ACL1002 STUDYING POETRY AND POETICS LONG ESSAY BY JANINA TAO 3808113 Chosen Essay topic question: Choose three or four poems by Beat Generation poets from your text book, and compare them with lyrics to a song of your choosing written in the past decade. How do the subject matters compare? How do the sound techniques and styles compare? What are the links between Beat poetry and music? The Beat Generation was a significant cultural movement of young people formed in the 1950s after World War II.
His word choice emphasizes his point that poetry shouldn’t mean anything more then what it already says. MacLeish fosters synonyms such as “mute” and “dumb” or “silent” and “wordless” to reinforce his simplistic philosophy that poetry should be. Aside from the author’s choice of words, the repetition used in Ars Poetica further highlights various aspects of poetry. Often the speaker wishes to reveal to his reader the impression that poetry should be something felt or “palpable” as he expressed it. Nearing the end of the poem, MacLeish creates a complete view of poetry after saying that “a poem should be equal to: not true” and “a poem should not mean but be”.
An evaluation of the impact of Jean Cocteau’s poetry on his other work. This essay will look at how the early poetry and Jean Cocteau is related to his later art works such as his novels and films. To start with there will be a discussion on around Cocteau’s belief on the myth of the poetry and supernatural power of the poets. The poetical views of Cocteau’s will be examined by discussing the following opinions of some critics. The discussion will not include some different aspect to discuss his theatrical geniuses and visual masterminds because I thought it would be more helpful to concentrate on one area of his work.
That’s why the major themes of Maya Angelou’s poetry stand for racial, sexual, cultural and political subjugation which are in long run consequence of hegemonic principles. This paper will scrutinize the theme of hegemonic ideology that incorporated in Maya Angelou’s poetry. During European Classical antiquity, hegemony as an indirect form of imperial dominance denoted the political-military dominance of a city state over other city states. In twentieth century, the concept of hegemony prefers to cultural hegemony due to abolishment of direct arms activity and martial expedition in the name of modern and civilized viewpoint by the manipulation of the social value system, one social class dominates the other social classes of a society, with a world view justifying the status quo of bourgeois hegemony. As a universal, politicio- cultural hegemonic practice, the cultural institutions of the hegemon establish and maintain the political annexation of the sub-ordinate people.
When considering his or her writing, society takes into account the author’s personality, taste, and passions. The author’s failing are also used to justify the failing of their work even though one rarely has anything to do with the other. Barthes argues that the “theological” (the message of the “Author”) meaning cannot be found in a single line of text. He believes that a culmination of cultures and ideas are laced together to form a multi-dimensional space. He goes on to further state that once the Author is identified with the work, a critic needs only to look at the Author to find the “meaning” behind the work.
After the First World War, Europe finds a need to return to core values and reincorporate past ideologies. It is not just a move away from modernism, it is a way of finding national identity. Surrealism is important to study for its relationship to Dada. It is a cultural movement and artistic style that is founded by André Breton who writes the First Manifesto of Surrealism. Artists like Magritte, Dalí, and Ernst display their ideas that are based on Freud’s studies of psychoanalytic analysis.
Ought we to go beyond good and evil, as Nietzsche proposes? Friedrich Nietzsche (15.10.1884 – 25.8.1900) began his career as a classical philologist, (studying the literary and philosophical texts of the ancient Greek and Roman worlds) who later turned to philosophy. He was also a keen poet and composer. Considered a ‘prophet for the 21st century’, Nietzsche was undoubtedly a genius, who adopted a radically different approach to moral theory from that of those who came before him. Part of what set Nietzsche apart from his predecessors, was his style of writing.
‘Beat Generation’ has simply become the slogan or label for a revolution in manners. Jack Kerouac, ‘The Origins of The Beat Generation’ (1958) . Beat poetry of the late 1950’s by American poets such as Allen Ginsberg was used as a form of political debate and a call for a revolution. Ginsberg spoke out against conservative America and explicated his refusal to conform to societal rules and expectations. His poetry, with its unconventional structuring, use of themes and language, was an attempt to break away from the constraints historically associated with poetry.
In his essay "The Poet," Ralph Waldo Emerson called for a poet who could move beyond artistic trivialities and capture the true essence of the American spirit. Heavily influenced both by Emerson and the Transcendentalist movement, Walt Whitman answered this call in his poetry collection entitled "Leaves of Grass." Though it was the source of much controversy during its time, "Leaves of Grass" has had a foundational impact on modern American poetry and continues to shape the poetic form to this very day. Whitman's early career can be quite frankly described as inconsequential. From his late teens to his mid-thirties, Whitman worked at various editing and teaching jobs while dabbling in freelance fiction and poetry.
My own poem is intended to be an extension of the theme in Dickinson’s poem. I wanted to portray that same sense of being at ease in the presence of such an intimidating figure as death, while only hinting at “His” identity. As a matter of fact the name only appears in the title of the poem itself. I also wanted to capture the reader’s attention with a strong title that gave a strong suggestion as to what the poem contained within. I wanted to make the reader feel as though they really did not have much of a choice, that they would “feel” forced to be