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.
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.
A poet relies on his feeling to convey the current situations that they are in. Poets usually allow their emotions to drive their words and it allows their thoughts to flow. Poetry is like a playground where poets can explore their inner thought and question everything. Its their view of the world that allows them to paint us a picture of their dreams, aspirations and nightmares that they have encountered. What makes it so effective is that they allow the raw emotion to drive the delivery of their words.
According to Yalom, these four existential realities are the root of most psychological problems and have no ultimate answers (Corey, 2005). While other existentialists may be more optimistic about the ability of people to find answers to these questions, it is generally agreed that these four issues are central to the human experience. Another gift of Yalom is his writing. Both May and Yalom were very talented at being able to take abstract, difficult theory and write about it in a language which is much more understandable than many of the other existential writers. While many people are easily intimidated by
Poets through the ages have been esteemed as possessing the ability to perceive the ordinary in extraordinary and innovative ways. Poetry captures the essences of human emotion and experience and imbues them with further significance by the literary techniques that typify poetry as the language of art. In her poetry, Gwen Harwood explores many thematic concerns that resonate with her readers regardless of their contexts. The universality of concepts such as memory, inspiration, childhood education and the cyclical, yet final nature of death are transformed by Harwood’s poetry to create fresh perceptions of the continuity of experience and provide permanence to these transient elements of humanity through language. The poetic techniques employed by Harwood effectively communicate distinctive aspects of her themes while allowing them to remain universal.
Throughout this story, I have learned that there is a fine line with pride. “I did not know then that pride is a wonderful, terrible thing, a seed that bears two vines, life and death.” This quote, on its face, is a contradiction. This quote presents no facts, but instead leaves readers hanging with confusion, or at least it did for me. Readers are left to think about this quote, for it “bears two vines, life and death.” Pride is described as a wonderful thing, a wonderful, terrible thing. To have pride in the way you look or act is an absolutely wonderful trait, but a point in time can come where you could have so much pride that you look down on others and set conditions for others to be able to be proud of them.
How has T. S. Eliot utilised specific elements of his form to engage varying audiences intellectually and emotionally? T.S. Eliot’s ‘Preludes’ and ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’ explore the self-consciousness caused by the intense pessimism of a toxic urban world, which leads to passivity and a lack of agency. Eliot uses varying elements of the form of poetry to present the major concepts of his modernist context, the conflict between the individual and society, disempowerment and time and the ritualistic nature of life, which also allow him to intellectually and emotionally engage a present day audience. Eliot portrays life as tarnished through urban decay, which is typical of the modernist era.
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
Writers share the rituals of writing—or not is an article by Geoff Pevere detailing the various rituals shared—and not shared—by an assortment of writers, ranging from poets and novelists, to journalists and cartoonists. I found this article both interesting and entertaining, but, as a writer, also very easy to identify with. According to Pevere, “the [writing] process always involves certain rituals of delay” (1). This “navigation of perpetual inertia” is definitely something that resonates with me as a writer (Pevere 1). For me, starting is always the most challenging and lavishly avoided aspect of writing.
In the poem “Introduction to Poetry” by “Billy Collins”, language techniques are used, including similes, metaphors and extended metaphors. These features are used to contribute to the overall meaning of the poem, which is to enjoy poetry for what it is rather than trying too hard to find the hidden meaning of poems. In the opening stanza of the poem, a simile is used to compare a poem to a colour slide. The speaker says: “I ask them to take a poem and hold it up to the light like a colour slide.” When you hold a slide up to the light, you can see the detail and meaning of it. This relates back to the main idea of the poem, and not trying too hard to find the hidden meaning of poems.