...The Romantic period in literature during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century, was a departure from the formal and rigid attitudes of the previous Classical movement. Romanticism was characterised by freedom of thought and an unrestrained expression of the emotions and imagination of an individual. Contemplations of the natural world inspired deeper thinking about God and creation. This style of thinking impacted on artistic and intellectual texts, such as the poetry of William Blake, in which he conveyed his awe of God’s majesty and power. These poems contrast two vital attributes of the Creator and illustrate a more elaborate and intricate view of God’s fierce, yet gentle nature. Blake’s poetry encapsulates the imaginative expression and heightened emotion that was a key feature of Romantic thinking. Both The Lamb and The Tyger are found in Blake’s iconic anthology Songs of Innocence and Experience, in which he examines opposing perspectives of the world. The purity and unlimited potential of childhood is highlighted through the simple pastoral imagery of the Lamb. The Lamb’s child-like qualities are expressed in the repetition in the quotation: ‘Gave thee clothing of delight,/ Softest clothing, woolly, bright’, which is further reinforced in the simplicity of the rhyming couplet. Moreover, the tactile and visual descriptions reflect a child’s simple exploration of the world around them through tangible imagery. Through this technique, Blake expresses the Romantic...
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...answer-book are to he clearly struck out in ink. A fly answers that follow pages left blank may not be given credit [I] SECTION—A 1. Write short notes on each of the following. Each question should be answered in 150 words : 12x5=60 (a) In King Lear -Cordelia's goodness is as absolute and inexplicable as her sisters' reprovable badness...." Critically analyse the above statement with reference to your reading of King Lear. (b) -The Classical humanism of the Renaissance was fundamentally medieval and fundamentally Christian...." Critically analyse this statement. (c) How do the 'Sylphs' help in the development of the 'mock-epic' element in The Rape of the Lock ? (d) "The Romantic age marks the end of pastoral poetry in the very shock of its collision with actual country experience." Critically evaluate this statement. (e) Comment on the use of bildungsroman narrative in Victorian novels. 2. Answer each of the following in about 400 words : 30x2=60 (a) Critically examine if the treatment of Caliban in The Tempest is a reflection of the emergence of European Colonialism during the Elizabethan period. [2] (Contd.) (11) How does Milton use paganism to...
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...should go. Many times if we read these poems we have to go deeper and deeper until we don’t reach the roots. In the sake of an understanding lot of people don’t understand the meaning of these poems or they are hatred to know, because of its complexity and unpredictability which cause the inability to understand the message. These thoughts what we’ve mentioned in generally are the evidence of the facts. Greedily, the facts which prove that the poets as Dickinson and Whitman are testifying almost the same values, but in the different direction with a different style of writing. Even if, their poetic techniques are distinctive, but they go the similar path of expressing themselves, after all. With their poetry, they constructed a kind of visual image of the everyday life. How was noticed above both poets have a big role in this literary movement who created the frame of the modern poetry which is at the same time a significant innovation of the distinctive and subjective outlook of feelings and emotions put into the number of rhymes in a complex visual way. Emily Dickinson in correlation with other writers wrote about what she experienced and absorbed. She can be characterized as a poet who is using mainly realistic elements as well as nature, religion, law, music, self-identity, death and immortality. “Sometimes she uses humor with Pathos to write about her subjects (emilydickinson.org) .” A glimpse of Dickinson’s poems exposes the true nature and characteristic...
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... down hard on a table, a sin to toss one carelessly across a room. You must learn how to turn the pages gently without disturbing Sarasvati, without offending the tree from whose wood the paper was made. Which language has not been the oppressor’s tongue? Which language truly meant to murder someone? And how does it happen that after the torture, after the soul has been cropped with a long scythe swooping out of the conqueror’s face – the unborn grandchildren grow to love that strange language. Pan] the Ancient Greek god of nature, part-‐man, part-‐goat Sarasvati] the Hindu goddess of the arts A different history With close reference to the poem, analyse...
