Because I could not stop for Death - By Emily Dickinson.
Because I could not stop for Death- By Emily Dickinson Because I could not stop for Death- He kindly stopped for me- The Carriage held but just Ourselves- And Immortality. We slowly drove-He knew no haste And I had put away My labor and my leisure too, For His Civility- We passed the School, where Children strove At Recess-in the Ring- We passed the Fields of Gazing Grain- We passed the Setting Sun- Or rather-He passed Us- The Dews drew quivering and Chill- For only Gossamer, my Gown- My Tippet-only Tulle- We paused before a House that seemed A Swelling of the Ground- The Roof was scarcely visible- The Cornice-in the Ground- Since then-'tis Centuries-and yet Feels shorter than the Day I first surmised the Horses' Heads Were toward Eternity- Ryan Catarius November 19, 2002 Art as Literature Poetry Essay Analyzing Emily Emily Dickinson's "Because I could not stop for Death-" is a poem. It can be literally described as a verbal composition designed to convey experiences, ideas, or emotions in a vivid and imaginative way, characterized by the use of language chosen for its sound and suggestive power and by the use of literary techniques such as meaning, antecedent scenario, language, tone, and imagination. These five terms, found in Helen Vendler's thirteen ways of exploring a poem, are a good start to analyzing a poem. For a poem cannot simply
By close examination of 'On the Sea' and one other poem, discuss the distinctively Romantic characteristics of Keats' poetry Consider - the themes of the poems and their style and tone and the contexts in which the poems were written
Rachel Miller L6T By close examination of 'On the Sea' and one other poem, discuss the distinctively Romantic characteristics of Keats' poetry Consider - the themes of the poems and their style and tone - the contexts in which the poems were written Romanticism is sometimes described as a revolt against the 'Age of Reason' of the 17th century. However changes had already taken place; the French Revolution and the American War of Independence made old certainties seem questionable and new possibilities achievable. They were major factors in the 'revolt'. They inspired a new liberal concept of man and his fate. Romanticism followed on with this, by celebrating human freedom and creativity. Yet Romanticism is hard to define; the changes that stimulated the creation of what we know as the Romantic Period affected the individual in so many different ways that what was created was a range of different voices, not a series of common assumptions. Romantic poetry sprung from the Romantic Period, dating roughly from as early as 1780 - 1830. Although the Romantic poets were all different in political, religious and artistic beliefs, the poetry they wrote shared common characteristics. The poetry valued feeling and emotion over reason, brought in interests in exploring the self and understanding the self through nature, had a focus on imagination, wanted something beyond the
Though frustrated by the mutability of human existance Keats ultimately accepts it
Nicola White Though frustrated by the mutability of human existence, Keats ultimately accepts it John Keats wrote during the Romantic Period, which was a time of great change due to events such as the Industrial Revolution. Keats expresses this transformation in his poems as it reflects his lifestyle. In two of his poems, 'When I have fears that may cease to be' and 'Bright Star' Keats conveys the mutability of human existence and how he grudgingly learns to accept it, as the poem progresses. These two poems illustrate a feeling of frustration within his personal experience. Keats had a relatively depressing childhood, which may have led to frustration and fear of change in his life. Keats experienced deaths in his family, he had a sister and three brothers die at birth and his father was killed when he was eight. He refers to the trepidation of death in both poems, which enables the reader to conclude it is the factor of change and for him the ultimate and somewhat inevitable loss of loved ones that worries and frustrates him. Through his writing he learns to deal with the mutability of human existence and accepts it. 'When I have fears that may cease to be' was Keats' first Shakespearean sonnet. He is describing three things he is concerned with missing in life. In this poem Keats is expressing his fears, that death will deny him fulfilment. He is
John Keats, "To Sleep".
Essay John Keats, "To Sleep" The Keats- poem "To Sleep" is a speaker's direct address to personified sleep. Consisting of 14 lines that are to be separated into threee quatrains and one couplet, it seems to correspond to the form of the English sonnet. Yet, the rhyme scheme suggests that this poem is a variation of a sonnste, caused by a deviation from the rule. The first two quatrains contribute to the sonnet- form,while there is a break before the third quatrain, which is indicated by a changeinthe rhyme scheme, but may also be seen in contents. In the speaker's address of something that isnot a thing, but only exists on a higher level, and is more of a 'state', this poem may be classified a s a hymn or an ode, which is implied by the frequent use of imperatives. The idea of a 'hymn' is even explicitly suggested in the poem itself, when the speaker classifies his address as such in the second line of the second quatrain. It is significant that it seems as if the speaker had given his speech completely out of hand and had passed it to his addressee. It is not his anymore, but "thine" (II,2), i.e. the Sleep's. This indicates that the speaker is willingto give everythingto his addressee- maybe even himself, which is what he would do by falling asleep. This would them mean giving also himself away, devoting hiswhole self to his addressee. Nevertheless there seems to be
What made the ‘Eve of St. Agnes’ a memorable poem?
