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Life Of Hart Crane
1,349 wordsHart Crane was a poetic genius who was driven, and hampered, by his self-destructive personality. His alcoholism, sexual excesses and volatile behavior gave him the illusion of personal stability and lead to his greatest poems, but also brought his tragic doom. Crane's poems, though not always autobiographical, can be understood by looking at the occurrences in his turbulent life. Crane acted as his own worst enemy. The feeling, mood, style and form of Crane's poems mirrored his many mood swings...
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Poem
530 wordsKeeping Still by Pablo Neruda is a thought provoking work of poetry. The poem was probably applicable to humanity of the time when it was authored, but it eerily fits so well into this moment of time and space. The notion of slowing the pace of life down for just a moment to realize that every living thing could use a moment of peace and reflection is so applicable to our lives in the Silicon Valley. With our hectic ways of trying to survive financially, complete our education, live and raise a ...
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Imagery Of The Sea And Winter In The Seafarer
2,569 wordsThe Anglo-Saxon society was a combination of the Jutes, the Anglo, and the Saxons. It was through this combination that the values of this one culture evolved. Anglo-Saxons lived their lives according to values such as masculine orientation, transience of life, and love for glory. Contradictory to the belief that the Anglo-Saxons' values are outdated, one will find when taking a closer look that most of the values are, in fact, still present in today's society. Most of the literature from that t...
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Selected Letters Of E.E. Cummings
1,365 words... editor of The Dial; they had one child, Nancy, born while Elaine was still married to Thayer. Elaine divorced Cummings within the year, to marry an Irish banker and politician, taking Nancy with her to Ireland and blocking Cummings from seeing his child. His second marriage, to Anne Barton in 1929, also ended in divorce, in 1932. These marital disasters affected Cummings's personality so much that by the 1930's he had changed from a vivacious young celebrant of life to a cynical, hard-hittin...
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Gerard Manley Hopkins
757 wordsGerard Manley Hopkins Jason Plato Mrs. Pena English 28 May, 1996 Everyone is destined to be great for a moment in their lives. For Gerard Manley Hopkins this was difficult. Gerard was a poet that came way before his time and people didn't realize the power he had with words. Gerard Manley Hopkins was one of the most original poets to write in English at any time period. He only lived for 45 years and only had three of his poems published during his lifetime. Gerard was torn between his love of G...
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Wolverton's Poems Deal With Continuous Change
1,448 wordsLife, Death, and Continuous Change (Three themes prevalent in Terry Wolverton's Mystery Bruise) What is this that takes the immoral, the wicked, and the weak? What is this that takes the righteous and the strong. We have referred to it as our end, departure, extinction, impending doom, eternal rest, last sleep, and most certainly our final summons -at least, as far as known life is concerned-. The Bible has named it, "the latter end". Shakespeare has called it "the journey's end" and "a knell th...
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Last Three Lines Of The Poem
1,667 wordsPoetry is a way that stories are told much like the lyrics of contempo ry song. Poetry has been written since ancient times as a way of story telling. Students have had a constant battle analysing traditional poetry because they haven't realise that every song they listen to is in fact embedded with poetry. If students can be encouraged to see a contemporary song as a form of poetry then they will value the significance of keeping traditional poetry alive. The following poems "Up the Wall" and "...
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Lady Of Shalott 5 Onegin
1,853 words'... Just as the storm clouds often slay The scarcely breathing new born day. ' 1 One of the most popular of Tennyson's poems, The Lady of Shalott relates the tragic story of an extremely lonely young lady longing for a soulmate. A poem of "technical virtuosity, inspired landscape-painting based on precise observation, and a dreamworld of artistic beauty denying the commonplace"2, "turning to beauty as a possibility of a more complete life"3, it is one of the highlights of the author's early yea...
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Ezra Pound
594 words"The Lake Isle" Response Paper There comes a point in everybody's life when a thought of a getaway from the lives we live crosses our mind. For some it's just an image that pops up and quickly disappears with its unrealistic theme and others can't get it out of their mind, dwelling about it their whole life. Although, most people do think of an escape, they don't particularly know what they want. In his poem "The Lake Isle", Ezra Pound puts down on paper the simple things he longs for in life, r...
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Fray De Luis
3,842 wordsINTRODUCTION Fray Luis de Leon, the Spanish poet and theologian was born in Belmonte, Aragon in 1528 and died in Madrid, circa 1591. He was brought up with a heightened sense of honour and virtue, no doubt instilled in him by his strict bourgeoisie upbringing. At the age of fourteen he left his home to pursue his study of law at the University of Salamanca, six months after his arrival he entered the Augustinian convent in that same city. It would appear that from an early age Fray Luis was seek...
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Memorial Of The Dead In His Poem
1,535 wordsThe two poems express grieving for the dead, and both use similar language in some respects in their use of metaphors and language and are very emotional in their content in order to convey the feeling of grief for the large numbers of dead appropriately. Curiously, for two such emotional poems, they both bear very nonchalant and almost clinical titles, both simply naming the place that the poem is about which clearly in no way indicates the emotional content of the poem, seemingly fulfilling no...
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O'hara S Movie Poems
4,460 wordsFrank O'Hara: His Movie Poems and the Effects They Have On Society and Pop Culture In a world where people are judged not just by what they say but how they say it, American poet Francis (Frank) Russell O'Hara has been judged many times over the past fifty years. He has been ridiculed by such literary greats Jack Kerouac, who once said, "you " re ruining American Poetry, O'Hara" (Lehman 336), to critics like Marjorie Perloff (who wrote a biography of O'Hara in 1977 titled Frank O'Hara: Poet Amon...
