Personally for me ‚ I felt more similarly to the Langston Hughes essay. The era the essay is written from might be another reason since it is more modern and easier to relate. Compared to the Gates essay it was easier to wrap my head around it. I was able to dissect the essay and see the true meaning you could say. The wording Huge used was also more modern and easier to understand. From my point of view I felt Hughes put more of his focus on the importance of culture. He wanted the present day african-americans
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Youth and Poetry Poetry by definition is the art of writing that shows more imagination and deep feeling that ordinary speech. Poetry is a set of sensual words with deep meaning‚ but for some reason young people do not appreciate it. Hugh Maclennan states‚ "For without poetry these youths were poor.” He was referring to a group of teenagers he encountered‚ but this statement can be directed to the majority of youths today. Poetry is dead in our lives‚ and without knowing what it is
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direction of the tide of Confessionalism. Yet‚ not as wholeheartedly as Anne Sexton did‚ or was pensive restraint as W. D. Snodgrass or with as formidable gusto of self-aggrandizement with which John Berryman exposed himself in his “Dream Songs” and “Love and Fame”. Plath’s early poems like “Point Shirley” and “Hard Castle Crags” are purely autobiographical in nature and confessional in character. But her best poems like “Daddy”‚ “Lady Lazarus” have deeper connotations. As Brestin puts it: They deal
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’making California’. Gray comments on the changing appearance and nature of the town ’the place is becoming chrome’. The use of the word chrome suggests it as being simply a decorative finish‚ not worthy of holding great strength. It is becoming more modern and alike to american building styles‚ as the town now is reflecting qualities which would be regarded as American. The town being an example for general Australian society‚ presents the idea that as we lose our cultural identity‚ our sense responsibility
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UNIT 10 SPENSER’S POETRY - I Structure 10.0 10.1 10.2 Objectives Introductioil 10.1.1 The Sonnet 10.1.2 The Courtly Love Tradition and Poetry The Alnoretti Sonnets 10.2.1 Sonnet 34 10.2.2 Sonnet 67 10.2.3 Sonnet 77 Let’s Sum Up Questions for Review Additional Reading 10.3 10.4 10.5 10.0 OBJECTIVES The intent of this unit is to: 4 4 4 4 Provide the student with a brief idea about the Amoretti sonnets in general. Familiarize the student with a select few of Spenser’s sonnets‚ specifically
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Amber Brewer Dr. Fussell ENGL 1302 April 8‚ 2011 “The lesson of the moth” Analysis by Don Marquis The title of this poem by Don Marquis is "The Lesson of the Moth" because it is a poem about the thoughts of a moth and his outlook on life. The overall poem would be considered argumentative being the moth is trying to inform the man that he should live his life and let his hair down a little more instead of relishing the everyday routines of life. This is shown in paragraph 3 when the moth says
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WASTELAND. The poem was written in 1922 immediately after the first World War and the poet makes a statement on the decadence and degradation in human values that had led to the war.It is a masterpiece of modernist poetry written in five sections. Europe is alluded to as the modern wasteland and the poem is largely located in London and the river Thames. The protagonist in the poem is Tiresias‚ the blind prophet of Thebes who had to convey to Oedipus the meaning of the riddle connected with
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Allusion “Sonnet” Sonnet by bill Collins is a great example of modern day sonnets. The sonnet has everything that a sonnet should acquire to be considered a sonnet. In this sonnet Bill Collins seems to criticize the sonnet form of Shakespeare. Also‚ in the sonnet of Bill Collins he puts many allusions in his sonnets. For example‚ in the beginning of the sonnet where he mentions in an alliteration form in line 3 where you get the allusion of the story troy; to launch a little ship on love’s storm-tossed
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Tension in Poetry John Orley Allen Tate Many poems that we ordinarily think of as good poetry -- and some‚ besides‚ that we neglect -- have certain common features that will allow us to invent‚ for their sharper apprehension‚ the name of a single quality. I shall call that quality tension. In abstract language‚ a poetic work has distinct quality as the ultimate effect of the whole‚ and that whole is the “result” of a configuration of meaning which it is the duty of the critic to examine and
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from another person’s perspective. Next‚ taking that evaluation to imagine what others judge based off of that image. Lastly‚ taking in all the judgments to receive a certain feeling or reaction to that image. In the poem by T.S. Eliot titled‚ “The Love Song of J. Alfred
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