“Muslim Belal” and “The Jewish and Muslim Girl Poetry Slam” are two well-known examples of religious poetry. The poet “Muslim Belal” talks about how he got from the streets to Islam. “The Jewish and Muslim Girl Poetry Slam” talks about how society discriminates the religions: Islam and Judaism. These two poems do have some similar qualities. Muslim Belal is a poet that talks about how he got from his “ghetto” lifestyle into the folds of Islam. His poem is a rap and also includes a few Arabic words
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over the civilized man influenced the literary works of the Romantic Era. Themes of nostalgia and nature dominated the works of William Wordsworth‚ William Blake and Percy Bysshe Shelley. These two themes go hand in hand when interpreting romantic poetry‚ with the development of the hectic industrial cities many poets longed for the simplicity that nature had to offer. Poems such as Wordsworth’s “Resolution and Independence”‚ Coleridge’s “The Dungeon” and Shelley’s “To Night” embody the themes of
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Caribbean Voices : Living a Double life / Dual Identities. Caribbean Poetry is the expression of the constant dualistic nature of the Caribbean identity. Caribbean Poetry exemplifies a unique hybrid made from the voice of the Caribbean experience and its postcolonial English heritage but this creates an inner crisis. The inner crisis of two conflicting cultures that create further conflicting ideas of home and belonging on one hand and growth and fulfilment on the other. But it is also about the
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Elizabethan Poetry I Drama dominates our syllabus but the Renaissance was a Golden Age not just for English drama‚ but also for English poetry. But what was English poetry? George Puttenham’s The Arte of English Poesie (1589) and Sir Philip Sidney’s The Defense of Poesie (1595): early attempts to think about English poetry as a distinct national tradition. Puttenham and Sidney were concerned to build a canon and help shape English poetry into a tradition capable of rivalling more prestigious
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Importance of Poetry As human beings‚ we all have feelings to express and a romantic side‚ that sometimes we don’t show because of our shyness‚ our lack of expression‚ and several other factors. We all like to‚ at least once in a while‚ to hear or read a piece of poetry‚ it makes us get identifies with romantic poets and admire their inspiration to create verses and transmit them to the people. Some people believe that poetry shouldn’t be as relevant as it is‚ they may think is a fool way of presenting
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“Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper‚ unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being‚ to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives is mostly a constant evasion of ourselves.” ’ T.S. Eliot. Poetry‚ just as in other literature contributes a major role in the development of many aspects of life. The utilization of poets and poetry can serve for many different positive purposes and effects on society. Thus‚ poetry is important to each of us. A person is
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“Introduction to Poetry” Billy Collins S-Subject Poetry P-Paraphrase The poem‚ “Introduction to Poetry”‚ by Billy Collins‚ begins by comparing a poem to a color slide and says that to understand it‚ you must “listen” to it’s sound. He paints a picture of a mouse finding it’s way through the maze that is the poem‚ and you groping through the poem’s room to find the light switch (the light switch
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not only feel the way the speaker felt when entering the hospital‚ but also how the patients in the hospital suffered. He uses literary tropes to make reader’s emotions react to the tone of the poem. A metaphor is a literary trope often used in poetry to make a comparison between two objects to give the audience a deeper sense of what he is comparing; his metaphors compare non-related objects or feelings that have a similar quality. He uses two very different metaphors to describe the pain the
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episodes important to the history of a nation or a race. Classifications of epic poetry: There are a number of ways in which literary scholars have attempted to classify the various types of poems that claim to be "epics". The following two systems are offered for your consideration: I. In A Preface to Paradise Lost C.S. Lewis distinguishes between primary and secondary epic poetry: Primary epic--poetry "which stems from heroic deeds and which is composed in the first instance‚ in order
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Even before the foreign invaders came to the Philippines‚ the Filipinos already had their own cultural traditions‚ folklore‚ mythologies and epics. There were substantial writings by early natives that Jesuit historian Fr. Pedro Chirino noted: "All of the islanders are much given to reading and writing. And there is hardly a man‚ much less a woman who did not read and write." Epics are stories that are written in poetic form. They are usually described to display such tremendous vitality‚ color
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