society. In her poem “I dwell in Possibility” a comparison is made between the house of poetry and the house of prose with favor towards the house of poetry. However, this comparison goes much deeper. The house of poetry actually represents Emily Dickinson’s way of life in isolation, and the house of prose represents a life in mainstream society. Dickinson uses a unique metaphor,
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The Ramification of Love As a high school student, the complexities of love is no mystery. Love may leave a man in pieces and a woman in tears. If not taken care of properly, it can lead to borderline insanity. This outcome of love is the case of the speaker in the poem For That He Looked Not upon Her in which an ex-lover is writing his lover why he does not have the will to look his ex-lover in the eye. In this poem, George Gascoigne uses rhyme scheme, alliteration, and metaphors to shift from
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Motherhood, Loss, and Fragmentation Traumatic events reverberate. Thom Gunn’s poetry documents the emotional displacement of his mother’s suicide via bits and pieces of resurfacing memories. Loss is continuously recontextualized, and unlikely scenery—sexual partners, adopted sons—is invoked in order to touch on specific dimensions of his relationship with motherhood and the strange fruit it bears. By rooting through the wreckage of the tragedy’s aftershock, he shows how our relationship with
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Authors and poets give similar central ideas in their stories. They always have part or their whole stories or poems about the central idea. An example is poet Rainer Maria Rilke, who wrote Letters To a Young Poet, and author David Mitchell, who wrote Black Swan Green. In both the poem and story, they show a similar central idea. Beauty. Rilke shows beauty in “Letter One” of Letters To a Young Poet, and Mitchell shows beauty in the chapters “Hangman” and “Solarium” in Black Swan Green. They show
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born in Northampton County, North Carolina, around 1797. Born into slavery, Horton taught himself how to read and write with help of people along the way and even made a some money selling his love poems to university students. In 1829, Horton's poetry was published in a Massachusetts newspaper, the Lancaster Gazette. In the same year, Horton became the first black man to publish a book in the American South with a collection of poems titled The Hope of Liberty. Horton's last years were spent in
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"The Stolen Child" by W.B Yeats and "Cats and the Cradle" by Harry Chapin both explore the concept of loss of childhood innocence. Yeast's poem tells the story of a fairy tempting a child to escape the "weeping" of his human world while Chapin's song recounts the experience of the distant relationship between father and son. Although both poems share similarities, one of them is the most important. Both pieces explore the concept of similarities. William Butler Yeats states " to the waters and
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The relationship between a father and son is one of the most important things a child can have. A good relationship with one’s father results in a more stable life and mindset. Both My Papa’s Waltz by Theodore Roethke and Those Winter Sundays by Robert Hayden display father and son relationships. These poems have complications in the relationship between the two, but My Papa’s Waltz is a more negative complication. Those Winter Sundays shows more of a misunderstanding from the son’s point of
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Change is prevalent throughout society. Famous poets and authors from past and present use change as their theme throughout their many works. Generally speaking change is a broad topic encapsulated by many areas of literature. In poems and short stories, speakers and narrators use many types of literary devices to express their thoughts. Symbolism as one that authors and poets use often to analogize their perspective to transfer a clear message to the reader. Several authors and poets use symbolism
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In Flanders fields by John McCrae and The Soldiers War at Home by Anonymous explore war in two very different but similar ways. In Flanders fields the poem was written on the battlefield the John McCrae is talking as in he is one of the dead soldiers who died in Flanders field in France. The poem talks about passing on the duty to the new living soldiers and the dead wouldn’t be able to rest in peace unless the new soldiers do them proud. Underlying factors of this poem is explaining the nature
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As time periods change, people’s viewpoints and themes of literature all change with it. The interpretations of many poems are based upon the measures of the time period in which they were written and often tend to reflect on the time period. A poem’s theme is usually interpreted by not only the plot, but the elaborate diction and language used that contribute to the mood evoked by the poem. Three poems were written in different time periods that all contain a similar theme of “supremacy” are “My
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