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...communicate human emotion and ideas. Bruce Dawe’s grave Homecoming and the saddening Dulce et Decorum est by Wilfred Owen convey the trauma in war-stricken situations and the loss involved. Significantly differing from these sombre themes, William Shakespeare is able to convey his love and appreciation for a woman in My Mistress’ Eyes which conflicts with the self-hatred and resentment apparent in Jennifer Maiden’s stark Anorexia. Delving into personal emotions, a number of the poems express despair in conflict or, conversely, aim to portray an inner turmoil. The depressing atmosphere of Homecoming appeals to the reader by evoking a sense of despair. As the soldiers’ bodies are returned from war, Dawe explores the undignified treatment of the corpses, zipped “in green plastic bags”. Irony in the title alludes to the fact that the soldiers are not returning to a celebration and are unidentifiable, “piled on the hulls of Grants”. Gaining an emotional distance through the use of a third person voice, the poem enables the reader to view the tragedy in its entirety. Repeating “home, home, home” accentuates the emotional ties of the soldiers, a technique indicative of the monotony of the experiences involved in warfare. Equally, “telegrams tremble like leaves from a wintering tree…the spider grief swings in his bitter geometry”, uses simile and metaphor to portray the coldness of death and spreading of grief throughout the community. The technique of symbolism applied in Homecoming...
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...With reference to at least three poems, analyse and interpret the strengths of W.H Auden. Loi Ianari Without question Auden is thought of as one of them most influential poets in the twentieth century. Through his words he was able to convey ideas, theories and comments on various controversial topics that affect our daily lives. The tone and content of his poems ranged from pop-song clichés to complex philosophical meditations and commentaries on the evolution of society. This assertion is clearly expressed through ‘Refugee Blues’, ‘The Unknown Citizen’ and ‘The More Loving One’. Auden’s main strength is his reporting technique and his portrayal of real events in an artistic way. ‘Refugee Blues’ was written contemporary to the action and as a result he was able to witness and describe the devastating effects of the second world war. The poem dramatizes the condition of the Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany, especially the indifference and antagonism they faced when seeking asylum in the democracies of the period. Through the form and language Auden was able to convey his feelings and judgement about the situation. The poem takes the the form of the Blues tradition, which developed through the black people of the United States and has its origins in slave songs. In this poem Auden takes a single theme; abuse of human rights, and makes variations on it, leading to a particularly powerful finale. The language used is common, modern, colloquial and informal ‘went to a committee;...
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...Analyse the poems and how they reflect the time they are written in The poem ‘The Rear-Guard” has been written by Siegfried Sassoon in 1917 during the time when Word War 1 was going on. He was provoked to write this poem because he was unhappy of the effect it had on soldiers. The poem ‘The Solitary Reaper’ on the other hand, has been written during the romantic era by William Wordsworth in 1803. It is a poem about how Wordsworth is affected by a song sung by a woman reaping grain by herself in a field. ‘The Rear- Guard’ is an anti-war poem about how violent and cruel war is and that it drives people crazy. The poem starts off with “Groping along the tunnel step by step”. In this line, the word ‘groping’ has the connotation that the Rear- Guard is lost in the tunnel. In the last line of the first stanza, it says “sniffed the unwholesome air”. Air is normally a good thing but the adjective ‘unwholesome’ gives us a feeling that the air is unhealthy. As he keeps going along he notices “a mirror smashed”. He feels even worse than before as a smashed mirror symbolises bad luck. The poet is showing that this person is going crazy due to the war, believing in superstition. The poet shows us how far away he is under by using alliteration “Fifty feet below” and “rosy gloom” an oxymoronic term (he is feeling the good and bad points of the war above). The Rear- Guard finds someone lying on the ground “saw someone lie”. He exclaims “I am looking for headquarters”. The poet has written...
