Spenserian stanza

Both Wilfred Owen and Seamus Heaney present the power of nature in their poems “Exposure” and “Storm on the Island”, respectively, as overwhelming and uncontrollable. Between the two, they both emphasize nature as an unparalleled power, however, Owen’s poem is a visual representation of life in the trenches of WW1, contrasting from existing government propaganda glamorising the adventures of war and emphasizing the futility of the situation by depicting the fate of soldiers suffering from…

William Wordsworth “The Daffodils” “The Daffodils” by William Wordsworth, this poem is a typical romantic poem that reflects the essence of romanticism, Now after this being said, I will discuss how the poem embodies the features of romanticism and how it illuminates the personal life of the poet whilst transcending the private into a human public experience, also the importance of the context in inspiring this poem and the secret collaboration of writing between Wordsworth and his…

continues. They are long in the first 3 stanzas, symbolizing that the narrator could talk about the father for a long time, it also shows the love of the narrator. It can also symbolize the length of time that he spent idolizing his father. the 4th and 5th stanzas have long sentences with some short stanzas, that could show how the readers love for the father is slowly coming to an end and that maybe the patience for the father is also coming short. The last stanza is just short sentences. His…

In “A Poison Tree” by William Blake and “The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allan Poe have the same concept in the matter of characters and conflicts. In the poem by Blake, the speaker of the poem is angry with its “Foe” but the foe doesn’t know of the feelings of the speaker. In the short story by Poe the main character Montresor was furious with Fortunato, the other main character, for reasons that Fortunato is not aware of and same with the reader. The poem and short story are similar because…

Charles Bukowski was an American poet, novelist and short story writer, responsible for the thousands of poems written in the dirty realism literacy movement and was heavily influenced by the cultural, economic and social ambience of his home city in Los Angeles. A violent father, who at the time was out of work frequently during the great depression and often took his anger and pain out on his son, beating him regularly, up until his teenage years, marred Bukowski’s childhood. The poet became…

A Negative Experience In this poem, it is decided whether or not a father treats his son well or not. The poem conveys a very broad spectrum through the ways that the son is treated and the items that are discussed. It seems like the son is unsure of what is going on throughout the story and during the events that occur and are discussed, the context seems to change that idea a few times. “My Papa’s Waltz” written by Theodore Roethke displays a negative experience for the child through tone,…

In a scene where a character is confronted with frailty of life, George RR Martin's, A Game of Thrones, touches on the fear of death. However, unlike the book series people have not always been able to simply tell death "not today," and have a talented swordsman defend their life. In fact, from Everyman to modern day texts death is constantly studied. Thomas Gray's poem "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard," shifts between a seemingly political poem to a in depth exploration of the concept of…

The sound track that has been chosen out of the 15 tracks from the album, Titanic: Music from the Motion Picture as the focus of study is “Hymn to the Sea”, which is also the last track on both the album as well as in the film before the credits portion. The reason this track was chosen instead of the others; such as Celine Dion’s My Heart Will Go On, the track on the sinking of titanic and the tracks from the escalated point in Titanic film is because that track was played during the scene…

Bearing the loss of a child weighs heavily on a person but in Jonson’s comparative poems, “On My First Daughter” and “On My First Son”, one loss burdens a father’s soul more. Ben Jonson uses his talent for poem writing to portray the difficult feelings of a parent losing not one but two of their children. These two poems compare the differences and showcase the similarities when it comes to parents losing children. Using perfectly placed devices the author is able to set the mood and make a…

William Blake wrote many different poems, two big books filled with them, one book being called Songs of Innocence and the other being called Songs of Experience. Within these two books, four were brought up to the attention of the class, The Lamb, The Tyger, The Chimney Sweeper, and Infant Sorrow. These four poems had different messages but also different archetypes or comparisons. Each one, William Blake made sure to point out what he was really trying to get the reader to notice as he wrote…