How does Donne treat physical and spiritual love in his works? Answer: As a Metaphysical poet‚ Donne often uses physical love to evoke spiritual love. Indeed‚ this metaphysical conceit in much of the love poetry is not explicitly spelled out. To this end‚ Donne’s poetry often suggests that the love the poet has for a particular beloved is greatly superior to others’ loves. Loving someone is as much a religious experience as a physical one‚ and the best love transcends mere physicality. In this
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1. What metaphors does Holmes use to describe the ship in stanzas one and two of "Old Ironsides"? “The meteor of the ocean air” in stanza 1 and “The eagle of the sea!” In stanza 2. 2. In 1830‚ the 44-gun American warship Constitution‚ the inspiration for "Old Ironsides‚" was scheduled to be scrapped - that is‚ stripped of everything valuable or reasonable. What proposal is put forth by Holmes‚ in the last stanza of his poem? In the last stanza he states that if the ship should “die” in a sense
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Compare and contrast the ways in which the theme of isolation is presented and explored by Sebastian Faulks and T.S Eliot in ‘Engleby’ and ‘Selected Poems’. Throughout both ‘Engleby’ and ‘Selected Poems’ there is a prevailing sense of ‘apprehension of the tenuousness of human existence’ which is evident in the protagonists’ confining inability to communicate with the world around them‚ as seen in Prufrock’s agonised call‚ ‘so how should I presume?’. ‘The Wasteland’ was written by Eliot to ‘address
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Human Interest Human Interest is a poem written on the events of conflict‚ which I will analysis throughout. The poem is about a man who has killed his wife because she was having an affair. It is quite a serious poem‚ particularly in the first two stanzas. This is directly compromised with the amount of slang used in the poem‚ such as‚ “Banged Up” and “I slogged my guts out”. This makes the impression that the he has become mentally unbalanced by the murder of his wife. The poem‚ Human
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Rebecca Steele January 14‚ 2013 Poem Analysis Analysis of “Poetry” by Marianne Moore In the poem‚ Moore dissects the meaning and understanding of poetry. She tries to make a point of the importance and usefulness of poetry to a person. There is the mention that most people do not take the time to appreciate something of they do not understand it. From research on this poet I have discovered that she has a unique writing style that she is referencing in the poem. There are a few images in her
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Where I Come From - By Elizabeth Brewster The poem ‘Where I Come From’ by Elizabeth Brewster is about how a person is influenced by the environment he is brought up in‚ and how urban life and rural life differ from each other. The poet has used a very critical tone in this poem to convey how people are influenced by the places they have come from rural or urban. She has used a lot of visual imageries and metaphors to convey the busy lifestyle of the city. There is no rhyme scheme in the poem
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In Emily Dickinson’s poem “I am afraid to own a Body” the speaker primarily uses sound to posit the overall theme of the poem. More specifically‚ she uses incoherent and disjointed repetition (notably alliteration and assonance) and slant rhymes that scatter the poem but do not fall into any pattern to suggest her own inability to conform to expected or desired patterns of being a human. The background imagery of inheritance to which the poem alludes complements these expected patterns. The first
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“The Myopic Child” We all become different than others‚ meaning we grow-up. We might be 12 or even 34. But in some part of our life we become different than others. “The Myopic Child” by Yannis Ritsos describes perfectly how in that situations a person can be. If it’s confusing‚ you obviously didn’t grow up. Just kidding. The poet give us this poem and shows us how he lived his childhood but never really was living. The style of the poem is more of a confessional poem. He gives us words that describe
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I am my greatest piece of art and‚ similarly to poetry‚ I am relentlessly expressing myself. I remember the first time I created a piece of poetry that I actually enjoyed and felt proud of‚ as an artist. I never felt so in tune and so whole‚ perhaps when I am painting‚ when I delivered my poem out loud. It was senior year and I had the greatest literature professor who introduced me to the many poems mentioned in my essay that describe who I am. Poetry reflects who I am because it is a genre of strength
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“What the Snake Brings to the World” is a 2002 poem by the Canadian poet Lorna Crozier. The poem is free verse‚ with four stanzas of 6‚ 4‚ 4 and 9 lines respectively. The poem is riddled with Biblical allusions‚ with the “snake” being its focal point‚ making extensive comment on the nature and consequences of the aforementioned snake. A dominant reading of the poem outlines the duplicity of the nature of ‘evil’ and ‘sin’ and related consequences. An alternate reading of the poem conveys the idea
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