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of the greatest poems that he has written, and surely others will agree in the future. It seems that rather than completely inhibiting his poetry, his melancholy in fact inspired one of his best works. Although Coleridge “may not hope from outward forms to win / the passion and…

Canovan in her article ‘Trust the people’ writes how she is sceptical of populism. Although highlighting many negative points of populism she suggests it reinvigorates democracy and is always inevitable. Like Canovan I am sceptical of populism, as she calls it the “shadow of democracy” but I go one further to believe populism does indeed have no place in a well-functioning democracy. Firstly, one must define a well-functioning democracy: this allows the demos to limit government power due to…

The Wander is an Elegy-style poem that depicts the suffering, exile, and memoirs of an anonymous narrator who refers to himself differently according to what part of his life he is sharing; a "Lone-dweller", an "Earth-stepper", ect. Although it is commonly believed that there is only one narrator, there is still a lot of debate on whether or not there was only one narrator throughout the poem or if there were several. The Wanderer is believed to have been created around the 5th or 6th…

The stanza derived from Matthew Arnold’s “Dover Beach” is representative and reflective of the loss of faith in 19th century, Victorian England. In the stanza, “The Sea of Faith” a metaphor for the retreat from religious ideologies. Throughout the stanza Arnold is referring to this metaphor, as when he states that it “was once, too, at the full, and round earth’s shore.” I think that the poet is claiming that the religious beliefs that he and others have had were once very important to them. The…

In Robert Pack’s poem “An Echo Sonnet: To an Empty Page”, the narrator is uncertain about what comes with death. He worries about his future and what may happen to him. As the narrator asks questions into the emptiness, he finds answers in the echoes of his voice. Robert Pack uses literary devices such as rhetorical questions, selection of detail, metaphors, juxtaposition, and connotation to construct the meaning of his poem. Beginning in the first quatrain, the voice is very anxious and…

time,” says Milton as he is depressed that “time” passes quickly and calls time as “subtle thief of youth,” a thief that steals away youth before dreams can be attained. “Hath” is the 3rd person singular present indicative of “have” in the Archaic form. In “My hasting days fly on with full career,” John Milton regrets that he has lost his twenty-third year and not yet produced anything he considers artistically valuable. In line 4, Milton calls the slow physical maturation of a young man as his…

any religious connections in his poems there is a deeper meaning behind everything. Throughout the poem the narrator or the character in the story can be seen as a reflection of Robert Frost himself as he is the reflection his ideas on paper in the form of art. Furthermore, more comparisons can be made as each apple that he picked could be an important task in his life and as he indicates “ten thousand fruit to touch” (Apple-picking 30) he is the one doing the job and we are the apples, ones…

Poems are very complex and sometimes hard to understand at first. Some may even have more than one meaning or maybe not any true meaning at all. The best way to figure out poems is to reread them and during your second time rereading the poem, slowly read through it and jot down some notes or what you picture when you read a certain line or lines. What this is called is analyzing. When you do this you look for the deeper meaning and understanding of a poem. The poem I am going to analyze is…

Francesco Petrarch’s Sonnet 333 represents his feelings towards a woman and his life. Petrarch explains his feelings by conveying a dark, melancholy tone at the beginning of his sonnet and a more hopeful tone towards the end. He uses irony in the form of a paradox to convey that his love for a woman is alive, although she is dead. He also juxtaposes death and life, and hope and sadness throughout his sonnet. By using metaphors, paradoxes, and diction Petrarch shows his love, grief, and longing…

This paper will be taking a look into the carefree lenses of three poems. Carefree in that the authors were unhampered, unrestricted, or unconstrained in their writing styles. The first poem is called “Tornado Child” by Kwame Dawes. Dawes was born in Ghana, spent most of his childhood living in Jamaica and currently lives in South Carolina. He is an Emmy winning professor known for his accomplishments as a poet, author, editor, critic, and musician. As a musician and writer, According to the…