Theory of Forms

John Donne’s “Death Be Not Proud” and Anne Finch’s “To Death” personify the abstraction of death through their manipulation of apostrophe and figurative language. Their vivid descriptions extend beyond a mere conversation with death, revealing their inner thoughts toward the inevitable demise of every human. Though examining the same theme, Donne and Finch develop vastly different tones. Donne’s tone of defiance juxtaposes Finch’s tone of resignation, cultivating these through the use of…

The poem Landscape and the Fall of Icarus by William Carlos Williams is based off of a painting by the same name. It invokes similar imagery and emotions, while emphasizing the insignificance of Icarus’s death. Although the poem briefly mentions Icarus in the first stanza, he is only acknowledged once more in the final line. The remaining four stanzas focus on describing the setting. Williams speaks of “a farmer… ploughing his field,” and of how “the whole pageantry of the year was tingling…

Repetition, Syntax, Connotation in London by William Blake London appears to be a beautiful, majestic sort of place but according to the speaker described by William Blake, it is actually quite somber and dismal. The speaker seems to be observing many different people throughout the city, they are mostly just an observer who is walking and seeing things occur but maybe they have a certain perception which makes them view the world this way. Blake uses thoughtful repetition, interesting syntax,…

Comparing Poems The things about poems is that most of them have a similarity. I chose two poems to compare and tell you how they are similar. There was one major thing in these poems that were similar. I chose We Wear the Mask. This story has one great meaning and I will tell you about it later on in the essay. The second poem that I chose was Richard Cory. This poem had a similar meaning of it and I will talk about the poem here in a second. These both had a similar meaning to…

had depression as well as lonely. It's a metaphor for the depression because the thick ice sheet in Antarctica is the depression that does not allow the land or the person to flourish. I decide to make this poem in sonnet form, more specifically English sonnet form. This form consists of three quatrains that…

The poems “Where the Sidewalk Ends” and “Escaping Reality” were composed four decades apart. They involve a speaker who is anticipating his escape from reality. They also involve a speaker’s search for a resolution through symbolism. In addition, they focus on a single theme which is despite your life responsibilities; you should use your imagination to escape when times get difficult. Furthermore, they feature the thoughts of a speaker who refers to himself in the first person perspective. The…

“The Road Not Taken” was a poem written by Robert Frost in 1916. The poem consists of four stanzas that each contains five lines, and the rhyme scheme is ABAAB. The first three stanzas of the poem talk about the past and the fourth one talks about the future. “The Road No Taken” starts off with the narrator coming up to a fork in the path he is traveling. He looked down both of the paths as far as he could and they seemed to be equal; the first path seemed to be traveled more often, but the…

Ron Koertge’s 2006 poem “Do You Have Any Advice For Those of Us Just Starting Out?” demonstrates how the poet uses the conventional poetic form of a free verse to treat the unusual subject of guidance to up and coming poets with sense of humor and wisdom. The poem is separated into 6 stanzas. The poem does not have a specific form, but the stanzas seem to increase in lines as the poem is read. As the poem The poem is constructed like a guideline which makes it seem that the guidance starts out…

Absolute monarchy is a is a monarchical form of government in which the monarch has absolute power among his or her people. An absolute monarch wields unrestricted political power over the sovereign state and its people. Absolutism was used in France with Louis XIV, Russia, Prussia, and Austria. Although all of these countries were quite different they mostly believed that absolute monarchy was necessary and justified. During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in Europe, absolute monarchy…

Sound is an important property of poetry. There are different elements that help make up the sound of a piece of writing. The most important piece I believe is relevant to the teachings this week would be the use of rhyming and rhythm in poetry. A rhythm is, the regular recurrence of sounds – is at the center of all natural phenomena (Kizner & Mandell, 2012, p.427). Poets utilize rhythm by sometime repeating words, and utilized words that rhyme. Meter is another large aspect of sound and…