the english language. Some of the poignant (sharp‚ intense) religious lyrics in the language also belong to him. ROMANTIC LYRIC : The AUGUSTONS (artificial age) used exclusively the heroic couplet (A couplet of two lines of iambic pentameter with the same end rhymes and forming a logical whole. The heroic couplet was especially popular in the eighteenth century) and the little lyric poetry was written during this period of over 100 years.It was with the rise in romanticism that the lyrisc once
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THE SENTRY (January 1917) The Sentry’ is a poem which grows directly out of an isolated incident in the trenches. It is wholly characteristic of Owen in that it focuses on the fate of one private soldier‚ the eponymous ‘sentry’ who is blinded and maimed by a ‘whizz-bang’. It is an extremely moving poem‚ for the focus is not only on the sentry’s pitiful reaction to his injuries‚ but also on Owen’s own haunted recollection of them. The situation for the poem is ‘an old Boche dug-out’ which a party
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Title: An overview of “Sonnet 130” Author(s): Joanne Woolway Source: Poetry for Students. Detroit: Gale. From Literature Resource Center. Document Type: Critical essay [Joanne Woolway is a freelance writer who recently earned her Ph.D. from Oriel College‚ Oxford‚ England. In the following essay‚ Woolway analyzes how‚ in “Sonnet 130‚” Shakespeare “succeeds...in turning traditional poetic conventions around.” She also takes a close look at the ways Shakespeare’s versification—his skill patterning
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Olivia Hester Dr. Julia Griffin British Literature I March 12‚ 2015 Whoso list to hunt: Stalking vs. Admiring “Whoso list to hunt” is a Petrarch sonnet with fourteen lines written in iambic pentameter. It follows an abbaabba cddc ee rhyme scheme (Wyatt 649) instead of traditional Petrarch rhyme scheme of abbaabba cde cde (Petrarch 337). Wyatt’s poem is loosely based off of Petrarch’s original sonnet “Una candida cerva”. Both sonnets are about unattainable women and use the allusion of a doe to
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Compare the ways in which Blake and Larkin present the theme of corruption in their poems. William Blake and Phillip Larkin are very different poets; they have different techniques to convey their ideas but both skilfully are able to establish a connection with the audience through these different means. The two poets‚ despite being separated in time successfully convey even to a modern day reader the theme of corruption in their poems‚ concentrating on Blake’s “London” and “The Chimney Sweep” and
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when her ‘sterner desires’ for the future are described as ‘dark hopes’ which is an oxymoron. The use of an oxymoron shows the backwards nature of moving on and subconsciously‚ she knows that her hopes for the future are dark and empty. The internal rhyme of thee and me suggests that there is still a connection between a youthful self and future one‚ even if weak. Stanza five depicts her final tribute to him‚ strangely in the middle of the poem. The first line shows how ‘no other sun’ which is a metaphor
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Literature (from Latin litterae (plural); letter) is the art of written work. The word literature literally means: "things made from letters". Literature is commonly classified as having two major forms—fiction and non-fiction—and two major techniques—poetry and prose. Literature may consist of texts based on factual information (journalistic or non-fiction)‚ a category that may also include polemical works‚ biographies‚ and reflective essays‚ or it may consist of texts based on imagination (such
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is lines seven and eight that are probably the most salient lines in the poem. The lines state: Yet many a man is making friends with death Even as I speak‚ for lack of love alone. (7-8) Lines one through six have ten syllables each‚ using iambic pentameter. Line seven has eleven syllables unlike the previous six lines; is this difference intentional? I think that it is; the sonnet takes abrupt turn here‚ taking the reader in another direction. It is here that we realize the poem has a deeper message
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In my essay‚ I will explore and examine the types of love represented in pre and post 1914 love poetry. I will look at three post and three pre 1914 poems. The pre 1914 poems I will look at are First Love by John Clare‚ Porphyria’s Lover by Robert Browning and Sonnet 116 by William Shakespeare. The three post 1914 poems I will look at are Harry Pushed Her by Peter Jones‚ Long Distance by Tony Harrison and Valentine by Carol Duffy. Pre 1914 poems mainly describe love between a man and a woman as
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Thomas Gray wrote “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” in 1742‚ shortly after the death of his close friend Richard West who died from tuberculosis (“Gray‚ Thomas”). The death of his dear friend influenced him to write an elegy‚ which is a poem expressing sorrow or lamentation‚ especially towards one who has died (“Poetry for Students”). An elegy is usually a pensive or reflective poem that can be nostalgic or melancholy (“Elegy”). Gray uses figurative language and detailed description to get
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