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English IV Honors Erin Maglaque Poem Analysis Feb. 9 "Ode to the Confederate Dead" The lyric poem "Ode to the Confederate Dead" was written by Allen Tate over a period of ten years. "Ode" was published in 1937, and it was the only poem about which Tate wrote an explanatory essay entitled, 'Narcissus as Narcissus."1 The poem is constructed to tell the thoughts of persona as he stops by the gate of a Confederate graveyard. Persona's thoughts and reflections upon the soldiers who died is the subject of the poem; through imagery and diction, the reader is allowed to then unearth the theme of the poem: a combination of two philosophies about the human mind, narcissism and solipsism. However, in order to understand the connection between the soldiers and the abstract theories of narcissism and solipsism, it is crucial to understand persona. The imagery and diction written by Tate but effectually used by persona is the connection between the subject and the theme. While Tate does not make many historical allusions, the one stanza that begins, "Stonewall, Stonewall..."2 makes reference to Stonewall Jackson, a Confederate general, and several battles that took place during the Civil War. Also, two metaphorical allusions are made when Tate writes, "The gray lean spiders come..."3 which is a metaphor for the gray uniforms the Confederates wore, and "The singular
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"What we have is a charming fragment of romantic self indulgence in medieval atmosphere, free of the narrative particularity enforced in 'The Eve of St Agnes'," Discuss Brian Stone's comments on Keats's two 'Eve' poems.
"What we have is a charming fragment of romantic self indulgence in medieval atmosphere, free of the narrative particularity enforced in 'The Eve of St Agnes'," Discuss Brian Stone's comments on Keats's two 'Eve' poems. From reading the title we can see that Brian Stone believes that 'The Eve of St Mark' is charming. Obviously, it is up to the reader to decide but I would not personally use 'charming' to describe the poem. However I can see the reasons why Brian Stone could think this. The poem is in octosyllabic couplets of 137 lines. Sixteen lines (101-16), in Middle English. The poem has a beautiful rhyme throughout which is very delightful and it makes you want to carry on reading it. There is also a lot of excellent imagery. "Of the green thorny bloomless hedge, Of rivers new with spring-tide sedge." (L9-10) These two lines show the wonderful rhyme and imagery that Keats uses. I found that by the poem not being finished it frustrated me. This is probably why Brian Stone describes the poem as a 'fragment' because it is not complete. When a lot of people read a poem or book they want to get to the ending and find out what happens. The readers cannot do this in 'The Eve of St Mark' because Keats did not finish it. This is one of the reasons why I did not thoroughly enjoy the poem. Another factor that made me dislike the poem was the part in Middle English. I found this
Both Keats and Frost write about the pleasure and pain of human experience - Choose two poems and compose the ways in which the poets deal with these issues.
English Essay Both Keats and Frost write about the pleasure and pain of human experience. Choose two poems and compose the ways in which the poets deal with these issues. Through out the poems - "Ode to a Nightingale" and "Birches", both Keats and Frost shows us of their happy and beautiful human experience in the two poems, which are contrasted with the sadness and pain of their past. In "Ode to a Nightingale", John Keats displays the quality of the pleasure of the human experience (in this case the human experience of encountering the nightingale) and also the pain and sorrow of the real world, so much that he wishes for a painless death so that he can forget the past and go for a heavenly escape. One of the reason why Keats display so much sadness in this poem is probably because of Keats' younger brother had died the previous December and in this ode the poet attempts to come in terms with a world so cruel that: "Youth grows pale, and spectre-thin, and dies;" A world full of sorrow, which the nightingale cannot feel. In the first stanza, Keats describes a pleasure so powerful that it pains him, the pleasure in which the nightingale gives Keats it bringing a feel of numbness to the pain of the real world: "My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pain ...as thought of hemlock I had drunk," On the above quotation, we see a description of how the pleasure is so good
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