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...Indian literary history. He has wielded great influence as a leading poet, editor and an occasional playwright. He’s applauded for his subtlety in exploring common mundane themes in a comic light. His poetry lacks the nationalistic fervor that was common to the poems released during that time. His poetry objectively analyses the Indian scenario without taking any political stance. He constantly ridicules the Indian sensibilities with hopes of bringing about a change through his words. Ezekiel has strived to create authentic Indian flavor by using ‘Indian English’ in all his poems. He stresses on the common mistakes committed by Indians, such as the usage of the present continuous tense in place of simple present. This is evident in this little excerpt from his poem, The Professor, “We are keeping up. Our progress is progressing. Old values are going, new values are coming. Everything is happening with leaps and bounds.” He ridicules the irony that a professor lacks the command over the language he uses to teach his subject. He also mocks the Indian habit of literal translation of the native language to English with the same structure and tone. This excerpt from “The Patriot” is clearly evident of the same, “How one goonda fellow Threw stone at Indirabehn. Must be student unrest fellow, I am thinking.” His poetry expresses the essence of Indian personality and is also very sensitive to the changes of its national climate. Many poets such as A.K.Ramanujan and Sarojini...
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...an interesting relation with nature, ideal love, and a spirit seeking for freedom. I chose death as the theme to analyse because I like to read poems about death, it is interesting how death is interpreted and what the poet thinks about after-death and other death-related philosophical questions. Many of these poems are really depressing and sad such as “ A Dirge“ and “Adonais“ and while analyzing Shelley’s work, it also makes you understand what is going on in Britain and Europe during Shelley’s lifetime. Firstly, I am going to analyze Shelley`s poem “A Dirge“: A Dirge Rough wind, that moanest loud Grief too sad for song; Wild wind, when sullen cloud Knells all the night long; Sad storm whose tears are vain, Bare woods, whose branches strain, Deep caves and dreary main,-- Wail, for the world’s wrong! A dirge means a song that is sung at a funeral, so the title is already very depressing and creating a sad feeling or loneliness because someone is passing away. The two first lines create an image of a really bad day and I would even imagine the image at a funeral. The author describes one image of nature, the winds moaning, the sullen clouds, the sad storm, the vain tears, the bare woods, the branches straining, the deep caves, the dreary main, upon another to make the reader understand how bad his grief feels. Almost all the nouns in the poem are illustrated by very sad and frustrating adjectives which also show that the author wants to create and express a...
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...the little point of star that was mine, the bread crumb that the wolves from the forest had not devoured. Once in the countryside, at night, I reached a house, where I’d never seen anyone that night or even imagined those lives. Whatever they did, their hours were new in my consciousness. I entered, they were a family of five: all had arisen as on the night of a fire. I shook hand after hand, saw face after face, that said nothing to me: they were doors that I did not see before in the street, eyes that did not know my face, and in the dead of night, after welcoming me, I succumbed to fatigue, to sleep my country’s anguish… “A poem is the perfect form of expression.” Discuss this statement using reviews of at least one poem and a number of articles, which discuss the poet’s work. Poet ~ Pablo Neruda Poem ~ Poema 20, Canto 10 – The Fugitive Introduction Why poetry? One argument dates back to Aristotle, to the famous distinction between history and poetry: history reports what happened and is therefore subject to all the constraints and imperfections of actual life; poetry by contrast uses words in their fuller potential and creates representations that are more complete and meaningful than nature can give us raw. In the quest to explain why poetry is the perfect form of expression, the works of poet...
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...Poetry Essay English 102: Literature and Composition Semester of Enrollment: Fall 2014 Roudene Labon, Writing Style Used: APA Thesis: Robert Frost’s, “The Road Not Taken” uses symbolic language to describe his turmoil in deciding which direction he should go in. This lyric poem expresses the thoughts and feelings of a single speaker. I. Introduction a. Coming to a fork in the road the how to decide II. Body a. Setting b. Choosing the right direction in life III. Symbolic Meaning a. Imagery IV. Conclusion Road Not Taken Essay The first line of the poem leads me to believe that this takes place in early autumn because he speaks of leaves of golden and green and mentions that there are leaves on the ground. The poem consists of four stanzas and five lines all with a rhyme scheme of ABAAB. In the poem it doesn’t mention where he’s going or where he’s coming from but there is a dilemma he is facing because he has come to a fork in the road. As he stands and ponders which direction he should take, he analyses both roads. In the beginning he believes that one is less traveled than the other but as he continues to observe them both he rethinks his first opinion and believes they have been traveled equally. I guess that was his initial process of elimination in choosing which direction to go based on which road had been traveled the most. Since both were traveled equally he had to make a decision...
