“Galeotto was the book and he who wrote it”1 : Lyrical Play in Dante’s Inferno 1 1 Dante’s Inferno, Durling and Martinez. 1 In his essay “Paolo and Francesca,” Renato Poggioli analyzes and interprets a piece of the fifth canto of Dante Alighieri’s Inferno. The passage deals with the affair of two passion-driven lovers, Francesca da Rimini and Paolo Malatesta, and the readings of Lancelot du Lac which are said to have provoked their sin. Poggioli uses his research and understanding of the subject to draw conclusions about the meaning behind Dante’s choice and structure of words. He has many observations that deserve recognition, and is correct about Dante’s overall use of the romantic episode as a parody between his feelings of sympathy and compassion toward the sinners paired with his sound and harsh judgment toward the sin.
In the story, Usher recites the poem “The Haunted Mansion.” It is a poem about a palace, once glorious and mighty, becomes “pallid” and “desolate.” At first glance, it may appear to the reader that this is the true meaning of the poem and all that Poe had sought to express. After analyzing the poem though, Its meaning becomes apparent. It is really an allegory about the human mind and how it can become corrupt by paranoia and the delusion of evil. Poe uses several literary devices help the audience understand this allegory. The first and most abundant of these devices used by Poe is personification.
Alonzo Booth III IB English Due: November 8, 2013 Porphyria’s Lover Analysis Robert Browning was a famous English Poet who mastered the use of dramatic verse expecially dramtic monologues. One of his famous pieces was Porphyria’s Lover. Robert Browning use situational irony, personification, imagery, iambic tetrameter, juxtaposition, rhythm, and enjambment to complicate the notion of truth throughout the poem. Robert Browning uses situational irony to depict the love portrayed by Porphyria’s lover but it ends up going awry when he took, “ in one long yellow string I wound three times her little throat around and stranged her.” (lines 39- 41) It displays the irony of a person saying a whole lot of good things about that person that they love and cherish but they end up killing them. Browning uses that to throw the readers off from the suspecting romantic love poem or love story to a romantic tragedy that ends up leaving the reader wondering why did the man kill the woman he loved so dearly?
Sonnet 18, one of Shakespeare’s most famous sonnets, has its first line competitive with Shakespeare’s line "Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?” Sonnet 130, also created by Shakespeare, is a pleasure to read purely for its simplicity and bluntness of expression. It is also one of the few sonnets that show Shakespeare write humorously. Porphyria’s Lover, which was first published in 1836, is Robert Browning’s most shocking and dramatic monologues. The dramatic monologue is a fictional speech, which captures a moment right after a main event. As for When We Two Parted, a poem by Lord Byron, (George Gordon Byron) published in 1813, is a poem of a heart break, conveying strong feelings and emotion simplistically, but full of meaningful vocabulary.
i William O’Neil Dr. James Nutter ENGL 102—Honors 24 February 2015 Romanticism Unshackled: a Study of the Modern Prometheus Thesis: Frankenstein should bear the title of Romantic literature because the novel embodies trademark Romantic ideas, situations, and characteristics throughout the text. I. In an attempt to categorize any novel as Romantic, however, one must first attempt to identify what, exactly, makes a work Romantic. a. A group of poets, including the likes of William Blake, Samuel Coleridge, William Wordsworth, John Keats, Lord Byron and—Mary’s husband—Percy Shelley, who are commonly credited as being the ground-breaking authors of the Romantic movement b. Lyrical Ballads moved poetry away from the times of the mythical and fantastical,
Discuss the literary device of dramatic irony and the use made of it by J.B. Priestly in ‘An Inspector Calls’ An inspector calls was written in 1945 by J.B. Priestley and is set in 1912. J. B. Priestly has included a lot of dramatic irony; he uses it effectively to put forward the message of the play – community. Dramatic irony is the dramatic effect achieved by leading an audience to understand an incongruity between a situation and the accompanying speeches, while the characters in the play remain unaware of the incongruity (the free online dictionary). Another writer who uses dramatic irony effectively is William Shakespeare.
Browning’ poetry explores the consequences of obsession. How effectively does F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby deal with this issue in a different context and form? An idea that continually preoccupies and intrudes on a person’s mental and physical state is a term referred to as 1obsession and can lead to a character’s salvation or undoing. Elizabeth Barrett-Browning’s, “Sonnets from the Portuguese”, composed in the Victorian age of unparalleled power and industrial revolution, reflects significantly on the ideas of obsession and it’s ramifications through figurative language, poetic devices and techniques. Ideas such as idealistic love and societal expectations are heavily embedded within the Petrarchan sonnet form, which, on the
The poems in this section have to do with “Ars Poetica.” This means The Art of Poetry in Latin. The poets of this collection of poems are actually using poetry to answer the questions of what poetry is, how it should be written, and how it should be read. There is one poem specifically that I felt agreed with my views of poetry and that is Billy Collins’ “Introduction of Poetry.” In this poem, I feel like he is trying to say that people try too hard and over-analyze poems. They sometimes try to force a meaning into a poem because they think that there has to be a reason that poem was written and it has to have some kind of deeper meaning of an issue going on in the world. I think that the end of the poem really points this out with the words “torture of confession out of it” and “they begin beating it with a hose to find out what it really means.” I think that Collins is trying to tell people that they should just read poetry and enjoy it.
Major Essay –Q6 – Give an account of the treatment of the relationship between the intellect and the senses in two or more set poems John Keats (1795-1821) was one of the last English Romantic poets; he was part of a subsequent generation of Romanticism. Sensual imagery is best described for the many poems such as his collection of odes remain an influential idea for studies and modern poets. The relationship between the intellect and the senses are apparent in Keats’ poems; however for this essay two of his popular works will be discussed and thoroughly analyse to demonstrate the treatment of the intellect and the senses’ relationship. His popular work La Belle Dame Sans Merci will be thoroughly discussed as it discovers the imagination and senses of one’s emotions and feelings. Ode to Melancholy will also be discussed and analysed to enable the reader to surpass the literal stages and understand Keats’ philosophy at a deeper and meaningful level of imagination, intellect and senses.
Shakespeare wrote his masterpieces in the Elizabethan times. I will be writing the comparison points between Romeo and Juliet to The Laboratory, written by Robert Browning. Robert too is a well known, successful, English poet and has written some fantastic and famous poems, including The Laboratory which is now being used as a GCSE year 10 piece of work. He produced his work during the Victorian times. Comparing the Elizabethan times and Victorian times that Shakespeare and Browning wrote their poems/plays, I’ve noticed something in particular, they were very similar.