In Wild Oats It explains that a person, over the course of time, comes to realise that his greatest desires of love, are unattainable, and second best things will have to suffice. The central purpose of this poem is to show that love is one of these great desires and despite flashes of promise it contains scarcely anything that is more than fragmentary. Larkin reveals this through tone and diction. Both poets seem to focus a lot on the physical side of love where lust and desire are involved however Abse makes it sound more sensual and even spiritual when he speaks of Eros in his poem. Larkin portrays this sense of objectification in his poem with regards to woman as he describes a woman as a ‘bosomy English rose’ and then follows on to call her ‘beautiful’ throughout the poem portraying the sexual lust involved with love.
TO LOVE OR NOT TO LOVE? “The most interesting aspects of texts written in different times is seeing the difference in what people value.” Possibly one of the best known piece of American prose fiction of its time, The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, develops an ironic but ultimately pessimistic point of view on the materialistic and superficial society presented in the 1920s which prevented the ideas of pure love. The form of a prose fiction does not have a structure which makes the novel unique. Sonnets from the Portuguese, by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, presents a more idealistic and optimistic view about love and hope. She portrays her personal voice through the use of sonnets, specifically Petrarchan.
Poe’s words themselves give the poem its mood. In the beginning, the narrator has hope because he believed that the raven was the one he loved but that hope has turned into anger when the raven kept repeating “Nevermore.” Poe was a master of choosing words that created mood. The scary and weird feeling of this poem makes Poe look like a cheaper! This mysterious poem is among the best-known poems in the national literature. The setting, the symbols of the incredible flow of art and the auditory imagery of the melancholy ideas all make up a different level than classical poetry.
Poetry and drama have a few key features that emphasize their per formative nature. One is the use of rhyme, rhythm, meter, alliteration, and other types of sound symbolism. For example, in Gwendolyn Brooks' "We real cool", the poet uses a strong rhyme scheme, a consistent meter, and an almost sing-song tone to demonstrate the lack of education of the narrator and his or her youthfulness. It also emphasizes the last line "We die soon.". Another is in "unity of action".
Good afternoon and welcome to the Critical Study of Texts Academic Forum. Today I will discuss how Gwen Harwood’s poems are valued through the challenging ideas of nostalgia and morality. Memory is a significant motif throughout Harwood’s poetry. Memory can be subjective, fickle and unreliable as demonstrated in ‘The Violets’. The memory process is so powerful as to superimpose images of the past on to the present colouring a faded and melancholy world.
Whitman's form, language, rhythm, and meter were all considered to be unusual by many 19th century critics and yet distinctly shaped "Leaves of Grass" as an American masterpiece. Whitman wrote the collection in free verse, a form that follows no regular stylistic pattern. This form, seen predominantly in the poem "Song of Myself", while criticized for being reckless and disorganized, influenced many modernist poets such as Ezra Pound and Gerard Manley Hopkins. Repetitive and reiterative devices in such poems as "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking" ("blow! blow!
People thought that Brown’s irony was sharp, his ideas were exciting, and he was not only and protestor of his time but one of the first times. Brown’s Work protested the classical folklore in the way it was written. “He infused his poetry with genuine characteristic flavor by adopting his medium geniality and optimism” was James Johnson reaction to his
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud A. I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud is a poem written by the very well known poet William Wordsworth. The poem is written in 1804 which is in the Romantic period. In poetry Romanticism was a period where the nature was valued as a contrast to the industrial society. All aspects of nature were used as a source of inspiration by the poets, as it made them think about human nature and activities. A typical Romantic poem often starts with a description of nature, and then slowly moves on to a human emotional problem which is a result of the observation of nature.
Compare the methods that poets use to create an interesting character in “Singh Song!” and another poem from character and voice (“Checking out Me History”). Both poems are dramatic monologues and have a conversational tone. The poems are written in free verse and this has connotations to the way that the characters have confusion over their identity. The irregular stanza lengths show the various cultural differences between the poems. In the poem “Singh Song!”, the poet uses repetition to show the persona of Singh as being very personal and intimate when he spends the little time that he has with his “newly bride”.
He explains the most popular meaning pertaining to this literary genre is the dark emotional aspect, and that dark romanticism can also be a general ethos related to a person’s individual outlook on life (1). This poem’s first stanza, introduced the Soul as being in a “bandaged” situation. The reader interprets the Soul as being restrained and unable to move: The Soul has Bandaged moments – When too appalled to stir – She feels some ghastly Fright come up, Santos 2 And stop to look at her – (1-4) According to her biography, by the age of 20, Dickinson had begun the path to seclusion that would take control of the rest of her life. Therefore, it is easy for the reader to connect this stanza to Emily’s lifestyle of living isolated from society. Leverkuhn adds, “As a literary genre, dark romanticism tends to be engaged with the idea of darkness in the human soul, the concept of original sin, or a certain dark outlook on society in general” (1).