In Depth Analysis Of Keats’ “Ode On A Grecian Urn”
.... best poetry is composed largely of representations of representations, meditations “on” objects or texts that are themselves reflections of other artists’ creative acts (Scott, xi).
The product of these artists are indeed timeless and eternal, something Keats was very aware, both in presence of other artists works and in the absence of his own. As Keats tries to create for himself a place among these eternal artists, he tries to perpetuate dialogue with both the past and the future by applying a style that allows him to create a "work of art" by describing “works of art, to translate the arrested visual image into the fluid m .....
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Marlowe’s “The Passionate Shepherd To His Love”
.... humans have become degenerate.
There are three main kinds of pastoral that can be identified in different works.
The classical pastoral begins with a conception on man and on human nature and locates it in a specific type, the shepherd, the simplicity of whose life is the goal toward which all existence strives. The shepherds remain first and foremost emblem of humanity, a general rather than a specific type and his afflictions and joys are universal.
Marlowe’s “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” is an example of classical pastoral although it present a very ambiguous situation. Even though the shepherd lives in a world o .....
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A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning: Love Between Two People
.... “So let us melt, and make no noise” (line 5) refers to the melting of gold by a goldsmith or alchemist. When gold is melted it does not sputter and is therefore quiet. The speaker and his love should not display their private, intimate love as “tear-floods, nor sigh-tempests move” (line 6). The speaker thinks that it would be a “profanation” (line 7) to reveal the sacred love he shares with his lady. It would be similar to priests revealing the mysteries of their faith to “the laity” (line 8), that is, to ordinary people. The loud display of grief upon separation would therefore desecrate the sacred love of the speaker and h .....
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Frost's “Desert Places”: Inner Darkness
.... to reveal his inner “darkness”.
As the second stanza begins, the speaker has reached the borderline of the quickly darkening woods, and it seems as though he has paused in his walking, as if to stop and ponder his own vacancy and loneliness. In lines five and six, Frost alludes to what may be the cause of the speaker’s inner vacancy: “The woods around it have it – it is theirs/All animals are smothered in their lairs” (lines 5-6). “It” stands for the spirit that in line seven Frost states the speaker is missing: “I am too absent-spirited to count.” In the poem, to “count” means to be distinguishable among the darkness. .....
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The Poetry Of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow And John Greenleaf Whittier
.... He possessed no civil rights and in the eyes of the law he was not a “person”. His masters were oft to treat him with inhumane cruelty.
Similar to Venture Smith’s life growing up in the slavery system, Douglass witnessed brutal beatings given by slave owners to women, children, and the elderly. Young Frederick was grossly mistreated and it did not get any better until he was sent to live with Mrs. Auld and her husband. Mrs. Auld instilled in Frederick the will to learn to read and write. This deed proved to be Frederick’s rude awakening to a world of knowledge that is purposely kept from slaves. Learning to read .....
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Robert Frost Used Many Elements Of Nature To Show Fear And Uncertainty
.... himself as having conducted a search for the modern Demiurge named Evolution in hope of learning the secrets of life, but when finally found him all he was rewarded was indifference, atheism, and laughter” (Thompson 327). The uncertainty lies in the Demiurge’s answer of indifference and atheism. This answer may inspire some fear but much of it resides in the face of Evolution, an element of nature.
Another poem that conveys fear and uncertainty is “Into My Own.” In lines 1 through 4 Frost writes:
One of my wishes is that those dark trees,
So old and firm they scarcely show the breeze,
Were not, as ‘twere, the m .....
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Poetry Analysis: “My Papa’s Waltz”
.... time on my head”, as if he were keeping time for a dance or a rhythm on the boys head (13). This all enlarges the negativity and sadness of the poem. The small boy also states, “But I hung on like death” (3). This proves that the boy was thinking about death, but dangling on to prevent it. During this whole incident the boy’s mother sits and watches as the abuse continues.
Furthermore, the mother’s apathy towards the battering of her son is even more depressing and negative. The author says, “My mother’s countenance / Could not unfrown itself”(7-8). This suggests that the mother has adapted to her husband’s abusive behav .....
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The Judgments And Moral Lessons Of Robert Browning’s Poetry
.... monologues, Browning expresses his own convictions through the use of grotesque art. As the term implies, vile, rebuked, heartless, and failing human beings are presented in Browning’s glaring poems. “He often selects the eccentric, the morally deformed, the man with a grudge, a guilt, a secret or a crime to his credit. He chooses them for effect.”(Schmidt 380) Although these incongruous subjects seem abominable to the reader, their selection by Browning proves legitimate. “Browning is challenging the reader to appraise the value of the first-person narrative and to pronounce it and the speaker to be defective in some way.”( .....
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Poe's Poetic Imagery In "The Raven"
.... an end of something, and the anticipation of a transition to occur. The midnight in December could possibly be New Year's eve, a date with which most connect transition.
With Poe's extensive vocabulary, he is qualified to bestow an ancient and poetic language in "The Raven" which eloquently depicts a surreal yet romantic picture of a man spending an evening in his chamber. The word "Seraphim" in the fourteenth verse, "perfumed by an unseen censer / Swung by a seraphim whose footfalls tinkled on the tufted floor" describes the way a scent spreads swiftly through a room. A seraphim is one of the angles that surround the throne .....
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Dickinson's Poem #465: Buzzing Bye
.... succeeded in gaining final closure.
There comes a time in life when it is necessary to conclude that the focus of existence is complete and decide what to do with the times that follow. The speaker considers the time following this conclusion a period for closure while waiting for her death to arrive. In lines 2-4: “The Stillness in the Room Was like the Stillness in the Air-Between the Heaves of Storm-” Dickinson is using the metaphor of time between storms. The storm of life represents the trails of the speaker’s physical known surroundings and the storm of death represents the unknown trials of dying. The speaker has mad .....
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Sonnet 71: Forget Me When I’m Gone?
.... really make the audience feel guilty, and make the audience feel obligated to mourn, which is the poet’s true intentions in writing this particular poem.
This poem does contain some imagery reinforced by alliteration. The words, “surely sullen bell”. The sullen bell is a form of auditory imagery. It simulates bells chiming at a funeral service at a church. The bells are really the only vivid imagery used. The lines after that contain little to none. However, the vivid imagery of the bells becomes even more impactful since it stands alone in the poem.
I feel this poem wasn’t too hard to distinguish it’s meaning. It se .....
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Sylvia Plath's Poetry: Feminine Perfection
.... this was the crucial event of her childhood. In her poem "Daddy" we see Plath's imaginative transformations of experience into myths where the figure of her Prussian father is transformed into an emblem for masculine authority.
"Every woman adores a fascist,
The boot in the face the brute
Brute heart of a brute like you." (48-50)
Sylvia Plath wanted to become a writer at a time when women were expected to devote their lives to homemaking and mothering; this added to Sylvia Plath's self-doubt in her choice of a career. By the time she entered college on a scholarship in 1950 she already had an impressive list of publications .....
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