The narrator explains in the first line that he “may cease to be” and rushes to include he is afraid to die “before [his] pen has glean’d [his] teeming brain”. It almost seems as though Keats was unable to fit his ideas neatly into spaced lines, with punctuation marks because he is afraid to lose valuable time while he is still living. In Longfellow’s poem, however, pauses, punctuation and composition of multiple sentences produce a relaxed tone and overall feel of the poem. The poem is filled with caesuras that decrease the entire speed of the poem. “Half of my life is gone,” the comma allows for a pause and a deep breath to continue on to say “and I have let the years slip from me”.
“Compare the ways in which Larkin and Abse write about time and it’s passing.” In your response, you must include detailed critical discussion of Love Songs In Age and one other poem by Larkin. Many poems in Philip Larkin’s ‘The Whitsun Weddings’ are connected through one common factor: Larkin’s rather dismal attitude towards time and the passing of it. In many of his poems Larkin presents time as a menial entity resulting in an inevitable mortality. However, on further examination Larkin reflects back on time in a nostalgic manner. In order to emphasise Larkin’s outlooks onto time and it’s passing, one can highlight the similarities and differences between Larkin and Abse’s poetry.
Literary Commentary In “July Man”, Margaret Avison delineates a bleak mood of sorrow and nostalgia for the beauty of the past through intricate diction, specifically the choice of adjectives, and sound. The morose image portrayed by the poet’s words reinforces the theme of the decomposition of nature and humanity. The structure of the poem is chaotic and spontaneous as there is no specific rhyme scheme and the length of the lines randomly alternate. Being a free verse poem perfectly fits the theme of decomposition for no order or structured standards are followed anymore and all aspects are breaking down, including the poem’s own stanzas. The stanzas are of extreme natures with the first one being nineteen lines long and the following one
Larkin`s pessimistic view of the world is so deep, that it is almost impossible to find a single positive line in his dreary poems. Pessimistic poems usually have a ray of hope in the end. This is clearly not the case when it comes to Philip Larkin. In his poem, “This be the Verse”, he starts with one of the most depressing lines I have ever read: “They fuck you up, your mum and dad. “ He generalizes his own view of bad parenting and wants to convince you that this happens with every child.
Oh how I hate you, let me count the ways This poem illustrates an inevitable point in a man’s life, one that every man will have to face: that they aren’t as young as they use to be. The author Stanley J. Sharpless writes in a comical way to express the feeling of the main character. His choice of diction and style give the reader a clear image of the main character and an understanding of what he’s going through. One can see that he is expressing his own feelings of what he may have to face one day. The poem, “Oh how I hate you, let me count the ways” is a satire of the more famous poem “How do I love thee, let me count the ways” written by Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
An important theme throughout the poem is the concept of war used to glorify violence. The title of the poem which was widely used propaganda at that time exalts the concept of war, saying it’s a good and honourable thing to die for your country, but in reality, as evidenced by the soldier in the poem could not be more different. The idea of suffering is explored with the use of depressing and dismal language. The use of simile such as “bent double like old beggars” gives the impression that the soldiers have been prematurely aged, and seemingly deformed by the harsh conditions of war. This simile is an important contrast of the information people were fed at the time of soldiers being strong and proud.
The Tell-Tale Heart Assignment: We notice that some details in Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart” make a literal reading of the story rather difficult. Advance and defend a figurative reading of the story consistent with the story’s details. Poe seems to focus on creating mood throughout his story. Many symbols in this story are interpreted in several different ways depending on the reader. These symbols throughout the story include the old mans eye, the heartbeat and the contradiction between love and hate in which I will be talking about in this paper.
However, he arrives at the bazaar too late and buys nothing. He leaves the bazaar with an epiphany and feeling foolish and angry with himself. In “Araby”, the narrator is the major character who didn't forget his special youthful moments. He finds himself he was disappointed with his unforgotten youthful hopes, desires and frustrations. All of the conflict in this story happens inside his mind.
Then it shows how Edgar Allan Poe uses gruesome imagery and literary devices to portray the views of Dark Romanticism in his short story the “Tell-Tale Heart”. Finally, the analysis on how Edgar Allan Poe depicts the unnamed narrator to show the ideas of Dark Romanticism. The Romantic period gave the literature world a different aspect of the human mind and the malicious thoughts of human beings. The Romantics wanted to show that the human mind can either find particular solutions through reason but also through experiences and emotion. So the “Romantics encouraged contemplation and self-awareness, direct contact with nature and a focus on and on exploration of inner feelings.” (Dincer, 218) and with this in mind the Romantics sought to explore the irrationality human beings have towards guilt, madness, sin,
Matthew Arnold: A Bridge between Romanticism and Modernism Abstract: Matthew Arnold is generally known as a poet of Victorian social unrest and spiritual crisis. The critics have shown profound interest to evaluate him as a classical poet in view of real estimate. Their approach has often led to misleading judgment of his poetry. There is no denying the fact that Arnold is a classical poet. But that is not all.