Mathew Prior's Accomplishments In 'An Epitaph'?

“For a poem to coalesce, for a character or an action to take shape, there has to be an imaginative transformation of reality which is no way passive…Moreover, if the imagination is to transcend and transform experience it has to question, to challenge, to conceive of alternatives, perhaps to the very life you are living at that moment. You have to be free to play around with the notion that day might be night, love might be hate, nothing can be too sacred for the imagination to turn into its opposite or to call experimentally by another name. For writing is

First the explanation of the poem would be the starting ground into really analyzing what this is about. Do Not Go Gentle

I have decided to expand this short literary analysis paper into a research paper in a bid to explain fully the issues about the poem. The poem has a vast base of issues that need critical analysis in the interpretation to bring out the real meaning behind every word used in the poem. The literary analysis paper sort of locked out many ideas in the poem due to the brief nature of it. By going back to the poem and also reading from secondary sources, I intend to use this research to more vividly describe the themes of the poem as per my own understanding and that of other people. By reading from secondary sources, I will get the understanding of others and cite it in my research paper.

I do not know how without being culpably particular I can give my Reader a more exact notion of the style in which I wished these poems to be written, than by informing him that I have at all times endeavored to look steadily at my subject; consequently, I hope that there is in these Poems little falsehood of description, and my ideas are expressed in language fitted to their respective importance. Something I must have gained by this practice, as it is friendly to one property of all good poetry, namely, good sense; but it has necessarily cut me off from a large portion of phrases and figures of speech which from father to son have long been regarded as the common inheritance of

The funeral parade described in lines 7 and 8 serves to further represent both the importance of the deceased and the grief caused by this person’s death. The third verse, especially lines 9, 10, and 11, again bring the closeness of the relationship between the author and the deceased. The author shows great respect for this person by using overstatement, figure of speech to imply how important this person meant to the author. In line 9, "He was my North, my South, my East and West," indicates the intimacy between the two individuals and incorporated with the next line, "My working week and my Sunday rest," indicates their relationship to be of a very devoted nature. This is also stated in line 12, "I thought that love would last forever: I was wrong." This can be interpreted to represent the speaker’s unawareness toward an inescapable death. The author’s love for this man is very rare as he can describe it, to the points of end of time. This love between them is so strong that anyone reading this poem would believe their love will last forever, but as you read on you realize not until the death of this person that he loved; was the realization made that this thing called love, like everything else, must and will come to an end. The last verse mainly line 16 states the hopelessness of the

The poem ‘Remembrance’ by Emily Brontë explores prevalent themes also found in her prose: time, love, and suffering due to loss, from the perspective of a bereaved female, unique within the ‘Gondal Poems’ as most of these ‘enact the death of the beloved’ . Brontë’s intricate poetic artistry creates a poem that powerfully presents death and the multifaceted nature of grief in a way that subverts elegiac traditions and contrasts to the contextual expectations for a woman grieving, espoused by Brontë’s contemporaries. This is achieved through the disjointed metrical form and rhyme scheme that reflect the speaker’s fragmented perception owing to grief, and emphatic imagery that complements this.

Write about an important aspect of the poem which you will further discuss in your wildcard paragraph and eventually conclude in your last paragraph.

Call to mind any of the great and famous poets of history and names like Shakespeare, Poe, and Homer might be some of the first to flood our memory. Call to remembrance any of the great and famous poems known to man and titles such as The Iliad, “The Raven”, and “Carpe Diem” might be recalled and admired. Very seldom in our personal lists of famed or admired poets does the name William Cullen Bryant make an appearance, and works of his such as “Thanatopsis” are all but familiar to the average American citizen. Despite this rather unfortunate modern reality, a very longstanding truth remains firm about the late William Cullen Bryant; He was at some point in his time one of the most, if not the most, famous and renowned poets in all of

In Victorian England, Lord Alfred Tennyson was one of the most prominent figures in literature. His writings highlighted the society he lived in and at the same time revealed his inner thoughts and views. During this period, Tennyson wrote the poem In Memoriam A. H. H. after his friend Arthur Hallam unexpectedly died. Tennyson structured the poem in iambic tetrameter, and it contained over 100 sections that each tells a separate facet of Tennyson’s feelings during this time. Even though he wrote most often of Hallam, some of the sections pertain to larger concepts of life, death, and science. While In Memoriam adheres to a relentlessly regular meter, Tennyson breaks away from it when the subject of his grief, not Death or Science, comes up.

“Identify the simile and the metaphor in the third stanza, and discuss their effectiveness in creating the poet’s meaning.”

This poem, written by Emily Dickinson, is a poem about death and his apparent kindness. Emily Dickinson is a 19th Century American poet who has had a great impact on poetry. Though she lived in solitude for a majority of her life, the people she did come into contact with had great influence on her(“Emily Dickinson”). She was influenced a great deal by the concept of death and the book of Revelations (“Emily Dickinson”). This poem was originally published in 1863, and has been open to questions and speculations regarding the intent of the speaker of the poem. I chose this poem to write on because Emily Dickinson has always been a favorite poet of mine, and her whimsical outlook on some of the most pressing matters, such as death, intrigues me.

Have you ever thought about how poets write their poems? It’s not something anyone would do unless they were analyzing a poet's work. Some poets have special features and techniques that contribute to the poet's style. The poems that will be analyzed in this essay are the following, “The Traveller”, “Equality”, “Pickin Em Up and Layin Em Down”, and “Still I Rise”.

Writing about poetry can be one of the most demanding tasks. It is intellectually challenging since it requires to play close attention to the language. We can elaborate an interesting thesis by rereading, taking notes, annotating the text, and writing down ideas. In order to analyze a poem first we need to enjoy and not worry about the interpretation on a first reading; then, on the next readings we must ask several questions in order to appreciate how the poem works. Some important questions that Meyer points out are: who is the speaker? Is the speaker addressing anyone in particular? How do we respond to the speaker? Is there a specific setting of time and place? What does the title emphasize? Is the theme presented directly or indirectly? Do any allusions enrich the poem’s meaning? How does diction reveal meaning? Are many words repeated? Are figures of speech used? Do any objects, persons, places, events, or actions, have allegorical or symbolic meaning? Is irony used? What is the tone? Does the poem use onomatopoeia, assonance, consonance, or alliteration?

Sidney defends the worth of poetry by presenting us with a long defense written to William Ponsonby, a very popular publisher of the Elizabethan era. Sidney breaks his argument down into eight sections, each one arguing another point as to why poetry is worthy and should not be thought of as sub-par literature. His arguments are thorough, leaving no gaps between thoughts, and very persuasive in both content and style. I believe his argument is both successful and thorough, covering everything that has been critiqued about poesy in the ages before this work was written.

Modernist poetry is rather difficult to understand and what is more to analyze as it causes different associations and emotions for each reader. Poems of two famous poets will be analyzed, these are Wallance Stevens’ “Anecdote of Jar” and “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird” and William Carlos Williams’ “The Red Wheelbarrow”.