...English essay Poetry is a way of giving others an insight into our hearts and minds . This is proven in many of John Foulchers poems showing his compassion to the world. He shows this though a range of techniques in his poetry such as similes, personification, metaphors and setting the scene in a very visual way. The poems Loch and Gorge, Summer rain and Lands end all explore how poetry is a way of showing others into hearts and mind. In addition, Poetry is a way of giving others an insight into our hearts and mind. Poet, John shows this in his poem “The Loch and Gorge” with his choose of words showing his care and compassion for the people who died. The lock and Gorge poem is about a tragic accident that happened in 1878, 52 people died and 2 people were sweeper to shore and were the only ones to survive. Therefore the poem that John describes is about a shipwreck. In the first two lines of the poem he sets a visual image of a steep cliff. He uses the words “ weathering cream precipice “, the audience are forced to imagine a damaged gorge possibly from wind or rain over the thousands of years that the gorge has been there. “Precipice” gives the reader a image of a sheer faced cliff (very steep). On the third line he uses the dark interior of earth; it is a unusual way of describing a cave although it is very effect in this situation. John shows uses a simile to describe huge surf, “with a sound like fire controlled” this makes the audience believe the waves are loud...
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...Tyger-William Blake I chose the poem “The Tyger” by William blake to showcase that this poem shows how different sound devices contribute to the meaning of this poem. In “The Tyger” William Blake essentially questions god and his nature, using the tiger as the grounds for his examination. In the first quatrain, the line "what immortal hand or eye could frame thy fearful symmetry?" refers to why god would create such a creature both good and evil? This poem has a heavy rhyme scheme and consists of the last words in two consecutive lines rhyming. For Example, William Blake writes “And what shoulder, and what art, Could twist the sinews of thy heart, And when thy heart began to beat, what dread hand? And what dread feet?” The meter is regular throughout the poem and every end syllable is stressed which gives it a consistent rhythm. The rhyme pattern and the meter also give the poem a rhythmic beat, which almost sounds like a heart beating This poem also distributes alliteration. Alliteration sates that in a poem there is a repetition of a certain letter. In this case the author writes “Tyger Tyger! Burning bright” and also “In what distant deeps or skies” the caesura used between these words and the alliteration ties them together thus making readers pay more attention to the words written in the poem. Assonance is used in this poem as well to emphasize the greatness of God such as in “twist the sinews”. There are two different sounds in the poem. By using poetic devices he further...
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...“i carry your heart (i carry it in my heart)” by E.E Cummings explores the feelings of being in love with someone. This poem is about the unity of two lovers and how two souls are always with each other no matter what. E.E Cummings uses figurative language, repetitive speech, symbolism, allusions and metaphors. Love and unity are stressed throughout “i carry your heart (i carry it in my heart)”. The actual writing of this poem is interesting. One reason is because all of the “I”’s are lowercase. This is indicating that not one person is important it’s the couple as a whole that is important. When E.E Cummings is describing love it is not about “I” it is about them. Also there is parenthesis in each line. This could mean the two are connected both emotionally and visually from the poem. When one reads this poem aloud, they can find themselves squishing the lines together since it is so repetitive. It has a unified sound much like the theme of the poem. Such as the...
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...wrote his poems about Maud Gonne. Yeats has proposed to Gonne several times, and got rejected each occasion. His rejections never stopped him from being inspired by her. “When you are old and grey and full of sleep,/And nodding by the fire”. (Yeats~When You Are Old) This goes to show that Yeats can picture Gonne and himself growing old together and watch each other go through the process of life, and also shows she inspired this poem. It seems to be obvious that Gonne does not feel the same way about Yeats. As you start to read Yeats, you will begin to realize that:...
