...Introduction Chapter I General Information on American Poetry 1.1 Historical and Cultural Contexts of 20th Century American Poetry 1.2 American Modernism Chapter II The Life and Work of Some of the 20th Century American Poets 2.1 Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888 – 1965) 2.2 Marianne Moore (1887 – 1972) Conclusion Bibliography INTRODUCTION Development in learning English has widely opened the door to the unknown world of foreign literature. While learning a new language may require the devotion of a learner, it exposes the original beauty that is hidden under the names which, I’d like to mention, culture, traditions and literature. It is clearly seen from the history that a nation cannot exist without its customs, spoken language and written literature. Having all these nuances in mind, I dedicate my course paper to revealing all the perfection of literature which is expressed through poetry. There are as many definitions of poetry as there are poets. Wordsworth defined poetry as "the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings;" Emily Dickinson said, "If I read a book and it makes my body so cold no fire ever can warm me, I know that is poetry;" and Dylan Thomas defined poetry this way: "Poetry is what makes me laugh or cry or yawn, what makes my toenails twinkle, what makes me want to do this or that or nothing." Poetry is a lot of things to a lot of people. One of the most definable characteristics...
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...yMacmillan Study Companions Sharon R. Wilson-Strann POETRY FOR THE CSEC® ENGLISH B EXAMINATION Second edition Prescribed list for 2012–2017 CSEC® is a registered trademark of the Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) POETRY FOR THE CSEC® ENGLISH B EXAMINATION is an independent publication and has not been authorised, sponsored, or otherwise approved by CXC. CSEC Study Comp Poetry 2nd Ed_2011.indd i 9/6/11 4:31 PM Macmillan Education Between Towns Road, Oxford OX4 3PP A division of Macmillan Publishers Limited Companies and representatives throughout the world www.macmillan-caribbean.com ISBN: 978-0-230-41802-8 Text © Sharon R. Wilson-Strann 2011 Design and illustration © Macmillan Publishers Limited 2011 First published 2008 This edition published 2011 All rights reserved; no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publishers. These materials may contain links for third party websites. We have no control over, and are not responsible for, the contents of such third party websites. Please use care when accessing them. Designed by Mike Brain Graphic Design Ltd Typeset by E Clicks Enterprise, Malaysia Cover design by Clare Webber Cover photo by Jenny Palmer The author and publishers are grateful for permission to reprint the following copyright material: Bloodaxe Books for the poem...
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...Ethics - Linda Pastan In ethics class so many years ago our teacher asked this question every fall: if there were a fire in a museum which would you save, a Rembrandt painting or an old woman who hadn't many years left anyhow? Restless on hard chairs caring little for pictures or old age we'd opt one year for life, the next for art and always half-heartedly. Sometimes the woman borrowed my grandmother's face leaving her usual kitchen to wander some drafty, half imagined museum. One year, feeling clever, I replied why not let the woman decide herself? Linda, the teacher would report, eschews the burdens of responsibility. This fall in a real museum I stand before a real Rembrandt, old woman, or nearly so, myself. The colors within this frame are darker than autumn, darker even than winter--the browns of earth, though earth's most radiant elements burn through the canvas. I know now that woman and painting and season are almost one and all beyond saving by children. A New Poet Finding a new poet is like finding a new wildflower out in the woods. You don't see its name in the flower books, and nobody you tell believes in its odd color or the way its leaves grow in splayed rows down the whole length of the page. In fact the very page smells of spilled red wine and the mustiness of the sea on a foggy day - the odor of truth and of lying. And the words are so familiar, so strangely new, words you almost wrote yourself, if only in...
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...into “honied indolence,” that is, he compares indolence to a food sweet and succulent like honey in order to demonstrate the beauty it has to him, a common trope in Keats’s poetry. Furthermore, not only is the speaker-poet shielded from both pleasure and pain, again reiterated with “shelter’d from annoy,” in which “annoy” means “discomfort,” but also from daily duties and from others, perhaps the reason that guides this world. Perhaps he was not even being that specific, and merely meant that whatever is going on outside is blocked off from the speaker-poet by this frame of indolence; it is his...
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...William Carlos Williams and His Imagist Poetry Modernism and Imagism, two movements in literature ,which were developed in the 20th century .At the beginning of the decade ,modernism was a revolution of style .Crime, depression, and materialism filled this era. Musician, artists,and writers broke away from technique to create a new art.Also, imagism brought fragmental and chaotic life where nobody felt secure and happy.After that,modernism was related with decent and realistic art form.The modernist artists like Edwin Dickinson and a painter Arthur Dove looked for an object of inspiration ,individual vision and the value of immediate observation where they emphasized on surroundings around them in everyday life.Some modernists were supported by photographer and gallery owner Alfred Stieglitz who obtained the power to change the drift of American art. Moreover,art,drawing and painting were based on subjects describing actual world ideas.Also, modernism was a variety of ‘’-ism’’ such as Fauvism,Cubism,Dadaism and Futurism to break away the previous rules of orientations,color,and writing in order to their own visions. Some time after modernism,the imagist poets began to gain importance.They wrote short poems that their work would be rich and direct.They focused on individual...
