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Sula Toni Morrison Poetic Language
1,984 wordsAccording to Aldous Huxley, the life of any epoch can only be synthesised by poets: Encyclopaedias and guides to knowledge cannot do it, for the good reason that they affect only the intellectual surface of a mans life. The lower layers, the core of his being, they leave untouched. 1 I like this, particularly the idea of the intellectual surface - a mere surface, with much beyond it - and combined with Jacobson's aforementioned theory, I take this as my starting point: the idea that poetic langu...
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18 Th Century Rape Of The Lock
2,323 wordsAlexander Pope and His Poetry Outline: This paper reviews the poems, "The Rape of the Lock" and "An Essay of Man" both by Alexander Pope, focusing on the poet's clever use of linguistic, rhetoric and poetic devises including his mastery of the heroic couplet. Alexander Pope is an eighteenth century Catholic poet who was famous for his translations of several classical poems; most prominent of which are Homers epic poetry. He is well-known for concise poetic writing and carefully crafted language...
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Middle Aged Man Clich
1,428 wordsLolita is perhaps one of the most disturbing novels of the century: it tells the immoral story of a middle- aged man who falls in love with a twelve year- old girl (a nymphet, as he calls her) and has a sexual relationship with her for over two years, until she disappears with another more perverse middle- aged man. What makes this novel particularly disturbing is the fact that Humbert's sexual perversion is disguised in highly poetic garb and that the only monitor of virtue is the gifted perver...
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Poetic Devices Poem
1,663 wordsComparison Essay? If I could only live at the pitch that is near madness, When everything is as it was in my childhood? This statement in the? Ode? is a common theme between the two poems. The poems being If I Could Only Live At The Pitch That Is Near Madness by Richard Eberhart and Ode: Intimations Of Immortality From Recollections Of Early Childhood written by William Wordsworth. A contrast between the two poems is the time period which both these poems were written. The romantic period verses...
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Dulce Et Decorum Est Iambic Pentameter
1,781 wordsHistory has taught us that no other war challenged existing conventions, morals, and ideals in the same way World War I did. World War I saw the mechanization of weapons (heavy artillery, tanks), the use of poison gas, the long stalemate on the Western Front, and trench warfare, all of which resulted in the massive loss of human life. We must remember not only that the battle casualties of World War I were many times greater than those of World War II, wiping out virtually a whole generation of ...
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge Kubla Khan
5,574 wordsIf Kubla Khan Kubla Khan If a man could pass thro Paradise in a Dream, &# 038; have a flower presented to him as a pledge that his Soul had really been there, &# 038; found that flower in his hand when he awoke Aye! and what then? (CN, iii 4287) Kubla Khan is a fascinating and exasperating poem written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (. Almost everyone who has read it, has been charmed by its magic. It must surely be true that no poem of comparable length in English or any other language has been the...
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African American Experience Langston Hughes
2,151 wordsWhat was the dream that brought our ancestors to America? It was rebirth, the craving for men to be born again, the yearning for a second chance. With all of these ideas comes the true American dream Freedom. This is the condition in which a man feels like a human being. It is the purpose and consequence of rebirth. Throughout the life of Langston Hughes he presented ideas in his writings that help to define his perception of the American dream. In beginning, Langston Hughes was born on February...
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African American Experience Weary Blues
1,610 wordsOne distinctive mark of the great writing of the Harlem Renaissance includes the development of a creative voice that both explains Black history and pain and transforms this explanation into High art, despite its association with Low people. Some writers, such as Langston Hughes, attempt this transformation by seeking to elevate the sense of crudeness associated with blackness. In many ways, Hughes sets the standard for this distinctive mark: his writing consistently exhibits a voice that embra...
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Clich Sexual Desires
2,760 wordsVladimir Nabokov, one of the 20 th century's greatest writers, is a highly aesthetic writer. Most of his work shows an amazing interest in and talent for language. He deceptively uses language in Lolita to mask and make the forbidden divine. Contextually, Lolita may be viewed as a novel about explicit sexual desire. However, it is the illicit desire of a stepfather for his 12 -year old stepdaughter. The novels subject inevitably conjures up expectations of pornography, but there in not a single ...
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Quot Quot Vita Nuova
5,136 words" Mantis, " like so much of Zukofsky's work, both reflects his tuition in the " school of Pound" and demonstrates the extent to which he brings a self-consciousness beyond Pounds to that tradition. Like Pounds " Sestina: Altaforte, " " Mantis" is a sestina, a seven-stanza poem in a form invented by Dantes " million faber, " the Troubadour Arnaut Daniel. The requirements of the form are clearly specified and rigorously bind the poet. There is no c...
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Belle Dame Sans Merci Quot Quot
5,864 wordsElizabeth H. Davis In nearly all transformations of syllabics, deletion disturbs the stanzas into free verse. That process is physically evident in typescripts of " To a Snail" and " A Grave. " pivotal typescript / manuscript of " A Grave" also shows the close relationship between excision and free verse (Rosenbach I: 02: 14). The key syllabic draft, itself a revision, begins the same way the final draft does? " Man looking into the sea. " Four types of mar...
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Quot Quot Walt Whitman
9,003 wordsOn " Out Of The Cradle Endlessly Rocking" On " Out Of The Cradle Endlessly Rocking" Helen E. Price One day, in 1858, I think, [Whitman] came to see us, and after talking awhile on various matters, he announced, a little diffidently I thought, that he had written a new piece. In answer to our inquiries, he said it was about a mocking bird, and was founded on a real incident. My mother suggested that he bring it over and read to us, which he promised to do. In some doubt in spi...
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Poem Quot Mind Quot
1,345 wordsRobert Kern In a more recent poem, on the other hand, Snyder seems to go to the opposite extreme, offering an explicit, self-conscious instance of metonymic closure that underlines rather than hides the differences between the poem as a poem and its sources in external experience. At the end of " Straight-Creek Great Burn, " the poet sees (or hears) " A whoosh of birds" fly up into the sky. Their flying is " all apart" and yet also " of one... mind, " and ...
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Quot Quot Barrett Browning
6,421 wordsIn On " Sisters" Annette Kolodny In many ways, Amy Lowell anticipated the recent feminist critique of Bloomian poetics when, in 1925, she applied his question " For why do men write poems? " to " we women who write poetry" : Taking us by and large, were a queer lot We women who write poetry. And when you think How few of us there been, its queerer still. I wonder what it is that makes us do it. She explains why there have been so few women poets by noting that women...
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