In Langston Hughes’s poem titled “The Weary Blues”‚ the speaker describes an evening spent listening to a blues musician in Lenox Avenue‚ Harlem. With the help of certain poetic and acoustic techniques‚ the poem manages to evoke the same lamenting and woeful tone and mood of blues music. This essay will be a critical appreciation of this poem in which I will discuss it in the context of the Harlem Renaissance as well as examine how the Blues music functions as a means of articulating personal and
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The True Pre-Romantic Poets Poets can be considered Pre-Romantic base on subject matter‚ style‚ and ideas. The Age of Johnson was a time after Pope and Swift and before Romantic poets of the 1790’s. This period had three influential poets: Gray‚ Burns‚ and Blake. Gray‚ Burns‚ and Blake are all considered Pre-Romantic poets dude to their romantic matter‚ style‚ and ideas in their poems‚ Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard‚ To a Mouse‚ and The Chimney Sweeper. Gray’s Pre-Romanticism is clearly
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My favorite Poet Throughout the twenty one years of my life. I have had the privilege of knowing about many poets and dramatists. However‚ there is one particular poet whose name is etched in my memory. Whenever somebody asks about my favorite poet‚ his name will automatically flash into my mind. He is Michael Madhusudan Dutt‚ was a popular 19th century Bengali poet‚ dramatist and the first sonnet writer in Indian Subcontinent. Michael
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Homer the Greek Poet “The Greeks recognized Homer as the educator of all Greece”. Two long epic poems‚ the Iliad and the Odyssey were written by Homer. The Iliad and the Odyssey set the start of all Greek literature. The setting of the Iliad and the Odyssey is in ancient Greece in the time frame at around 1200 B.C‚ up to 500 years after the Trojan War took place. In Homer’s poem he sometimes mentioned the name of some Greek gods. “The Olympian gods as Homer represented them became accepted all over
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Tennyson as a Victorian Poet Alfred‚ Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) achieved‚ what so many poets and writers throughout the centuries were unable to achieve‚ fame and success during his lifetime. Indeed‚ in 1850‚ after the publication of “In Memoriam”‚ he was installed to the position of poet laureate. Tennyson not only distinguished himself by his work to date‚ but also honored with the responsibility of representing the state during its most solemn and celebratory occasions. As Poet Laureate‚ he represented
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Auden’s ‘Refugee Blues’ laments the plight of the Jews who were forced to flee Europe when the Holocaust started and they were rounded up and killed or imprisoned under the cruel regime of Hitler. The poem starts with a narrator‚ who is later revealed to be a German Jew‚ describing a large city which is home to ten million people some of whom are well off and live in luxurious large houses while others make do in slums and shabby houses. Yet‚ the narrator tells the person with him‚ presumably a
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Dead Poets Society Dead Poets Society visualizes the conflict between realism and romanticism as these opposing ideals are presented to the students at this single-sex boys’ preparatory school. Welton Academy is based on tradition and excellence and is known for its strict structured lessons formed by the realistic and anti-youth administration. Every time a new season begins‚ hundreds of parents leave their sons in the strict hands of Welton’s staff hoping they will end up prepared to educate
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Brenda Benson Letters to a Young poet by Rainer Maria Rilke Letters 1-5 Letters to a Young Poet‚ letter 1: “No one can advise or help you- no one. There is only one thing you should do. Go into yourself.” I believe this advice goes for anyone‚ but I can identify with this. The reason is that you really can’t depend on anyone‚ because the other person will not care for the situation or whatever the way you do. Many of times‚ where I thought I could seek for other for help‚ they hadn’t come
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Chopin considered as "The Poet of the Piano"? Music and poetry have a rhythmic and rhythm is the foundation to form these art form. They both engage the listeners and readers emotional level and they rely on the descriptive imagery. Music is simply poetry as they both share love‚ joy‚ sadness‚ or criticism of life. I regard Chopin to be the most magnificent phenomenon not only in the history of Polish poetry but in global art as a whole. – Julian Tuwim (Polish poet‚ 1894 – 1953) In romantic
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The Blue Bouquet I woke covered with sweat. Hot steam rose from the newly sprayed‚ redbrick pavement. A gray-winged butterfly‚ dazzled‚ circled the yellow light. I jumped from my hammock and crossed the room barefoot‚ careful not to step on some scorpion leaving his hideout for a bit of fresh air. I went to the little window and inhaled the country air. One could hear the breathing of the night‚ feminine‚ enormous. I returned to the center of the room‚ emptied water from a jar into a pewter
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