Elle McHugh English L202 Paper 2 – Analysis October 15‚ 2012 The Poetry of “Cosmic Love” Emerging in the summer of 2009‚ Florence and the Machine‚ a British indie-rock band‚ has a style of a mix between soul and rock. Nonetheless‚ their sound is best described by their lead singer Florence Welch as‚ “something overwhelming and all-encompassing that fills you up . . .” That said‚ their music contains an ethereal intensity with poetic elements that set them apart from other music. Such
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ELIZABETH BISHOP’S POETRY. The descriptive‚ vibrant language of Elizabeth Bishop’s poetry appeals to every reader in all of her poems. Disorder plays a large part in Elizabeth Bishop’s poetry and the descriptive insight of “Filling Station”. The “Filling Station” expands on her views of controlling the chaos. “Somebody waters the plant… Somebody arranges the rows of cans” indicates that there is someone behind the scenes cleaning and caring for the filling station‚ someone we don’t see in the
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Sagar Gohel D. Samaha English 2 Honors September 30‚ 2012 The Death and Transfiguration of Poetry One of the greatest poetic minds of the 20th Century once said‚ “Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion‚ but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality‚ but an escape from personality. But‚ of course‚ only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.” It was Solari’s chief aspiration to show this to the world. “The Death
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The Poetry of Elizabeth Bishop: A Personal Response In my answer I will be talking about my ideas on the themes‚ styles‚ and images in the poetry of Elizabeth Bishop. Elizabeth Bishop was born on the 8th of February 1911 in Worcester‚ Massachusetts. Her father died when she was eight months old and her mother‚ in shock‚ was sent to a mental hospital for five years. They were separated in 1916 until her mother finally died in 1934. She was raised by her grandparents in Nova Scotia. There are four
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Tom Jones as ‘Comic Epic-Poem in Prose’ Maruf Billah Enjoying the freedom of an artist‚ Fielding in his ‘Tom Jones’ bursts on the literary scene giving thousands of hours for a kind of writing‚ which is in his own words‚ “I do not remember to have seen hitherto attempted in our language”. His immediate inspiration was the Spanish Classic‚ ‘Don Quixote’. However in discussing his work Fielding refers to Homer and Aristotle‚ the former for practice and the later for theory. This kind of appeal
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“Poetry Is Not a Luxury” (1982) intertwines feminism and poetry together. Author Audre Lorde says that for women‚ “poetry is not a luxury‚ but a necessity of our existence” (Lorde‚ 1982‚ pg. 281). In today’s society‚ women’s opinions aren’t really expressed‚ because it’s not widely accepted in this man-built world. Lorde’s quote “poetry is not a luxury‚ but a necessity of our existence” means that women should use their voices and channel their energy into poetry. Since poetry is accepted‚ women
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Impersonal Theory of Poetry. The central point of T.S. Eliot’s Impersonal Theory of Poetry is that ’the poet‚ the man‚ and the poet‚ the artist are two different entities’. The poet has no ’personality’ of his own. He submerges his own personality‚ his own feelings and experiences into the personality and feelings of the subject of his poetry. The experiences or impressions which are obviously autobiographical may be of great interest to the writer himself‚ but not to his readers
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Marianne Moore’s poem “Poetry” [original version] is an exquisite piece of work. All the unusual elements that make up the poem including: the meter‚ rhymes‚ arrangement on the page and subject of the poem tie together seamlessly to explain Moore’s idea on the art of poetry. The five verse poem functions like a tradition essay; including a thesis‚ supporting evidence‚ and a conclusion. Although it can read like an essay the arrangement on the page grabs your attention and helps argue the thesis
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The Power of John Donne’s Poetry Louis Hunt John Carey’s description of Donne’s “power” is laudable‚ and to a certain extent‚ accurate. Carey captures the masculine nature of Donne’s tone; the vividness of Donne’s imagery; the subtle coercion of Donne’s metaphor. Carey also notes Donne’s application of syntax and rhythms‚ writing that Donne’s words‚ “are packed into the poems like boulders… Inversions and interjections fracture the run of the lines‚ necessitating a strenuous advance.” Carey
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or of the same kinds of sounds at the beginning of words or in stressed syllables. In poetry and prose‚ the use‚ within a line or phrase‚ of words beginning with the same sound‚ as in Two tired toads trotting to Tewkesbury. It was a common device in Old English literature‚ and its use survives in many traditional phrases‚ such as dead as a doornail and pretty as a picture. Alliteration is used in modern poetry more sparingly than in Old English‚ as an emphasis for certain imagery or words. While
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