Spenserian stanza

Archetypes are universal patterns in all literatures regardless of culture and historical period. This pattern can be seen in characters, settings, events, symbols and themes. In poem Who Am I?, the speaker looks for his own identity as he does not see himself the way others recognize him. Although he cannot find answer to the question “Who am I?”(1), he accepts himself as a child of God in the end. There are archetypal themes, symbols, and Frye’s Literary Modes and Archetypes in the poem…

When I compared Joe’s Odyssey songs to Homer’s Odyssey books, there seems to be a 1:1 correspondence between most of the songs and the books. When I took a look at each song individually and compared it to the corresponding books, Joe emphasized certains aspects of each book and turned them into lyrics. The lyrics emphasize the certain aspects about the book to tell the poem as a whole. He tries to highlight certain aspects from all 24 books to turn the Odyssey into his own version of the poem.…

For many people it is important to leave a legacy or something they can be remembered for when they die. People leave their mark in this world because that is the only way to prove they existed. In Ozymandias, a poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley, a traveler describes the ruins of what was once a great monument of Ozymandias, and now is a “colossal wreck” (13). Nothing lasts forever, everything comes to an end, and you are either remembered or forgotten. Ozymandias was the Greek name for Ramesses II…

Media Review Three In his article, Jason Diamond shares one of Flannery O’Connor’s prayers, which she wrote during her stay at the University of Iowa anywhere between 1946-1947 when she experiences doubt in her writing capabilities (Diamond 3). In these prayers, Diamond says that O’Connor “wrote her thoughts and prayers, displaying the same kind of self-doubt we see in so many writers today, but balanced with an unwavering faith…” (Diamond 3). Although Diamond agrees that O’Connor’s works seem…

to format my poems as I please, I began to mold my poem with the use of and lack of words to create tension in my poem that would similarly provoke anxiety. The first idea that came to mind involved keeping the English word “anxiety” in the first stanza and then translating the other “anxiety’s” into different languages to articulate the universal fear of public speaking or other shared fears across the world. After doing so, I realized this was not my goal. My goal was meant to be expressed on…

firmly as they can. In fact, they should do everything in their power to never give up and keep on fighting. At the end of the poem, it is revealed that the speaker also has a personal stake in the issue, in that his own father is dying. In the first stanza, he begins with a command: “Do not go gentle into that good night.” He then proceeds to make a generalized assertion about old age, declaring that one should “burn and rave” against dying, just as they would have in their youth. This…

Chapter 6 is entitled “The sway of Romantic Poetics in Jennings’s Moments of Grace and Celebrations and Elegies” .Many critics have argued that Jennings sensibility is Romantic compared to her anti-romantic peers. So the chapter looks into the romantic aspects of her poetry especially with the poems in the above two volumes. The chapter also draws throws light on the essay ‘Fond of What He’s Crapping On’: Movement Poetry and Romanticism by Michael O’ Neill. Chapter 7 “Elizabeth Jennings as a…

ways in which these can be perceived. It does this by having each of the thirteen stanzas in the poem portray and examine a new way in which the blackbird is viewed by the speaker. This poem uses a haiku style, which Stevens was particularly interested in. Haiku poems traditionally have three lines with five, seven and five syllables respectively. This poem however does not. The thirteen “short line free verse” stanzas are often associated with the traditional Haiku (Antonio José Jiménez…

During the romantic era, There were poets like William Wordsworth and Percy Bysshe Shelley, who used their lives as inspiration.William Wordsworth is considered the father of modern romantic literature. While Shelley paid a tribute to William Wordsworth, however it was more of a look where you are now. Both poets used themes, symbols, and characterization to get their thoughts across. “To Wordsworth” was written by Shelly and “I wandered lonely as a cloud” by Wordsworth. To begin, there are…

William Wordsworth’s poem: ’Composed on the Westminster Bridge’ is a sonnet that describes London in the morning as the city is still asleep. The poem’s title: “composed on the Westminster Bridge” tells the reader that the Author is standing on the Westminster Bridge, in London and is describing the sights of the City that he can see from the Bridge. Wordsworth is fascinated by the city’s beauty. He says that the earth has nothing equal to show than this beautiful scene and that the one who…