...celebration of life as recurring topics. Almost every poem we’ve analyzed and discussed in class has included references to one or more of these subjects. Nature is the perennial subject that has resonated with me most, as it has encompassed the majority of metaphors and comparisons in the poetry we’ve read. Chinese and Japanese poetry metaphorically incorporate animals and the seasons. The animals will often represent humans. Their actions also symbolize different human actions. In no other cultural tradition has nature played a more important role artistically than in that of China. Since China’s earliest dynasty, real and imagined creatures of the earth (serpents, cicadas, and dragons) were gifted with special powers. In the Chinese imagination, mountains were also infused with sacred power since ancient times. They attracted the rain clouds that watered the farmer’s crops. They concealed herbs used for medicines, magical fruits, and minerals that held the promise of longevity. Mountains with caves and grottos were viewed as gateways to other realms, “cave heavens” leading to Daoist paradises where aging is stopped and inhabitants live in harmony. Men roamed in the mountains not only in search of immortality but to purify the soul and seek renewal. Du Fu has written dozens of works about nature. “A Guest Arrives” by Du Fu talks of a gentleman who arrives amidst a period of solitude. The poem is begun by a...
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...Eagle his poem by Alferd Tennyson describes a magnificent eagle. The poet uses personifcation to personify the eagle. He uses powerful language to show how strong and fast the eagle is. he admires the physcial speed and power of the eagle when he dives towards the sea. Here is Alfred Tennyson's famous poem "The Eagle". He clasps the crag with crooked hands; Close to the sun in lonely lands, Ringed with the azure world, he stands. The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls; He watches from his mountain walls, And like a thunderbolt he falls. This poem is very short but full of meaning. Every verse consists of eight syllables with an alternating stress pattern of weak, strong, weak, strong. The eight syllables can be divided into four feet. The first syllable of each foot is weak and the second is strong. Poems with eight-syllable verses and a weak-strong stress pattern are in iambic tetrameter. The poem has regular rhyme. The first three verses all rhyme as well as the final three. Thus, the rhyme scheme is a,a,a,b,b,b. The first verse of the poem exemplifies personification. Though the eagle has claws, Tennyson uses the word "hands". In the second verse, Tennyson makes it clear that the eagle is very high in the sky when he says it is close to the sun. The phrase "lonely lands" expresses the eagle's solitude. It is also an example of alliteration because "lonely" and "lands" both start with the letter "l". In the third verse, Tennyson expresses the eagle's connection...
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... She retraces the mountain of her ancestry every single day quietly. In the wind she can smell the scent of her ancestors made from crushed pale blue leaves of the mountain. The smell is coming from up the mountain side from which her ancestors descended from, where the mountain lion laid down and ate their deer. It is better to be where she once came from, where her ancestors came from, up on that mountain watching nature. The elderly that remember it once are all gone, the old songs of ancestors are forgotten, and the story where it all began died with its memory. The memory of the culture dances in the snow frost moonlight, swam in the freezing mountain water, went through the narrow mossy canyon down and out of the mountain, out of the deep canyon stone, becoming a memory spilling into the world. The theme of ancestry is seen in this poem. Ancestry to the protagonist can be felt in all of her days and smelt in the wind that comes from the mountains. It is the main reason for this poem and it is very important to the protagonist. The ancestry of her people was once rich in a time before and is now lost but she can still sense it in nature. Ancestry is important to her in her every day dealings and she remembers it in all the aspects of her life. She knows where her culture came from and where she came. Her people are from the mountain and she will never forget where she came from. Disinheritance is another theme that can be found in this poem. The protagonist feels...
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...October 2010 Spirituality in Nature In the poem “Mont Blanc” by Percy Bysshe Shelley, there is a strong correlation conveyed between nature and spirituality. Although Shelley does not specifically mention any religious connotation, the words chosen in this poem could have more than one meaning. Perhaps Shelley purposely wrote “Mont Blanc” to have more than one meaning and has left it up to the reader to interpret and absorb this poem as it is suitable to him. I interpreted the poem to be about spirituality. I have found several connections in Shelley’s choice of words indicating spirituality in nature is possible, and it is up to the reader to discover his own ability in finding his own spirituality. The lyrical lines in stanza 5 describe the strength and majestic qualities of Mont Blanc. The mountain is portrayed as one of isolation; it is a secluded place uninhibited by man (137). Shelley uses the words, “solemn power” to describe Mont Blanc (128). In the Oxford English Dictionary (OED), one definition of solemn is, “having a religious character” another is, “Associated or connected to religious rites or observances.” The word power is defined as, “A powerful celestial or spiritual being” (OED). Because of the portrayal of the mountain and the choice of words Shelley uses to describe it, it takes on a spiritual characteristic. In addition to “Mont Blanc” being portrayed as powerful, indicating how strong this mountain appears, Shelley gives it an imagery and feeling...
