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Building Ties and Surrendering Wings
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The poem A Noiseless Patient Spider by Walt Whitman and Robert Frost’s Design find common ground in their main character: a spider. The structures of the poems are the same in that they have two stanzas, with the first one introducing the spider by way of description. The second stanzas make way for reflection, with…
esthetic Similarities in Women’s and African American Poetry
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Women’s poetry and African American poetry are similar in emphasizing the significance of ‘identity’ and in addressing a larger audience beyond the identities established within the poetic paradigms. Anne Sexton, Sylvia Plath, Robert Hayden, and Michael S. Harper seek to address conflicts of gender and racial identities but their poetic aesthetics transcend chasms created by…
A Detached Observation of Society? – Carol Ann Duffy Poetry Analysis
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To be detached means to be excluded from society and to observe it without any emotional investment. Despite Carol Ann Duffy frequently portraying detached personas in her poems and exploring themes of isolation, loneliness, and mistreatment by society, I believe that she herself is not entirely detached. Her poem “Education for Leisure” serves as an…
Major Thematic Concerns in Frost’s Poetry
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Robert Frost, throughout his years writing poems, has always been examining various aspects of life which interests him. Even the most mundane event can be viewed by Frost in a new light, granting him new insights into the very cruz of human living, which would be the relationship of humanity and nature, the relationship between…
‘In the New Landscape’ and ‘Your Attention Please’
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Both “In the new landscape” by Bruce Dawe and “Your Attention Please” by Peter Porter are all right illustrations of Bad Fiction worthy of being in a Year Nine anthology for 2012. The verse forms are in-depth hypotheses of what society will eventuate excessively. leting the reader to chew over the manner of life in…
In The Literary Composition, “The Word Plum”
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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…
Poetry Research Paper
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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…
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…
Fleas – Subject for Humorous and Amatory Love Poetry at the Renaissance
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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…
| 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 |
