How does one attain success? There are numerous factors that influence how someoneâs life turns out. One of the most important is belief. Belief is defined by Webster's dictionary as a state or habit of mind in which trust or confidence is placed in some person or thing. Over the course of some of his most popular poems, Langston Hughes highlights the three major components to achieving oneâs goals. These three components are the belief that one has in themself,...
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Someone once said âpoetry is my view on the world. The reasons that society makes a big part are feeling and perspective. The reason being is because when something happens in the world it makes people feel a certain way about it. For example back in the day when women couldn't vote it made them feel a certain way so they did a protest. A protest isn't a poem but it is a good example of how society made women...
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Various forms of literature has been taught in schools for centuries. They are essential to the basic objective of any English class. Literature helps students to become more sophisticated readers, more flexible writers and to develop moral imagination, ethical values, and a sense of vocation. Literature has a diverse collection of classifications, such as poetry, prose, drama, non-fiction, and media. One of the most unique styles of literature is poetry. Poetry allows a student to express his or her feelings...
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To provide context, culture is an integrated system of learned behaviour patterns, wherein meaning is transmitted from generation to generation. According to Fisher, it represents specific attitudes and feelings of any given groups of people, which put simply is a system of shared meaning (qtd. in Kocak 64). As structuralists would understand, the nature of language is akin to culture; in the sense that, conventional meanings are often imposed and categorically defined to regulate discourse. And, the role of discourse...
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"Those Winter Sundays" by Robert Hayden is a poignant and reflective poem that explores the complex relationship between a father and his child. Through a careful analysis of the poem, we can unravel its underlying themes, symbolism, and poetic devices, providing us with a deeper understanding of the emotional depth and complexity of the speaker's experiences. The poem opens with the speaker reminiscing about the cold Sunday mornings of their childhood. The father, depicted as a hardworking and selfless figure,...
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âWhy do you think they always say never give up on something you want to be in life?â Life is all about how you make it, you will have to fight many battles just to be where you want. Some might be easy, and some might be hard. Reading many epics this semester, The Odyssey, Gilgamesh, and Sundiata are relatable to this phrase. Despite the timing and culture background of each epic, they all have a similar story and multiple...
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The Epic of Gilgamesh is an epic poem from antiquated Mesopotamia about a king who is two thirds god and one third man. The king does not fulfill his leadership expectations as he is selfish and often angry with the gods. Gilgamesh goes off on a quest to attain immortality when his companion Enkidu dies. In this quest he fails and eventually dies, but he came to terms with his own mortality and lived on his greatness through his travels....
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In, the poem âThe Epic of Gilgameshâ the main character and hero of the story is Gilgamesh. In the beginning, Gilgamesh is not the fair and just king as the gods expected of him. Gilgamesh thought that because he was mostly god he could anything he wanted with no consequences. Gilgamesh caused an abundance amount of distress and pain to his people. He harmed and torched the causing them to cry to the gods for some to come and save...
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In the Epic of Gilgamesh, there is Gilgamesh, half man half demigod whose ultimate goal is to reach immortality and then there's Endiku, who was made from clay and water by Aruru who lived with the wild. The whole creation of Endiku was made to rid Gilgamesh of his arrogance and Gilgamesh quest for immortality is what ultimately led him to meet Endiku and the genuine kinship between those two is libertarian. Everything is shared, devotion to the fellowship is...
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Throughout 'Gretel in Darkness', Louise Gluck employs the medium of poetry to describe the intense emotional turmoil that a survivor of traumatic experiences can go through, weaving the audience through the flashbacks of a distressing experience and interjecting the all too real alienation that one can feel when recovering. The author's expert word choice and rhetorical questioning invites the audience to explore trauma through themes of memory and isolation. The imagery of the witch's house and the forest is recalled...
