Jessie John March 3rd‚ 2014 Close Reading Assignment #2 Prof. Ribitzky This essay will discuss a close reading analysis of the poem “The Bright Star”. The Romantic poet John Keats wrote this poem. It is a love sonnet and is believed that it was written for his love and fiancé’ Fanny Brawne. Keats writes the poem in iambic pentameter. The poem revolves around Keats love for stars and about nature’s beauty. The whole poem is written with a rhyming scheme
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John Keats and William Wordsworth ironically wrote two sonnets about the sonnet with contrasting attitudes. Both authors have different ideas and feelings about the constraints imposed on the poet by the sonnet form. Keats‚ although he feels negatively about the constraints imposed by the sonnet format‚ he writes the sonnet in his own creative unidentifiable form. Wordsworth however‚ tells the reader that he uses the format of the sonnet as a refuge and solace from "too much liberty." Both authors
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Doing Stylistic Analysis (or four steps to heaven) READ THROUGH THE WHOLE OF THIS PAGE CAREFULLY BEFORE YOU BEGIN WORK ON YOUR ANALYSIS ... FOLLOW THE DIRECTIONS BELOW. Step One: Initial Guidance DO NOT DO ANYTHING BUT READ THROUGH THIS SECTION DO NOT START WRITING OR NOTE-TAKING YET! If you are offered a choice‚ DO NOT choose to analyse any text that you really think you don ’t understand! Go for something you think you can make some sense of‚ even on an initial reading. Do give the author
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John Keats‚ born in London in 1795‚ wrote the sonnet To Sleep when he was only twenty years old. In an iambic pentameter‚ the narrator talks directly to Sleep‚ asking "him" to provide escape from reality. With rimes in A-B-A-B structure‚ the author here makes a very melodic and harmonious poem. The author uses several figures of speech to address sleep in a very specific way. More over‚ it is possible that there was a relation between the context and Keat’s personal life. The author first starts
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“I Am” is a poem that was written by John Clare during the 1840s. Clare’s rustic poetry had brought him considerable fame and wealth‚ which enabled him to escape the meagre life he had experienced up until that time. After some years‚ his rural style of poetry was no longer in fashion‚ and his poetry met with little success. Psychological pressures resulting from the need to make money to feed his family‚ the struggles to adapt his poetry to the changing times and his inability to reconcile his rural
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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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The poem ‘Ode on a Grayson Perry Urn is clear a reference to John Keats poem‚ ‘Ode on a Grecian Urn’. This can be seen by the way that Tim Turnbull’s poem even the by the format it follows and what it is message is. Tim’s poem was like Keats’s‚ inspired by a work of pottery‚ although Keats’s poem was inspired by Greek vase representing aspects of ancient Greek lives while Tim’s represents aspects of modern day british life‚ working class. Keats’ Ode was inspired by his contemplation of a Greek
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A STYLISTIC ANALYSIS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE ’S POEM "WINTER" Linguistic studies have taken such rapid strides in recent years that the range is baffling to the innocent and amazingly delightful to the linguistics-oriented. Applied linguistics is concerned with many fields and subjects on Planet Earth and possibly beyond that. A piece of literature largely depends on thought and style. The concept of style in literature is the product of abstraction in the sense that style is based on a special
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of all‚ Some shape of beauty moves away the pall From our dark spirits. (I‚ 4-13) Here Keats determines upon the necessity of having beauty in the lives‚ particularly things of beauty and the poem is one of those very objects. The production of a thing of beauty seems to be all the justification Keats needs to write at this point in the poem and at this stage in his poetic career. He is not speaking of the
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Stylistic Analysis of “Across the Universe” by John Lennon Author: Maimoona Abdulaziz ACROSS THE UNIVERSE JOHN LENNON Words are flowing out like Endless rain into a paper cup They slither while they pass They slip away across the universe Pools of sorrow waves of joy Are drifting through my opened mind Possessing and caressing me Jai guru deva Om Nothing’s gonna change my world Nothing’s gonna change my world Nothing’s gonna change my world Nothing’s gonna change my
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