Spenserian stanza

"Whate'er the critic says or poet sings,/'Tis no slight task to write on common things." This is a quote by Horace which was used in Byron’s satire, Don Juan. Byron connects the difficulty of his art to his unimaginative nature of his medium, being poetry. The words he uses have no magic in themselves. Byron writes poetry not with the use of individual words but with how the words form a relationship together and create poetry. Byron was a leading figure in the romantic era of poetry.…

Melville viewed the Civil War as a bloody battle between brothers. His poetry shows the true side to the Civil War, without all of the grandeur and pageantry that other authors have used to describe battles. I believe that his feelings on the war were that it was, like every war, an old mans war that was fought by young men. This can easily be seen in his poem The March into Virginia. Melville wrote, “Youth must its ignorant impulse lend- Age finds place in the rear. All wars are boyish, and…

about how Dickinson is stuck, unable to keep going as she is now. Looking at how she repeats herself in a way by using “palsied” and then “paralysis” on the same line. It reinforces the theory that she is stuck as she is. By just focusing on the first stanza a great deal of information can be gathered about what Dickinson is saying about herself. When Dickinson says she has “dropped my Brain” it could be said that she has lost her sense of self. That she is not sure of who she is anymore.…

In The House on Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros uses different stylistic techniques to convey an effect on the reader. Cisneros and I use sensory details and alliteration to establish mood and theme. When describing the atmosphere and environment during a birthday party, I use sensory detail, “The roller skating rink was a frenzy of lights and sounds from arcade games and 70’s music playing” (Gyawali). The reader gets a nostalgic, but excited mood from the auditory and visual imagery. This…

“A Noiseless Patient Spider” by Walt Whitman depicts a man watching a spider spin its web, then realizing that he himself, can relate to the spider because he is shooting aimlessly into space, much like the webs of the spider. “The Loveliest of Trees” by A. E. Housman depicts a man looking at a beautiful cherry tree, then realizing that he will not live forever, and therefore he needs to make the most of every day. Both of these poems show transcendentalist ideas such as valuing nature,…

of the word “I.” For example,” Or whether I go among those I like best, and that like me best.” 3. A. The appearance of this poem is in long lines with the first stanza being the biggest, the second one smaller, and last one smallest.…

In the poems “Fern Hill” by Dylan Thomas and “in-Just” by e. .e cummings they focus largely on the concepts of growing up. The concept of losing one’s innocence is shown in both of these poems through the realizations in the last stanzas. That is when both of the authors realized that the innocence has been lost and things are not as they once thought that they were. Both of the authors told stories of their past to exemplify this, both poems I believe are written from the perspective of an…

A Storm in the Rocky Mountains, Mt. Rosalie is an oil on canvas painting currently located at the Brooklyn Museum in New York City as part of the museum’s collection of American paintings. Albert Bierstadt created this panoramic painting in New York in 1866. The piece’s accession number at the museum is 76.79. Just as the title indicates, the painting’s subject is a storm in the Rocky Mountains, specifically at the lake valley of Mt. Rosalie and with Native Americans riding horses along the…

Donald Howard was a professor of English at Stanford until 1977. He went on to study medieval tradition which led him to write his first book, The Three Temptations; Medieval Man in Search of the World. This is an analysis of his critical study of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. In the article, Donald Howard discusses the symmetry and parallelism found throughout Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. He notes that the symbols inside the poem are defined by the author and are not left to be…

Flora and Fauna – Crystal flowers – These crystal flowers were first stumbled upon in Warrett Forrest when a group of Crofters were searching for farming resources. They initially got the flowers with the intent to admire the beauty of it, not the intent of getting them useful abilities, until a man named Charlie Rosene noticed it’s strong, sweet scent. He was so captivated by the smell that he bit into it, and only moments later did he notice the change in atmosphere— this is the point in which…