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Poem Mood Analysis Essay Peacefulness comes in many ways, based on how humans interpret and feel it. A person can be deeply depressed and crying over something, but is still considered peaceful, or can be very joyful and pleased on the inside and still feel peaceful. There are two poems that have contradicted interpretations of the mood peacefulness, âThe Morning Walkâ by Mary Oliver and âThere is No Word for Goodbyeâ written by Mary Tall Mountain. âThe Morning Walkâ describes...
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Dylan Thomas' âDo not go Gentle into that good Nightâ is a Villanelle, a nineteen-line poem in a set format, it is an old French format, first written in 1606 by Jean Passerat. The structure is severe with two lines being repeated at the end of alternate stanzas and then making up the final two lines of the last stanza, which is a quatrain. It is not an easy form to use. He wrote this in 1947. (Popova, 2017) Each...
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The inconsistent points of view presented that form Hughesâ roles as both a composer and persona in Birthday Letters, are revealed in the interaction with memory and hindsight. In âFulbright Scholarsâ this interaction is displayed in the tension that is produced in the opening of the poem from the repetition of the juxtaposition of rhetorical questions which he writes answers to. In particular, when he asks; âWere you among them? I studied itâŚâ, the inquisitive yet unfounded tone in the...
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Textual conversations between conflicting texts highlight both the parallels between the composerâs ideologies as well as their conflicting attitudes, underscoring the contrasting outlooks from both parties. Resonating and reaffirming this idea is the contradictory interplay between Sylvia Plathâs poetry collection of âArielâ, authored during an era of gender digression, where women were stereotypically branded as housewives,; and Ted Hughesâ attempts to reconcile and expiate guilt as he confronts the public about his relationship with Sylvia Plath, in his poetry collection...
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The short poem, âPorphyriaâs Loverâ by Robert Browning is one of his finest works that portrays the motions of love and hate, as well as passion and control. The thrilling love story is about a man who is greatly obsessed with his lover named Porphyria and all he really wants his to keep her all to himself. But the only way he feels he can keep her is by killing her. Browningâs poem shows the theme of love, social classes,...
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Will the war on masculinity only fire back? The problem with the term toxic masculinity by Jacinta Petrohilos Toxic masculinity has become a very over used term in modern day society, the application of the term âtoxicâ traits target things such as aggression and sexist behaviours but we only ever associate these terms with males. We are now in the era where masculinity is raised to praise what is wrong with men and to address how to change them. But...
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Intro: Why does poetry speak to us in a way that grasps our attention and makes us want to discover more? Edmund Spenserâs âSonnet LXVIIâ (1595) offers an insight into a huntsman who is in pursuit of a lover, William Blakeâs âA Poison Treeâ (1794) teaches us of the underlining conflict between a friend and a foe and William Butler Yeatsâs âLeda and the Swanâ (1923) acknowledges the cruel and harrowing depiction of rape between Lena and Zeus, the God...
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Through the exploration of T.S Eliotâs âPreludeâsâ (1911), âThe Hollow Menâ (1925) and âThe Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrockâ (âPrufrockâ 1915), the audience is exposed to the isolation, depersonalisation and corruption of society that Eliot endures by his âsingle voiceâ of apprehension, engaging with our own uncertainties. Eliotâs poems endure the hardship of people being hungry for any form of spiritual experience in which through the exploration of the five poems, becomes increasingly obvious. His poetry is set in...
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Introduction about a poet: Robert Lee Frost was born in March 26, 1874 and died in January 29, 1963.He was an American poet, highly regarded for his realistic depiction of rural life and his command of spoken American. His works often draw the background of rural life in New England in the early 20th century and use them to study complex social and philosophical issues. A popular and often-quoted poet Frost was revered throughout his life and accepted four Pulitzer...
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Two poems, Remember by Christina Rossetti and Funeral blues by W.H Auden have the same motif of loss yet are almost the antithesis of one another in execution of attitudes to death. The speaker, Christina Rossetti in her poem Remember entreats her lover for remembrance after death yet speaks with a poignant realism in the acceptance that he may forget her for a while, seeing it as ultimately better for him to âforget and smileâ than to âremember and be...
