“anyone lived in a little how town” ee cummings • non-conformity • form = function o Poe’s unity of effect o poem = unique, does not conform to any poetic standards, grammatical rules, expectations • songs: o Justice & Independence, Jack & Diane (JC Mellencamp) o The Dance, The River (Garth Brooks) E. E. Cummings' "anyone lived in a pretty how town" tells the story of anyone. The name has a double meaning; anyone could be anyone in the
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LEONARDO, DAYANNE LEI A. ENG 11 – WFQ 2012 – 11943 Final Paper LITERARY ANALYSIS: LEAVING THE MOTEL W.D. Snodgrass William DeWitt Snodgrass was an American poet dubbed, although inadvertently, as the father of confessional poetry. He is most credited for his work, Heart’s Needle, published in 1959 and received the Pulitzer Prize in 1960. This particular work inaugurated the confessional movement, of which he said in an interview, “My poems were called
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A sonnet of fourteen lines divided between three quatrains and an ending couplet, "To India My Native Land" is a song of love and deep emotion from Henry Louis Vivian Derozio to his "fallen country," India. The poem was published before Derozio's untimely death at the age of twenty-two from cholera in 1831. The abab abcc dede ff rhyme scheme employed by Derozio is most clearly identifiable as a variation of Edmund Spenser's Amoretti rhyme scheme. In Derozio's, there is Spenserian concatenation
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Poetic Forms Writing about Form Focusing on effects and purpose of structure / progression, rhyme and rhythm ! CONTEXT OF ‘BRIGHT STAR’ Addressed to a star, the sonnet asks its constancy and timelessness (‘stedfast’, ‘sleepless’). It is not isolation that the speaker yearns for, where the star passively watches the ‘moving waters’ or gaze upon the ‘snow upon the mountains and the moors’ like a priest or hermit. Instead, the speaker longs for an eternity with his lover, to ‘feel’ her ‘ripening
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terms of form, structure and language Both writers use the sonnet form to explore the feeling of unrequited love. They both use powerful imagery in order to express the complexity of love and other complex emotions. They both reach similar conclusions in regards to realising that their love isn’t returned by the object of their affection. However, Spenser seems to be more assured and accepting of this fact because he ends his sonnet with a perfect rhyme. On the contrary, Howard ends his poem with
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The relationship of love and erotic in Man'yōshū were represented by poems which described many different feelings and various fates of many people. Those authors of poems described their own experience and their own moods. Poems drew a mixed picture of love. Man'yōshū is the oldest Japanese collection of poetry. In this collection, poems are written by various authors which also made this collection of poems has a wide range of works. Love as a theme of the poems actually took a very important place
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One’s view of poetry is extremely personal. With over fifty-five different formal styles of poetry to choose from (Kennedy & Gioia 681-717) no two individual’s tastes will coincide, the same can be said for poets. No one will argue that Walt Whitman and Herman Melville have vastly different techniques for chronicling the events they experienced. This is especially true for the author’s interpretations of events leading up to, throughout, and after the American Civil War. Although they approached
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Shakespeare’s Sonnets: Form: 14 lines, each with ten stressed and unstressed syllables known as iambic pentameter (rhythm of the heartbeat) Genre: Lyric poetry – Lyric poetry presents the deep feelings and emotions of the poet as opposed to poetry that tells a story or presents a witty observation. Rhyme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GG Rhymes may be ear-rhymes or eye-rhymes: an ear-rhyme is one that rhymes in sound, e.g. “increase” and “decrease”; an eye-rhyme is one that rhymes by sight, e.g. “compare” and
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A love sonnet to Jesus crucified is a dear expression of true and pure love for our savior,Jesus Christ.This sonnet portrays the author's intimate love and relationship with Jesus.The poem was originally written in Spanish and has been translated the best possible into English.Although it is believed that the entire beauty of the poem was unable to be interpreted into a language other than its original dialect,The poem is an ideal masterpiece that can be associated and reflected on during the time
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the narrator’s heartbreak through his complex attitude of being distressed throughout this Shakespearean sonnet by using diction and imagery. Although, heartbreak is such a universal topic, Gascoigne is able to capture the feeling of still loving a woman, but refusing to even look at her due not wanting to become hurt by her a second time. This poem would be considered a Shakespearean sonnet because it is made up of 14 lines which contain quatrains and a couplet. The quatrains illustrate the problem
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