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A Look at The Poetry of E.E. Cummings (1462 words, 7 pages)

The Poetry of E. E. Cummings E. E. Cummings, who was born in 1894 and died in 1962, wrote many poems with unconventional punctuation and capitalization, and unusual line, word, and even letter placements - namely, ideograms. Cummings' most difficult form of prose is probably the ideogram it is extremely ... Read More

An Overview of William Blake’s Popular Singsong Poetry “The Songs of Experience” (1194 words, 2 pages)

As Night Falls The most successful poets in history all fall into a certain poetic style that caters to the messages and images of their poetry. William Blake, a pre-romantic poet of the 18th century, followed this tradition in his most successful volumes of poetry, The Songs of Innocence and ... Read More

An Overview of the Romantic Era Poetry and Poets (823 words, 2 pages)

Wordsworth and the Romantic EraOne of the first and earliest Romantic Era poets was William Wordsworth. Romantic Era poetry was centered around mans relationship and fascination of nature and the overall awe of life on Mother Earth. The landscape with the quiet of the sky, thats Wordsworth. The reliance on ... Read More

An Analysis of the Description of Pain in the Poetry by Emily Dickinson (3218 words, 9 pages)

The Description Of Pain In Emily Dickinson's PoetryIn her description of pain, Emily Dickinson treats its effects on both the body and the soul. In poem 244, she presents a comparison between physical and psychological pain. According to poem 806, pain is a state through which the soul gets liberated ... Read More

An Overview of the Musical and Religious Influences of Sidney Lanier’s Poetry (1611 words, 3 pages)

Bowen 1Musical and Religious Influences on Sidney Lanier's Poetry Arguably, a writer's works reflects many influences. After all, a writer is a product of his background, his times, and his geographical location, among other factors. Sidney Lanier was no exception. Like all other writers, he inevitably drew from his own ... Read More

The Early Life and Poetry of Walt Whitman (940 words, 2 pages)

Walt Whitman was one of the greatest poets of the eighteen hundreds. Most of his poems can be found in his short book Leaves of Grass. He is one of the best known Americas poets and set the standard for intellectual patriotic poems.Walt was born on May 31, 1819 in ... Read More

An Analysis of the Poetry of A. E. Housman (864 words, 5 pages)

The Poetry of A. E. HousmanHousman was born in Burton-On-Trent, England, in 1865, just as the USCivil War was ending. As a young child, he was disturbed by the news ofslaughter from the former British colonies, and was affected deeply.This turned him into a brooding, introverted teenager and a misanthropic,pessimistic ... Read More

The Wide Variety of Emotions in the Poetry of Emily Dickinson (1414 words, 6 pages)

Subject English - Dickinson, "Pain has an element of blank..."Although cryptic in language and structure, Dickinson gives her work aninstinctually vivid sense of emotion. Her examination of the feeling ofpain focuses in on only a few of the subtler nuances of pain that areintegral parts of the experience. She draws ... Read More

The Works of Ann Sexton and Robert Lowell, Creators of the Genre of Confessional Poetry (970 words, 2 pages)

In September of 1958, Anne Sexton enrolled in a graduate level poetry class at Boston University and began her career as a poet. Her professor was the highly-esteemed Robert Lowell, famous among the Boston Brahmin for his literary and intellectual family as well as his own work. In that September, ... Read More

The Revelation of Innocence and Experience in the Poetry of Thomas Hardy (711 words, 4 pages)

Ignorant about InnocenceHardy's Characters' Revelation Through ExperienceIn "The Last Chrysanthemum," Thomas Hardy asks, "Why shouldthis flower delay so long To show its tremulous plumes?" Hemight have well have been posing this question to himself. TheBritish poet wrote most of his greatest verse after the age ofsixty. Hardy proves, that through ... Read More

An Analysis of Fire Poetry (9183 words, 38 pages)

"The lesson of the hour is that while property is good, life is better, that while possessions are valuable, life is priceless. The meaning of the hour is that the life of the lowliest worker in the nation is sacred and inviolable. . . ." Rabbi Stephen S. Wise "I ... Read More

A Literary Analysis of Poetry by John T. Ogilvie (10356 words, 41 pages)

John T. OgilvieThe visible sign of the poet's preoccupation--the word is not too strong--is therecurrent image, particularly in his earlier work, of dark woods and trees, Often, as inthe lyric with which we have begun, the world of the woods..., a world offering perfectquiet and solitude, exists side by side ... Read More

An Introduction to the Life and Poetry by Claude McKay (2735 words, 12 pages)

Felipe SmithThe work of Du Bois and Johnson undoubtedly set the tone for theimagery of entrapment and despair in the northern metropolis that permeates the poetry ofJamaican-born Claude McKay, an immigrant like Du Bois and Johnson in the American cityfamed for its "openness" to outsiders. McKay reached New York in ... Read More

An Introduction to the Literary Analysis of the Symbolism in the Poetry of Arnaut (10274 words, 39 pages)

Cleanth BrooksThe bundle of quotations with which the poem ends has a verydefinite relation to the general theme of the poem and to several of the major symbolsused in the poem. Before Arnaut leaps back into the refining fire of Purgatory with joy hesays "I am Arnaut who weep and ... Read More

An Analysis of the Traditional Elements in English Poetry (3298 words, 12 pages)

from The Sacred Wood (1920)Online Sourcehttpwww.bartleby.com200sw4.htmlIIN English writing we seldom speak of tradition, though we occasionallyapply its name in deploring its absence. We cannot refer to "the tradition" orto "a tradition" at most, we employ the adjective in saying that the poetry ofSo-and-so is "traditional" or even "too traditional." Seldom, ... Read More