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...sometimes could have hurt her dear friends and she felt so bad and she hated it. Q: Excuse me for the interruption. Then what about the one saying “God is filling me” and the last sentence “a monster of sorts, takes it all in-- all in comes the fury of love”? E: YES! That’s it. She was feeling death coming closer to her, she wanted to accept the fact. And she had her own belief in God so she wished her big heart could have taken all the pain and lost, to accept all the sadness and pressure, either for living or dying. But it was still hard, since she emphasized “I promised it is very large, a monster of sorts”. She was describing it as a monster, a tired, mindless monster that just want to eat all the pressure but it seemed like her heart was still not big enough. She was having too much suffering. Q: Thank you for your time! E: No problem my heart is big enough (laughing) I just want to mention, don’t ignore the valuable little things in your life. Some day they all come together and that can be a very powerful spirits that help you get through a hard time. So you can have a heart that’s big enough for all the pressure we face in life. Thank you. …However, here’s a big turning point at the line “soul is spurting out upon them, bleeding on them, messing up their clothes” blah blah, it’s showing that her sickness sometimes could have hurt her dear friends and she felt so bad and she hated it. Q: Excuse me for the interruption. Then what about the one saying “God is filling me” and...
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...“The Broken Heart” Analysis In John Donne’s poem, “The Broken Heart”, Donne shows the predacious nature of love and the true faintness of the heart through the use of metaphors. This poem sets a mood of despair and sorrow; moods that reveal the regret of love. It opens the reader’s eyes to realize just how vulnerable the heart can be when dealing with love. Donne associates love with the negative; he portrays it as some evil entity that overtakes people without warning and, if not careful, destroys them from the inside, out. In the first stanza of Donne’s poem, he describes how long the oh-so-terrible phenomenon of love lasts. He compares it to the plague and claims it has stuck with him for an entire year. He states that anyone who claims to have only been in love an hour, or a short duration at all, “is stark mad.” Donne makes a clear point that love simply cannot decay so soon. He compares the duration of love to a flask of powder burning in one day. I assume that it would take quite some time to use an entire flask of powder given the context of the text [small amounts of gun powder was used in the 1700’s and 1800’s for guns each time they were to be fired, and unless one of the soldiers chambered every round as fast as a sub-machine gun, it is very unlikely that they would have gone through an entire flask in one day]. Stanza two reveals Donne’s ideas about the characteristics of love and the heart. He says that once the heart has fallen into the hands of love, it...
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...When I was One-and-Twenty Summary Our speaker gets some advice from an older, wiser person: don't bank too much on love. Like any young person, he promptly ignores the advice. Did we mention that he's 21? Keep that in mind. It'll be important later. Flash forward: now he's 22. And as it turns out, the advice he got was pretty good. Love hurts. And we're not just quoting that '80s song. Line 1-2 When I was one-and-twenty I heard a wise man say, • Uh-oh. Any time a literary work starts out with a wise man's sayings, you just know that they're probably going to be ignored. If we listened to wise advisors, we wouldn't have any stories to tell. And poems are stories, after all. • So, we've got a young whippersnapper and his older mentor. Stay tuned, folks…. Lines 3-6 "Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies But keep your fancy free." • Well, it turns out that love is worth more than gold. Or, er…the lack of love is worth more than gold. • Don't let the happy tone and snappy rhymes confuse you: this poem is about control. It turns love into an economic calculation, one which allows the "wise man" to balance feelings against more conventional forms of currency (crowns and pounds and guineas are, after all, the big guns of the U.K.'s monetary system). As it turns out, the heart is more valuable than money – which is precisely why the speaker's buddy thinks that it should remain soundly within his control. • Of course, this...
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...Conventionally, Emily Dickenson’s poem [The Heart Asks Pleasure-First] has been read in the context of being between a lover and the beloved. The misplaced love is continually rejected, and after a series of wishes, the heart eventually wishes for the privilege to die. While this may have been the intended interpretation for the poem, a further investigation promotes a new idea. Perhaps Dickenson was not writing about the heart as the essence of love, but rather, the heart as the essence of a human soul. This love that the heart is drawn to could still be that of another. Therefore, it can be interpreted that Emily Dickinson’s poem [The Heart Asks Pleasure-First] is about relationships, and how a seemingly good love can become a terrible thing. More abstractly, this poem can warn others of the dangers of abusive relationships. Ultimately, the heart is asking for...
