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Bedroom Values in Victorian Times and in the Present in “Victoria’s Secret”
Literature
Poetry
Victorian Era
Charles Martin’s poem, “Victoria’s Secret,” presents a witty dichotomy between bedroom values in Victorian times and in the present. Martin first paints for his readers a picture of women’s sexuality in the Victorian times: Women were to lie perfectly flat when their husbands were “getting it off on them” (line 2). They were even urged…
Go and Catch a Falling Star Analysis
Literature
Myth
Poetry
John Donne wrote the poem “Song: Go and catch a falling star” to express his thoughts on the faithfulness of women. Through imagery, diction, allusion, sound effects, and tone, Donne creates a captivating language that adds depth to the poem. In line 5, the use of the word “mermaid” refers to a mythical creature, representing…
“Lady Lazarus” Sylvia Plath’s Analysis
Emotions
Metaphor
Poetry
Sylvia Plath
How far will one let their obsessions, weaknesses and feelings get the best of them? This is the key question to Sylvia Plath’s poem, Lady Lazarus. While the poem works as an extended metaphor of Plath’s psychosocial journey from the age of ten onwards, as she writes about her near death experiences every decade; Plath…
Poetry Analysis Buffet Etiquette
Etiquette
Poetry
As a child, the speaker was heavily influenced by his native culture, but, over the years the he has become more integrated with U. S. Ultra, which has thus caused him to lose identity of himself, and even become a stereotype for Asian Americans. The central purpose of this poem is to show hat if…
This Land Is Your Land, Woody Guthrie Analysis
Folk Music
Folklore
Poetry
Reason
Song
The poem “This Land is Your Land” by Woody Guthrie is originally a seven stanza poem that is often cut short in the recorded versions known to many. The poem’s main element is imagery of America’s landmarks to exorcise an emotion out of the reader. The first four stanzas have a much more celebratory tone…
Analysis of Poetry and Literary Devices
Attention
Irony
Literature
Poetry
Humanity and individuals naturally crave attention and personal gratification. This leads younger individuals to seek attention through any means possible, without considering that the attention might be short-lived and unsustainable. In his poem ‘Betting on a Muse’, Charles Bukowski brilliantly delves into the troubling concept of irrelevancy and the reversal of fortune. He skillfully compares…
Biography of American Poet Edward Estlin Cummings
Literature
Poetry
Robert Frost
Edward Estlin Cummings was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1894. He received his B.A. in 1915 and his M.A. in 1916, both from Harvard. During the First World War, Cummings worked as an ambulance driver in France, but was interned in a prison camp by the French authorities (an experience recounted in his novel, The…
Marvell Research Paper: To His Coy Mistress
Literature
Poetry
Andrew Marvell wrote his short verse form To His Coy Mistress in a certain manner to have the reply that he wanted out of his kept woman. Marvell uses metre, imagination, and tone to carry his lady to farther commit in their relationship. This verse form has a really strong carpe diem, or prehend the…
“Icarus”, “Landscape with the Fall of Icarus”, “Waiting for Icarus” Sample
Literature
Myth
Poetry
Icarus is a character in Grecian myth. Harmonizing to the myth he and his male parent fly with wings that his male parent made out of wax and plumes. They are seeking to get away from a average male monarch. Icarus’ male parent warns him non to wing to shut to the Sun or the…
The Poetic Style of e.e. Cummings Analysis
Literature
Poetry
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are,” no one could say it better than Edward Sistine Cummings, aka e. E. Cummings. Poet William Carols Williams said that “Cummings means my language,” meaning that Williams enjoyed the way Cummings wrote poetry (Citation). It didn’t take long for Cummings to become “who…
| description | The Poetry Foundation is a Chicago-based American foundation created to promote poetry in the wider culture. It was formed from Poetry magazine, which it continues to publish, with a 2003 gift of $200 million from philanthropist Ruth Lilly. |
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| quotations | “All poets, all writers are political. “Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.” —Virginia Woolf. “Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.” —Rita Dove. |
| information | Founded: January 1, 2003 Headquarters location: Chicago, IL Key people: Michelle Boone, President Formerly called: Modern Poetry Association |