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...Wadsworth Longfellow. They each wrote poems that were both written due to personal tragedy that they both endured. “The...
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...kissed her. The third and the last— he died with and gave up loving and lived with her. Robert Creeley, “A Marriage” from Selected Poems of Robert Creeley. Copyright © 1991 by the Regents of the University of California. Reprinted with the permission of the University of California Press, www.ucpress.edu. Source: Selected Poems (1991) back to topRELATED CONTENT Discover this poem’s context and related poetry, articles, and media. Poet Robert Creeley 1926–2005 POET’S REGION U.S., Mid-Atlantic SCHOOL / PERIOD Black Mountain Subjects Marriage & Companionship, Love, Men & Women, Living, Relationships, Realistic & Complicated Poetic Terms Free Verse More about this poem Biography Once known primarily for his association with the group called the “Black Mountain Poets,” at the time of his death in 2005, Robert Creeley was widely recognized as one of the most important and influential American poets of the twentieth century. His poetry is noted for both its concision and emotional power. Albert Mobilio, writing in the Voice Literary Supplement, observed: “Creeley has shaped his own audience. The much . . . Continue reading this biography back to topPoems by Robert Creeley A Prayer A Token A Wicker Basket After Frost Credo More poems by Robert Creeley (29 poems) For Love For No Clear Reason Gnomic Verses Helsinki Window I Know a Man Inside My Head One Day Self-Portrait Somewhere The Door The...
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...“I want to be a poet—not a Negro poet” (Hughes 348). In his essay “The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain,” Langston Hughes covers many important points but his hook is one to mention. This hook focuses a lot on the main issue of the essay itself. The issue is that the negro poets want to write like the white poets implying that colored artists want to be white. This then leads to the fact that the white audiences turned to the artists of color and saw them as stereotypical entertainment mainly because these black artists were afraid of being themselves. Langston Hughes’s poem, “The Weary Blues” engages with themes of the Harlem Renaissance and the content of the poem expresses various issues Hughes discussed in “The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain.” The poem, “The Weary Blues” is a powerful poem because it highlights the cultural traditions of the African American descent during a time of the Harlem Renaissance. The audience is able to...
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...“Where Mountain Lion Lay Down with Deer”: A Poem Analysis (1973) Leslie Marmon Silko wrote this poem, and she is known for her lyric treatment of Native American subjects. Born in 1948, Silko is of Laguna Pueblo, Mexican and Anglo-American heritage. The poem can be paraphrased with the line, “when I go out into nature, I see that Native American culture and nature itself is being forgotten and destroyed.” Silko portrays a beautiful day in nature, with vivid imagery through the entire poem to add effect and enrich the beauty of the words. Throughout the poem, words and lines such as, “silently” and “returning” are indented to show the progression of the speaker climbing up and down the mountain. It is like she is stepping back in time to a forgotten place. In the fourth line she states, “I smell the wind for my ancestors”, to portray a search for her culture that is fading away. The line “where mountain lion lay down with deer” is very significant. It shows that past or present, things coexist and change each other. Three lines stating, “It is better to stay up here watching wind’s reflection in tall yellow flowers”, follow it. This shows that she would rather be enjoying the exquisiteness of nature. The imagery makes you think of beautiful flowers, swaying in the wind. The three consecutive lines “The old ones who remember me are gone”, “the old songs are all forgotten”, “and the story of my birth”, portray that with time, things are forgotten which should be treasured...
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...embarrassing. The speaker of poem George Bilgere seems to capture this way of thinking while also being thoughtful or even philosophical. The poem revolves around the thoughts of what appears to be a dazed early adult looking back on her previous escapades with her friends and, almost accidentally, tapping into a well of self-awareness that flourishes for a moment before fading away. George Bilgere, in his poem “Stupid”, uses imagery, colloquial language, and metaphor to illustrate the futility...
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...professional, he took a side with peasantry or poor people so, emperor Huizong wanted him to spread out the harmonious social atmosphere as a representative. Even though he was a high ranking official, he valued different perspectives from different people and classes. So, his painting style includes “angle of totality” which connotes different views that reflect his life belief (The Famous Artist). Guo-Xi. Early Spring. 1072. Ink and color on silk. National Palace Museum. Taipei This is a Guo-Xi’s most popular masterpiece called Early Spring. He expressed landscape of spring after winter by showing mountain surrounded by clouds. By using the floating perspective, another name of an angle of totality, Guo-Xi deepened the reality of the landscape. Audience of this masterpiece may see rocks resembled cloud or Devil’s face textures stroke in this painting (China Online Museum). Guo-Xi thought mountain in the painting should not be constant even though it is a constant subject because people have different view toward it (The Famous Artist). Also, by using eyes of the viewer,...
