Poetry

The keyword Poetry is tagged in the following 12 articles.

Emily Dickinson's 'My Life had stood-a Loaded Gun-': Revealing the Power of a Woman's Words

September 5, 2011 - 2145 words | English » Poetry

Born in 1830 to Calvinist parents in Massachusetts, Emily Dickinson is renowned as one of America’s greatest poets. Though her poems often focused on death, she in fact wrote on many subjects. Life, nature, love, science, heaven, hell, religion, writing, and... Read Article »

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The Red Wheelbarrow: Dissecting the Minimal Masterpiece

June 2, 2011 - 773 words | Literary Criticism » Poetry

William Carlos Williams’s “The Red Wheelbarrow” contains four two line stanzas in which the first line contains three words and the second contains one word with two syllables; it is also an awesome, awesome poem. With four stanzas the poem describes... Read Article »

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Human History and the Natural World in the Poetry of William Carlos Williams and Yusef Komunyakaa

February 28, 2011 - 2758 words | Literary Criticism » Poetry

It is universally accepted that a poem, at least a “good” poem, should be able to stand by itself, to be able to strike a chord with its audience, whether this impact is immediate or more subtle and gradual. However, even the best-written, most influential... Read Article »

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Contemporary Poetry's Influence on Cross-Cultural Perceptions

February 23, 2011 - 4622 words | Literary Criticism » Poetry

Despite the fact that human nature has evolved little since the dawn of humankind, our most basal emotions remaining largely unchanged for tens of thousands of years, one of history’s constants has been our general inability to truly understand one another. While... Read Article »

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Resistance in Luci Tapahonso's "A Radiant Curve": The Application of European Poetic Form to Navajo Storytelling

February 15, 2011 - 3556 words | Literary Criticism »

Elements of defiance in the face of traditionally European ideals and practices are evident throughout Luci Tapahonso’s 2008 A Radiant Curve, most notably in her use of French- and Italian-based forms for many of her poems. Her use of the sestina and villanelle... Read Article »

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The Poetry of Yevgheny Yevtushenko

January 17, 2011 - 1185 words | Opinion » Yevheny Yevtushenko

Yevgheny Yevtushenko’s Poetry spans time and space when relating to Russia and its history. His Poetry, as he himself, declares, is intended to teach the conscience of anyone who reads it. And indeed, his Poetry, whether political or romantic, alludes to themes... Read Article »

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In What Sense are Short Poetic Texts a Narrative?

December 31, 2010 - 1141 words | English » Poetry

We can categorize poetic texts into three distinct types: the narrative poem, or poem that tells a story; the epic poem, or a long narrative poem on heroic subjects; and the lyric, in which a poet or speaker expresses an emotional state. (Schweibert: 166)1 However,... Read Article »

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Analysis of John Keats's "When I Have Fears:" Death & The Freedom of Limitations

November 4, 2010 - 1982 words | English » John Keats

John Keats’s “When I Have Fears” has often been read as a poem about a poet and his fear of mortality. Such a fear is not hard to unearth in Keats’s collection of Poetry, not to mention his famous letters to family and friends. However, this... Read Article »

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(Im)Mortality and the Poem: Comparing and Contrasting Marvell and Shakespeare

April 29, 2010 - 1824 words | Literary Criticism » Shakespeare

The meaning behind both Andrew Marvell’s “To His Coy Mistress” and Shakespeare’s sonnets has been debated since their respective publications. Marvell’s poem and specifically Shakespeare’s sonnets 55 and 60 have undeniably divergent... Read Article »

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Virginia Woolf on the Role of the Artist in the Modern World

February 2, 2010 - 2041 words | English » Virgina Woolf

Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse follows the development of the painter, Lily Briscoe, as she strives to create a meaningful space for her artwork in an increasingly critical and unkind world. Woolf’s stylistic devices, especially those employed... Read Article »

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Sylvia Plath's "Bee Sequence": A Microcosm of Poetic Development

January 21, 2010 - 4017 words | English » Sylvia Plath

The poems which Sylvia Plath composed in the weeks and days immediately preceding her death contain some of the most disturbing themes present in Modernist Poetry. In Ariel, an anthology containing her most fervent, emotional, and troubling Poetry yet, poems such... Read Article »

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Losing and Writing: Synonymous Art Forms for Poet Elizabeth Bishop

January 15, 2010 - 998 words | English » Poetry

Elizabeth Bishop, known for her reticent poetic style, reveals the secrets of her personal life through carefully wrought metaphors. In her villanelle, “One Art,” Bishop reveals the purpose of art and the significance of poetic form. In her... Read Article »

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