writers highlight their techniques to the readers. Although both writers share the same views on nature‚ their context allows them to differ greatly from one another. Both Malouf and Wordsworth write through certain characters‚ Malouf wrote in his novel ‘An Imaginary Life’ through the character Ovid and Wordsworth through first person. An imaginary Life was written in a post-romantic era and tells the story of the Roman poet Ovid’s exile from Rome - the centre of culture at the time - to the bleak
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The Summary of P.B. Shelley’s Ode to the West Wind Published in 1820‚ P.B. Shelley’s Ode to the West Wind‚ is a poem which allegorizes the role of the poet as the voice of change and revolution. Shelley realizes that he cannot in actual life‚ rise to the height of imaginative perfection‚ which was his dream. But it is his bold optimism that he invokes the West Wind to blow the clarion call to the ‘unawaken’d earth’ and to sow the seeds of hope of regeneration. The poem begins with three stanzas
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Keats: Ode to Autumn Analysis Ode to Autumn has a very different theme and style in comparison to many of Keat’s other poems. While most of Keats poems contain sharp cadences and emotionally charged themes‚ Ode to Autumn is a calm‚ descriptive poem about Keat’s perspective of the season Autumn and its relation to other season. In the Poem Ode to Autumn‚ Keats mainly utilizes rustic‚ vivid‚ visual and tactile imagery to describe the scenes of Autumn. The varying and slower cadences along with personification
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conclusion‚ William Wordsworth cleanly describes the act of watching a patch of country daffodils swaying in the breeze and the lasting effect this pleasant image has on his quiet moments of reverie thereafter. But‚ perhaps in this simple four stanza poem‚ William Wordsworth has‚ in writing “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”‚ succeeded in creating one of his greatest works of Romantic poetry by so perfectly actualizing the emotional virtue of Romantic poetry itself. William Wordsworth (1770 – 1850) was
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William Wordsworth is an eminent mystic poet of the Romantic Age with an amazingly subtle mind and a deviant capacity for expressing personal beliefs and thoughts. Wordsworth was a true mystic. His mystical experiences are principally revealed in the context of his treatment of nature. Wordsworth never confined his verse within the vivid portrayal of the sights‚ sounds‚ odors‚ and movements of various elements of nature. He aimed at attaining something higher and divine and leaving behind a record
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Ode to the West Wind is a poem addressed to the west wind. It is personified both as a "Destroyer" and a "Preserver". It is seen as a great power of nature that destroys in order to create‚ that kills the unhealthy and the decaying to make way for the new and the fresh. The personification of the west wind as an enchanter‚ as a wild spirit is characteristic of Shelley’s poetry. Shelley’s personification of the west wind can be called "myth poesies"‚ another kind of metaphor. The poem is divided
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dreams. In April 1819 Keats composed a poem called Ode on a Grecian Urn during the romantic period of time. Ode on a Grecian Urn became one of the top six poems of the time period. Romanticism is an international artistic and philosophical movement that redefined the fundamental ways in which people in Western cultures thought about themselves and about their world. Ode on a Grecian Urn can be described in so many elements and told in so many ways. Ode on a Grecian Urn can be best broken down by describing
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Ode on a Grecian Urn "Ode on a Grecian Urn" is a poem written by the English Romantic poet John Keats in May 1819 and published in January 1820 (see 1820 in poetry). It is one of his "Great Odes of 1819"‚ which include "Ode on Indolence"‚ "Ode on Melancholy"‚ "Ode to a Nightingale"‚ and "Ode to Psyche". Keats found earlier forms of poetry unsatisfactory for his purpose‚ and the collection represented a new development of the ode form. He was inspired to write the poem after reading two articles
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ENG 3307-01 March 19‚ 2012 Explication on “Ode on Melancholy” In "Ode on Melancholy" John Keats expresses to readers the truth he sees‚ that joy and pain are inseparable and to experience joy fully we must experience sadness fully. Keats valued intensity of emotion‚ thought‚ and experience (“Classification Of Poem”). Keats does not stray away from the suggestion that feeling intensely means that grief or depression may cause sorrow and torture. Throughout the poem Keats expresses his values
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reflecting on oneself and achieving peace and serenity. We go through tough times in life‚ we face problems but we never let these obstacles pull us down. However‚ unlike William Wordsworth who mastered this technique‚ we have not because of our hectic lifestyle‚ we have no time for reflection or solitude. William Wordsworth however‚ showed that it is possible‚ through the beauty of nature‚ he reflects on himself in solitude and achieved serenity. Solitude and reflection can help us appreciate. We
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