"Ode to the West Wind‚" Shelley invokes Zephyrus‚ the west wind‚ to free his "dead thoughts" and words‚ "as from an unextinguished hearth / Ashes and sparks" (63‚ 66-67)‚ in order to prophesy a renaissance among humanity‚ "to quicken a new birth" (64). This ode‚ one of a few personal lyrics published with his great verse drama‚ "Prometheus Unbound‚" identifies Shelley with his heroic‚ tormented Titan. By stealing fire from heaven‚ Prometheus enabled humanity to found civilization. In punishment‚
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Ode to John Keats At an early age‚ John Keats experienced a tough life that was surrounded by death. Not only did he lose his mother‚ father‚ and half of his siblings when he was young‚ but he was exposed to death and illness when he was a teenager working as an apprentice surgeon. He soon became a Romantic poet with an obsession with death‚ which can be seen in his poems throughout his life‚ particularly in his famous “Great Odes”. Between the spring and autumn of 1819‚ Keats wrote six odes
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What kind of poet was Wordsworth? Write about his life and his place in Romantic poetry. Explicate (explain) one of his poems‚ or compare and contrast a few of his poems. WILLIAM WORDSWORTH‚ who was considered as the one the nest romantic poet in his era‚ was born in 1770‚ at Cockermouth‚ on the Derwent‚ located in Cumberland. His family history is very much similar to the Scott’s; as like Scott he was also the son of an attorney‚ law-agent to the earl of Lonsdale‚ a prosperous man in his profession
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William Wordworth’s Ode on Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood 1. (beginning) Nature Explanation: It talks about the mountains‚ fields‚ land‚ and sea. It is getting you to look at nature more thoroughly. Quote: “The cataracts blow their trumpets from the steep‚ No more shall grief of mine the season wrong; I hear the echoes through the mountains throng. The winds come to me from the fields of sleep‚ And all the earth is gay; Land and sea. Give themselves up to
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poems “Ode on Melancholy” and “Ode To A Nightingale”. The metaphysical world relating to immortality and mortality constantly appears in Keats’ two poems “Ode on Melancholy” and “Ode to a Nightingale”. In the second line of the first stanza Keats’ talks about “Wolf’s bane” which is a poisonous plant often used to commit suicide. Keats’ advises us not to think about suicide and take poisons such as wolf’s bane when melancholy is around. The first two lines of the third stanza in “Ode to a Nightingale”
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ODE TO AUTUMN John Keats This poem‚ an ode‚ is the last of Keats’ odes. In it‚ the poet exhibits a rich mood of serenity by describing autumn as a season of mellow fruitfulness – a season of ripeness and fulfillment. This ode is known for its remarkable sensuous beauty that is crafted by employment of several visual‚ tactile and auditory imageries together with the personification of autumn as a woman engaged in various autumnal activities. In the first stanza‚ the poet has described the
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percent higher than Norway’s‚ nearly 50 percent higher than in the Netherlands‚ and 200 percent higher than Japan’s (Eberstadt et al.‚ 1991). The United States has not always fared so poorly in this international ranking. In the early 1950’s it ranked sixth best (Anderson et al.‚ 1987). The Select Committee on Hunger held a Congressional hearing on infant mortality in the United States on April 29‚ 1987. Representative Mickey Leland (D.‚ TX)‚ the committee’s chairperson
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Frost and Wordsworth: a comparative overview Robert Frost (L) and William Wordsworth (R)Syed Naquib Muslim Robert Frost is often designated by students and critics as the American poetical parallel of William Wordsworth‚ the forerunner of the Romantic Movement in England. It is widely believed that Wordsworth exerted profound influence on Frost in writing his poems‚ especially those on nature. In philosophy and style‚ Frost and Wordsworth appear both similar and dissimilar. Both Wordsworth and Frost
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British poet‚ who spent his life in the Lake District of Northern England. William Wordsworth started with Samuel Taylor Coleridge the English Romantic movement with their collection LYRICAL BALLADS in 1798. When many poets still wrote about ancient heroes in grandiloquent style‚ Wordsworth focused on the nature‚ children‚ the poor‚ common people‚ and used ordinary words to express his personal feelings. His definition of poetry as "the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings arising from "emotion
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Kalie Juarez Dr. Ward ENGL 2312 19 February 2013 Ode to a Nightingale In “Ode to a Nightingale‚” the most evident characteristic of Romanticism is the feeling and emotion. This is portrayed since the beginning: “My heart aches‚ and a drowsy numbness pains / My sense‚ as though of hemlock I had drunk‚ / Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains” (lines 1-3). The speaker feels as though he has been poisoned or drugged since he can not see the nightingale. The birds’ song has this paralyzing effect
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