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...My Grandmother's Love Letters Quotation (Include Chapter and Page Number at the end of each quotation) Your Reaction Suggestions: Connect to a larger/main point Share your emotional response Argue or Question point As an example, begin your sentences with ● The author's main point about the topic is that... ● When I read this it made me think (insert mental image or connective thought) … ● This reminds me of a time (insert a personal experience)... "In the loose girdle of soft rain." Part Three: Poetry: Page 295 This specific line created a lovely visual of someone loosening their belt to see how much rain they can catch in their pants. This line is an example of a metaphor as well as personification. I believe the author is trying to ask how much room will there be for memoirs. He compares the rain to a loosened belt allowing room for growth. "And liable to melt as snow." Part Three: Poetry: Page 296 This specific line emphasis how fragile the letters are that have been pressed. It is an example of a simile. I started to think about how frail paper can get over decades of time, such as the Declaration of Independence . You don't want to touch it because you're afraid it might break in your hand. "Are your fingers long enough to play Old keys that are but echoes: Is the silence strong enough To carry back the music to its source And back to you again As though to her?" Part Three: Poetry: Page 296 This grouping of words to me is...
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...join this cite in order to get some views relating to my homeworks. today while i was studying for my research paper about multiculturalism in america, i came across a piece of useful paper on this cite which i have thought i can be helpful for my paper. and i have wanted to read the rest of it. that is why i want to register into the cite. A self-styled "black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet," writer Audre Lorde dedicated both her life and her creative talent to confronting and addressing the injustices of racism, sexism, and homophobia. Her poetry, and "indeed all of her writing," according to contributor Joan Martin in Black Women Writers (1950-1980): A Critical Evaluation, "rings with passion, sincerity, perception, and depth of feeling." Concerned with modern society's tendency to categorize groups of people, Lorde fought the marginalization of such categories as "lesbian" and "black woman," thereby empowering her readers to react to the prejudice in their own lives. While the widespread critical acclaim bestowed upon Lorde for dealing with lesbian topics made her a target of those opposed to her radical agenda, she continued, undaunted, to express her individuality, refusing to be silenced. As she told interviewer Charles H. Rowell in Callaloo: "My sexuality is part and parcel of who I am, and my poetry comes from the intersection of me and my worlds. . . . [White, arch-conservative senator] Jesse Helms's objection to my work is not about obscenity . . .or even about sex...
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...Students Name Instructor’s Name Course Date The theme of love in Li Qingzhao's poetry Li Qingzhao is one of the best-known poets in China and the entire Asian community who wrote several poems in the 12th century. She was born in 1084 in J’nan, Shandong province to an aristocratic and scholarly family that was dedicated to educating their daughters. Her father was a professor at the Imperial Academy and also a prose writer whereas her mother was a writer of poetry. Qingzhao acquired extensive knowledge of literature and classics in her teenage as she also remained devoted and focused on her academics. Literary work was part of her life; even as a young girl she wrote delightful little lyrics on her outings to the near beauty spots. She stood up in a literary world that was dominated by men in an unusual way at that particular period as Chinese women were actively discouraged from any form of writing. She pressed on and her determination of creating her space in the male literary tradition never died (Ring). At eighteen, she got married to Zhao Mingcheng-a student at the Imperial Academy- in the year 1101 and lived in Shandong; he later died in 1129. Fortunately, they both had a mutual interest in art collection and epigraphy, and they collected many books as a result. They enjoyed touring the city and the neighborhoods and many other places in quest of favorite antiques and the ancient books that helped in refining of her poetic style. Zhao was mostly absent after he started...
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...Poetry could help me deal with those meaningful concerns in many ways, whether directly or indirectly, since I believe that the aim of poetry is to expose crucial circumstances in one’s life through writing. Having a good understanding and perception of what the poet is saying in his poem can help me relate the poem to my life or circumstances. Furthermore, finding the poem directly related to my situation at the time was imperative in helping me answer those meaningful concerns bothering me. Additionally, translating the poem the way that I perceive it would help me uncover minor details that could be missing; likewise creating my version of the poem can easily help me relate it to what concerns I may have in my life. Looking at the title...
