Kubla Khan Interpretative Approaches "The poem itself is below criticism"‚ declared the anonymous reviewer in the Monthly Review (Jan 1817); and Thomas Moore‚ writing in the Edinburgh Review (Sep 1816)‚ tartly asserted that "the thing now before us‚ is utterly destitute of value" and he defied "any man to point out a passage of poetical merit" in it.2 While derisive asperity of this sort is the common fare of most of the early reviews‚ there are‚ nevertheless‚ contemporary readers whose response
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ODE TO AUTUMN John Keats This poem‚ an ode‚ is the last of Keats’ odes. In it‚ the poet exhibits a rich mood of serenity by describing autumn as a season of mellow fruitfulness – a season of ripeness and fulfillment. This ode is known for its remarkable sensuous beauty that is crafted by employment of several visual‚ tactile and auditory imageries together with the personification of autumn as a woman engaged in various autumnal activities. In the first stanza‚ the poet has described the
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Kalie Juarez Dr. Ward ENGL 2312 19 February 2013 Ode to a Nightingale In “Ode to a Nightingale‚” the most evident characteristic of Romanticism is the feeling and emotion. This is portrayed since the beginning: “My heart aches‚ and a drowsy numbness pains / My sense‚ as though of hemlock I had drunk‚ / Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains” (lines 1-3). The speaker feels as though he has been poisoned or drugged since he can not see the nightingale. The birds’ song has this paralyzing effect
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Ode to Nightingale Many aspects go into understanding the deeper meaning behind a romantic poem; figurative language and diction contribute to the underlying story that life seems immoral until death actually occurs or is caused. In the romantic poem‚ “Ode to Nightingale‚” by John Keats the use of figurative language adds to the readers’ comprehension of the poem. It allows readers to open their minds to what Keats is really trying to get across in his poem. In life some people have the desire
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Coleridge Jackson Coleridge Jackson is a narrative poem written by a black American woman named Maya Angelou‚ she was born on April 4th‚ 1928 and lived throughout the struggle for black equality‚ the poem outlines the struggle of a black man who is belittled by his white boss‚ I think the poem was written to gain support and sympathy for black Americans in their steps for equality. The first line is very powerful‚ it uses a statement of fact that immediately puts an image of coleridge in the readers
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suggest that John Keats writes about a typical day of this season‚ describing all kind of colourful and detailed images. But before commenting on the meaning of the poem‚ I will briefly talk about its structure‚ its type and its rhyme. The poem is an ode[1] that contains three stanzas‚ and each of these has eleven lines. With respect to its rhyme‚ To Autumn’ does not follow a perfect pattern. While the first stanza has an ABABCDEDCCE pattern (see the poem on the next page)‚ the second and the third
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LWB138 Fundamentals of Torts Notes and Outline (ISAACS) Semester 1‚ 2008 Matthew Robinson Table of Contents Week 1: Introduction to Torts and Causes of Action 3 Purpose of the Law of torts 3 What is a Tort? 3 The Development of Torts 3 The Role of Torts 3 Insurance 4 Persons able to sue and be sued 4 Classifications of Causes of Actions 4 Trespass Actions 4 Actions on the case 5 Options between trespass and action on the case 5 Trespass to person 6 Battery 6 Assault 7 Defences
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COMPARE AND CONTRAST “ODE TO THE WEST WIND” AND “ODE TO A NIGHTINGALE” “Ode to the West wind” and “Ode to a Nightingale” are two of the main representative poems of the second generation of the Romantic period. Even though Shelley and Keats literary works are both lyric poems they portray some similarities as well as differences. To begin with‚ both poems share a similar genre‚ form and theme. First‚ it can be mentioned that both are odes since they are short lyric poems that have a complicated
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March 3‚ 2013 Summary/ Response Journal Entry 07 In comparing Samuel Taylor Coleridge‚ Percy Bysshe Shelley and John Keats I am privy to their very different worlds yet uniquely resembling epitomes in their writing(s). Coleridge‚ intellectually brilliant and highly learned‚ was a child prodigy. He was reading by the age of 3 and earned recognition for his writings in college (360) Shelley came from a wealthy aristocratic family English family.(395) He too gained recognition for his writings
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Concepts of Wordsworth Applied to Coleridge Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth were two very dominant Romantic Era poets. They published some of their writings together‚ and were very influenced by each other in their writing style. We see this in Coleridge’s contribution to Wordsworth‚ Biographia Literaria. In Biographia Literaria‚ Coleridge gives praise to Wordsworth’s brilliance in his writings and makes it known how much he looked up to Wordsworth. Coleridge goes into detail describing
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