The poems “Ozymandias” by Percy Shelley and “My Last Duchess” by Robert Browning are very different. However they do have something in common – both poems are representations of ones power. “Ozymandias” represents power as poem shows that human life is insignificant compared to the passing of time, even for egotistical kings such as Ozymandias, time is very powerful. “My Last Duchess” represents power through the narrative technique, which makes it seem as if the Duke is speaking directly to an audience, powerful as it captures the reader. Shelley's poem "Ozymandias" is about a ruined statue of a powerful ruler who once controlled an ancient kingdom.
In both “But these things also” and “March” Thomas explores a variety of ideas about spring. Thomas also compares spring to the season of winter. He presents ideas about spring which very much correlate to the time the poem was written, it is as if spring is his light at the end of the tunnel, the tunnel being the end of the war. He also presents thoughts of doubt, once again correlating to the time the poem was written, suggesting the war will never end. In “March”, Thomas presents the idea that spring is the sign of hope not just to the persona of the poem, but perhaps to all the soldiers who were fighting, through the use of personification; “That it was lost, too, in the mountains.” This personifies the spring, suggesting that it is lost as if it cannot find its way through the “mountains on mountains of snow and ice in the west.” It could also be suggesting that the persona of the poem is lost in the harsh winter, possibly a metaphor for the war, and he cannot find his way to spring, to the end of the war.
For hundreds of years colonist in the U.S could not seem to break away from the basic effortless writing that is plain style. To the Puritans plain style was an effective way of revealing God’s wisdom and truth, but as the 17th century came to an end various writing styles of early colonial authors adapted as America changed. Towards the end of the 17th century and the 18th century, a new style of writing arrived, captivity narratives. Few writers of the pre-revolutionary age have embodied this style of writing more than Mary Rowlandson and Olaudah Equiano during the late 1600s and 1700s. Rowlandson and Equiano share many similar characteristics even though they were of different race and whose writings were decades apart.
“Compare the ways in which Larkin and Abse write about time and it’s passing.” In your response, you must include detailed critical discussion of Love Songs In Age and one other poem by Larkin. Many poems in Philip Larkin’s ‘The Whitsun Weddings’ are connected through one common factor: Larkin’s rather dismal attitude towards time and the passing of it. In many of his poems Larkin presents time as a menial entity resulting in an inevitable mortality. However, on further examination Larkin reflects back on time in a nostalgic manner. In order to emphasise Larkin’s outlooks onto time and it’s passing, one can highlight the similarities and differences between Larkin and Abse’s poetry.
What connections have you found between the ways in which Plath and Hughes write about the seasons and/or time of the year in their poems? In Plath and Hughes poems, the use of seasons and time is often used in order to represent the narrator’s inner world of feelings. Furthermore, they are used to set the tone of the poem and therefore inflict emotion upon the reader. In Plath’s ‘Spinster’, Spring is shown to cause uncomfortable feelings within the narrator, leaving them in “disarray”. The confusion and therefore discomfort within the reader is evident as a result of the “irregular babble” of the birds and the “tumult”.
Rimbaud has had a profound effect on many celebrated poets since his death in late 1891 after being diagnosed with cancer. While The Drunken Boat was written in four-line rhyming stanzas, his writing in his later poetry, Illuminations and A Season in Hell, can be described as “stream of consciousness”—a way of writing poetry that creates long passages of unbroken prose; many of the “beat generation” poets followed his example. The most well known was Jack Kerouak who wrote On the Road, an entire book written without punctuation or pages—all on a single scroll of paper inserted into a typewriter. Other beat poets, such as Allen Ginsberg, were also heavily influenced by Rimbaud. In the last stanza of The Drunken Boat Rimbaud writes, “Nor swim past prison hulks' hateful eyes!” Ginsberg expands on Rimbaud's description of prison when he writes, in the second part of his poem, Howl: “Moloch the incomprehensible prison!
A feeling of desolation was presented here when Hurst implied that summer was born with great promise that eventually evanesced without being fulfilled. Another emotion stirred up by the two phrases was a slow passage of time that seemed to go on forever. This was revealed by seasons that had ended without the next one coming. When James Hurst wrote the starting paragraphs of his short stories, he added in death. "Graveyard flowers who spoke softly of the names of the dead," written in "The Scarlet Ibis," hinted that there was a nearby graveyard filled with deadly air.
The last block of text is a metaphor, it is describing the way spring has triumphed over the cold winter and how what was once a field covered with mud and snow is now a field of green new life. Ian McEwan uses spring as a metaphor for the new life of the Jewish towns and the defeat of the German
Redefining Truth in Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried By: Rose Monahan May 2011 The Pennsylvania State University In an interview with Tobey C. Herzog, Tim O’Brien discussed the merits of truth by saying, “You have to understand about life itself. There is a truth as we live it; there is a truth as we tell it. Those two are not compatible all the time. There are times when the story truth can be truer, I think, than a happening truth” (120). Many literary scholars have struggled with the “truth” in one of O’Brien’s most famous works, The Things They Carried, a collection of twenty-two tales on the Vietnam War that stand alone just as strongly as they tie together.
Trent Miera Professor Donnell English 1A (6339) 15 January 2013 Edgar Allan Poe With a life of despair foreshadowing, he fought his way through the hard ships and did more than deemed possible. This could be a very short and concise summary of the life of Edgar Allan Poe, too short a life at that. A phenomenal writer, well known and much admired. Poe didn’t live the life of luxury though, beginning with some difficult times towards his early life. Poe was born on January 19, 1809 in Boston Massachusetts, but his legacy was cut short, passing at age 40.