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...they had three children, and from 1976 onwards they lived together in Sandymount, Dublin. A lot of Seamus’s poems “tend to revolve around several common themes” and “are all interconnected”. His memories of his childhood and death are two major themes, which make an appearance in many of the poems he has written. Due to where, and in that certain time period, he grew up in, a lot of Seamus’s poems also focus on nature, farming, his homeland, war, family and religion. There are many critics that suggest, Heaney’s poems on the Northern Irish troubles which he liked to write about had an “overcautious approach, aesthetically and politically, and [gravitated] instinctively towards Parnassian inoffensiveness” (Parnassian: of or relating to poetry). Reviews also criticise the fact that Heaney was a “peddler of nostalgia” and he only owed his success to the sponsorship of ‘Faber and Faber’ (a book publisher). However more commonly it was known that he was “a poet rated highly by critics and academics yet popular with 'the common reader.” He also won 17 major prizes including a Nobel Prize in...
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...the most instantly recognizable of all poetry due to her untenable economy of expression. It cannot be denied that startling, thought provoking and unusual imagery coalesced with her original point of view aggrandise her poetry. These moments are elicited by her work and are perhaps the essence of her reputation and image as one of the greatest, but also one of the most eccentric poets of all time. The reader gains great insight into her imagination through the medium of her poetry. She conveys moments of utter elation in poems such as “I taste a liquor never brewed to profound experiences of utter despair and depression in poems such as “I felt a funeral in My Brain”. What distinguishes her the most for me is her gift for figurative language, imagery, metaphors and similes. She had the ability to immerse herself in English literature and produce beautiful, ravishing and beauteous material through the medium of aesthetic language. Her archetypal flood subject was immortality and she often wrote about death. For me, the most thought provoking evocation of immortality and death, is her poem “I felt a Funeral in my Brain”. Dickinson’s poems on the Hereafter are probably among her best known. She was clearly deeply interested in the process of dying, and returned to it again and again in her writing. In this poem, the poet seems to have died sometime in the past and is now looking back or reliving the experience. “I felt a Funeral in my Brain and Mourners to and fro, Kept treading-treading...
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...Elizabeth Browning was an author from England who wrote love poems to her husband, Robert Browning who was also a famous writer. She was one of the most prominent English poets of the Victorian era. Her works of poetry are widely popular in England as well as in the United States, and she is greatly admired for her successful works in literature and poetry. She was born in Coxhoe Hall, Durham, England on March 6, 1806 to Edward Barrett Moulton-Barrett and Mary Graham Clarke. Elizabeth was the eldest of 12 children. There were eight boys and four girls in her family. She was very fortunate to be born into a wealthy family. They owned almost 500 acres of expensive sugar plantations in Jamaica. She was the first in her family to be born in England, as the Barrett family had lived in Jamaica for many years before her father chose to raise the family in England. She was educated at home and engaged...
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...KAMLA DAS’S `MY STORY’ AND HER STORIES IN HER POEMS:A STUDY Indian English literature has been making great strides during the last few decades thereby attracting the international attention. Infect, the post-independence period in the history of Indian English writing is generally equated with the modern period. It must be said in the light of all considerations that the post independence Indo- English prose and poetry has characteristics which make it distinctive and different from the writing of the earlier period. Indian women poets writing in English from Toru Dutt to Kamala Das reveal the mind boggling variety of themes as well as style that poetry is capable of offering. It needs to be remembered that poetry written by women need not be viewed only as feminist poetry. For the first time in Indian English poetry, the women poets of post- Independence and postmodern period portrayed in a subversive idiom their desires, lust, sexuality and gestational experiences. They enriched Indian English poetry with a wealth of new themes and experience. They developed a new innovative iconoclastic discourse to portray their repressed desires. Thus a new form of feminist poetry emerged and grew to give they Indian English poetry new strength, new diversity and new potent a new signs of maturity The women poets of the present century have surely and confidently come out of the romantic entanglements, of the claptrap of the past tradition and succeeded in formulating a new tradition...
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...Emily Dickinson seemed to think so as it is well known that she spent much of her life in isolation from society. In her poem “I dwell in Possibility” a comparison is made between the house of poetry and the house of prose with favor towards the house of poetry. However, this comparison goes much deeper. The house of poetry actually represents Emily Dickinson’s way of life in isolation, and the house of prose represents a life in mainstream society. Dickinson uses a unique metaphor,...
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...Thornton Township High School, 15001 South Broadway Avenue, Harvey, Illinois 60426. Email: e4p3zambrano.emily@gmail.com Abstract The poem by E.E Cummings “All in Green my Love went Riding” is about the speaker falling in love then getting heartbroken. In this poem Cummings expresses how falling in love can feel like you've been hit by something moving faster than you can possibly catch. The speaker is stalking his prey like someone who’s truly in love will stalk his loved one. Cummings...
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