Poem Explication: Marginalia The poem, “Marginalia” is written by Billy Collins, American poet. In his poem “Marginalia” Collins expressed how notes in the margins share reading experiences with others. He addressed every reader that they must contribute by expressing their views in Margins. He used different expressions, to relate the meaning of Marginalia and its importance for every reader. “Marginalia is defined as, “marginal notes or embellishments (as in a book) or “nonessential items” (merriam-webster.com).
Did these devices help create imagery or communicate the author's feelings? It helped communicate the author's feelings. I Do Not Love Thee Emotion: What emotion was the author trying to express? She was trying to express decisiveness. I Do Not Love Thee Structure: How is the poem organized (lines, stanzas, etc.)?
The physical, social and historical context of a poet’s life forms the basis of their ideas. This is evident in John Foulcher’s poems ‘Martin and the Hand Grenade’, ‘Loch Ard Gorge’ and ‘Harry Wood’. Foulcher effectively includes the concepts of people and society, nature and death in his poems, developing these ideas from the context in which he lives. The people who surround John Foulcher have influenced his poems. Foulcher is a poet, but also a teacher.
Within Emily Dickinson’s poetry, she expresses her own perceptions of what is within the package of an individual’s yearning to belong in society’s game. This positions us to shape our own notions and understanding of what belonging entails with Dickinson’s insights as an initial framework. In the area of belonging, being accepted or gaining a sense of affiliation by someone or a group of people may require you to alter something about you and what you are about. Similarly, where there is an opportunity of belonging or a sense of placement there is always the possibility of loss and neglect. Within Dickinson’s poem I died for beauty.. beauty and truth underpin the essence of her message of sacrificing yourself in the name you desire to be recognised as.
‘More often then not set texts for high schools seem overly familiar... literary criticism is never static... What seemed important to say about a work twenty or fifty years ago will seem obvious or irrelevant to us today” - Elizabeth Lawson Gwen Harwood, is a poet who utilises themes and ideas that can be extrapolated and made relevant to any context. Harwood’s poetry addresses concerns of human endurance through reflections on different contexts and their interpretations in literature, music and religion. In doing so, she takes what is often personal, private and time bound and makes it universal. She probes fundamental concerns of human existence relating to life and death, and the transient nature of mortality, the innocence and vulnerability of childhood and the perpetual strain between the personal and the universal. She is able to achieve this in Father and Child, Mother who gave me life and a Valediction through allusions to music, juxtaposition, symbolism and imagery which help construct meaning and a sense of intimacy.
To what extent are there common threads in the poetry of at least two poets you have studied this year? Futility is an inevitable aspect of human nature. Throughout the creative elements of poetry, the poets Sylvia Plath and Wilfred Owen have extensively explored the central concept of futility through varying perspectives. By the utilisation of poetic techniques such as metaphors, symbolism, and irony, the effects of conformity, death, and loss of self-identity have been reflected upon by the poets. A society is a place where people should feel a sense of belonging, but a society exhibiting a lack of compassion is one that is sure to crumble.
The three of these poems, from the Light Blue Clear Atoms (Second Edition) anthology, discuss the many sides man has in this day and age. Real Ones comes from the genre 'Human Species', so it is fair to say that it talks about human qualities. Throughout history, mankind has been known to be tyrannous and oppressive. This is one of the major themes presented in Real Ones, the idea that what society dictates is real, nothing else. The poet is being oppressed by society, but she doesn't care.
They begin beating it with a hose To find out what it really means. The poem “Introduction to Poetry” by Billy Collins is about exploring the beauty of the world with the use of sound and mind using imagination. It introduces the exploration of the world through a different point of view. The tone of the poem is beauty, imagination, and misunderstanding. This poem means that people need to look at the
The poems in this section have to do with “Ars Poetica.” This means The Art of Poetry in Latin. The poets of this collection of poems are actually using poetry to answer the questions of what poetry is, how it should be written, and how it should be read. There is one poem specifically that I felt agreed with my views of poetry and that is Billy Collins’ “Introduction of Poetry.” In this poem, I feel like he is trying to say that people try too hard and over-analyze poems. They sometimes try to force a meaning into a poem because they think that there has to be a reason that poem was written and it has to have some kind of deeper meaning of an issue going on in the world. I think that the end of the poem really points this out with the words “torture of confession out of it” and “they begin beating it with a hose to find out what it really means.” I think that Collins is trying to tell people that they should just read poetry and enjoy it.
Browing identifies herself through this poem by asking the perpetual question of “How Do I Love Thee?” Although she gives no detail as to whom she may love, it gives the reader a chance to relate to her writing. She uses this sonnet to try and express the ways in which she loves thee. This sonnet includes many formal attributes, and the ones they do include affect the overall outcome of her writing. The things in which are apparent are features, theme and sonnet form. Browing presents her poem in first person, making it clearly connected to her directly.