Discuss on the elegiac quality of Arnold’s poetry. / Write a note on the dominating note of melancholy in Arnold’s poetry. / Discuss Arnold’s criticism of life expounded in his poems. / ‘Arnold’s poems are always of regret‚ loss of faith‚ instability and nostalgia.’ Elucidate. In its ancient Greece ‘elegy’ used to denote a kind of poetry dealing with the subject matter of change and loss. As a humanist Arnold was very much concerned about the gaining of supremacy of science‚ theology and natural
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Mary Shelley added this poem in her book to look at the human nature as a whole. “We rest – a dream has power to poison sleep.” Victor has the dream of bringing life into a creature. So he pursue on his creation by experimenting and trying to find a way to bring life into it. The thirst for power has poisoned and destroy everything he cherishes in life when he has lost his loved ones and his will to live. Victor has lost hope because of his dream which he will never find peace again. “We rise – one
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This sonnet is an attempt by Keats to link the natural life cycles of birth‚ life‚ death‚ and rebirth to the four seasons and from there to the nature of human existence. Taken literally‚ the poem is essentially a very eloquent description of the four seasons of spring‚ summer‚ autumn and winter‚ applied to the "mind of man" or the human demeanor. If interpreted in a more metaphorical sense‚ the poem takes on a distinctly different meaning. Keats opens the sonnet by establishing the fact that "There
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Sutterfield IB English III 10 May 2012 Keats and Longfellow: Poem Comparison “When I Have Fears” by John Keats and “Mezzo Cammin” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow provide a complex perspective of each author’s own description for impending doom‚ and how failure is an inevitable force that will consume them in the near future. Although both poems deal with a similar theme‚ the situations in which the authors have placed themselves reflect through the poems themselves. Keats‚ who speaks with little to no ardor
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Writing in Dejection Author of the poem “Stanzas‚ Written in Dejection‚ near Naples”‚ Percy Bysshe Shelley remains as one of the most influential poets today. A man on the Romantic Era‚ Shelley’s reflective poetry earns him the title of the imaginative radical during that time‚ centering his poetry on restrictions in society and humanity’s place in the universe. (Abrams 428) In his lifetime‚ Shelley and his poetry exemplified intelligence‚ logical thinking‚ earnestness‚ and curiosity‚ all qualities
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internal struggle between the preference of an authentic mortality or the artificial futile immortality. As a Romantic Poet‚ Keats elaborates on the necessity of self-expression and imagination in order to understand the power of introspection and the inner workings of the mind‚ rather than through a systematic‚ scientific process. In the Poem ‘’Ode on a Grecian Urn’’ Keats explores the struggle with the bittersweet frailty of the human experience‚ largely concerning love and romance. On the other
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Mary Wollestonecraft Godwin Shelley was born on August 30‚ 1797 in London‚ England. Her father‚ William Godwin was a philosopher while her mother‚ Mary Wollestonecraft‚ was a strong feminist of her generation. They got married in 1797 to protect the rights of their upcoming child. (Frankenstein) However‚ a few weeks after on the 10th of September‚ her mother died from Placental Infection due to the complication in Mary’s labor from before. (Romantic Circles) Since Mary’s mother died early in her
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St. Agnes” (Henry 187). Critics celebrate the dexterity‚ the wonderful imagery‚ and the sympathy that is in all of these poems (Henry 187). Though Keats had many successful poems‚ there was one early poem‚ Endymion‚ that was quite a failure (Henry 188). Many readers complained of Keats’s confusing and overuse of metaphors (Henry 188). Therefore‚ Keats was forced to change his style of writing because he was living solely off of the profits he received from writing (Henry 188). Keats’s writing also
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The names Keats and Wordsworth are to a certain extent tantamount to Romanticism‚ especially from the perspective of modern academics. To many‚ Wordsworth and Coleridge are seen as the fathers of English Romanticism as they were the first to publish literary works that were seen as romantic with Lyrical Ballads in 1798. Yet although John Keats was only born in 1795‚ he still contributed much to the Romantic Movement and is in essence regarded just as highly as William Wordsworth. One can argue
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John Keats poems "Ode to a Nightingale" and "Ode on a Grecian Urn" seem to have been written with the intention of describing a moment in one’s life‚ like that of the fleeting tune of a nightingale or a scene pictured on an urn. Within each of these moments a multitude of emotions are established‚ with each morphing from one to another very subtly. What is also more subtle about these two poems is their differences. While they do touch on very similar topics‚ the objects used to personify Keats’ ideas
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