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Elements of Poetry: Order for Mask
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Speaker: The Speaker is adult female portraying three different functions ( SISTER. DAUGHTER and LOVER ) Audience: The shaper of the masks is the audience. Content: The verse form is all about a adult female who is playing three functions. She shapes her behaviour. action and personality in conformity to the demands of the work…
In The Literary Composition, “The Word Plum”
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Poetry
Word
By Helen Chasin, samples alliteration and rhetorical devices to bring the subject of a plum, to life. In the beginning line, Chasin begins with a basic description of the word plum: “The word plum is delicious” (line 1). The fascinating thing is, she is not even describing the fruit, but the word. The word delicious consist of the letter “L”, as does the word plum, and which creates a harmony between the…
Universality in Confessional Poetry Analysis
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Confessional poetry, its significance and merits, has held a focal place in English literary criticism. It is a term primarily given to the self-disclosure mode of writing and “use of intimate subject matter adopted and pioneered in America by Robert Lowell” in the late 1950s. (Drabble, M. and Stringer, J. 2003) My thesis proposes to…
Skunk Hour by Robert Lowell Analysis
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Poetry analysis: Skunk Hour, by Robert Lowell In beginning of “Skunk Hour” (the first four stanzas to be more precise), Robert Lowell gives the sense of a Maine sea town that is slowly declining. For example, lines 4 through 6 state the following: “Her farmer / is first selectman in our village; / she’s in…
Coleridge And The Explosion Of Voice
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Romanticism
William Wordsworth
Coleridge is so often described in termswhich are akin to the word, “explosive,” and by all accounts he was attimes an unusually dynamic,charismatic and unpredictable person. His writingsthemselves could also betermed “explosive” merely from their physicalform; a fragmented mass, some pieces finished but most not, much of his writingsubject to procrastination or eventual change of…
Fleas – Subject for Humorous and Amatory Love Poetry at the Renaissance
Poetry
My copy of the poem notes that “Fleas were a popular subject for jocosehumorous and amatorylove poetry in all countries at the Renaissance”. Their popularity stems from an event that happened in a literary salon (a place where poets and others came to recite poetry and converse). The salon was run by two ladies, and…
Poetry Research Paper
Poetry
THE Dance The vocal The Dance was written by Country Music star Garth Brooks in 1989. To Garth The Dance has many significances, such as a love gone bad or life. He truly thinks that it is about the loss of the people who gave up their life as an ultimate forfeit. Some of these…
James Weldon Johnson Analysis
Poetry
James Weldon Johnson was a writer, diplomat, professor, and editor, who also described himself as a man of letters and a civil rights leader. Even though he is no longer living, James Weldon Johnson has left much about his contributions to African American literature. Johnson was born June 17, 1871 in Jacksonville, Florida to James…
How does Armitage make the writing so disturbing in gooseberry season?
Poetry
How does Simon Armitage’s writing make the Violence so disturbing in Gooseberry Season? “Gooseberry Season” is a poem that can be interpreted as blunt and edgeless. This impression is set by the poem’s lack of imagination and visualization. Gooseberry season entails the victim’s last few weeks as he outstays his “vacation” at the narrator’s house….
Importance of Poetry
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“Poetry may do us from clip to clip a little more cognizant of the deeper. nameless feelings which form the substrate of our being. to which we seldom penetrate ; for our lives is largely a changeless equivocation of ourselves. ” ‘ T. S. Eliot. Poetry. merely as in other literature contributes a major function…
| 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 |
