“Ode on Melancholy“ by Keats‚ stanza 3 line 3‚ “aching pleasure” is an example of oxymoron‚ 2 contradicting ideas together such as ache and pleasure. In “Ode to a Nightingale” by Keats‚ stanza 6 line 2‚ “easeful death” is an example of synesthesia that is when 2 senses opposing that would be the case of easeful as something easily and death‚ death is not something easy In “Ode to a Grecian Urn” by Keats‚ the is an instance of paradox and oxymoron to open Stanza 2‚ Keats praises the silent
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Fact sheet: La Belle Dame Sans Merci by John Keats This poem is about an ill knight‚ who is found by an anonymous person and asked why he is loitering in this withering place (stanzas 1-3). Then the knight tells his sad love story about a lady he once met in the meads and with who he instantly fell in love with. She took him to her grotto and revealed therefore her fairy origin. She fed him and talked in an incomprehensible language (stanzas 4-8). She lulled him asleep and he had a horrible nightmare
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Edgar Allan Poe Edgar Allan Poe‚ born in Boston‚ Massachusetts on January 19‚ 1809‚ was a great American short-story writer‚ poet‚ critic‚ and editor. Poe’s tales of horror and mystery brought alive the modern detective story‚ and the essence of his tales of horror is incomparable in American fiction. His poem‚ The Raven (1845)‚ is one of the best-known poems in literature.****cite Beginning with his short stories and poems‚ Edgar Allan Poe gained admiration of readers throughout the globe. Poe
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A Comparison of Nature in Romantic Poetry Wordsworth poetry derives its strength from the passion with which he views nature. Wordsworth has grown tired of the world mankind has created‚ and turns to nature for contentment. In his poems‚ Wordsworth associates freedom of emotions with natural things. Each aspect of nature holds a different meaning for Wordsworth. "The beauty of morning; silent‚ bare"‚ excerpt from "Composed on Westminster Bridge. A main source of interest for Wordsworth is the
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On the Grasshopper and Cricket By John Keats A grasshopper representing good times in the summer‚ and a cricket representing bad times that are associated with winter. In the first half of the poem ‘On the Grasshopper and Cricket’ Keats talks about the opulence of the summer season and deals with summer imagery and the grasshopper‚ similarly the second half is about the dullness of the winter season and deals with the cricket. “ How does Keats explore Romantic Ideals in his poem On the Grasshopper
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from his sermons and his mother ’s encouragement for E.E. to keep a diary starting at age five started to shape his craft at an early age (Revisited 11). Rebecca aspired for her son to be the next Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (the Cummings family lived across the street from the Longfellow home before E.E. was born) (Dreams 19). Edward Estlin was also a cubist painter in addition to being a poet. During World War I‚ E.E. Cummings was an ambulance driver in France and was imprisoned under the pretense
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relate to their characters more because of their human-like faults. Both Keats and Miller ruthlessly blur the lines to add realism but also to make their readers and audience consistently question who the characters can be characterized as‚ a victim or a villain. Miller also uses the blurring of the lines to show how mental health affects a person‚ that it leads to a raging fight between the “sanity” and the not. In Lamia Keats questions what love is and if the lier or the honest
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In a letter to a friend named Reynolds‚ Keats explained that he composed "To Autumn" because Somehow a stubble plain looks warm--in the same way that some pictures look warm--this struck me so much on my sunday’s [sic] walk‚ that I composed upon it. "To Autumn‚" the " perfect embodiment of poetic form‚ intent‚ and effect‚" is an ode‚ a serious and dignified lyric poem that adheres to a stanzaic form and is fairly long. Keats’s ode is divided into three eleven-line stanzas with the rhyme scheme
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Rip Van Winkle and Romanticism Rip Van Winkle is the main character of the story‚ described as a "simple and good natured man . . . . a kind neighbor‚ and an obedient‚ henpecked husband. (pg 39)" Rip was a favorite amongst the townsfolk because he helped everyone with their activities‚ but had‚ "an insuperable aversion to all kinds of profitable labor. (39)" He refused to work on his own house and property because everything would fall apart no matter what he did. He felt like all his wife did
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A Colorfully Masked World Color has the ability to do many things‚ including grabbing attention and forming appearances. It changes the way people or objects are seen‚ as it is visible to anyone. Without color the world would be dull and completely different from how it currently is. Colors define the appearance of an object or person in many ways and has to do with the light reflected by either of those and how it bounces back or is reflected towards the observer. Colors are able to change how things
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