Tulips and Chimneys

This movement went towards most of Cummings poetry narrowing the topic to specifically the romantic transcendentalism. Most of Cummings poetry had topics of love and family but one would not have known unless they re-read his poems and really focused on the theme of it. From a young age of eight years old, Cummings always had an interest in poetry. His poetry was unlike others and the start of his career in poetry did not start until 1923 with his first volume of verse, Tulips and Chimneys. In his lifetime, Cummings wrote 3,000 poems, two novels and four plays and had also painted portraits having interest in art (Unravelling a Life; E.E Cummings). Not only was Cummings poetry influenced by the transcendentalist movement, he was known to be America’s great modernist writers which encourage most of his poetry to rebel against the…

naturally in our world. Second Desire - beauty: The concept of beauty could not be more subjective and is constantly fleeting with time. In The Botany of Desire, Pollan illustrates and explores beauty’s ephemeral nature with a simple, yet extensive, analogy to the tulip. He explains that several centuries ago, something about the tulip’s simplicity captivated everyone’s attention and, for quite some time, it became the pinnacle definition for beauty. Pollan recounts how in the 1600s, a so…

The red tulips with yellow tips are her favourite. I carefully pick up a full bouquet and carry them to the counter to get them wrapped and pay. The cashier wraps them with glossy clear wrapping paper. The wrapping paper crinkles as I take the flowers and leave the sweet smelling roses and hyacinths behind. People rush in front of me pushing me out of the way as we all try to…

5-8). These lines evoke the idea that tigers are a representation of power and strength. Clearly, Blake chose a great archetype in the tiger to symbolize power and experience. Lastly, William Blake symbolizes the power of optimism using archetypes in his poem entitled “The Chimney Sweeper.” This poem is an outstanding example of some of Blake’s more political writing, and involves aspects of society in London. In this time, young children were often sold by their families who could not afford…

I couldn’t bare seeing him laying in his bed without making a sound. Therefore I decided to stay on the couch near the chimney. In fact, I stayed on the same couch for six weeks before I got the courage to see him again. I hadn’t been in his room for so long. As I approached the bed I saw the candles and flowers that my parents and relatives left for him. I noticed that he was no longer covered in bandages. As I got closer to his body I could see the wounds from the impact. The accident didn’t…

The images here demonstrate the effortlessness of the Palestinian lifestyle as they are as yet utilizing wood for making flame and clothesline on the tops of the houses. Alternately, notwithstanding, these images bring out the poet's preparation to yield himself for his country's autonomy for the occupation forced on them. In the poem, "To My Father" Darwish portrays another picture of interconnected resistance when he says: He lowered his eyes from the moon And bent low to take a…

“The Chimney Sweeper” by William Blake is a poem describing the exploitation of children that society unfortunately finds to be socially acceptable. Blake’s anger is felt throughout the poem as he ___ blames the parents and church for allowing the ongoing suffering to the children. Child labor is a major element discussed along with the reoccurring reminder of the conditions the chimney sweepers were forced to endure. Despite all of the harsh experiences, the children’s’ innocence is evident as…

Snow begins to fall in 17th century England as children are sold and bought along with the oncoming Christmas preparations. While other young ones their age are sitting around a tree with their loving parents, these children will be going somewhere much less desirable, with much more frigid people. These children, some as young as 4, had the unfortunate luck of being bought from their orphanages to be enslaved and made into chimney sweeps. The chimney sweeps are made to sleep in cold cellars…

In the first version of “The Chimney Sweeper” from the Songs of Innocence, the boy is having to become a chimney sweeper because it is a necessity. The child says, “When my mother died I was very young, and my father sold me” (1459). During this time, child labor was very popular, and his father sold him because they were in poverty. The second version of “The Chimney Sweeper” the child was more than likely forced to do the job because his parents made him. The child’s parent is very alive…

of its gaiety as it is shewn before the guiltless soul, and thereafter—as an adult would see the world for all its inhumane and callous customs as it appears to the mindful soul. Through parallel prophetic pieces in Innocence and Experience counting, “Introduction”, “Chimney Sweeper”, and “Holy Thursday,” Blake merges these contrary states of the human soul and man would be able to view the world in all of its ‘pleasant glee’ and ‘merry and happy cheer’, while not failing to overlook the…