“Letter to posterity” by Francesco Petrarca is a very interesting work of literature from the 14th century. I personally find it very interesting how a man of such a field as poetry can start off his mini autobiography by saying how much he hates extravagant gatherings. He later went to go on in this piece to talk about all the accolades he received and the noble friendships he had made. And noble in the sense of being friends with people in the position of nobility. He grew up a very simple and poor life.
The gravity of this spoken word is demonstrated in the work of Walt Whitman, who is frequently lauded as the all-American advocate of “democratic” poetry or the use of common language to join individual readers and evoke a sympathetic exchange of experiences. The sound devices and rhetorical devices that Whitman employs in his poem, “Hours Continuing Long,” are used specifically to demonstrate, through using common language, the turmoil and suffering the speaker endures after experiencing unrequited love. Although there is no regular meter, identifiable rhyme pattern or specific line length, Whitman employs the use of free verse effectively. In a sense, the lack of organization concerning the metric pattern reflects the speaker’s innermost feelings of disarray and confusion, both of which are emotions often experienced shortly after heartbreak. Grammatically, each line separately is considered a sentence fragment, yet the effect of the incomplete sentences in this poem is beneficial rather than
Christian Biggers Beginning Again The “Beginning Again” is a free verse poem. This poem has a lot of great symbolism in it and is really deep. It’s not written for a child’s mind, one could say, but rather an intellectual’s. I liked this poem because it forces you to think, the reader has to read closely to find out what Franz Wright is really saying. The first line of the poem, “’If I could stop talking, completely cease talking for a year, I might begin to get well’”, tells us that Franz most likely gets in trouble with his mouth a lot.
Critics thought of him and his work as a good poet and an even better writer who made a major difference in the Harlem renaissance. Harold Bloom thought that “Thomas hardy, with his acute sense of life’s ironies, might have admired Sterling Brown’s Rain Which Precedes Robert Penn Warren in reviving Hardy’s Sprit” (5). Blyden Jackson a critic of the time likes Sterling Brown because he is a great poet and how Brown uses dialect with precision. David Littlejohn said that “Brown Attempted to do for the south what Langston Hughes did for the north” (Bloom 19). People thought that Brown’s irony was sharp, his ideas were exciting, and he was not only and protestor of his time but one of the first times.
Bruce Dawes Essay Bruce Dawes poems, written in the 1900’s, are very influential pieces, even to this day because the themes and ideas he wrote about have maintained relevancy to a contemporary audience. Dawes poems are largely cynical, he discusses problems that he sees in society. Three concepts which are discussed frequently throughout Dawes’ poetry are the meaninglessness of life, our materialistic lifestyles and the constrictive nature of society. These themes can all be adapted to modern situations and applied to modern people and society. Three of his poems ‘ enter without so much as knocking’, ‘life-cycle’, ‘homecoming’ and ‘’weapons training’ all strongly convey at least one of the above themes in quite similar way.
I would expect Robert Southey to write like this directly because he was a romantic poet and wrote with his emotions not facts. The two maps from document one show that before Manchester grew it had no canals or railroads for transportation, but after Manchester had countless canals and railroads. These railroads and canals help people move to Manchester increasing the population. Wheelan and Co. believed the increase in population had a positive affect on Manchester (doc. 9).
In the 1920’s Sandburg began one of his most ambitious projects including his study of President Lincoln. Lincoln was an idle to Sandburg and Sandburg admired what he did. Sandburg’s early writings dealt with his belief in social Justice and equality and were written in such a way that they barely resembled what most people thought of as poetry. Sandburg’s early poetry not only tended toward unshaped imitation of real life but also copied other poets as well. Now to think that Sandburg Would steal work from other poets is outrageous, people just don’t know good poetry when they see it.
English 105 Billy Collins “The Trouble with Poetry” I am ashamed to admit, that before taking my first Poetry class that I had never heard of the former U.S. Poet Laureate, Billy Collins. I am even more ashamed to say that it still took me quite awhile to read his work; however once I did I fell head over heels in love with his words. As soon as I began reading one of his more recent collections, The Trouble with Poetry, I was enthralled. He begins his collection with a poem directed at the reader, opening with lines that may also challenge them.
He enlisted himself into the merchant profession, where he was in charge of the export and import of trade. Solon did consider himself poor as he did not rely on money nor did he respect the currency of it (1). Growing up, Solon grew fond of poetry and his life experience creatively influenced his mantra and mind. Throughout his lifetime, Solon documented most of his achievements within his poetry. Most of the evidence, historians found out about Solon of Athens’ era was from the poetry he kept and wrote throughout his lifetime.
In the beginning of the decade, the economy was booming and the nation’s minds were on forgetting about the war and focusing on family values. The poetry that dominated in the early fifties was mostly dull, inhibited, and conservative. As the decade wore on however, attention turned once again to the modernists of the thirties and forties, including previously ignored poets like Langston Hughes and Liz Bishop. At the same time, a young poet was studying objectivist poetry under W.C. Williams. By the middle of the decade, that young man had gone in a completely different direction with his poetry and in nineteen-fifty-five, he shocked the Six Gallery with a controversial