A poet relies on his feeling to convey the current situations that they are in. Poets usually allow their emotions to drive their words and it allows their thoughts to flow. Poetry is like a playground where poets can explore their inner thought and question everything. Its their view of the world that allows them to paint us a picture of their dreams, aspirations and nightmares that they have encountered. What makes it so effective is that they allow the raw emotion to drive the delivery of their words.
By using different literary methods authors are able to give their readers a better understanding of the message behind the piece of work. Using methods such as themes and symbolism allows readers to find the underlying meaning of the story rather than just simply reading something with no meaning or emotion behind it. While reading Robert Frost’s Poem The Road Not Taken and Eudora Welty’s short story A Worn Path, people get a sense that life is a lonely place full of sacrifice at times. Although these two pieces are different, their use of symbolism gives readers a better understanding of the characters in each work and figure out their real struggles with the choices they make. Literature is meant to take its readers to another place and allow them to become part of it, whether it be a story or a poem or play.
Collins often writes on topical issues of society. His poems ‘Another Reason Why I Don’t Keep a Gun in the House’, ‘Schoolsville’ and ‘Embrace’ all continue this style. These poems take everyday topics and make them comical, thus making them meaningful for the reader. He does this by changing one or more key aspects of the poem part way through, the aspect often being tone. Changes of language and structure used also add to this change.
The word minstrel means a medieval singer or musician, especially one who sang or recited lyric or heroic poetry. The persona, who is the minstrel talks about himself in the poem and tends to show what he has to grow through everyday and the circumstances under which he is living. The poem opens up with the first person and a metaphor “the road unravels as I go/ walking into the sun, the anaemic”. The use of first person at the beginning of the poem tends to incorporate and appeal to the reader to understand what the minstrel is trying to say and explain. It creates an image as if he is directly talking to the reader.
Reaching For Dreams This essay describes the inspiring poem “I, Icarus” by Alden Nowlan, which requires very close reading. Throughout the poem, it seems there is one dominant idea; reaching for dreams. Many stanzas and lines within this poem work together to depict this theme. Not only do the lines in the poem depict the theme, but different poetic devices correlate to the theme as well (freedom and reaching for dreams). Distinct phrases like “willed myself to fly” illustrate the person’s goal of escaping his present condition and reaching for higher goals.
Homo Suburbiensis is an engaging poem which effectively conveys ideas which are very relatable to the everyday man. Homo Suburbiensis celebrates this one man’s life by following the man’s means of escape from the world around him, presenting his sanctions of thoughts. Homo Suburbiensis discusses the unavoidable human thought process which everyone experiences by exploring one ordinary man’s existence in great depth expressing universal contemplation. The structure of the poem Homo Suburbiensis exemplifies to the audience the continuality & changes in relations to one’s thought process. “One constant in a world of variables,” this line implied a changing world in relation to one man thus providing new reasons for human contemplation.
The Love song of J. Alfred Prufrock is a poem by Thomas Stearns Eliot. It is in Introduction to Literature edited by Kelly J. Mays, on pages 679-683. It is one of his most well-known poems. The poem is modernists which means it include all the artists and writers who were living smack in the middle of the huge, massive transformation from olden days to modern times, which was roughly the end of the 19th century to the middle of the 20th century. In their work, they try to make sense of all these changes.
According to Peter Levi, “Doctor Zhivago is about the world, … and about real life though more about life’s interaction with the individual and with his soul, and of course with his poetry.”[1] It is precisely this interaction of life with the individual and its subsequent influence on the many relationships occurring in the course of the story that will be the focus of this essay. Are we always in control of our lives or are we merely like leaves blown about by the wind? Is life planned in advance or arbitrary? How is it possible that two people like Yury and Lara, so obviously destined for each other, cannot ultimately remain together but are separated by the events that seem to be much larger than them and sweep mercilessly across Russia? And so it is with the many other relationships – Yury and Tonya, Lara and Pasha, Yury and Marina.
Crane was a master of irony and exceptionally influenced many readers with his work. Analyzing Crane’s poetry will help us understand the world of irony and his naturalistic view. Understanding the true meaning of irony is the first step. There are a lot of different interpretations of what irony actually defines. Irony exposes and underscores a contrast between these four phrases; what is and what seems to be, what is and what ought to be, what is and what one wishes to be, and finally what is and what one expects to be.
The writer conveys his attitudes in such a way that the reader feels involved in the relationship as though it was ‘somehow incomplete’ without the consumer. This is done throughout the variety of language used, such as metaphors, emotive language and modal verbs. This poem can be read either horizontally or vertically, and depending on which way you read it, it can have an effect on how you interpret the poem and the writer’s attitudes. The writer uses metaphors to compare love to physical injuries and their surrounding connotations. In the first verse, he compares love to a wound that it currently in the healing process.