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...Authors and poets give similar central ideas in their stories. They always have part or their whole stories or poems about the central idea. An example is poet Rainer Maria Rilke, who wrote Letters To a Young Poet, and author David Mitchell, who wrote Black Swan Green. In both the poem and story, they show a similar central idea. Beauty. Rilke shows beauty in “Letter One” of Letters To a Young Poet, and Mitchell shows beauty in the chapters “Hangman” and “Solarium” in Black Swan Green. They show the central idea of beauty in many ways. Rainer Maria Rilke is a poet. His whole name is René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke. He wrote fourteen poems and nine stories during his lifetime. Letters To a Young Poet was published in 1993, which was 67 years after he died of leukemia in 1926. Near his time of death, his work was intensely admired by many leading European poets. His reputation is still steadily growing and he is regarded as the master of verse. David Mitchell is an award-winning author. His full name is David Stephen Mitchell and he has written two librettos, ten articles, sixteen short stories, and seven novels, including Black Swan Green, which was published in 2006. Both Black Swan Green and Letters To a Young Poet both share the central idea of beauty....
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...says that “poetry, as a label for this particular commodity, is not appropriate.” According to Housman, similes and metaphors, which are primary factors in metaphysical poetry, are “things inessential to poetry.” He describes the far-fetched paradoxes of metaphysical poets as “wit,” not poetry. Despite Housman’s negative claims regarding metaphysical poetry, there are several works of metaphysical poets, such as John Donne, that have proven to be very effective. In Donne’s “Holy Sonnet 14,” often referred to as “Batter My Heart,” there is a plethora of evidence of the work’s overall effectiveness as a poem in the poet’s use of poetic devices. The poem is written in first person and the speaker is someone who is struggling with sin and is desperately seeking the guidance of God, who is intended to be the recipient of the speaker’s message. “Batter My Heart” is a fixed form sonnet written in iambic pentameter. Enjambment is used in the title of the poem because it is the same as the poem’s first line. The form of the sonnet is closed and it is composed of three quatrains and one couplet. It has a regular rhyme scheme, but a half rhyme does exist in Donne’s rhyming of the words “enemy” (Line 10) and “I” (Line 12). Overall, the...
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...Analysis From the beginning of time, people were writing poetry, painting pictures, and telling stories about love. With this theme a lot of poets around the world wrote a huge amount of poems and stories. I chose to analyze a couple of Robert Browning’s poems and Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s, his wife. Robert Browning was born on May 7, 1812 in Camberwell, England. He was the eldest child of Sarah Wiedemann and Robert Browning, a wealthy clerk who was also a collector of books; his gigantic library was a great source of study for young Robert. Both his parents encouraged him to study and write, and he did start to write poetry at the age of twelve. In 1846 Robert Browning married fellow English poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861). They were devoted to each other, “for after their marriage they were never separated,” writes their son in his introduction to The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Vol. 1 (of 2) 1845-1846. After they settled down in Italy and Elizabeth’s health began to get better she went on to write many highly acclaimed works. The few works Browning produced in the next fifteen years including Christmas Eve and Easter Day (1850), and Men and Women, which he dedicated to his wife Elizabeth (1855). (Merriman) I have selected two poems “Meeting at Night” and “Parting at Morning” by Robert Browning and one poem, “How Do I Love Thee?” written by Elizabeth Barrett Browning. The main theme in these poems is this amazing...
