In the excerpt from Forche’s Twentieth Century Poetry of Witness‚ she explores a prominent issue within poetry: the presence of two distinct poetic categories‚ the personal and political‚ both of which‚ she claims‚ produce bias. In the first paragraph‚ Forche distinguishes between the “personal” and “political” bias‚ claiming one is too emotional‚ while the other too divisive. Consequently‚ she introduces the concept of “poetry of witness‚” in which one’s personal and political viewpoints have less
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when I read T.S. Elliot’s poetry is that the wants people to use their brains and think about things‚ to learn constantly. When I read " The Hollow Men‚" a part of me wanted to prove him wrong‚ that I am not going to end my life with a whimper‚ but a bang. Perhaps this was the effect he was looking for.
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Importance of Poetry in Literature “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 are 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. Poetry may supply
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Contemporary poetry and Nature Technically‚ “Contemporary poetry” is written after the start of the 1920`s‚ especially poetry is connected with modern literary genres‚ such as modernism and post-modernism. Poetry often involves nature in its description. Though inspiration as a poet truly derives from within‚ nature can act as a tool to enhance imagination and devices used in our poetry. Poets have for ages seen nature as a reflection of the human experience. Poets in their writing usually
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Poetry Analysis Stage 1 English Poetry arouses great emotions in people. How have four poems “aroused emotions” in you? What have you learnt about war and the emotions associated with it? War is a part of our world and has been since the beginning of time. Through war‚ men have been given the opportunity to fight for freedom‚ for their country and for their beliefs. Young men have marched into an abyss‚ some never to return again. They have faced death on a daily basis and the way in which some
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Her career started to take off when she decided she wanted to be a poet‚ she spent so much time doing poetry when finally people started to notice it. Phillis married John peters a freed slave. They had three children‚ two miserably dying at a young age from sickness and hunger. Sadly John peters was taken to jail for not paying taxes and had to leave Phillis
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PROS VS POETRY PART I Prose version: A woman stands on a mountain top with the cold seeping into her body. She looks on the valley below as the wind whips around her. She cannot leave to go to the peaceful beauty below. In the valley‚ the sun shines from behind the clouds causing flowers to bloom. A breeze sends quivers through the leaves of trees. The water gurgles in a brook. All the woman can do is cry. Poetry version The Woman on the Peak
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Modernist Poetry: Effectiveness When it comes to opinions everyone has one. Saying that Modernist poetry has no specific structure or form and therefore means it is not as ‘effective’‚ is like myself saying curry is spicy‚ sweet and doesn’t fit in with my taste buds and therefore curry is the worst seasoning. Poetry is far too complex to reduce to a simple “effective” or “not effective” dichotomy. To object to an opinion maybe you need to understand where they are coming from. Taking a look
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Themes‚ Motifs and Symbols Themes The Relationship Between Art and Politics Yeats believed that art and politics were intrinsically linked and used his writing to express his attitudes toward Irish politics‚ as well as to educate his readers about Irish cultural history. From an early age‚ Yeats felt a deep connection to Ireland and his national identity‚ and he thought that British rule negatively impacted Irish politics and social life. His early compilation of folklore sought to teach a literary
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Lyrical Ballads‚ and the objects originally proposed--Preface to the second edition--The ensuing controversy‚ its causes and acrimony--Philosophic definitions of a Poem and Poetry with scholia. During the first year that Mr. Wordsworth and I were neighbours‚ our conversations turned frequently on the two cardinal points of poetry‚ the power of exciting the sympathy of the reader by a faithful adherence to the truth of nature‚ and the power of giving the interest of novelty by the modifying colours
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