Category: Poetry
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The Injustice of Reality: Social Messages in Gilman’s “Wedded Bliss” and Plath’s “Kindness”
Poetry is a meaningful expression of art through the illustration of fascinating words and their hidden implication used to reflect the sense of life. Sylvia Plath as well as Charlotte Gilman were both prolific female poets who made a mark in the world of poetry and literature. Both “Kindness” by and “Wedded Bliss” by Charlotte…
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Sensibility and Alienation in Charlotte Smith’s “The Emigrants”
In September 1792, French revolutionaries murdered over one thousand political prisoners to prevent them from being freed and joining enemy forces. After the September Massacres, many, including the English poet Charlotte Turner Smith, had to question their support of the French Revolution and its founding principles. In 1793, Smith published “The Emigrants,” a two-part poem…
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Close Reading of ‘ode to Death’: Smith’s Paradox of Acceptance
Charlotte Smith’s late poem ‘Ode to Death’, published in 1797 in her collection of Elegiac Sonnets, draws on the idea of accepting death as a ‘friend’ (l.1) rather than fearing it. The ode carries a deep sense of desperation and sorrow, as it alludes to the grief endured by Smith in her own lifetime; predominantly…
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An Analysis of The Use of Tone in “Alone with Everybody”
Charles Bukowski’s poem “Alone with Everybody” was written in the mid-1970s, and it was first published in a poetry collection titled Love Is a Dog from Hell in 1977. Bukowski is a German-born American author who is known for his ability to convey feelings of utter despair in his writing, and he does not fall…
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Baudelaire’s “The Albatross” and The Changing Role of The Poet
Charles Baudelaire is often considered a late Romantic poet. Even Baudelaire sought to equate himself with archetypal Romantic figures like Byron, Hugo, and Gautier; the latter once claimed that Baudelaire had “found a way to inject new life into Romanticism” with the publication of his magnum opus, Les Fleurs du Mal. However, the novelty that…
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Human’s Bird Nature in Symmons Roberts Hitchcockian
Symmons Roberts presents to us the idea of primal instinct and savagery which still is a part of human nature; he is comparing our natural demeanour to that of birds. The poem is obviously not about birds attacking people despite the link to the Hitchcock film ‘The Birds’, but is about the soul, the feelings…
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Central Themes of The Passionate Shepherd to His Love and The Nymph’s Reply
‘Introduction: The Passionate Shepherd to His Love’ is a kind of peaceful lyric created by Christopher Marlowe in the late sixteenth century. This sonnet involves shepherds and country life. This ballad was written in a shepherd’s field or settings. The data given is about the speaker who is a shepherd and thinks hopefully and impractically.…
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The Poet and The Narrator in Christopher Marlowe’s Hero and Leander
In Christopher Marlowe’s narrative poem Hero and Leander, a major obstacle confronts the reader in the form of attempting to separate the narrative voice of the poet Marlowe from that which W.L. Godshalk calls “the sensibility of a dramatized narrator. . . who stands between us and the lovers” (307). David Farkas, in his “Problems…
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The ‘ideal’ in Campion and Marlowe
Thomas Campion and Christopher Marlowe have explored the concept of ‘the ideal’ in ‘A Man of Life Upright’ and ‘Come Live with me, and be my Love,’ respectively. Campion delves into the idea that a man may be more content in life by upholding strong morality. In ‘Come Live with me, and be my Love,’…
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Modernism in The Poetry of T.s. Eliot and Christopher Okigbo
Christopher Okigbo’s poetry has often been compared to that of T. S. Eliot, partly because Okigbo uses Eliot’s signature linguistic devices such as exploiting metaphor to create a densely symbolic dimension to his poetry. In addition, he also appears at times to be consciously invoking comparisons with Eliot through such means as similarity of titles,…