‘The Waking’ is a contemporary jazz piece written by American vocalist‚ Kurt Elling‚ and features Theodore Roethke’s 1954 poem of the same title. Released in 2007 on the album Nightmoves‚ Elling uses musical techniques to enhance the message of Roethke’s poem. However‚ in order to understand the reasoning behind the devices Elling has used‚ the meaning of Roethke’s poem must first be discussed. Roethke wrote ‘The Waking’ after a series of intense poems such as ‘Praise to the End!’ and in it he
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The period of music that affects me more than others is romanticism. Starting from the humble beginnings of the French Revolution where reason and regard to the rights of individuals were at its peak of either falling or ascending. With the recognition of the newly found freedoms it’s not a surprise that the style of music and literature evolved. Enter Romanticism where the distinction between music was grand‚ where music had character‚ and where true life experiences could be told. That liberty
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“The Sublime” is a term used to describe to utter insignificance of man in comparison to the awe and greatness of nature. This term‚ a translation of Longinus’ “hypsos” has been described by philosopher Immanuel Kant as “ we gladly call these objects (nature) sublime because they elevate the strength of our own soul above its usual level...and give us the courage to measure ourselves against the apparent all-powerfulness of nature”. Many writers and artists‚ especially during the Romantic Era‚ have
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Throughout history flowers have been used as a form of cryptic communication to convey messages of love and interest which could not be spoken aloud. Today‚ flowers are often given as gifts because of their meaning which was established hundreds of years ago. Floriography‚ or the use of flowers to spread a message‚ died years ago. However‚ flowers still hold symbolic meaning in literature‚ art‚ and daily life. Shakespeare’s use of the language of flowers offers insight into the culture of the Victorian
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George Eliot a famous novelist once said‚ “Don’t judge a book by its cover”(The Mill on the Floss). Although the poems “Blue- Butterfly Day” by Robert Frost and “Mariposa”(meaning butterfly in Spanish) by Edna St. Vincent Millay may seem to be similar by their titles‚ the meanings of the two poems are completely different from each other. The two have differences through their word choice: Frost’s being positive and Millay’s being negative. Robert Frost’s diction creates a positive tone about butterflies
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Muir uses diction to make the essay come alive and exert power on the words as well as the tone that makes us follow all his steps in this essay. Muir use of diction makes us imagine in our head the purity of the flower: "The flower was white and made the impression of the utmost simple purity like a snowflower." purity has a positive connotation when we read this word in his essay we think of something pure it something that is clean and free from anything that can contaminate and an even be something
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Stretching across nearly all realms of Romanticism is the idea that individual freedom animates the imagination. I find that Samuel Taylor Coleridge explicitly expresses this query of thought in his poem “This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison.” In addition to Coleridge‚ many other members of the Romantic movement also engaged in imagination-centered writing. Conversely‚ the Enlightenment movement opposed encouraging individuals to utilize their imagination. Instead‚ the Enlightenment valued scientific conclusions
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Mary Oliver‚ an American poet‚ discusses her observations about the natural world in her book titled House of Light (1984). Her poems primarily embed a spiritual takeaway through the establishment of several speakers with varying personas. For example‚ in her poems “The Buddha’s Last Instruction‚” “Some Questions You Might Ask‚” and “White Owl Flies Into and Out of the Field‚” Oliver introduces three speakers which similarly examine the ideas of death and nature. There are plenty of rhetorical tools
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Langston Hughes’s‚ “Early Autumn‚” is an example of something that can happen in everyday life. The conflict in this story shows how one decision can result in a time of sadness. I believe the author uses the end of fall and the beginning of winter to show just how cold and empty the relationship is between the characters. It could represent that there was nothing to say‚ in the story it seemed like she was happier to see him than he was or maybe he was in shock. “The leaves fell slowly from
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To whom this may concern‚ When first hearing about the romantics I thought that there was going to be a lot of lovey dovey stuff but I was way off on my thinking. One of the major authors that we talked about was Edgar Allan Poe. He is a prime example of the romantics not being all lovey dovey. When reading Poe’s poems and short stories I got the feeling that it was dark and sad. Poe wrote about a lot of death and dark things. I think that this comes from his rough childhood and all the deaths
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