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The Waste Land is a poem of breakdowns, psychological breakdowns of marriages and relationships, breakdowns of poetry and language and evidently the entire world. The carnage of the first World War had laid waste to Europe and made a mockery of civilisation thus starting the evolution of modernism and new forms of expression. After the war, it was T.S Eliot who had to represent and sustain a culture that was on the brink of collapse. First published in 1922, The...
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The poem may additionally moreover start on a pretty unhappy be mindful when the speaker claims that he âwandered lonely as a cloudâ, then again the tone of the poem hastily grew to boost to be joyful, when he spies a crew of daffodils âfluttering and dancing in the breezeâ. He declares that with such a sight âa poet ought to no longer on the different hand be gayâ, in unique when he is in such âjocund companyâ as the...
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Key mortal female characters described in The Aeneid heavily influence his journey, and Goddesses who hold positions of power and influence within the world the poem is set in. Although it is common to have Goddesses play roles in such literature, Virgilâs makes the decision to divert from mortal female stereotypes and the expected roles of Roman women at the time, this being a domestic role in raising a family. Instead by placing mortal female characters in positions of power...
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The story of Gilgamesh is very complex and as stated by Kenneth Rexroth a psychological one as well. It displays and encapsulates the mental processes and ways of thinking for the audience to understand and enjoy throughout their reading. In this paper, I will attempt to create a type of psychological portrait. This displays in detail how the characters change throughout the story, as well as what changes within them both physically and mentally. We begin the story with a...
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Ode to a Nightingale by John Keats Romanticism as reflected in Nature Nature and romanticism are inextricably linked in the romantic era because the romantic movement widely emphasized the grandeur and beauty of nature. Therefore, the power of the natural world was significantly highlighted. Many intellectuals of romanticism are of the opinion that certain artists of this period treated nature in a devout manner. Furthermore, the school of thought at the time was that the powerful link between nature and...
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Claude McKay`s âIf We Must Dieâ is another example of a poem that criticizes racial injustice and gives a voice to those black people who are marginalized by systematic racism. McKay is famously known for his poetry in support of the Black community as he committed himself to fight against racial injustice, and this poem in particular displays the complexities of resistance and racial injustice. He produced his poetry during the Harlem Renaissance period, this period was categorized by an...
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The poem âDo Not Weep, Maiden, for War Is Kindâ by Stephen Crane was published in 1895 during the period of realism in American literature. The American poet Stephen Crane was born in 1871 and has had many popular works that take place during and have been influenced by the Civil War, including this piece. Although Crane was born after the Civil War, the effects that it had on reality still lived on into his day, and its effects are...
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Edgar Allan Poe is known as a major figure in literature and gothic poems and stories. He is one of the most consequential writers with a dark and miserable life. He was born on January 19, 1809, and most of his writing was reflected in his own reality of life. He was one of the first writers to try to make a professional living as an author. Edgar Allan Poeâs past life mirrors themes such as Loneliness and Grief, which...
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Born on January 19, 1809, writer, poet, and dramatist, Edgar Allan Poe, appeared to be fascinated with the notions of insanity and surrealism. These concepts laid the foundation for his writings, resulting in his work sticking out substantially among his 19th-century transcendentalist contemporaries. Poe was among the first writers to create works that embraced the then-emerging literary movement that is Dark Romanticism. Inverse to Transcendentalists, Dark Romantic poets concentrated on the inherent evil present throughout nature and society, causing their...
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Quality poetry offers readers insight into their own relationship with their world, presenting themes prevalent within their own lives that address the complexity of being human. Eliot advocates the need for the confrontation of uncomfortable truths by exploring the unease of immortality caused by modernity which internally manifests disconnection, evoking spiritual rebirth. The pervasiveness of these ideas is evident in âThe love song of J Alfred Prufrockâ and further established in his poem âThe Hollow Menâ. The exploration of such...
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