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...one of the poems from the readings assigned for today's class (Carruth 525, cummings 526, Reed 534, Strand 538), but before you compose your response for this post, read the poem that you selected aloud, at least once. For your response, focus on two questions: 1) What does the speaker of the poem have to say? and, 2) What poetic techniques does the speaker of the poem use to say it? There are millions of words in the English language, yet we choose to repeatedly apply the same ones until we are desensitized to them and they lose almost all meaning. In Hayden Carruth’s “An Apology for Using the Word “Heart” in Too Many Poems”, he demonstrates the forms in which the word “heart” is used and often misused. He begins by saying that “sometimes it’s a muscle/Sometimes courage or at least hustle/Sometimes a core or center, but mostly it’s/A sound that slushily fits/The meters of popular songwriters without/Meaning anything”. Though the word is equivocal, many use it simply for end rhyme or to maintain a specific pattern. Later on, as the speaker’s anger about the word’s misuse grows, the poem’s beat of rhythm begins accelerating by removing punctuation like periods and commas. This technique is meant to simulate a quickening heartbeat. There are numerous times in which the meaning of “heart” implies that the speaker is not sincere in his apology, however as he goes on, his casualty wanes. The final two lines of “An Apology for Using the Word “Heart” in Too Many Poems” seem entirely...
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...In 1972 Relationships was published and Jennings chose only four poems to be printed in her Collected Poems: “Friendship “, “A Sonnet”, “Let things Alone and Hurt”. Above all she reflected on childhood, religion and death. Her ability to combine concrete detail and abstract thought remained in this collection as acute as ever. According to Levy Relationships deals with the aftermath of nervous breakdown and “with the meditations and resolves after the death of a close friend” (Levy 68). “Fear,” “Hurt,” “Kinds of Tears,” and “Tears” are examples of poems which suggest the sense of self pitying sentimentality which marks so many of the deleted poems. Jennings is so obsessed with visions of despair, and with her need to give expression to sad...
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...“To His Coy Mistress” TPS-FASTT | Title | The title “To His Coy Mistress” implies that the speaker is talking to his mistress who is reserved and modest. The subject of the poem is towards the speaker’s mistress. | Paraphrase | In Andrew Marvell’s poem “To His Coy Mistress,” the speaker is talking to his mistress throughout the poem. In the first stanza, the speaker tells his mistress that if there were more time, her coyness would not be a crime and that he would be able to compliment and admire her if they had to time to sit down, think where they would walk, and their love would grow slowly but vastly. Furthermore, the speaker also states that if he had more time, he would focus on each part of his mistress’s body for hundreds of years until he had gotten to her heart. In the next stanza, the speaker states that they do not have time, since life is short and death is forever. He states that eventually, beauty will no longer exist due to aging and when she is dead, she will not be able to hear the speaker’s song when inside her coffin. Furthermore, the speaker states that the worms will try to take her virginity and will result in his no longer feeling love for his mistress. In the last two lines of the stanza, he comments that a grave is a nice and private place but does not have much room to be together and embrace. In the last stanza, the speaker once again compliments his mistress’s beauty and youth and that they should embrace just like the birds of prey and play games...
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...inquire. Why the coffee is not brought. In the place of thought sincere That our hearts may feel, We must seize a pen of steel, And with verse and line severe Fling abroad a jest and jeer. Muse, that in the past inspired me, And with songs of love hast fired me; Go thou now to full repose, For today in sordid prose I must earn the gold that hired me. Now must I ponder deep, Meditate, and struggle on; E'en sometimes I must weep; For he who love would keep Great pain has undergone. Fled are the days of ease, The days of Love's delight; When flowers still would please And give to suffering soul surcease From pain and sorrow's blight. One by one they have passed on, All I love and moved among; Dead or married – from me gone, For all I place my heart upon By fate adverse are stung. Go thou, too. O Muse, depart, other regions fairer find; For my land but offers art For the laurel, chains that bind, For a temple prison blind. But before thou leavest me, speak: Tell me with thy voice sublime, Thou coldst ever me seek A song of sorrow for the weak, Defiance to the tyrant's crime. REACTION Among the literary pieces of Rizal, this poem struck me most. I chose this poem because it shows an affectionate feeling to the readers. It was a touching, moving and a pitiful literary piece of Rizal. He addressed this poem to his family in those times when he was worried and depressed. This poem was passionate in feeling. It opened the eyes of our countrymen to woke up to the...
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