Stop All The Clocks, Cut Off The Telephone “Stop All the Clocks, Cut Off the Telephone ” Wystan Hugh Auden is known for writing poetry that says something truthful about life. In his poem, “Stop All the Clocks, Cut Off the Telephone ”, Auden writes of the importance of love in our life. The speaker in the poem has lost love in his life, and believes his life is meaningless without

Phenomenal Woman Strengths of a Woman Through the Looking Glass with Maya Angelou’s Poem “Phenomenal Woman”. As we go through life, we have many experiences such as reading poetry. It may not be fun all the time, but it is one of those things that, whether we can admit it or not, is a good experience for all of us. To write good poetry authors try to write what they know. Some write

Sunday Morning On Sunday Morning many religious people go to church. Other people just stay at home and watch television. Yet there are another people that are between these two groups. These people sit at their kitchen table and think about why they have to go to church to worship. In Wallace Stevens poem “Sunday Morning” the character is a woman at breakfast on a sunny Sunday mornin

Twelfth Night Twelfth Night: Counterpoint The theme of counter point engulfs the play the Twelfth Night. The story begins and ends on the axis of counterpoints. This theme is apparent throughout the cast and story line. In Illyria, a nobleman named Orsino lies depressed longing for the love of a noblewoman Lady Olivia. Orsino cannot have her because she is in mourning for her dead br

Survival “Survival” Hayden Carruth’s poem, “In the Long Hall” depicts the unraveling life of a man who sees his life crumbling before his eyes and is helpless to stop it. He tries to focus on moving his life forward, but is unable to forget the damage that he has created within himself. He is unable to stop his deterioration, due to the entrapment within his own mind. He is unable

The Candle everybody is born a candle. a bright, burning, candle. some people grow old, and their candle melts away. then they die. other people have their candles blown out. somebody eventually comes by, maybe on purpose, they blow the candle out. and the personkills themselves. maybe not on purpose, they sneeze, and the flame goes out, candles, themselves, purpose, may

Thanatposis Thanatopsis and The Bible In William Cullen Bryant’s early nineteenth century poem Thanatopsis, a collage of imagery and ideas surround a central theme of the cycle of life. Within this poem lies a story of great wonder and hope. The story is that of the afterlife in which Bryant conveys a lot of the same ideas of a majestic and heavenly paradise that are present in the Ch

Terence, This Is Stupid Stuff Terence, this is stupid stuff A.E. Housman’s “Terence, this is stupid stuff” is a poem that starts out as a friend of Terence talking to him, but it then shifts to Terence talking to his friends. Then shifts from a humorous tone to a more serious tone. It also shifts in setting, time, place, and idea. This poem demonstrates figurative language which

The Course of Time in Beowulf What singles out Beowulf among all the other works of Anglo-Saxon poetry is the way its poet handles time. Unlike the narrative mode of the heroic lay or the folktale in which time moves in a progressive linear sequence in Beowulf temporal relationships happen to be quite complex. It is not only the dimension of the time span in it but also the arrangement o

The Art Of Poetry The Art of Poetry “Ars Poetica” by Vincent Huidobro is an open style poem, which concerns the key elements of a poem, and what emotions should be evoked while reading this type of melodic literature. The poems key theme throughout each and every stanza deals with the type of images the mind should create while a poem is being read, and also the capabilities these im

The Characteristics Of The Metaphysical Poets What are the main characteristics of the metaphysical poets' (With reference to ‘The Flea’, ‘The Apparition’ and ‘To His Coy Mistress’) A characteristic is a distinguishing quality, attribute or trait applied to something to make it similar to something else. The two metaphysical poets that we will consider are John Donne and Andrew Mar

The Chivalry Of The Sea Robert Seymour Bridges was a physician and British Poet Laureate who wrote many of his works in the early twentieth century. In his poem titled The Chivalry of the Sea, Bridges reflects on Britain’s naval participation in World War I focusing particularly on the bravery of Britain’s young men as the bravery of the nation. Looking to the bleak landscape into whi

The Cloud The cloud is a poem by Percy Shelly that gives personality to the clouds. Infact the clouds are the narrator of the entire poem. It reminds us of how much the clouds actually playa part in our world though we take them for granted often. The cloud speaks about the different activities it partcicpates in during the day suck as watering the flowers with its rain. It describes

The Darker Side Of Beauty The Darker Side of Beauty George Byron’s poem titled, “She Walks in Beauty,” is a love poem about a beautiful woman and all of her features. The poem follows a basic iambic tetrameter with an unaccented syllable followed by an accented syllable. This pattern can be clearly seen when one looks at a line: She walks / in beau / ty like / the night. Within this

The Death Of Marylin Monroe “The Death of Marilyn Monroe” Each poem that is written holds a feeling to it only the author can experience from writing it. As each reader picks up that poem and reads it, it can be interpreted as a memory or a feeling only that person is familiar with. No person can relate to a poem the same way the person before them did. This is a small part of poetr

