Some of his famous work consists of Majors and Minors, Lyrics of Love and Laughter, and The Uncalled. He also wrote “The Paradox” in the late 19th century/early 20th century. Paul Laurence Dunbar uses metaphors, personification, rhyme and rhythm, paradox, and antithesis to compare and contrast to symbolize the viewpoint from the eyes of war, in “The Paradox”. “The Paradox” can be interpreted into a poem written in the personified eyes of war. A literary element that is commonly used in poetry, is personification, giving a non-living things human characteristics.
Whitman’s influence on Ginsberg is prevalent in the first sentence of “Howl” in which Ginsberg begins his poem with the line “I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness.” In Whitman’s “Song of Myself” the author begins his poem in a similar fashion stating, “I celebrate myself, and what I assume you shall assume.” Both authors wish to connect with the readers and depict their personal thoughts. The use of the word “I” also emphasized ideas of individuality, drawing attention to the fact that society is made up entirely of individuals. Both poets used descriptive, non-rhyming poems written in streams of thought and broken down into long stanzas; otherwise known as free verse. In both Howl and Song of Myself, Ginsberg and Whitman give insight into the lives they lead by giving descriptions of themselves. Whitman describes himself as “Turbulent, fleshy, sensual, eating, drinking and breeding, No sentimentalist, no stander above men and women or apart them, No more modest than immodest.” Whereas Ginsberg describes himself as “starving hysterical naked… wandered around and around at midnight in the railroad yard wondering where to go… lounged hungry and lonesome
For the Fire and Kangaroos near Hay show very similar themes: the violence of nature, death, appearance versus reality, while Bradman’s Last Innings largely proposes a contrast to the other two poems. The oxymoron contained in the title of Foulcher’s poetry anthology ‘Light pressure’ poses questions for the responder. Pressure is normally thought of as a hard force. In Foulcher’s case he sees what others don’t think of, pressure being light. He presents his insights through the confronting nature of his imagery and brings the responder pressure through the scrutiny of light.
Response to “Counting the Mad” When reading the contemporary american poetry anthology I found myself becoming almost lost in one specific poet. Donald Justice, or more specifically, one of his poems,“Counting the Mad” was a poem that was both the most enjoyable work for me to read and at the same time, the most difficult for me to understand, at first. For myself this poem could be compared to a type of riddle due to its ever apparent ambiguity. At the same time, I believe that this poem takes a satirical perspective of mankind. Justice utilizes the sound similar to that of a nursery rhyme to engage his readers.
‘Five Bells’ continues to engage readers through its poetic treatment of mortality and mourning. Does this resonate with your own interpretation? Kenneth Slessor was the poet of time, of “the cold fact of time”, as he said in describing the genesis of his wondrous poem “Five Bells”. This poem is strongly engaging through its poetic treatment of mourning, as it is notably encompasses obvious elegy elements, directed towards his dear artistic friend Joe Lynch, but as Slessor mentioned, and from what can be observed, the poem is as much about the compression of memory in time, in relation to symbolic and literal mortality. The poem offers not answers, but questions towards the meaning of existence, and is toned with a sense of failure, loss and desolation, as it seems that neither Lynch's art, nor the art of the poem, can defy death.
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?
Poe’s words themselves give the poem its mood. In the beginning, the narrator has hope because he believed that the raven was the one he loved but that hope has turned into anger when the raven kept repeating “Nevermore.” Poe was a master of choosing words that created mood. The scary and weird feeling of this poem makes Poe look like a cheaper! This mysterious poem is among the best-known poems in the national literature. The setting, the symbols of the incredible flow of art and the auditory imagery of the melancholy ideas all make up a different level than classical poetry.
The playful tones also cover up some phrase like in the “lap the miles” and “lick the valley up”, the verbs seems to be fresh and energetic. What I can find is quite shallow, but I think Emily Dickinson, in this poem, I LIKE TO SEE IT LAP THE MILES, use a train as the imagery for this poem, it become more like a riddle because she imagining train as an animal such as horse which it can run so fast like a train. It is hard to catch the imagery of this poem when people especially me just read I LIKE TO SEE IT LAP YHE MILES once and not reread to understand better. The more I reread this poem, the imagery of a train become more visible, I start to feel it and imagine the train climb up the mountain and run down to the peak of the mountain. The words “Complaining all the while, horrid, hooting stanza” (line 11-12) shows that the writer begin to enjoy the flow of the poem by using alliteration for “horrid” and “hooting”
In his poem, “The Raven”, Poe has added unique elements to scare his readers, fascinate them to read on, and find themselves in an alternate world of mystery and lost hopes. The most obvious symbol is the raven itself. When Poe had decided to repeat the word "nevermore," he found that it would be most effective if he used a non-reasoning creature to utter the word. It would make little sense to use a human, since the human could reason to answer the questions the man asks the bird. It is important that the answers to the questions are already known, to illustrate the self-torture the man exposes himself to.
The Love song of J. Alfred Prufrock is a poem by Thomas Stearns Eliot. It is in Introduction to Literature edited by Kelly J. Mays, on pages 679-683. It is one of his most well-known poems. The poem is modernists which means it include all the artists and writers who were living smack in the middle of the huge, massive transformation from olden days to modern times, which was roughly the end of the 19th century to the middle of the 20th century. In their work, they try to make sense of all these changes.