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3,774 wordsColeridge and the Explosion of Voice Coleridge is so often described in terms which are akin to the word, " explosive, " and by all accounts he was at times an unusually dynamic, charismatic and unpredictable person. His writings themselves could also be termed " explosive" merely from their physical form; a fragmented mass, some pieces finished but most not, much of his writing subject to procrastination or eventual change of mind. Today I want to address a moment in his lif...
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Phrase Quot Poem Quot
792 wordsIn C. K. Williams " Grief, " the speaker explores the all too common experience of losing a loved one. The speaker describes the pain involved in sitting helplessly by, only able to watch, while another human being slowly withdraws into death. The poem " Grief, " like many of C. K. Williams poems, is a maelstrom of memories, thoughts, emotions, and other human experiences. In this particular poem, the speaker is torn by the slow death of his elderly mother. His attempts to co...
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Prose Poem Poem Quot
1,459 wordsHass On Prose Poems, Political Poetry, And Hass On Prose Poems, Political Poetry, And " Russia En 1931 " Excerpts from an interview with Hass by the Iowa Review in 1991 Question: Why a prose poem, and what is a prose poem? Hass: I havent arrived for myself at any very satisfactory formulation of what a prose poem is. Certainly it has something to do with condensation... I dont know how to define it in terms of genre, and when I was working, I guess I just stopped trying to think about ...
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Poem Quot Winter Sundays
722 wordsIn Response to " Those Winter Sundays" Being a child, is one of the hardest stages of ones life. They go through doing all the wrongs in order to do the right, and they socially develop into a mature and sensible human being. During this stage of a young childs life, the roles of parenting are absolutely crucial. In the poem " Those Winter Sundays" by Robert Hayden, I get a sense that the narrator does not have a special bond with his father, and that there is a sense of fear...
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Quot Quot Norton Anthology
1,268 wordsWhile reading a poem the skills applied in its creation are often easily overlooked. However, it is the unsurpassed mastership of these skills what makes this particular poet the most deserving recipient of this years prestigious POTY award. John Keats possesses un parallel poetic craftsmanship. Three of his poems: " On First Looking into Chapman's Homer, " " When I have fears, " and " Ode to Autumn" reveal his genius ness at the art of poetry. The first poem: "...
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Poem Quot Love Quot
577 wordsKenyon And Hall " Everlasting Love" Essay, Research Kenyon And Hall " Everlasting Love" The poems that are depicted in the book by Hall and the book by Kenyon are different in their topics and expression of their ideas. Though these poets seem to be different in their work; they both seem to share a common thread. That thread is the love that Hall and Kenyon have for each other. This is shown in the poem " Alone for a Week" by Jane Kenyon and an untitled poem from p...
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Quot Quot Langston Hughes
4,989 wordsOnwuchekwa Jemie " Christ is a nigger" in two senses: in the historical sense as a brown-skinned Jew like other Jews of his day, with a brown-skinned mother both later adopted into the white West and given a lily-white heavenly father; and in the symbolic sense of Jesus as an alien presence, preaching an exacting spirituality, a foreign religion as it were, much as the black man, with his different color and culture, is an alien presence in the South. Each is a scapegoat sacrificed for...
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Poem Quot Western World
441 wordsHeather A. Hathaway From the moment of his arrival in the United States in 1912, then, to the beginning of his twelve year excursion abroad in 1922, McKay struggled to find a place for himself in America. Many of the poems that he wrote during this period reflect a profound and distressing alienation from his adopted culture. His well-known poem " Outcast, " perhaps most poignantly reveals the multitude of allegiances he sought, only to find himself in the end alone, " far from [h...
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3,688 wordsThomas R. Whitaker " Portrait of a Lady, " which is really another paradoxical self-portrait, amusingly renders the descending movements of that fiber of swift attention with which Kora in Hell was primarily concerned The descent, of course, is not merely visual. The poem moves, through interior dialogue, from an easy formalized tribute toward a more disturbing contact. The witty and sentimental style of Watteau or of Fragonard (whose " The Swing" does leave a slipper hanging...
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Quot Quot Sylvia Plath
3,209 wordsIn On " Stings" Jeannine Dobbs In " Stings" (Ariel), she identifies with both the drones and the queen, and reveals the conflict between her domestic and her potiche queenly selves: I stand in a column Of winged, un miraculous women, Honey-drudgery. I am no drudge Though for years I have eaten dust And dried plates with my dense hair. And seen my strangeness evaporate... They thought death was worth it, but I Have a self to recover, a queen. But even had she wished it, the re...
