Analysis Of James Keir Baxter's Poetry And Expultful Relationships With Women

Compare the views of relationships in ‘The Unequal Fetters’ with those in ‘To his Coy Mistress’. What is suggested about the different ways in which men and women view love?

       In a romantic forest setting, rich with the songs of birds, the fragrance of fresh spring flowers, and the leafy hum of trees whistling in the wind, one young man courts another. A lady clings to her childhood friend with a desperate and erotic passion, and a girl is instantly captivated by a youth whose physical features are uncannily feminine. Oddly enough, the object of desire in each of these instances is the same person. In As You Like It, William Shakespeare explores the homoerotic possibilities of his many characters. At the resolution he establishes a tenuous re-affirmation of their heterosexuality. In this essay I will show how individual characters flirt with their homoerotic

From songs, to television, to books, and even to newspapers, the need for love is universal. Love is an emotional necessity that even Jane, from Charlotte Bronte’s book Jane Eyre, cannot ignore. Throughout the story line, Jane is constantly searching to find love. She was looking, not just for the love of a man, but for the love of a family. However, Jane’s search for love sometimes ends up challenging her autonomy. While Jane is longing for love, she is not willing to give up her independence for it. Yet as Jane becomes older and her independence grows, she realizes that, while one needs to be independent, she also needs love in her life.

Billy Collins, the writer of the metaphorical poem “Introduction of Poetry”, guides the audience to interpret poetry rather than just reading poetry. Billy Collins, a teacher, wrote the poem to encourage students to dig for the greater meaning of a poem, rather than reading the black ink. Instead of visualizing and experiencing a poem, Collins fears that students only try to dissect poems. Throughout the poem, Billy Collins uses metaphors to focus the reader to react in imaginative ways and declares his love for poetry through imagery.

Initially, the short story sensibly disgraces a representation of women in the 1950s. As the male is gracefully seen as a “calculating keen, acute, and perspicacious” individual, also above women. From that, the assumption of “Love is a Fallacy” may veer towards an anti-women point of view. The approach to short story is not portrayed as a single gender discriminator, because it equally displays antagonistic views.

Examine the way Carol Ann Duffy presents relationships in ‘Valentine’. Refer to other poems about relationships in your answer.

To begin with, a stronger female figure against society’s expectations is presented through the distinct characterization of women in these short stories. In Kishor’s “Appointment with Love”, the female character Hollis Meynell is a beautiful woman who takes full control of her relationship with Lieutenant Blandford, which goes against the social norms of women in

Many artists are also historians, people who record first-hand experience of history, making note of important events to which many will make reference. Artist do this through music, writing, and orally through passed-down stories and legends. In the area of writing, there are many different types which display historical understanding. These categories divide into poems, prose, short stories, and long stories. The category which touches more on the personal and emotional side of historical reference is poetry. Two major poets, born about by the Harlem Renaissance which nurtured many new artists, predominately black, were Gwendolyn Brooks and Robert Hayden. These two poets and writers were greatly influenced by the Harlem Renaissance, a time in which African Americans were displaying their capabilities in the department of entertainment. Their poetry captures two main ideas in that it reflects struggles faced by African Americans in that time, and expresses universal human longings. Two poems to which the focus will be geared are Gwendolyn Brooks’ “The Explorer,” and Robert Hayden’s, “Frederick Douglass.” Each of these poems recognize the subservient nature black people were forced into. These texts also display the want each person has for individuality through freedom. These poets are wonderful examples of historians through poetry, because each of these poems contains abundant information and

The poems, "Introduction to Poetry" and "The Trouble with Poetry" by Billy Collins, both share the concept of experiencing the depth of what poetry honestly is through the usage of metaphors and imagery. However, both poems vary due to "Introduction to Poetry" gives a simpler way to convey a poem and "The Trouble with Poetry" gives a more into depth poem to show how poems are original from one another but, hidden meanings within a poem are still essential which is the speakers overall key point. Most often students will go through a poem and feel as if they discovered the depth of the poem after only reading it once. For most cases it's true, students do assume they found the underlying of a poem after one trial read but, in all reality it's not all crystal clear.

Representations of sexuality in Early Modern literature reveal a variety of attitudes, but they can be characterised by the ambivalence which they display towards the subject of desire and its consequences for the self. The destructive potential of desire is revealed in John Ford’s Tis Pity She’s A Whore, widely considered to be one of the most radical works of Jacobean theatre, not only for its frank and nuanced portrayal of incest, but for its reworking of the theme of ill-fated love from Romeo and Juliet into a dark rumination on the fundamental incommunicability of desire and the impossibility of mutual understanding.

The selected authors represent this through sexual deviance, alcoholism, and gambling. In particular, this is apparent through the narrative struggle in ‘The Sentimental Bloke’. Bill’s place in a “larrikin” gang establishes anti-social behaviour, which inhibits his upward social mobility within the text (Thompson 178). This results in several incidents, which impact his relationship with Doreen. For example, this includes Bill’s coarse behaviour at the theatre, his relapse into gambling, and his attempts to fight her suitors (Longford 1918). These actions mirror those of Grant’s “brutality” during the “kangaroo hunt”, as they subvert his metropolitan social values (McFarlane 35). The effect of the imposition of these negative masculine values is clear. Authoritative characters, such as Ginger Mick and Crawford, encourage behaviour that excludes men from wider society. The authors symbolise this through the prospect of marriage. In ‘Coonardoo’, Hugh’s refusal to marry for love is the result of his mother’s boundaries. Hugh may only fulfil the role of protector of his station, and by extension, Coonardoo, due to the “sublimation of his sexual desire” (Thomas 238). This suggests that the masculine roles drawn from mateship disregard the possibility of emotional fulfilment. Comparably, Kotcheff also represents this through his depiction of women.

The was a time in my life where I was trying to be a boxer but things

Wrapping up, Lamia shows how male idealization imposes on and limits women’s sexual identity. Against general readings of Lamia’s sexual character as the root of evil, what the analysis denotes is that Lamia places the spotlight on Keats’s sympathetic but ambiguous representation of Lamia. Though the ambiguity is recognized, the nub of the argument is that Keats does not portray female sexuality as demonic—women as the Other which may be allegorically extended to all those common people who had been Othered in England during the Romantic

Compare the ways the poets use language to present relationships in, “To his Coy Mistress” and one other poem in the relationship cluster.

In this essay I will be comparing Oscar Wilde's play 'A Woman of No Importance' to John Fowles' novel 'The French Lieutenant's Woman'. I will be exploring their differing views of woman in Victorian society. Generally, woman were viewed as inferior to men, yet Wilde shows compassion for them in his writing, this can be seen through his kindness to Mrs Arbuthnot towards the end of the play. However, John Fowles, although much darker in his presentation of woman, portrays Sarah Woodruff as