The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls Romanticism supports the idea that feeling and intuition are more valuable than reason. This belief opposed all the main ideas of the thoughts that ruled the literary world for years before. Between 1800 and 1860, Romanticism concepts were well shown through the works of authors and poets such as Hawthorne, Poe, and Longfellow. The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls by Longfellow is a worthy model of Romanticism through its emphasis on nature. Because the poem set on a beach, Longfellow describes the setting as...sea-sands damp and brown... and ...the little waves, with their soft, white hands. The repetition of the tide is also an important part of his description.
The couplet focuses on appreciating the love in life, especially during the time of death. This is a key part of sonnet 73. Shakespeare describes of how much time has gone by, giving different settings of time, places, and detailed imagery of metaphors in three quatrains that relate to becoming of age, dying and being loved. In the first quatrain, “That time of year thou mayst in me behold/ When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang” (Lines 1-2). Shakespeare seems to be describing the season of Fall.
"Thoughts on My Sickbed" opens with Dorothy Wordsworth eloquently expressing her own sense of mortality. A lyric poem utilizing the ballad stanza -- a quatrain in which only the second and fourth lines rhyme -- it has a beauty and natural grace of flowing lines and many references to the beauty and healing properties of Nature. To Dorothy, Nature has "mothering," "nurturing," and "healing" (i.e., feminine) characteristics, as she writes: And has the remnant of my life Been pilfered of this sunny Spring? And have its own prelusive sounds Touched in my heart no echoing string? Ah, say not so--the hidden life, Couchant within this feeble frame, Hath been enriched by kindred gifts, That undesired, unsought-for, came The above stanzas additionally exemplify Dorothy's concept of the aesthetics of the Romantic Period -- a continuation and further exploration of the earlier Age of Sensibility -- which are shown by Dorothy's lines: No!--then I never felt a bliss That might with that compare Which, piercing to my couch of rest, Came on the vernal air.
The notion of passing time, evident in the physical darkening of the sky from 'sunset' to 'twilight' to 'dark' is echoed in the rhythm of the poem. Clearly, the poem speaks about the sea, about a tide which 'turns again home'. The tide, we are reminded, has done this before; its rhythm will not be interrupted by the death of the poet. The lengths of the lines alternate between 10, six and four syllables with no fixed rotation: The differing lengths of lines evoke the movement of a tide washing upon a beach, something which we all recognise to be cyclical. In considering how the poet has constructed the 'bar' between life and death, we must look at the specifics of his
The authors of these two poems incorporated a similar theme in these two examples of lyrical poetry. While Marlowe portrays the Shepherd's fervent love for the Nymph, Raleigh's piece addresses love as well but from a completely different perspective. One might say that Raleigh's character takes the more realistic approach accounting for how time affects everything. Since Raleigh wrote this to mirror Marlowe's poem from the opposite perspective, examples of this relationship abound but one example is when in the fourth stanza of his poem Marlowe writes, "A gown made of the
In ‘Sonnet 130’ Shakespeare describes his mistress’s eyes as ‘nothing like the sun’, this goes against the normal conventions of a traditional sonnet. This is because in a traditional sonnet the poet would praise the woman that he loved by telling us that her eyes do shine like the sun. He would use the word ‘sun’ to emphasise how important she is to him because everything revolves around the ‘sun’, so this would imply that his life revolves around her. Traditional sonnets were written by men to women who were unobtainable; the women were usually married or engaged. However in ‘Sonnet 130’ the word ‘mistress’ tells us that Shakespeare is married and is having an affair with the woman who he is writing the sonnet to.
The structure of the poem demonstrates the positive setting in the beginning, which then decreases to a negative setting towards the end. For example ‘It was roses, roses, all the way’ in the first stanza, and ‘For they fling, whoever has a mind, Stones at me for my year’s misdeeds’, towards the end. The poem also goes from past tense to the present; this shows how easily Browning disregarded the time. Also, the stanzas takes the reader chronologically through the highs and lows of the past year, towards the end, the patriot is looking forward to heaven. Browning also uses the form of the poem to create an captivating narrative.
Use the poems we read in class as your models to follow when you write your own. Remember, this is a "write-like" poem, so you should try to write like the authors of the poems below. Your poem should pose a question/situation/problem, a turning point, and a resolution - just like the sonnets did that we read in class. Sonnet 18 Shakespeare Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date: Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimm'd; And every fair from fair sometime
He uses the anaphora of “wan”(H.D., line 9) and “white”( H.D., line 2) to express the lack of character she withholds and her lack of beauty. In both second stanzas of the poems, the speakers portray different attitudes toward Helen and the voyage she created among the men of Greece. The enchanted speaker illustrates a sense of isolation and loss in “On desperate seas long wont to roam”(Poe, line 6) until however, her “hyacinth hair” and “thy classic face”, have “brought [him] home”( Poe, line 7 )which establishes a sense of comfort to the speaker in which he glorifies. However, the unimpressed speakers tone differs as he insults Helen stating that “All Greece reviles [her]” (H.D., line 6 ) as she remains as the reason behind Greece’s suffering and the war in which it ravaged. The
Contents Introduction 2 1. Gender roles in Gilgamesh 2 2. Gender roles in Odysseus 4 Conclusion 5 Works cited 7 Introduction Among many ancient epic works of literature, there are several that stand out separately. Among such outstanding works are “The Epic of Gilgamesh” and “The Odysseus”. Both of these epics have significantly influenced ancient and modern culture; have inspired a great number of poets, writers and artists to create new masterpieces.