Sonnet 19

The Nineteen Old Poems play an essential role in ancient Chinese literature. There are nineteen poems involved. Each of the poems expresses a unique theme. The first poem I picked is “Nineteen Old Poems XIX” . The poet describes the moonlight at the beginning of the poem. The description of the moonlight begins the whole poem and drives the whole content of the poem. There is only the poet himself in an unfamiliar city. The bright moonlight makes him miss for his hometown and relatives,…

poem “Love is not all” by Edna St. Vincent Millay deals with multiple views about love and its importance. The poem is written in the Petrarchan format, which consists of an octave and a sestet. The rhyme scheme does lead away from the traditional sonnet form, whereas Millay uses the Shakespearian rhyming scheme instead of the Petrarchan. The speaker of the poem speaks of their feelings of love, however shows an ambivalent attitude towards the topic. The first 6 lines are spent dismissing the…

The book, “No One Here Gets Out Alive,” by Jerry Hopkins and Danny Sugerman, is a biography of the Rock n’ Roll star and poet; Jim Morrison. Jim Morrison is known as the singer in the band The Doors. He was also known as, by those close to him, an amazing poet who, more towards the end of his desire to continue music, eventually got his poetry published. Morrison was a unique individual with how he was and through his lyrics. Jim was seen as a sexy revolter of authority whose music involved…

National Identity can be expressed in many ways such as a persons language, culture, religion, and traditions. In this course we have read many literature's where characters have expressed their national identity for example in the poem "I, too" by Langston Hughes and the story "How it Feels to be Colored Me" by Zora Hurston. Both of these literature's have the similar settings and backgrounds. They both revolved around days before blacks were equal to whites. In the poem "I, too" Langston…

The Imaginary and Silence: An Analysis of Ballad Poetry and Coleridge No poetic style within the context of the Romantic Tradition of English Literature emphasizes individual experience, nor glorifies the past and nature, quite like the Ballad. This literary tradition hearkens back to civilization before the invention of the written language and the medium of orality through which man publishes authentic creation. While conventional ballads, such as Beowulf or Robin Hood remain authorless or as…

In this poem, the speaker takes a walk in the evening and observes a crowd of people and hears a lover singing to his beloved that his love will never cease to exist. The crowd of people are referred to as fields of harvest wheat, the speaker utilizes it as a metaphor that conveys that soon the crowd will die for the reaping will soon arrive. The primary speaker realizes that the clocks respond to the lover's song with rebuttal and contradiction towards the lover's point of view on life. The…

As its name suggests, spoken word poetry is the art form of reciting poems of any kind. Performances tend to focus on key visual and audio techniques such as movement, tone, emotion, rhyme and improvisation to name a few. Many spoken word poetry performances are very personal and revolve around a particular theme or message that the poet is attempting to convey to an audience. Two performances, To the Boys Who May One Day Date My Daughter, performed by Jesse Parent and Pretty by Katie Makkai in…

Question Two Poetry does not use a special language’ that is separate from everyday life. Rather, it uses everyday language in a specially skilled and sensitive way for particular aesthetic purposes. Discuss the work of one poet in the light of this statement. Language is incredibly important in allowing people to convey and share their thoughts and experiences. Poets are considered to be masters of language in that they are able to utilise form and imagery, to share their experiences and…

The poem that D.H. Lawrence wrote, titled “Piano”, is an example of involuntary memory, he didn’t selectively choose to remember those things. As soon as the poem starts, his first stance is, “softly, in the dusk, a women is singing to me;” (1). Then he stated that memory he mentioned was long ago therefore he is reminiscing. Additionally, the speaker’s lyrics follow by “And pressing the small, poised feet of a mother who smiles as she sings” (4), this exhibits that he is brought back to his…

Jejuri poems are all about Arun Kolatkar visiting the temple town in the state of Maharashtra where 'every other stone is a god or his cousin'. The poems are delicately written yet sharply observed - a temple door, a yellow butterfly and Maruti himself find equal care given to them all in turn. Jejuri poems oscillate between faith and scepticism. In his plat and colloquial tone, Kolatkar ironically treats the parallel scenario reinforcing it with concrete imagery. Kolatkar's use of concrete…