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Poetic Form October 1999
433 wordsIn Japan, short poems have a long history. The earliest Japanese poetry such as that of the Manyoshu, written in 759 A. D. , includes stirring narrative, dramatic and short lyrical poems which scholars believe were originally written as part of the pre-Buddhist or early Shinto ceremonial rituals (Haiku). This anthology includes anonymous songs and prayers designed to celebrate and pacify the gods, prayers for safe voyages, formal eulogies on the death of an Emperor or Empress and courting, marri...
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Songs Of Innocence Style Of Writing
1,553 wordsAs a child Blake had no formal schooling. He was apprenticed at the age of fourteen by engraver James Basic. In 1779 he began studies at The Royal Academy of Arts, but it was as a journeyman engraver that he was to make his living. When Blake was engraving his own designs, the general public envied him because they were not as creative as he was. Most of Blakes support came from a small group of artists and friends. Throughout his life booksellers employed Blake to engrave illustrations for a wi...
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Quot Quot Emily Dickinson
8,051 wordsYVOR WINTERS The three poems which combine [Emily Dickinson's] greatest power with her finest execution are strangely on much the same theme, both as regards the idea embodied and as regards the allegorical embodiment / 293 /. They deal with the inexplicable fact of change, of the absolute cleavage between successive states of being, and it is not unnatural that in two of the poems this theme should be related to the theme of death. In each poem, seasonal change is employed as the concrete symbo...
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