19 May 2011 Explication of Theodore Roethke’s “Root Cellar” A popular theme of a variety of art and media, life and death are often focused on individually. In the poem “Root Cellar,” Theodore Roethke creates a vivid depiction of life fighting for survival. To give a sense of the struggle life is facing, the poet uses a vocabulary that conveys a sense of unease and degradation. Perhaps drawing on his upbringing, Roethke shows a contrast of existence amidst backdrop of downtrodden cellar in the throes of decay, giving readers an insight into the intrinsic power of life’s resilient capabilities. The poem opens with heavy imagery to show the difficulty that one would expect life to have surviving in a root cellar.
Glasgow Sonnet (I) by Edwin Morgan The poem ‘Glasgow Sonnets (1)’ by Edwin Morgan is about the residents of a derelict housing estate in Glasgow, in which he explores the universal social issue of isolation along with other themes such as poverty, neglect and urban decay. He structures the poem in Petrarchan sonnet form, using an octave to describe the exterior of the building and a sestet to describe the interior. The themes explored throughout the poem are unconventionally dark for a classical sonnet form and Morgan does this in order to contrast between stereotypical connotations of sonnets such as love and romance and the morbid themes conveyed here. The mood of the residents and their surroundings are conveyed through imagery and emotive
How has T. S. Eliot utilised specific elements of his form to engage varying audiences intellectually and emotionally? T.S. Eliot’s ‘Preludes’ and ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’ explore the self-consciousness caused by the intense pessimism of a toxic urban world, which leads to passivity and a lack of agency. Eliot uses varying elements of the form of poetry to present the major concepts of his modernist context, the conflict between the individual and society, disempowerment and time and the ritualistic nature of life, which also allow him to intellectually and emotionally engage a present day audience. Eliot portrays life as tarnished through urban decay, which is typical of the modernist era.
All of these various styles responded to the industrialization of Europe in their own unique fashions, and resulted in a strange conglomeration of art, ideals, and themes. The earliest and perhaps greatest response to industrialization was the era or Romanticism. Disgusted by the squalor and pollution produced by industry, many artists and writers turned to Romanticism, glorifying nature over civilized society and emotion over reason. Romanticism prized natural beauty and despised the materialistic ideals of the Enlightenment and Industrial Revolution. Romantic art tended to revolve around nature or some heroic deed, ignoring or tuning away from industry and logic, and when it did not, it reviled it.
The Simpsons pointed out how comical some of Poe’s supposedly deep, gloomy lines are if they were read individually of the rhythm. Other things The Simpsons paradox differed from Poe’s “The Raven” was by using visual effects that didn’t agree with the original text to create irony and physical humor. When the narrator said, “Then, me thought, the air grew denser, perfumed from an unseen censer,” the unseen censer hit Homer’s head, and we hear Homer’s classic line “D’oh!” Here, The Simpsons paradox transformed the poem by allowing us to see an “unseen” object in a scene that is normal of the physical humor that Homer is usually involved in. They mock Poe’s diction, by using Homer’s well-known physical humor to make a scene in “The Raven” that is supposed to be emotional and touching seem hilarious. The Simpsons paradox used all of the members of the Simpsons family during the sequence of the
Explore the ways that Tennessee Williams constructs the character of Blanche in A Streetcar Named Desire and Willy Russell constructs the character of Rita in Educating Rita in light of the opinion that they have the desire to escape reality and fulfil their fantasies. Despite being set in different periods of history, both plays ‘Educating Rita’ and ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ share similar themes of the fine line between fantasy and reality, and losing yourself in the former. In 1945 Tennessee Williams began work on the play ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’, and with the war ending in the same year, the play to reflects the cultural tensions of World War 2. Many felt uncomfortable being an environment with so many nationalities they were only a few years ago at war with. Cultural tensions are present in Blanche’s remark that Stanley is a ‘Polack’; during World War 2, the Polish were seen as the enemy; Blanche using this insult is not because she is against Polacks, but is her taking advantage of the frequently used insult at the time.
This is shown by how the lines contain the color and forms of the people and by how the trees are withheld to themselves, and how though the color is fluid inside the forms of the trees, the colors are still limited to the edge of the trees. This is contrasted in Kandinsky’s painting by how the brushstrokes are very random and spontaneous, not planned. This is shown by the spacing of objects and how much they overlap. Matisse is very consistent with his brushstrokes whereas Kandinsky switches between long and short brushstrokes, and thick and thin brushstrokes. Similar to brushstroke, the line in Matisse’s painting is very fluid and smooth and creates solid figures by the boundaries between colors.
* Joseph Marie Eugene Sue (1804-1857) * French novelist at the time of Romantic Movement * His sympathy for the poor. * Victor Hugo (1802-1885) * Poet, novelist, * Les miserables (1862) offer another indictment of the conditions of the poor through the injustice of the era * From the roots of these works, we see a canon of characters, situations and tropes, which explore stories in VULGAR fashion. * That is, though their emphasis on our emotional connection to the events portrayed. * Arising between the Romantic period and the industrial revolution, melodrama as a genre appears to have been well suited to express the crisis of its time. * The persistence of melodrama in popular culture suggests a fascination the evolving nature of the social, political and ideological crisis of the day.
Winter Climates Winter on Antarctica is between March and August. In the interior regions there are extremely low temperatures. Several months are in complete darkness. Fierce snowstorms make life almost impossible in winter. Winter temperatures are also influenced by latitude, elevation and by the shortage of sunlight during the cold times.
Reading the poems of both Wordsworth and Coleridge, one immediately notes a difference in the common surroundings presented by Wordsworth and the bizarre creations of Coleridge. Thus they develop their individual attitudes towards life. I will look at differences and similarities concerning people's relationship to nature in poems by Coleridge and Wordsworth such as: "The Ancient Mariner", "Kubla Khan", "The Nightingale," "Lucy", "Tintern Abbey," "There was a boy", " Old Beggar", "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" and "Frost at Midnight". In "The Ancient Mariner," Coleridge demonstrates how violating nature and her subjects brings doom to the infracted. In this poem, the poet emphasises the vengeful, dark side of the land and the sea.