The Highwayman Language of Poetry. Alfred Noyes was born in Wolver Hampton on 16th September 1880. In 1896, he went to Exeter College, Oxford, where he distinguished himself at rowing. His first volume of poems was The Loom of Years (1902). The Highwayman, Noyes’s best-loved poem, is included in the volume Forty Singing Seamen and other poems. The poem is about a highwayman and his lo

The Early Cchooling Of Nicolas Vidal The early schooling of Nicolas Vidal The outlaw, Nicolas Vidal, in Allende’s “The Preacher’s Wife” is a key player in a story story devout with good and evil characters. Nicolas like any other child was not born of the dark side. Young Vidal was a product of wicked treatment at an early age. Key events such as a bad

An Analysis of Kate Chopin And Her Works “Free! Body and soul free!” Those are the great words written by the great American author, Kate Chopin in “The Story Of An Hour” in 1894. Her real life stories were her biggest influences in her literature and her unique themes. Perhaps one of her most famous works was her first novel, The Awakening. Some of her other works include “The Stor

The Flea In the poem, The Flea, John Donne demonstrates grief, shame, anxiety and pain with the touch of his pen. In the poem, the cry of a past abortion experienced by the man who impregnated a young and inexperienced girl touches and visits the many thoughts and feelings that young couples endure in such circumstances. Every line in the poem had a message of grief and disbelief; the

The Great American Poets The Great American Poets During the nineteenth century, many new authors blossomed in America. They strayed away from that of classical European literature, and instead created their own, unique form of literature. The most popular and greatly appreciated form of literature was poetry. America gave birth to several great poets during the nineteenth century

The Sick Rose Since everyone knows that William Blake was Virgina Woolf's son, it should come as no suprise that they share a postmodern sensibility. In Blake's poem, "The Sick Rose," the rose is a symbol for a tree. The worm which infects the rose symbolizes a plague of locusts that comes to kill the rose/tree. The existence of the worm/locusts is implicit in the very existence of th

The Importance Of Setting ABSENCE OF SETTING' Setting has tremendous effect on the emotions and actions of everyone, without exception, in everything that we do. In example, the choices you make to guide the events of your day will almost always be dependent on how you perceive the questions that come about. Your perception of these questions is solely based on the circumstances that

The Life Of Amy Lowell Best known for bringing the Imagist Movement to America during the age of Jazz, Amy Lowell also brought forth an undeclared sexual revolution for poetry in America. Born into a wealthy family of scholars in Brookline, Massacusetts she resided on 200 acres of land and was home schooled. In fact, she seldom left the estate without her parents It wasn’t until t

The Road Not Taken The reason I choose “The Road Not Taken” by the great Robert Frost is simply because I like this it. Not only is it written by Frost who is my favorite poet but is about being a nonconformist, which I think I am. In lines 18-20 “Two roads diverged in a wood, and I --I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.” Frost is trying to get the

The Life Of Carl Sandburg Carl Sandburg was born in Galesburg, Illinois on January 6, 1878. He lived to become a Pulitzer Prize winning poet and biographer of Abraham Lincoln, novelist, journalist, children's author, and troubador of American folk songs. He grew up in the fields of Illin

The Lotto Scott Croneberger Analyze the ritual described in this story. Of what significance is it that many of the customs formerly associated with this ritual have been forgotten' Why is Old Man Warner such a key character' What do you think the author is saying here about human nature' Social structures' Community standards' Family values' Beliefs' Men, women, and small childr

The Love Song Of J. Alfred Prufrock “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” is an extraordinary masterpiece by T.S. Eliot. Eliot may possibly give us the essence of twenty-first century poetry. Through the “Love Song,” Eliot expresses exuberant writing technique via random comments deposited together. Certainly much of what he writes is unrecognizably queer, but it is all emphatically amus

Robert Browning Robert Browning, one of the most talented poets of the Victorian period, is famous especially for his dramatic monologues. Often these long poems deal with such issues as love, death, and faith. Much of his work is directly reflective of his life and of those issues that were of direct concern to him. One conflict seen throughout Browning's poetry is one of spirituality.

The Raven The Raven This is my favorite piece of work done by Poe. It's a great poem. The raven is a dark gloomy poem about how he misses his love Lenore. This poem is about Lenore, who is his wife, who died of a hopeless illness. This poem is built around the word nevermore. I think the meaning behind this is that Poe will never see Lenore again and wishes some day he could but

The Raven THE RAVEN First published in the (New York) Evening Mirror in January, 1845, "The Raven" was an overnight sensation and remains the most popular and best known poem that Poe ever wrote. In fact, during the final years of his life, Poe was referred to as "the raven" and his readers often wove short passages of the piece or a simple "nevermore" into their daily talk. The poem is