Life is made up of times of sadness and times of gladness. Compare Dawe’s poems and One Day of the Year when considering this. Life is a journey comprised of both wonderful and troubled experiences. Set in the 1960s, Seymour’s play “The One Day of the Year” (“Day”), makes a commentary on the nature of relationships, similar to that of Bruce Dawe’s poem “Enter without so much as knocking” (“Enter”). The theme of conflict is prevalent in these two texts, as well as another one of Dawe’s poem “Victorian Hangman tells his love” (“Hangman”).
LET AMERICA BE AMERICA AGAIN Let America Be America Again Juan A Severino South University English II Literature Instructor: Julie Kares 05/01/10 The poem "Let America Be America Again" by Langston Hughes purposefully is reminiscent of (Walt Whitman's) "I Hear America Singing" in which Whitman is optimistic about this land of democratic opportunity. Hughes, Hughes was the first African American author to support himself through his writing; he produced more than sixty books. He earned critical attention for his portrayal of realistic black characters and he became one of the dominant voices speaking out on issue concerning black culture. He wrote in many genres; starting and continuing with poetry, he turned to fiction, autobiographies, and children’s books. His most famous fictional character is Jesse B. Semple, nickname Simple, who uses humor to protest and satirize the existing injustice.
The en-capitulating tale of the Lotus Eater’s is divided into two parts, the first is a descriptive narrative and the second is a song of eight numbered stanzas of varying lengths. Tennyson uses various poetic devices to create vivid, rich settings, and allows us, the readers to follow the decay of human moral and psyche. The first part of the poem is written in nine-line Spenserian stanza’s, so called because they were employed by Spenser in ‘The Faerie Queene.” The rhyme scheme is a closely interlinked ABABBCBCC, with the first eight lines in iambic pentameter. This rhyme scheme, I feel, gives the poem a slow and dreamy sensation, and really draws the reader into this overwhelming lull that seems to have consumed the mariners, the poem is structured very lazily which further adds to the atmosphere. The poem’s narrative perspective is omniscient; all the reader knows is that it is one of Odysseus’ mariners, which adds to the unease and lack of clarity.
Tennyson chooses to tell the story of Tithonus as a dramatic monologue. The effect of this is twofold: it allows us to sympathise with Tithonus’ view of his no-longer-wanted immortality, and simultaneously prevents Tennyson lecturing us on the folly of unrealistic aspiration. Structurally, Tennyson presents Tithonus’ plight in a series of verse paragraphs, each of which contributes to our understanding of his sad situation. At first, for example, he compares his immortality to the passing of time on earth. He opens the poem with an elegiac note that sets the tone: the ‘woods decay’, man is depicted as lying in his grave – a state that Tithonus longs for at the end of the poem when he begs to be ‘restore[d] to the ground’ – and ‘after many a summer dies the swan’ – a specially poignant image of gracefulness and beauty passing away, qualities which
Nathanael’s literary style and theme of his stories were passionate romanticism and mainly dark romanticism. The spectacular author had many amazing works and so many popular books. One of his greatest works was The Scarlet Letter (1850) and Twice-Told Tales (1837). Edgar Allan Poe once said, "The style of Hawthorne is purity itself. His tone is singularly effective—wild, plaintive, thoughtful, and in full accordance with his themes... We look upon him as one of the few men of indisputable genius to whom our country has as yet given birth".
Critics thought of him and his work as a good poet and an even better writer who made a major difference in the Harlem renaissance. Harold Bloom thought that “Thomas hardy, with his acute sense of life’s ironies, might have admired Sterling Brown’s Rain Which Precedes Robert Penn Warren in reviving Hardy’s Sprit” (5). Blyden Jackson a critic of the time likes Sterling Brown because he is a great poet and how Brown uses dialect with precision. David Littlejohn said that “Brown Attempted to do for the south what Langston Hughes did for the north” (Bloom 19). People thought that Brown’s irony was sharp, his ideas were exciting, and he was not only and protestor of his time but one of the first times.
Poe’s words themselves give the poem its mood. In the beginning, the narrator has hope because he believed that the raven was the one he loved but that hope has turned into anger when the raven kept repeating “Nevermore.” Poe was a master of choosing words that created mood. The scary and weird feeling of this poem makes Poe look like a cheaper! This mysterious poem is among the best-known poems in the national literature. The setting, the symbols of the incredible flow of art and the auditory imagery of the melancholy ideas all make up a different level than classical poetry.
The Soldier Essay “The Soldier”, which is written by Rupert Brooke, is an extremely patriotic poem in which the speaker illustrates the beauty of England. This sonnet shows memoirs of a soldier who explains his level of patriotism to his country by declaring that he will always be proud of England and her beauty. The time period of this poem is during the outbreak of the First World War (around 1914). This poem is mainly written in a Petrarchian or Italian sonnet form. The first eight lines introduce the opening octave while the last 6 of the total 14 lines show the concluding sestet.
The Ice Palace The short story “The Ice Palace” written by Francis Scott Fitzgerald who is an American author of novels and short stories, whose works are the paradigmatic writings of the Jazz Age. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest American Writers of the 20th century. In this short story where going to discuss and illustrate the important events that made Sally Carrol’s dreams turn into disturbing nightmares. The story sets on the Southermost Georgia, a languor place where the sunlight seems like a golden over the houses .There is laziness, relaxed quality to both the description and the affected dialogue in this first sequence, Sally Carrol Harper is a young woman engaged to Harry Bellamy, seems like a typical Southern belle, but she has the bobbed hair and the high ideals of a modern girl. The author describes Sally Carrol’s town in a way which makes us feel how really hot it is.
Prometheus Unbound: A Lyrical Drama in Four Acts. Introductory Note Prometheus Unbound best combines the various elements of Shelley's genius in their most complete expression, and unites harmoniously his lyrically creative power of imagination and his 'passion for reforming the world.' It is the fruit of an outburst of poetic energy under the double stimulus of his enthusiastic Greek studies, begun under Peacock's influence, and of his delight in the beauty of Italy, whither he had removed for health and rest. It marks his full mastery of his powers. It is, not less than Queen Mab and The Revolt of Islam, a poem of the moral perfection of man; and, not less than Alastor and Epipsychidion, a poem of spiritual ideality.