Spenserian stanza

In the poem Gawain and the Green Knight, Gawain becomes a guest at Lord Bertilak’s castle. His stay comes as a brief rest from his journey to meet with the Green Knight. During his time in the castle, Gawain is coaxed into a pact between himself and Lord Bertilak. Throughout three days, Bertilak would go out to hunt and Gawain would stay in the castle, and at the end of each day, the two would exchange whatever they gained. Unbeknownst to him, the pact was a means of testing his true character,…

“The poems show love to be a complex and powerful emotion.” Discuss the ways in which the poets have presented the different aspects of love in the poems you have studied. The poem “La Belle Dame sans Merci” is written by John Keats in 1819, he is a romantic poet and was born in England in 1795. The poem is written in the form of a traditional ballad and is presented with eight beats per sentence for each twelve quatrains and a simple rhyme scheme of ABCB. The French title of the poem helps…

English 1 Kristen Brenda Walker Group M April 08 2016 Tuesday 12:20 Douglas Kaze Conduct a critical analysis of the poem “In My Craft or Sullen Art” by Dylan Thomas Dylan Thomas explores a poet’s love and devotion to poetry through the poem “In My Craft or Sullen Art”. Thomas was a well-known Modernist poet who challenged the primary values of the Western society. His attitude towards society is made evident through the words in the poem. He focuses on the poet’s love for…

In the short story “Lives of the Dead,” one of Tim O’brien’s purposes is to show through stories, the dead can be and are brought back to life to cope with reality. O’brien shows in this short story that the dead are still alive in the memories of some and the stories of others to show a way people cope with loss. He explains that him and many others soldiers used this storytelling as a way to remember the dead, to escape from reality in an attempt to cope with the guilt and sadness. O’Brien…

Poetry is a very beautiful and unique form of literature, but it often is given a bad reputation. The main reason being is people overanalyze it, instead of taking in the beauty of it. Billy Collins’s poem “Introduction of Poetry” explains how people overanalyze and take away from the beauty of a poem. The speaker suggests ways of reading poetry that allow the reader to understand the poem, but not take away from the beauty of it. Billy Collins quotes “I ask them to take a poem / and hold it up…

The thoughtful speaker in “Analysis of a Situation” also looks back over her past life and relates a pervasive sense of anxiety to fears about weakened creativity as she says: “There was a point everything went wrong/ A word, an act, some insufficiency./ And ever since that time the gift of song/ has come with more and more anxiety” ( 264 ). In these deleted poems she expresses anxiety about her role as a poet and tries to gain a sense of renewed continuity with the acclaimed youth and with the…

Keats’ short and tragic life left him with less options to enjoy and celebrate the colours of nature and fruits of love. His odes are communicate a host of emotions which strived to find expression. Keats’ preoccupation with self, his fear of pain and death, his unfulfilled desires of love, his tendency to escape from the agonising present to nature or to a world of fancy are some predominant emotions which find their place in different forms in his poetry. Through all his odes, there runs a…

NETTLES The poem “Nettles” is about the relationship of a father and his son. The father is angered by the fact that his son has been stung by nettles, and shows violence and aggression. The poem basically talks about how parents try to protect their children, but later on realize that their children can’t be protected form everything. The poem starts off with, “My son aged three fell in the nettle bed”. Using the personal pronoun “My” shows that this is a personal poem. And by telling us that…

“Attack”, by Siegfried Sassoon, effectively represents a vivid and graphic view of the apathy of war by divulging into the minds of the soldiers, giving a more personal view to his poem. There are many such instances in which Sassoon’s clever diction. Instead of the norm of authors of his time, Sassoon did not emphasize the dramatics of war during the battle; he accentuated the pre-war stage. Firstly, Sassoon divulges into the fears of the soldiers. He does this by construing a grave scene.…

In her novel, To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf explores the thematic implications of time's continuous procession foreword. Woolf uses images of the sea as a symbolic depiction of the passage of time in relation to human lives. This pattern of images suggests that time takes on a number of different forms. Likes the waves, times sometimes appears repetitive and nearly motionless, but it also has a violent and entropic nature that calls attention to the impermanence of human life by threatening…