It is easy to state that the most enduring contribution to Victorian poetry is the form of the dramatic monologue. None other than English poet Robert Browning made this type of poetry famous in the mid 1800s. During this era, harsher themes such as male dominance and the permanence of art were incorporated into poetry as demonstrated in Browning’s many compositions. He is world renown due to his legendary dramatic monologue entitled My Last Duchess, which in turn displays Browning’s unique writing style, the concept of Victorian masculinity alongside the permanence of art throughout the 1800s. As mentioned above, Robert Browning is well known in the world of poetry due to his contribution of the dramatic monologue.
Broe’s main claim points out Plath’s stupidity, progress and comedy relief of her famous poem, “Daddy.” Broe puts forth supportive, textual evidence that persuades the audience of this claim. Broe opens her critique by justifying that Plath’s poem, “Daddy,” was one of the most quoted poems written by Plath. She, then, mentions the allusion Plath created of her father and Mein Kampf. “The speaker attempts to exorcise not just the memory of her father but her own Mein Kampf model of him as well as her inherited behavioral traits that lead her graveward under the Freudian banner of death instinct or Thanato’s libido,” (Broe, 283). Furthermore, Broe is creating an emphasis on the word ‘own’ in this sentence because she claims Plath is uneducated about Mein Kampf.
Module B: Close study or a Text Stanley Theadoro: Hello! I’m Stanley Theadoro and welcome to tonight’s special of the “Past Wars”, featuring a courageous man whose poems have helped inspire and change the perception of individuals and groups on the controversial idea of, war. This is a man who once was all about holding patriotic ideals when the outbreak of the German and French war arose, a man who encouraged the people of England to fight. I’m sure we are aware of the current situations with minor wars arising such as the Israeli and Palestinian war and the terrorism arising around the world with current terroristic events such as ISIS. With these events occurring, I believe the happening of another World War could occur.
Question: Outline the important ideas in Owen and Sassoon's poetry and how those ideas are conveyed to the responder. In your response make detailed reference to at least two of the poems set for study. Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon, both famous war poets of their time and today have recounted the reality and the aftermaths of war through the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings. Owen and Sassoon, one an officer and the other a soldier of World War I has expressed, protested and revealed the untold reality of war. Their use of poetic techniques such as free verse and solid imagery has helped society in understanding the harsh veracity of conflicts, as well as the mood and opinions of the men caught up in the war.
A look into some of his prevalent themes, stylistic tendencies of his works, and literary techniques may produce some answers to these questions. Walt Whitman’s poetry consistently exhibits many interrelated themes. One area that Whitman constantly expresses his ideas on is what the role of the individual in the democratic American society is. In a democratic society, the basis of power resides in the hands of the people. Whitman took it upon himself, as “poet-prophet of democracy” (Miller 133), to bestow power on the average man which in return would strengthen and unify the democratic cause in the America that Whitman so dearly loved (Day 78-79).
T.S. Eliot’s Perfect “Unity in Diversity” T.S. Eliot is the most influential modernist writer of the twentieth century. Most of the critics believe that, modernism began with “The Waste Land” by Eliot and “Ulysses” by James Joyce. His poem The Waste Land is also the most influential poem of Eliot, because we can see so many references to myth, religion and history.
Inspired by Webster I decided to look at a passage and change it to follow a set of my own rules that are similar to his. In the passage on page 343 it wrote, “The book made him famous around the world. Dickinsons’s career as a poet began after her death. It is one of those ironies of history in which a writer dies unknown, only to have fame thrust upon her by succeeding generations.” If I were to implement my rules it would go as follows, “The book made him famus arowd the wurld. Dickinsons’s carear as a poet
How does Browning tell the story in “The Patriot”? Browning introduces the reader to a mysterious and morally ambiguous protagonist who experiences an incredible change of fortune from the heights of happiness to the depths of destruction in his poem “The Patriot” by using first person retrospective narration. The poet successfully and effectively makes use of the shift in time in order to emphasize the fluctuating moods and to highlight the internal conflict of the man who is so mysteriously labelled as “The Patriot”. From the very beginning Browning creates an atmosphere of joy and celebration in his opening line “it was roses, roses, all the way” to mirror the extreme popularity of the protagonist and to portray a visually beautiful image of the people shouting and crying joyfully and welcoming the patriot. This is effectively conveyed through the use of exotic and vibrant verbs “heave and sway” and “flamed” which help to create the impression that the main character is an important, influential and powerful person as even prestigious buildings “church-spires” and the foundations that support the people’s living “house-roofs” seem to show deep respect for this man.
That makes the reader like the content and the poem much more. That is the reason of Whitman’s success. Today Walt Whitman is like today for his form and content in poems. This is awkward because back then he wasn’t liked, but today he is liked. That seems to be a great pattern for all the famous authors in history.
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.