The sooner people accept that we are all human, the better. Moving on, the author’s style was unusual, criticizing, and degrading, and the tone was less than likeable. However, it was a direct approach to displaying human faults and how people turn the other way rather than acknowledge them. Lady Montagu, clearly took offense to Swift’s poem and so, wrote her own riposte to put him down for writing such an unflattering poem. She certainly did not “pass in silence without matching wits”(292) with Swift.
The Cynics believed that the very essence of civilization is corrupt, and so lived austere, unconventional lives. They distrusted luxury as a “hook” that always brought complications and frustration in to people’s lives. Happiness could only come from self-discipline
1366 If he heard songs or instruments of music, then would he weep and could not be consoled. So feeble and low and changed were his spirits, that nobody could recognize his speech or his voice even if they heard them. And in his behavior he acted not only as if he had the lover’s sickness of Eros, but rather like madness sprung from melancholy in the cell of imagination in his brain. In short, both the disposition and habits of this woeful lover, lord Arcite, were turned all upside-down. 1379 Why should I describe all day his woe?
In On His Blindness, many interpretations focus on the negative mood and resentful tone of the poem surrounding the author’s blindness. According to one interpretation, Milton’s blindness limited his ability to write poetry because, “there was no way for a blind man to put words to paper” (Answers.com). Although these interpretations highlight the dark side of these poems, it’s clear that the authors were presenting a self-revelation about choice. The self-revelation about choice occurs as the main character is presented with choices. The first line of each poem uses a first person format.
Another significant influence that Whitman has for Ginsberg is the fact that Whitman had been an outcast from the literary circle of his era, with his long -winded style, free verse, sexual exposure and his appearance as a plainly dressed workman rather than a high society poet. So as Ginsberg was not accepted among poets of his generation. His literary works were prohibited from public circulation. Also noticeable similarity between the poets was their subject matter. “Its subject is a state of illumination induced by two (or three) separate moments of ecstasy”, said Malcolm Cowley in introduction to “Leaves of grass”.
Instead, they played what “didn’t exist in the world around them” (113). As their values changed, they began to “reject the role of the entertainer, and held themselves above tastes of the public” (112). According to Leland, nonconformism can take two forms: the relinquishing of privileges and the reclamation of privileges. The relinquishing of privileges is when one waives the privileges in order to shed the responsibilities for its actions. A great example of this is the famous quote by Emerson, “Who so be a man must be a nonconformist…” because “to be great is to be misunderstood” (115).
We may see the main character as an existentialist to a large extent as he rids himself of his material possessions, goes against societal constructs and after studying South Africa’s turbulent history and politics, he denounces the absurdity of human behavior. He doesn’t understand how human beings control, kill and corrupt each other, as an existentialist he feels trapped and his search becomes a search for absolute freedom and truth. McCandless describes himself as a lonely traveler seeking truth believing that a secluded life in nature and books can help him achieve happiness. This is one of the notions that concerned romantics in the nineteenth century. Many of the romantic poets withdrew from society in this same way to explore nature, believing that truth could only be found when the being becomes one with the rest of creation.
The Intro of the essay asserts the notion that the English language has been disfigured by the human race and is on the residual decline as a resultant. Mr. Orwell attributes this downfall to politics and economic causes but goes on to outline his remedy to correct what he refers to as a “reversible” process. George Orwell goes on to cite passages from several prominent essays and articles, concluding on the similarities in their staleness of imagery and lack of precision. He criticizes the passages, stating that the incompetence and vagueness of such political writings desecrates correct English prose- construction. DYING METAPHORS.
For Suckling poetry was something casual and only an entertainment he never studied serious subjects in his works. On the contrary of Carew, Suckling despised Jonson both in the Session of Poets and in his unfinished drama The Sad One. He was in favour of Donne’s style with its elobarate metaphors and explosive passion. Poems such as Love’s World and Farewell to Love both are reminder of Donne’s
Is Poetry Dead? Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things. T. S. Eliot To say that poetry is dead is quite similar to saying art can die. It is a detrimental problem that this specific form of art (poetry) has more creators than admirers.