Commentary- Blessing by Imtiaz Dharker Imtiaz Dharker’s poem describes rain as its blessing to a dry place‚ as the short direct sentences in the first stanza suggests there was no hope on that land: “There never is enough water.” The line shows the desperateness of rain as it sets a negative tone to start the poem. However‚ as the poem progress‚ there was an increase in hope and energy‚ seen from the energetic and positive language such as‚ “rush”‚ “bursts”‚ “crashes” and “roar”. These are
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When his father lay dying‚ the Welsh poet‚ Dylan Thomas‚ wrote one of the immortal poems of our time‚ “Do not go gentle into that good night.” In it he urges his father: “Do not go gentle into that good night‚ Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage‚ rage against the dying of the light. Though wise men at their end know dark is right‚ Because their words had forked no lightning they Do not go gentle into that good night.” In the last question to Yudhishtra at the lakeside‚ the Yaksha asks:
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Perhaps‚ no excitement offered by poetry can be greater than that of its seemingly spontaneous creation. But we are all conditioned to the idea of similar possibilities religious revelation or falling in love or experiencing some kind of trauma or through what we have observed in others. Some poets have recorded what they had heard or seen and found an outlet for these through their poems. One cannot question in any way the reality of the experience of poetic inspiration. There is every possibility
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The Poet Gerald Manley Hopkins was a Jesuit Priest. The Poem was written in 1880.He was an English man. He was a 19th century Poet. He got Fame after his death. According to Poet Spring is a sign of fresh life or new birth and Fall means biblical fall of man from grace which led to his mortality. In “Spring and Fall‚" Hopkins explains to a child that we all age and die. That Margaret‚ like all of us‚ must deal with this fact and not let the knowledge of it hold her back from life. This is a message
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"The Night is Darkening Round Me" is about a speaker who is attacked by the tyrannical nature. Different powers of nature are confining him and making him unmoved and tied. He describes them vividly and how each one of them approaches him threateningly. The atmosphere of the poem is gloomy and bleak‚ suggesting that the speaker is in jeopardy and is about to die. The poet describes the gloomy scene by saying that the night darkens around him. The night represents fear and is the time when apparitions
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1. Overview Chou Chu Wang is a distinguished artist‚ recognised for his ¬¬¬¬¬¬¬oil paintings created from using his meticulous memory. He created this hyper realistic painting in style of trompe l’oiel. The Four Bliss Stones (2014)‚ using only minuscule paint specks with a fine calligraphic brush. As the title suggests‚ the painting contains four river stones‚ each in an individual frame. Each piece is fairly small‚ 41 x 27 cm. Wang’s overall body of work comprises mostly of scenery from his hometown
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The true nature of the poem was cordial and relaxing. The sentiment was also inspiring as the poem gave me the strong feeling of passion by his use of poetic devices and tone. The verse "Loving can heal‚ loving can mend your soul" paints a beautiful mental image which strengthens the power and passion the poet is trying to portray. In addition‚ the verse "We keep this love in a photograph" allows for the symbolization of a picture as a memory of love. This provides the poem with the basic foundation
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Marquetta Brown Eng 241 J. Zeff Formalist Criticism The poem ‘Waiting oat the curb: Lynwood California‚ 1967 written by Deborah Escobedo is about a young girl named Debbie in Lynwood‚ California who is waiting on a friend at the curb. When first examining the title of the poem‚ I think of waiting on the curb as a sign of prostitution or hitchhiking. They way I imagine the scene of the poem is; a hot summer day in an urban area in Lynwood‚ California. I imagine Debbie’s
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Analysis of Edna St. Vincent Millay’s “What lips my lips have kissed‚ and where‚ and why” In the 1923 sonnet‚ “What lips my lips have kissed‚” Edna St. Vincent Millay speaks about several loves coming to an end and the emotion its gives her while she reminiscences through her past. Two major themes of this sonnet are change and loss. The theme loss is throughout the entire sonnet. Some parts of this sonnet are traditional while other parts are untraditional. This is a modern Italian sonnet. The
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Love is not a Fairy Tale Alan Dugan’s poem entitled “Love Song: I and Thou” is not a stereotypical love poem. On the surface‚ this appears to be a poem about a man building a house and all the trials that accompany such an undertaking. In actuality‚ the author is using the building of a home as a metaphor for building a marriage and making a marriage strong. The poem is told from the narrator’s perspective. It begins with the narrator building a house‚ but nothing was aligned‚ as it should
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