YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Social Reflection of Contemporary Poetry
Essays 451 - 480
that its bizarre poetic form could also be attributed to Ginsbergs love of jazz music. The coffeehouses which reached their popul...
the end, ones heart may win over ones intellect. In Diane Ackermans poem, which may very well be a modern retelling of...
Before actually describing the art and poetry that came out of detainees from Angel Island, a look at the locations history would ...
went outside to sit under a tree where there was a nightingale, only to write a poem about it (Ode to a Nightingale). In the poem ...
a sufferer from mental illness, which may have been triggered at least in part by her fathers death during her childhood....
obvious characteristically reminiscent of the common themes of life, love and landscape, as well as the not-so-happy aspects of hu...
As Tom was a sleeping he had such a sight!/ That thousands of sweepers Dick, Joe, Ned, & Jack,/ Were all of them lockd up in coffi...
would end without seeing "half my days thats due" (line 13). This suggests that Bradstreet is giving birth in middle age, which s...
. . . perceives that it waits a little while in the door . . . that it was fittest for its days . . . that its action has...
beginning, feels like he is in a position of complete helplessness. His father has been gone nearly 20 years and he is forced to d...
water, boiling my limbs panting, begging I clutched childlike, clutched to the hot sides of death (Wright, 2003)....
the sea, suggests a love of nature, as is evocative of natures beauty. Secondly, Sappho connected this image with memory, which su...
affected her personally. This is exemplified in her poem fragment that scholars have numbered 93. The poem begins with the injunc...
bottle we buy. All we have to do is look at the contents of most plastic bottles such as for shampoo, lotion, juices, and milk, an...
savagery which slavery brought with it. Notice in this passage how the belles traits are given, then immediately juxtaposed with t...
"I am the people, the mob." In this, we share a similar sentiment. However, your work expresses a much more accepting and optimist...
the gods high-heeled walking wounded" (pp. 239). She was born in Boston, the daughter of a university professor and one of his gra...
even to the edge of doom" (Shakespeare 9-12). In the end he claims that if he is wrong then he never wrote and no man ever loved. ...
particular woman but does not possess her. Another may clearly see that the woman he describes is his. Regardless, however, of whe...
he foretold in this little piece written long before his name became a beloved household word"....
nonsense poem is to not try to understand it at all. In other words, reading the poem outloud, rather than reading it to oneself, ...
for a spiritual thinker, body and soul. In "The Good Morrow," Donne immediately established what critic Susannah B. Mintz refers ...
this as the focus changes from nature and subtly brings in the narrator: "I am too absent-spirited to count;/ The loneliness inclu...
and regular stress would at first strike his reader with incredulous amazement. But he was hardly prepared for the storm of abuse ...
futility and anarchy (of) contemporary history": this is not to say that such a structure need be formal and stylised, only that i...
politics of the New Democratic Party of Canada after the Second World War, and she maintained a feminist perspective throughout he...
as perhaps a Jew. This presents us with imagery, symbolic references, to the confused state of Plath in terms of her own identity....
context changes and it seems more logical given the tone of the rest of the poem. Thus, the word as is reflective of the way that ...
Dancers illustrates throughout the various poems, the Armenian experience of community. This community is not made up of relatives...
previous era and so many would experiment with free verse and would place special emphasis on the exploration of human feelings an...