Countee Cullen * May 30, 1903 – January 9, 1946 * American poet * Leading figure in the Harlem Renaissance * In 1923, he won second prize in the Witter Bynner undergraduate poetry contest, which was sponsored by the Poetry Society of America, with a poem entitled ‘The Ballad of the Brown Girl’ * By 1929 Cullen had published four volumes of poetry. The title poem of ‘The Black Christ and Other Poems’ (1929) was criticized for the use of Christian religious imagery - Cullen compared
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Compare how persona's voices are used by poets to make a significant comment on society Poets such as Duffy and Pugh often use their poetry as a medium to make a significant comment on society. Significant comments on society are explored through the three poems: The Dolphins – through the perspective of dolphins, Shooting Stars – in character of a dead Jewish woman (Duffy), and Camera Man – from literally a camera man(Pugh) – comment from a differing persona's, be it through dramatic monologue
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The story “The Hockey Sweater” by Roch Carrier shows how important society is and how cultural in communities can be harmful. In the small rural town in Quebec, Canada all the children are so close they “all wore the same uniform” (118). They all acted and looked the same, they had the same hero and all wanted to grow up to be just like him. However because of how similar everyone was they did not accept change or different ideas. Roch wore his blue sweater and went to play hockey but “by the third
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an interesting and compelling topic among poets and authors alike. Death sheds a mysterious vale over life and is often avoided or dreaded within people causing diversity among the reactions of modern poetry and thought. Mortality can be treated as a crisis, a destination, with significance or without, as well as (sadly) by some as a goal. Death provides a wide spectrum of ideas that can be expanded upon with dignity or as a magnanimous ideal. The poets that I have read and pondered deliver an array
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death, the poet, Auden, focuses mainly on before she died and after she died, which suggests that Miss Gee’s status in society was irrelevant. She was just an old lady with cancer. She is nothing special to the world, she wasn’t “well known” or famous around her village that she lived in. She was just an ordinary old lady living in a village. When Miss Gee found out she had cancer she is already dead. By this I mean that although you could see her, she is emotionally and spiritually dead. This shows
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consisting of 3182 alliterative long lines, set in Scandinavia, commonly cited as one of the most important works of Anglo-Saxon literature. It survives in a single manuscript known as the Nowell Codex. Its composition by an anonymous Anglo-Saxon poet is dated between the 8th and the early 11th century. In 1731, the manuscript was badly damaged by a fire that swept through a building housing a collection of Medieval manuscripts assembled by Sir Robert Bruce Cotton. The poem fell into obscurity for
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2010 “For the Union Dead”: A Social Criticism “For the Union Dead” is a socially critical poem that fills the page with destructive and stark imagery throughout. Such imagery is central to the poem and is also central to interpreting the poem in the manner in which Robert Lowell intended. Lowell was an American poet who expressed his concern for the direction of American society though his poetry: “For the Union Dead” is a prime example of that concern. In “For the Union Dead”, Robert Lowell condemns
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accepted background. In employing biblical imagery, Wright demonstrates how nature’s voice is ‘made flesh’ though ‘the singer dies’ referencing the wrecked landscape that forms the body through which the voice of the metaphoric flame tree comes. The poet uses Christian imagery ’the world’s delight/the world’s desire’ to draw on the parable of Christ’s birth as a visual representation on earth as an invisible God, the repeated words of praise becoming a religious experience. Through the synaesthesia
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In relation to World War One poetry, “Dead Man’s Dump” by Isaac Rosenberg and “Attack” by Siegfried Sassoon, I agree that thematic concerns are developed through the extensive use of symbolism and imagery. A poet is an artist and the poetry he writes is his art. The words he uses to write them, however, are the ever so essential paint brushes and tools used to create art. Through their meticulous choice of words, Rosenberg and Sassoon effectively conveyed their outlook on the concept of way and helped
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ideals in some poems. During the early 1900’s many poets decided to get away from the normal way of writing American Poetry. By doing this many poets began to write in different styles other than the traditional American way to write poetry. Three criteria’s we can elaborate on in regards to great poetry would be first, the work is relevant to normal life situations. Second, the poetry work is worth reading and is comforting to read. Third, the poets all had great ideas to write on. Walt Whitman
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