Spenserian stanza

Tragic love stories have fascinated humans since ancient times. They conquered the hearts of many and opened the ways for more love stories. Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1343 – to October 1400) is one of the most famous English authors of the middle ages. Chaucer is considered the father of English literature and thrilled the mass with his literary works. His most famous works include the Canterbury Tales and Troilus and Criseyde. Yet, again a tragic love story that is still widely popular in the 21st century. Chaucer is one of the first authors to use the concept of courtly love as the main focus in his storyline. Generally, the relevance of this topic for me is the ridiculousness and exaggeration of love during the medieval times. Usually, love which is depicted as an innocent and pure feeling can that is supposed to bring joy and pleasure.Love is an everyday phenomenon that every single human being experience whether it being family love, the love for an object or romantic love humans experience it one way or another. Nonetheless, romantic love is possibly one of the most intense loves. The love for a stranger that motivates and influence the behavior and actions of one. In Troilus and Criseyde the immense and powerful impact love has on the development and actions of a character is depicted. Chaucer presents how Troilus social environment and his love driven action affect his persona. It is to say that his character undergoes though a great change during the story. Therefore…

religious, moral along with political allegory. It would be accurate to say that Spenser intended The Faerie Queene to be read mainly by young men, desiring to cultivate virtues in their lives. Spencer chose a nine-line verse stanza, modernly known as the…

Therefore in stanza five the cannons are to the left, right and behind them. There is a lot of evidence that Tennyson says the men were heroes like, 'Honour the Light Brigade', 'Noble six hundred', 'While horse and hero fell' 'Dulce et Decorum Est', by Wilfred Owen, was a form of moral propaganda. Wilfred Owen's purpose in writing it was to convince the British public that they had been lied to. He knew from first hand experience the terror, pain and horror of war,…

verse with six stanzas that contain different lengths of words. The poem uses simple language and most verbs are written in the infinitive. The poem places emphasis on the subject of the painting rather than how to create the painting. The poem mentions the materials needed to create the painting as brushes or canvas, but does not go into detail about them. The poem focuses on the painter’s quest is to find the bird, portray it on the canvas, and then observe its actions.…

pentameter within the first eight lines followed by the final line form, an alexandrine. This carries on for the opening stanzas of the poem. Following this, the Choric Song’s structure loosens up, the rhyme scheme that follows a direct pattern…

Metaphors: “Their eyes as brilliant and as wide as the night”, “Their manes the leaping ire of the wind”. These metaphors convey the etherealness of the atmosphere at that point of time. The poet uses these metaphors to once again compare simple objects with mysterious, eerie elements, suggestive of a dark night ahead. He uses these metaphors as a medium to chill the reader, and make the reader believe that something sinister has been going on in the poem. 12. The major mood of this poem…

| |Or is it even now battering against your |accept their “fate”. | | | |thin skull, wild to get through | | |As the poem progresses, the feeling | |Panicked and distraught in the beginning, | | |becomes softer and more relaxed and …

We can tell this most strongly in the long sentence of the final stanza which builds up to a dramatic, climax with its attack on ‘the old lie’. The tone of ‘Anthem for Doomed Youth’ is less strong and much more sad as we would expect from a poem that mourns the tragic deaths of men at war. The language of this poem is full of gentle, and depressing words, like ‘sad shires’ ‘holy glimmers’ and ‘tenderness’. Here Owen’s tone doesn’t express his anger at the waste-of life but his sense of …

The theme “home” incorporates many different meanings that can be either a place, person, item, or subject of memory in which impacts a particular individual’s experience. These different meanings were distinctly embellished in the art of poetry to express the significant value of “home.” The conditions that each poet faced during exile or crisis from the Middle East, Asia, and other countries were illustrated through verse in similar techniques and purpose. The ideas encompassed through each…

Plath uses enjambment between each six line stanza and one line stanza. Furthermore, she writes in first person point of view and incorporates caesura, metaphors, and similes throughout the poem filled with complex syntax. In addition, like some of her other poems, she writes in free verse. In this poem, Plath summarizes a person watching a man care for a bee farm, where the bees are pollinating flowers. As usual, she describes colors and develops their significance throughout the poem. In…