A Literary Analysis of Poetry by O’Hara (429 words, 2 pages)

John LowneyO'Hara's poem "Today" answers . . . Williams' demand for"No ideas but in things," with a motley assortment of objects, such as"kangaroos, sequins," and "chocolate sodas," "stuff" that"still makes a poem a surprise." This collection of objects seems to be relatedonly randomly what initially makes this poem a surprise ... Read More

A Literary Analysis of Anthology of Modern American Poetry (537 words, 4 pages)

We invite people to submit course syllabi based on Anthology of Modern American Poetryon disk to Cary Nelson or by e-mail (to mhurtuiuc.edu)for us to place on line. We are especially interested in courses that use both Anthology of Modern American Poetry and the web site. Courses may range from ... Read More

A Literary Analysis of Poetry by Amy Lowell (6413 words, 29 pages)

Annette KolodnyIn many ways, Amy Lowell anticipated the recent feminist critiqueof Bloomian poetics when, in 1925, she applied his question "For why do men writepoems?" to "we women who write poetry" Taking us by and large, we're a queer lot We women who write poetry. And when you think How ... Read More

An Overview of the Essays on the Poetry (350 words, 2 pages)

Edward BrunnerIn "The Room" he admits that "I think this is allsomewhere in myself" and goes on to describe a bird trapped in a room in thestillness before dawn "the sounds of a small bird trying From time to time to flya few beats in the dark You would say ... Read More

An Analysis of Approaching Poetry: Perspectives and Responses by Peter Schakel and Jack Ridl (459 words, 3 pages)

Peter Schakel and Jack RidlHere the irony is not that the poem advocates suicide but says the opposite. The ironylies in indirection, as it offers unexpected and ultimately despairing reasons foravoiding suicide and continuing to live, and in the ambiguity of the title the word resume,without accents, means to "go ... Read More

An Analysis of Contemporary Poetry in English by American Indian Writers (3574 words, 17 pages)

Compiled by Kenneth RoemerGENERAL COMMENTS ABOUT CONTEMPORARY POETRY IN ENGLISH BY AMERICAN INDIAN WRITERSLucy MaddoxThe appearance of a discrete chapter on Native American poetry in a volume devoted to asurvey of poetry of the United States is an event worth remarking. Only within the lastfew years has Native American writing ... Read More

A Literary Analysis of Poetry (6206 words, 23 pages)

Foreword If apoem is not forgotten as soon as the circumstances of its origin, it begins at once toevolve an existence of its own, in minds and lives, and then even in words, that itssingular maker could never have imagined. The poem that survives the receding particularsof a given age ... Read More

A Literary Analysis of Anthology of American Negro Poetry (10729 words, 43 pages)

There is, perhaps, a better excuse for giving in Anthology ofAmerican Negro Poetry to the public than can be offered for many of the anthologies thathave recently been issued. The public, generally speaking, does not know that there areAmerican Negro poets--to supply this lack of information is, alone, a work ... Read More

A Literary Analysis of Poetry (2053 words, 8 pages)

If he starts trying to formulate statements about the undomesticatedphenomenon that is poetry, the man who may have been, on occasion, a poet, is likely torealize that he is virtually as thorough a layman as anyone. He can remember a few timeswhen he wrote what he took to be poetry, ... Read More

An Analysis of An Anthology of Revolutionary Poetry Edited by Marcus Graham (2126 words, 11 pages)

In 1929 Marcus Graham compiled and edited An Anthology of Revolutionary Poetry, a collection of modern and earlier verse composed by poets from twenty countries who championed freedom. Ridge served on the book's Publication Committee and contributed "Reveille." Poets and critics Lucia Trent and Ralph Cheyney wrote a lengthy introduction ... Read More

A Look at the Symbolist Influence on Hartmann’s Poetry (1153 words, 5 pages)

Marshall Van DeusenHartmann's poetry too was touched by the symbolist influence. In 1890, the year Merrillpublished Pastels in Prose, Hartmann published a broadside of seven short prosepoems of his own, written from 1886 to 1889. Although these Poems show nothinglike the inscrutable symbolist image or the packed Mallarman syntax straining ... Read More

A Literary Analysis of Toward a Reading of the Poetry of William Bronk (2576 words, 12 pages)

Mark RudmanTOWARD A READING OF THE POETRYOF WILLIAM BRONKWilliam Bronk's poetry begins where philosophy leaves off in the enactmentof an idea, in the testing of a proposition. Each poem addresses itself to acentral question of existence, not only why we are here but where we are. Hemerges dialectics and lyric ... Read More

An Analysis of Poetry by Miss Moore (9358 words, 38 pages)

Donald HallIn her well-known poem, "Poetry," Miss Moore begins,"I too, dislike it." This line has been interpreted as ironic, as an attempt todisarm, or as evidence that she practices her art only half-seriously. Quite obviously,however, her reasoning is serious. She refers to a kind of poetry that is neither honestnor ... Read More

An Introduction to American Poetry in 1990 (646 words, 3 pages)

On American Poetry in 1990InterviewerWhat would you say the state of poetry is inAmerica, by any definition? Where do you see poetry going? And where do you think itshould go?KomunyakaaIve been kicking around the phrase neo-fugitivesinside my head. What I mean by it is that there tends to be a ... Read More

A Literary Analysis of Jackson’s Poetry (2233 words, 12 pages)

Laura (Riding) Jacksons poetry and criticism are intricately linked in their inquery into the paradoxical nature of human expression and feeling. After practicing poetry from the early 1920s to 1938, she renounced poetry saying that its no longer served as a means of expressing the modern wordworld. Poetry bears in ... Read More

Published: Friday 25th of January 2013