Firstly, Donne's poetry is highly distinctive and individual, adopting a multitude of images. The poem offers elaborate parallels between apparently dissimilar things, “Then as th’ earth’s inward narrow crooked lanes, Do purge sea water’s fretful salt away,” (Donne, Lines 6-7) Donne's poem expresses a wide variety of emotions and attitudes, as if Donne himself were trying to define his experience of love through his poetry. Although, “The Triple Fool” gives a limited view of Donne’s attitude towards love, Donne treats the poem as a part of experience, giving insight into the complex range of experiences concerning love and grief, “I thought, if I could draw my pains through rhyme's vexation, I should them allay.” (Donne, Lines 8-9) Overall, the imagery in “The Triple Fool,” contributes to Donne’s sorrowful diction of love and grief. Moreover, Donne explains that poetry is for love and grief, and not for pleasing things, but songs make love and grief even worse. The first verse of the poem states that he is two times a fool, a fool for loving, and a fool for admitting it, “I am two fools, I know, for loving, and for saying so in whining poetry.” (Donne, Lines 1-3) Donne follows to say that he would still not be wise, even if “she” (Donne, Line 5) returned his love.
“Thou Blind Man’s Mark” Desire, a word normally meant for passion or aspiration, and never known for negative intention nor its excessive use. The word itself is suggested contrary to its familiar notability of eagerness towards a goal in this Shakespearean Sonnet. The speakers perspective of desire is for the termination of the word. In ,”Thou Blind Man’s Mark”, Sir Phillip Sidney conveys a bitter tone towards “Desire” through the speaker by using a series of repeating structure, pessimistic diction, and poetic sound devices. Sidney epitomizes desire, and perhaps provides a rage of desires outlook instead of its content.
I Do Not Love Thee Figurative Language: What poetic devices were used in this poem? The poetic device is rhyme. What did these poetic devices do for the poem? It made the poem rhyme. Did these devices help create imagery or communicate the author's feelings?
Chaucer’s Amusing Caricatures versus Swift’s Biting Generalizations In literature, authors use the literary device of satire to discredit human vice and/or folly. Satire is a literary genre using sarcasm, wit, and irony to expose the idiocies, issues, and mistakes in hopes of improving an individual and society. Jonathan Swift and Geoffrey Chaucer were renowned satirical writers with inherent desires to improve their surrounding worlds. Chaucer’s Juvenalian satire is displayed in The Canterbury Tales, a collection of stories told by pilgrims while traveling to Saint Thomas Becket’s shrine in Canterbury. Chaucer engages gentle, light-hearted, humorous satire through his caricatures of stereotypes.
Deep Semantics Of Imagery In The Color Purple Apart from its endless potential to engender thought which it shares with philosophy, literature is ‘a category of labour’ (Ricoeur, 1981: 136). It is a structured totality irreducible to the sentences that constitute it so that the first problem it presents as a work is that of understanding (Thompson 1984: 178). Reading a literary text is, therefore, quite different from reading other texts; here, the exercise involves a back and forth movement. The critic observes the clues offered by the text and the validity of his construction is through the logic of probability (Aristotle). In Ricoeur’s deep semantics, metaphor is indispensable for it opens a wide range of possible relations a word can enter into.
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.
Puritan vs. Enlightenment Throughout the 17th and 18th centuries, which included the Puritan and Enlightenment Eras, writers used idealism and pragmatism in their literature. Idealism is defined as the impracticality by virtue of thinking of things in their ideal form rather than as they really are. Pragmatism is defined as the doctrine that practical consequences are the criteria of knowledge, meaning, and value. Writers during the Puritan and Enlightenment eras incorporated idealism and pragmatism in their writings because they had idealistic goals that ended with pragmatic results. Anne Bradstreet, a poet during the Puritan Era, wrote “Here Follows Some Verses upon the Burning of Our House July 10th, 1666”.
It also owed to foreign influences. The transcendentalists rejected the theory that all knowledge comes to the mind through the senses. Truth, rather, transcends the senses and can't be found just by observation. Associated traits included self-reliance, self-culture, and self-discipline. ﻌRalph Waldo Emerson- transcendentalist poet and philosopher; urged American writers to forget European traditions and write about American interests.
In his poem “Jabberwocky”, Lewis Carroll uses many poetic devices that weave together an epic battle with the Jabberwock. Carroll uses nonsense words that seem to have no meaning on the first reading, to make sense of these nonsense words this poem needs to be read out loud. This use of onomatopoeia is used to evoke not only a feeling of being somewhere odd and strange but also what that place might sound like. The words have then been chosen not so much for their meaning but for the sounds they make when the poem is read. One of the best examples of these sounds is during the fight between the hero and the Jabberwock “The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!” (18).
It is not logical to state that the poets of the sixteenth century ignored the reformation, and that they were only interested in sexual expression. It is of course plausible that some of the many poets of the century ignored the reformation and wrote on topics such as sex, but that does not mean that every poet only wrote about sex and ignored the changes in religion and the constant instability of religion was a major topic in the poetry of some writers. Other writers that wrote on the reformation discussed the problems they had despite the fact their religion was the national religion of the country. In this essay I wish to discuss both poets who recognised and discussed the reformation in their poetry and also I shall refer to a few poets who were interested in sex, just to show that there were poets interested in both. By doing this, I hope to prove that sex was a topic in Renaissance poetry, but that it did not mean all the poets ignored the reformation.