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6,573 wordsOn " The Creation" And Gods Trombones Essay, On " The Creation" And Gods Trombones EXPLANATION: " The Creation" Line This version of the story of creation offers an image of God who is more like humans than traditional Old Testament portrayals of Him. God is sometimes referred to as " the uncaused cause" or " the prime mover, " indicating that the actions of God cannot be traced to any previous reason, as part of the definition of God. But Johnso...
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Quot Quot Manifest Destiny
2,583 wordsAlbert J. Von Frank The ominous thirteenth line of Robert Frosts " The Gift Outright" is made to appear all the more ominous by its entire lack of tonal and grammatical relationship with any thing else in the poem, an isolation signalled, of course, by the parentheses. Almost by itself this line justifies Frosts own characterization of the poem as being " about Revolutionary War, " rather than, in a more general way, about the forming of a spiritual commitment to the land. Om...
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T S Eliot Quot Quot
9,144 wordsCleanth Brooks The bundle of quotations with which the poem ends has a very definite relation to the general theme of the poem and to several of the major symbols used in the poem. Before Arnaut leaps back into the refining fire of Purgatory with joy he says: " I am Arnaut who weep and go singing; contrite I see my past folly, and joyful I see before me the day I hope for. Now I pray you by that virtue which guides you to the summit of the stair, at times be mindful of my pain. " This ...
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East Of Eden James Dean
1,252 wordsBrad Gooch The subject OHara was fascinated with that fall was the death of James Dean, aged twenty-four, on September 30, 1955, in a crash in his Porsche Spyder near Paso Robles on his way to Salinas for a race. OHara responded by writing a number of elegies from October through the following April. " For James Dean, " written the Wednesday after the crash, shows the influence of classical elegies, which the movie stars death had inspired OHara to read, including Milton's " Lycid...
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Viet Cong Poem Quot
1,232 wordsAlvin Aubert (1993) Especially relevant to the present discussion is the poem " Tu Do Street, " from Dien Cai Dau, with its titular punning on " two door. " An implicit distinction is drawn in the poem between the Gis quest for sexless or pre-sexual socialization in the bars and their quest for sex in other rooms, for although the black Gis are shunned by the mama-sans and bar girls in the bars frequented by the white Gis, " deeper into alleys, " in off-limit areas,...
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1,314 wordsTaking the High Road " The unexamined life is not worth living, " In The Apology, Socrates relates that the most important goal in life is the improvement of the soul. We should search others, our environment, and ourselves so that we may come to a better understanding of the world. The Parable of the Cave tells of the journey that Socrates was trying to relate, in that each person is faced with different realities as we travel to try and reach " the intellectual world. " Thi...
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900 wordsPaul Revere was an American patriot who, in 1775, carried news to Lexington of the approach of the British. He warned the patriot leaders, Samuel Adams and John Hancock of their danger and called the citizens of the countryside to arms. This was the inspirations of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem " Paul Reveres Ride" . (Martin 266 - 267) In 1175, King George III instructed General Thomas Gage, the British commander in chief in Massachusetts, to enforce order among the rebellious colo...
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2,618 wordsThroughout the 20 th century, Robert Bly has provided a wealth of poetry on a wide variety of topics. Alongside his themes, Robert Bly has also developed different stylistic methods to convey those thoughts. Such themes vary to this day, dealing with issues that have personally affected him, and also those of society in general. His poetry is a time-line pondering solitude, the Vietnam War, nature, frustration and relationships among all sorts, conveyed not only in conventional stanzas, but in a...
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1,058 wordsRomanticism began in the mid- 18 th century and reached its height in the 19 th century. The Romantic literature of the nineteenth century holds in its topics the ideals of the time period, concentrating on emotion, nature, and the expression of " nothing. " The Romantic era was one that focused on the commonality of humankind and, while using emotion and nature; the poets and their works shed light on peoples universal natures. Romanticism as a movement declined in the late 19 th cent...
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1,357 wordsLeslie Martin Silko is a Laguna Pueblo Indian who has written many novels and poems in her lifetime. One of these poems, " Storytelling, " is very interesting to me. This poem excites me because it tells of the impact that storytelling has on people in Laguna culture. I will analyze and explore many parts of this poem. One of these subjects is theme. The theme of " Storytelling" is actually the art of storytelling. Another aspect of the poem I will look at is tension. There i...
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