Category: Poetry
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Preserving The Vitality of Love: Analyzing “I Am Trying to Break Your Heart”
Almost everyone, at some point in their life, deals with heartbreak and loneliness from a broken relationship. In “I Am Trying to Break Your Heart,” Kevin Young utilizes literary devices to depict the cruelty of a past relationship. The poem successfully demonstrates the speaker’s story of , illustrating the inner turmoil one faces after the…
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Tennyson’s ‘in Memoriam’ and Thackeray’s ‘going to See a Man Hanged’: Breaking Down The Role of Writing
Winston Churchill said that ‘the truth is incontrovertible’. This statement construes ‘truth’ as an absolute concept, where there is only one truth, and anything else is by definition a non-truth. Tennyson’s In Memoriam and Thackeray’s ‘Going to see a Man Hanged’ are certainly diverse in their genres; Tennyson’s words are a profound ode to a…
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A Refreshing Analysis of T.s. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”
To say that “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” is a typical romantic ode to the wonders of love, as the title may suggest, is quite far from the truth. To the contrary, this poem enters the straggling mind of J. Alfred Prufrock, a man plagued with irresolution, and because of this irresolution will…
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Imagery in “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”
Table of contents Introduction Imagery in “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” Conclusion References Introduction When it came to modernist poetry, imagery was important to flesh out the lavish artistic style said poets loved to express, which in turn allowed them to declare themes and concepts clearer. T.S. Eliot, consider among the great poetic…
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All a Woman Needs is to Be Beautiful: Analysis of Aeneid
Admirable qualities of men in Virgil’s The Aeneid include bravery, honor, and courage, but a woman’s value is based less on their power, wit and brains and more on their beauty, or lack of beauty. There are many instances within The Aeneid where both male and female characters value a woman based on how beautiful…
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Analysis of Women in Aeneid
Virgil’s Aeneid details the trials and tribulations of Aeneas and the Trojan people en route to Italy from Troy. The journey parallels the epic adventures of the Homeric hero Odysseus. Virgil borrows Homer’s narrative style and frames a story that pays homage to the founding of Rome. Like that of Odysseus, the story of Aeneas…
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Surrey’s Innovations and Achievements in His Aeneid
Elizabeth Smith Professor Colin Dickey Eng 640 22 October, 2006 Surrey’s Innovations and Achievements in His Aeneid Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, is credited as the inventor of English blank verse. In addition to this, he translated books II and IV of Virgil’s1 Latin epic the Aeneid. This paper will endeavor to show what an…
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Make Panic Look Fetching: The Eroticization of Rape by Ovid
In both the Ars Armatoria and Metamorphoses, Ovid presents highly detailed, compelling scenes of rape, crafting these moments with an almost exquisite attention to detail that reveals their value to him as a writer. Two of the most notable rape scenes in Ovid’s repertoire are that of the rape of the Sabine women, in the…
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The Cinder Path: Andrew Motion’s Shift from Royal to Public
‘I want my writing to be as clear as water. No ornate language; very few obvious tricks. I want readers to be able to see all the way down through its surfaces into the swamp. I want them to feel they’re in a world they thought they knew, but which turns out to be stranger,…
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Nature as a Possible Catalyst for Human Connection in “Mametz Wood” and “Father”
Throughout the collection Skirrid Hill (2005) by Owen Sheers, nature is presented as a significant factor to both the development of personal and cultural identity and to human relationships. In “Mametz Wood” and “Father”, the speaker’s attachment to the earth is apparent. However, moving beyond description of the natural world alone, Sheers calls attention to…