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...Essentially I feel that each poem in its own “Funeral Blues” (W. H. Auden), “Death, be not proud” (John Donne), and “Because I could not stop for Death” (Emily Dickinson) are unique in their own way however, I feel that two poems in particular may show more similarity in each other versus all three being compared at once although, I will be comparing and contrasting all three poems towards the end of this essay. For example, When reading “Funeral Blues” (W. H. Auden), I felt a greater sense of similarity to “Because I could not stop for death” (Emily Dickinson) versus “Death, be not proud” (John Donne) so I will begin to discuss those poems first. When comparing each poem I will list the related styles between the two and the same for contrasting each when discussing the distinctive differences. In “Funeral Blues”; a poem about the mourning of a dear loved one, Auden used a great sense of imagery when writing to assist the audience in creating a mental picture. Each line used a great amount of detail for example, when Auden wrote “Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead scribbling in the sky the message he is dead.” It was easy for me to actually picture this statement mentally due to his choice of words. Also, he uses a rhyme scheme that is successful in expressing the deep mourning and sorrow that he feels. The same feelings expressed in “Funeral Blues” can also be felt in “Because I could not stop for death” (Emily Dickinson). As in Auden’s poem when speaking of his sadness...
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...shared constant theme in the analyzed works. Our intention is to indicate how society has not developed when it concerns the position of negroes: either as voters or persons. Through two selected poems and their analyses, it's supposed to indicate how the tones may change, however the theme remains the same. 1. Introduction Many things may inspire somebody to write down – be it poetry or prose. it has been like this since communication established itself, through generations and throughout time the writings have had a very important role. for some folks writing is also solely how to establish communication, as newspapers and magazines. For some others, it's an inner pleasure to share feelings and concepts, like in journals and theories. However, for others it is an instrument for additional definite purposes, like awareness regarding movements or a personal catharsis – Sylvia Plath’s poetry, for example. Therefore, the power of words helped mankind to change the globe. Bearing in mind this concept that literature may renew and reinforce a belief or an idea, the theme of the analysis supposed in this work comparing Phillis Wheatley’s poem “On Being Brought From Africa To America” to Langston Hughes’ “I, Too, Sing America” is somewhat known and reassure aspects that are still a part of society nowadays: be it prejudice, racism or oppression. In order to grasp how their poems differ it's necessary to understand some details about their lives, that...
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...Both Wright and Hughes write about the inequality faced by African Americans but follow two different techniques on showing this to the reader. Wright in his essay “The Ethics of Living Jim Crow” discuss several instances of racism where he was unfairly treated just because of the color of his skin. Wright uses strong and powerful words in order to get his point across, and as a result it stays in the readers’ mind longer. One such example is when he describes with interactions with Pease and Morrie. When asked about work Morris gets angry and asks if he is trying to get smart, and the conversation ends with Wright being called a ‘black bastard’. So by using these kinds of strong words that make the readers uncomfortable Wright gets his point...
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...Texts 1 and 2 are two different types of texts directed to different audiences and written with different purposes. Text 1 is a poem that shows on a personal level what the poet feels her experience of growing older will be. However, text 2 is an extract from an essay that tells the reader how “the view from 80” looks like. Even though both texts are different, they share the same topic, growing old. It can be easily seen that both texts have different structures starting because text 1 is a poem and text 2 is an essay. Text 1 has 4 short, 4 lined stanzas which follow the rhyme scheme of ABCB that fully describe the way in which the poet pictures how her life in the future will be. The poet portrays the positive aspects of growing old mentioning that peace, relaxation and tranquillity are a few of the things that one can enjoy while being “old”. Nevertheless, even though text 2 shows just an extract from an essay, a clear structure with a beginning, middle and end can basically be seen. It is separated in paragraphs that switch between a first and third person narration and includes an enumeration that visually breaks the structure drawing specific attention to it as it lists the downside of growing old and what symptoms one feel that indicate old age. Moreover, these texts also differ in terms of audience and purpose. Although text 1 and 2 are directed towards people who have thought on retirement and the way their life will be in the future, they are written for completely...
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