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...Longfellow utilized symbolism to signify ideas and qualities by giving them symbolic meanings that guides the reader to understand the poem as a whole. In “Remember”, the poet incorporated the volta-the shift. Before line 9, the speaker insisted the beloved remember ought to remember her. Afterward, she changes her mind and says it is better for her beloved to forget her because remembering her will be painful. That shift symbolized the speaker’s love. She would rather sacrifice the only thing keeping her “alive” and metaphorically kill herself, than to ask her lover to hold onto the pain. In “The Cross of Snow” incorporates symbolism in the title. The “cross” is a symbolic meaning before Christians because Jesus died on the cross and “snow” is white which represents purity. Longfellow essentially says that his wife is angelic and pure. Both poets incorporated imagery to means to use figurative language to represent objects, actions and ideas in such a way that it appeals to our physical senses. In Rossetti’s poem, she includes diction such as, “silent” (line 2), and “darkness” (line 11) and “corruption” (line 12) to create a visual and emotional appeal to death. Death is commonly perceived as eerie, unpleasant, and deplorable; no one wants their beloved to go through death or let alone, feel death through their grieving process. In Longfellow’s poem, imagery is applied to create a religious visual. He included, “A…face…/ looks at me from the wall, where...
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...tone and the feelings portrayed through words are the cause of imaginations and perceptions and because the iconic images of Australia are the landscapes we tend to include them in our portrayals. Written languages have been around for centuries, it is a way of communication and as informed so are images. The comparison for the development of Australia flows easily with words and is therefore usually portrayed in texts, other forms of literature and in songs. It goes into more depth. It is a detailed way to represent the character of Australia. There are many text examples, of which use the Australian landscape to portray the development of Australia such as poems like “My Country” and “The Fierce Country” and lyrics in the Advance Australian Fair. The poem “My Country” by Dorothea Mackellar is a famous Australian poem, well-known for the descriptions based upon...
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...Two poem comparison essay The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” is a love poem that contains six quatrains of rhyming couplets in iambic tetrameter.In this poem, the shepherd persona speaks to his beloved, evoking “all the pleasures” of a peaceful springtime nature. He promises her the delights of nature and his courtly attention. The first quatrain is the invitation to “Come live with me and be my love.” Next, the speaker describes the pleasant natural setting in which he plans that they will live. Their life will be one of leisure; they will “sit upon the rocks,” watch the shepherds, and listen to the birds. Subsequently In the poem 'A Woman to her lover' by Christina Walsh portrays about a woman whom only wants true and sincere love instead of a controlled, worshiped and a physical love. In verse 1, she says to her lover that she does not want to be controlled and wants to live her own life; Christina Walsh speaks directly to the listeners and asks whether he has come to bend her to his wills. During the Elizabethan era, women were usually expected to be a very supportive mom and a good wife. However, she is saying that she would like to take control of their relationship and would never be his 'bond slave.' Verse 1 has long vowels have rhythms which portrays a very monotonous feeling towards the reader. The key ideas in the poem 'A Passionate Shepherd to His Love" is the "passionate" appeal of a young shepherd to his beloved lady love "to come and live with him...
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... Dreamland “A poem is a communication from one soul to another that makes one or both hearts sing” (Mayes, 1998). A good poem should be written with a concise and accurate use of diction and connotation in order to accurately portray a meaningful theme or hidden message. Poetry has the ability to encapsulate broad ideas with a minimal use of words through the use of different literary and poetic devices. Edgar Allan Poe’s unfortunate loss of both parents and upbringing with adoptive parents were his inspiration for his many poems and short stories, which reflected on his alienation, loneliness, grief and sorrow. I believe the poem “Dreamland” by Edgar Allan Poe is the best poem in the world for the reason being that it uses an effective form and rhyming scheme and effectively uses literary and poetic devices such as allusions, personification, and hyperboles in order to convey the message of grief and one’s search for their “dreamland”. The form of the poem Dreamland is written in Iambic Tetrameter couplets that are separated into different stanzas. Poe uses an A-A-B-B rhyming scheme during every stanza, which focuses on making the last word in the end of a verse rhyme with the following line’s last verse. Poe effectively captures the poetic device of allusion as he uses references to mythology such as El Dorado to capture the essence of paradise and hope. In the poem, “Tis a peaceful, soothing region/Tis-oh, ‘tis an Eldorado”...
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