In the early seventeenth-century, English poets used metaphysical poetry to enlighten highly intellectual and often abstruse imagery in their works, which further advanced the poetic style of John Donne. Donne’s poetry makes use of complex images, which are remarkably convincing to the reader. Despite the use of extensive techniques and varying images, the greatness of Donne’s poetry is the simplicity in the ideas expressed. John Donne’s poem, “The Triple Fool,” suggests unrequited love and folly through his use of creative imagery, sorrowful diction, and assertive tone. Firstly, Donne's poetry is highly distinctive and individual, adopting a multitude of images.
A Kaleidoscope of Poetry “Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks” said Plutarch. Poetry is the only form of literature that truly allows people to explore the essential themes of life, seeing them in a new light, in a way that is free of the constraints of conventional writing. A few words poetically and meticulously arranged can place you in the mind of another. They can make darkness sound enticing and bring attention to things that have remained unnoticed to the common eye. The controversial, sophisticated, flamboyant poet Oscar Wilde once stated “I have grown tired of the articulate utterances of men and things.
Michael Dransfield was also affected by the change and this has been reflected in poems “Minstrel” and “Prosperity” where he is comparing the natural world with the very mechanical one that humans tend to build for themselves. Michael Dransfield has been described as “one of the most widely read poets of his generation”. He has a very modernistic way of portraying significant ideas, which is seen through his use of language techniques such as sibilance, use of first person, assonance and alliteration. He exploits these techniques beautifully to emboss and emphasize the core concept of his poems. The word minstrel means a medieval singer or musician, especially one who sang or recited lyric or heroic poetry.
Yvonne Young British Literary Tradition II (EN246OC) Professor Abma May 29, 2011 The Truth in Heroic Allegory: S. Johnson’s “Truth, Falsehood and Fiction: an allegory” The word allegory, coming from the Latin allegoria meaning “veiled language, figurative”, is an effective literary device used by many writers to communicate messages by means of symbolic figures and extended metaphors. As it turns out, Samuel Johnson used just that in his esteemed allegorical work “Truth, Falsehood and Fiction: an allegory” where abstract concepts of human nature (good versus bad) are cleverly woven into an epic tale full of mythological and worldly characters. In this, Johnson is able to place a “mask” of figurative language over intangible, sober subject material, effectively catching the reader’s interest, while at the same time providing a deeper understanding of the true significance behind the narrative. In his essay, allegory is used to personify human concepts into tangible characters providing a deeper understanding of its teachings. For instance, the word truth can be described as honesty, reality, sincerity etc, but the heroine TRUTH, “daughter of Jupiter and Wisdom”, causes readers to envision a “majestic”, “towering” woman “conscious of superior power and juster claim” who must fight to win the hearts of men.
Henceforth, through Dobson’s poetic vision, readers discover new insights and experience through curiosity and maturation. As one could argue that Dobson is very much like an imagist poet, as they are very visual and highly subjective, they have a haiku tone to them in terms of their
Archibald MacLeish “Calypso's island” I. Introduction The collaboration of modernist poetry and Greek mythology is the bedrock of my choice for the assignment. Provided the fact that myths themselves possess the ambiguity of fiction, religion, fairytale and history, one can only be prompt to dive in the endless pool of factual and fictional, and the reflection of the morals and customs of that time and the modernist approach to the myth offered by Archibald MacLeish. The themes and motifs that run through the poem as a parallel to the original myth of Odysseus (or Ulysses) are ones that spark public controversy and are problems of the present day. Patriarch society and the view of the woman as an irresistible allure that threatens to lead men astray and corrupt them.
2 October 2011 Whitman’s Philosophies “Be curious, not judgmental” (Whitman BrainyQuote). Being one of Walt Whitman’s many quotes in the dozens of poems he’s written, it tells a lot upfront about the way he writes. Throughout his pieces he targets various morals he believes one should understand, one being the importance of nonjudgmental ways. A poem more specifically, “Song of the Open Road”, shows the reader his passion in exclaiming the ways in which he processes and believes in life. This particular poem in general speaks to the readers about traveling through existence moment by moment, and taking in the lessons one learns in order to experience what life has to offer.
Haley Biemiller What is imagery? In the world of literature imagery is much more than a little picture painted in your head. To find true imagery you must engulf yourself in the world of that piece of literature and see how in depth you can get. A story can withhold much more meaning that expected from surface reading, and imagery in a tool used by many authors and in this case poets, to expose you to the detail needed to be seen to understand the real meaning and the points that are meant to get across. The use of imagery is shown through many poems written by world-renowned poet Eavan Boland.
“Explore the ways in which a poet manages to create profound significance beneath an apparently simple form of poetry” William Blake was a truly revolutionary, who utilised his talent and made art that has remained relvant up until today, almost 200 years after his death. Blake managed to unconventionally create works that embodied existentialism, anti-establishment, and satire. Blake is able to craft meaning through seemingly simple forms and expressions, while using complex imagery that belies the outwardly simple structure of the poems. For example, on the surface ‘The Sick Rose’ is a simple – albeit slightly ominous poem about a rose being infested by a parasitic insect. It is comprised of simple, four-lined stanzas – couplets; beneath the apparently simple form however, lies an intricate web comprised of many layers.
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. In his poem, he created new style and new outlook to British Poetry which is completely different from traditional poetry. I argue that, T.S Eliot is the most important modernist poet of his own age and he used cinematic style and stream of consciousness technique in his poetry which is different from traditional poetry form. Moreover his Waste Land is looking as a kind of fragmented poem; he created unity in that diversity. Firstly, he is modernist writer and he was against the Romanticism and other traditional from of poetry, because of that, his poem The Waste Land is a kind of rebel to traditional form, because normally, traditional poems care the rules and meter of poetry however Eliot didn’t care the rules and rebelled the traditional form.