a complement to, was a substitute for music."3 Housman, despite his disinterest in music and song, granted permission to composers to set his poetry on the condition they could not print his poetry 1. John Sparrow. "Poet," in Alfred Edward Housman (New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1937) 75. 2. B. J. Leggett. Housman's Land of Lost Content: A Critical Study of a Shropshire Lad (Knoxville: University of Tennessee…

“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” is a narrative poem by T.S Elliot. It portrays the puzzling and obscure phrenic conceptions of the protagonist, Prufrock, as he guides the reader to what appears to be a peregrination. Throughout the poem’s irregular timeline, an alienated Prufrock repeatedly insists that there is something important he needs to tell the reader, but he continually states that he has time. The poem’s title insinuates that Prufrock is addressing someone he admires, or loves,…

William Wordsworth “The Daffodils” “The Daffodils” by William Wordsworth, this poem is a typical romantic poem that reflects the essence of romanticism, Now after this being said, I will discuss how the poem embodies the features of romanticism and how it illuminates the personal life of the poet whilst transcending the private into a human public experience, also the importance of the context in inspiring this poem and the secret collaboration of writing between Wordsworth and his…