Spenserian stanza

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…

symbolism of a "crack in the tea-cup" (43), once useful, but eventually gets old and decays. Additionally, the speaker reminds the lover that one day he will have "A lane to the land of the dead" (44) with his love alongside him. Throughout the twelfth stanza, the speaker starts referencing nursery rhymes and begins presenting them in a more sexualizing way, by saying "the Lily-white Boy is a Roarer,/ And Jill goes down on her back." signifying a shift from childhood to adulthood, or innocence…

“Dust in the wind” By: Kansas (Song Analysis paper) The song I choose for this analysis is “Dust in the wind” by Kansas. It is very interesting and contains quite a meaningful message within. Dust in the wind is a very emotion heavy and thought-filled song. The song really carries a sad feeling, not necessarily negative but the emotion expressed is definitely not a positive nor happy one. The purpose and or main topic of this song is to convey the idea of generally how unimportant we are in…

I love to go to beaches and relax, swim, and have fun. All of the different things that I brought up in this poem are a part of who I am. Because of the many versatile factors brought up in the poem, like “pictures and scrapbooks”, I grouped my stanzas as different topics, such as memories and my past. To further this,…

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…

together as a whole. In the beginning of the poem the leader of this country juts signed a document, that sets off a terrible and permanent outcome for the people. Thomas goes on to talk about how a king was killed by five others. In the second stanza the “hand” which is responsible for the massive outcomes is getting mocked. The line reads “the mighty hand leads to…

What was the last decision you made? Do you wonder what might have happened if you chose differently? This is the same feeling Robert Frost wrote his famous poem The Road Not Taken about. The poem is about reflecting upon and fretting over a past decision, a decision you may feel you chose poorly or picked the wrong option. This feeling happens so commonly, everyone has experienced it at some point, and on different levels of intensity. It can happen when you think maybe the chocolate ice cream…

When I originally listened to Choplin’s Prelude in Minor E, my initial response to the piece was that its goal was to evoke sadness. My first impression was that it gave a very dark, lonely tone while I listened to the Prelude. When I listened to the piece, I pictured someone going through a difficult time and dealing with a lot of sadness. I imagined the individual to be walking home on a very dark and gloomy day. The weather brought out their sadness even more. I sensed that the issue they…