Daniel Ahn The Genius of Walt Whitman One of America’s greatest poets in history‚ Walt Whitman‚ wrote the masterpiece “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d” which is a literary masterpiece that showcases sincere and genuine feeling through his facility of words. Whitman utilizes certain words to enhance his diction to create a somber yet hopeful tone and parallelism to create a more melodious elegy that has lasted through the centuries. Whitman uses his diction to create a dark melancholy
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One of the strongest ways to voice political opinion is in interpretive writing. It is universally known that history is an integral factor of literature; sometimes‚ certain political events inspire poets and authors to cleverly voice their opinions regarding the event in ways that require much ambiguity and analysis to completely understand the author’s intentions. Poetic protest is best shown with careful choice of word‚ punctuation‚ and capitalization. The first example of political protest in
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Daniel Vasquez Ms. Perricone English 4 Period 6 3/4/11 The Irish Rebellion of 1641‚ his mother reading Irish folktales to him as a child‚ and William Blake’s use of fiction influenced William Butler Yeats to write “The Curse of the Fire and the Shadows”. Yeats is a huge part of 20th century English and Irish literature and one of the most important writers that started the “Irish Literary Revival” and was responsible for starting a his own literary club called “The Rhymers Club”. In addition
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Here is what I thought of the poem after reading and studying it. It is not so much an analysis of the poem‚ but an analysis of the devices used to convey the thesis of the poem. E. E. Cummings presents his views about life and how the individual is able to create more opportunities in life by pushing boundaries than if he were to conform to the demands of society by using sequential diction in an informal sentence structure through a weary tone. The weary tone gives the impression that the
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Frost’s poems could be considered pessimistic or realistic. I think that the poem was expressing reality. It was balancing negative and positive aspects. For example in the poem “Nothing Gold Can Stay”‚ it shows the beauty as a rarity but also demonstrates that it existed. Another example is the poem “Birches”‚ which the boy took time away from his life filled with tasks to have fun climbing the birches. Also in the poem “Design”‚ it expressed the basic form of the food chain. Walt Whitman said
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Edward Estlin Cummings‚ also known as E.E. Cummings was a avant-garde poet that defied the rule of the English language. During the first World War‚ Cummings was under arrest for three months under false grounds. His experience in jail inspired the thought about authoritarianism and modernism. Gertrude Stein’s syntactical and Amy Lowell’s imagistic experiment inspired Cummings’ work by using incorrect grammar‚ spelling‚ and poetry structure. Humans tend to be cynical about facing problems in life
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In “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”‚ T.S. Eliot reveals a song of a split between shyness and passion. He gives his point of view about the frustration of living in a “fantasy world” being. While T.S Eliot took this poem as more to a man feeling insecure I took this poem as a love failure‚ as if a love that never happened and that would not ever happen because of lack of courage/bravery. The insecurities of the man took him to feel humiliated and rejected because of his age. This poem starts
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E.E. Cummings is known for his incredibly experimental-in-style poems which test the boundaries of poetry. l(a is one of E.E. Cummings more famous poems in his experimental portfolio. In a simple description of the poem‚ it is the word “loneliness” separated with the phrase “(a leaf falls)” after the first letter of “loneliness.” Written in 1958‚ this poem was published in the last years of his life‚ for he died in 1962‚ a mere 4 years apart from its publication. Throughout this poem‚ Cummings expresses
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How often do you get to read and learn about someone who revolutionised poetry and english and changed it forever! For my poet I chose E.E cummings the reason why I decided to chose him was upon further research and understanding about his growing up and his life really spoke out to me. Being born into a family with liberal parents and as a young adult the influence from World War One really showed upon his writing as in most poems he somewhat talks how the world is going crazy. He actually volunteered
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Pound thought that in all times life has always presented fragments to the mind. This is the natural case…Since life presents fragments‚ it’s not surprising that our minds are inherently disposed to work with them. Though Pound’s fragments are perfectly definite‚ their implications are endless and contradictory (223-224). Pound also extracts from Greek mythology presenting the word in Greek. That is to say‚ Pound named H.D. “Dryad‚” the wood spirit muse of his earliest poems. “Dryad”‚ or “Δρυάς is
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