Comparing Beauty In Letters To A Young Poet And Black Swan Green

Black Swan Green by David Mitchell is a story of a teenager named Jason who writes poetry, and Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke is the story of an experienced poet who gives advice to a young poet looking for some advice. In both stories, ideas of beauty are introduced and developed, and while the idea of “beauty stems from within” are the same, their developments are very different. While some differences are small, these differences create a different mood in the overall presentation of the central themes. These changes in development style showcase each author's literary prowess, but even with all these changes in style and mood, the central idea of beauty still remains the same in each story.

“Black Swan Green” specifically the chapter “Solarium” by David Mitchell and “Letters to a Young Poet” specifically “Letter One” by Rainer Maria Rilke share a central idea in common that they develop throughout their texts. Both explore the idea of beauty and how it is shown through poetry. “Black Swan Green” tells the story of Jason, an aspiring teenage poet. “Letters to a Young Poet” is the interchange of letters between a novice poet seeking advice and criticism from Rainer Rilke. Both stories explore the process of showing beauty through poetry and developing the concept of beauty itself.

Lorde uses figurative language in her poem, “Hanging Fire.” In the poem, the author uses alliteration, repetition, hyperbole, personification, and occasional idioms. The author uses the personification, “...my skin has betrayed me…” which shows a part of her insecurities, hence her acne problems. She also uses the hyperbole, “...the boy that I cannot live without…” which shows an exaggeration of her love for the boy. In addition to that, the author uses alliteration and the idiom, “...still sucks his thumb in secret…” to express the boy’s immaturity to her. Then, the author adds repetition, “...momma’s in the bedroom with the door closed…” to convey that her mother isn’t there for her dilemmas and is rather distant, leaving the 14-year-old girl with no one to talk to. Lorde uses figurative language to show how a 14-year-old girl feels neglected by her mother and shares her fears and worries to us. The author uses the repetition, “...and momma’s in the bedroom with the door closed...”at the end of each stanza to show how

Many of his pieces can be matched and described as poems. For instance the dress from ‘Sarabande’ spring/summer 2007 had silk flowers and real flowers sewn together in it the real flowers lost their charm and fell all the way while the model wearing then sashayed across the ramp. The concept ‘all beautiful things die’ is nothing short than poetic. The direct resemblance goes to the Malayalam Poet Kumaranasan’s much celebrated work ‘Veenapoov’. Which talks about the same concept through a fallen flower and how it losses it’s charm slowly. The poetic element in the design is

The question of beauty has been asked since the beginning of time and yet there is still no precise answer. When discussing this same question and applying it to works of art a number of answers could be as large as the population. Henri Matisse and Francis Bacon have both inspired artists for generations and are considered to be opposite sides of the coin. Matisse created paintings with bright, happy colors mixing in patterns and showed life as it was viewed from the outside, leading to the idea that he created pretty paintings. On the other hand, Bacon produced intense paintings which included rich, dark colors that expressed the agony that can only be viewed from within oneself. When the viewer immerses themselves in both styles of painting it will be clear that art does not need to “be pretty”.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder: there can be many different perspectives seen in a poem. One individual could read a poem as depressing and another can perceive it as a new beginning. One’s views rests on individual perspectives. For example, Edgar Allen Poe’s writing is dark and controversial. In my essay I will argue that Poe was not in his right mind and he was driven mad with evidence throughout his short story “The Tell-Tale Heart”.

Compare and contrast the attitudes and values of the two speakers of the poems and how the poets have used language to convey these between “To His Coy Mistress” by Andrew Marvel and “My Last Duchess” by Robert Browning

The poem begins with the poet noticing the beauty around her, the fall colors as the sun sets “Their leaves and fruits seemed painted, but was true, / Of green, of red, of yellow, mixed hue;” (5-6). The poet immediately relates the effects of nature’s beauty to her own spiritual beliefs. She wonders that if nature here on Earth is so magnificent, then Heaven must be more wonderful than ever imagined. She then views a stately oak tree and

“Black Swan Green” is a story about a highschool boy, named Jason Taylor. Jason has a stammer unlike his other peers at his horrible high school. He’s the kid that dreads talking in front of the class because he sees himself as different. He’s afraid to be judged for his flaws. Also, he has a love for poetry he must hide from everyone. He can’t express his feelings for poetry or anything because he's too scared to be himself. In this story, his mentor, Madame Crommelynck teaches him to accept himself and show the world the real Jason Taylor. Jason has many conflicts throughout the story, especially with himself. On the contrary, Madame Crommelynck relates Jason’s high school peers to hairy barbarians. She asks Jason, “So you want a double life. One Jason Taylor who seeks approval of hairy barbarians. Another Jason Taylor is Eliot Bolivar, who seeks approval of the literary world. Is that so impossible?” (Mitchell, 154). Jason wants to fit in at his school, while Eliot Bolivar wants to be accepted in the literary world. Jason thinks to become a good poet he needs to be accepted by his peers but poetry is for yourself. It’s your thoughts and feelings. Poetry is not for an audience to criticise. To be a poet, you need to be yourself and then you’ll truly be accepted.

A Comparison of Poems About London 'London', by William Blake, and William Wordsworth's untitled poem, composed on Westminster Bridge, are two different poems written with different styles and techniques to portray their feelings towards London. They are both written in the romantic era and are very passionate in the way they convey their (as both are written in first person) differing opinions on London. Wordsworth's sonnet shows all the positive points and that in his opinion London is an admirable place. However, Blake speaks of a much bleaker London, which contrasts greatly in opinion. Rather than writing his poem on opinion, he uses fact to inform and protest against what he feels is wrong

     They say that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. As stated in Edgar Allan Poe's "The Poetic Principle," a concept of beauty can only be achieved through the use of emotion, an "excitement of the soul," a necessary element to any worthwhile poem (Poe 8). Poe's fascination with the mystery of death and the afterlife are often clearly rooted in his poems and provide a basis for himself and the reader to truly experience his concept of beauty. Although also a believer in portraying beauty through poetry, Ralph Waldo Emerson found beauty to be eminent in nature and all things created by the Oversoul. Beauty for Emerson is not an idea or unknown, it is visible all around him.

poem is not merely a static, decorative creation, but that it is an act of communication between the poet and

William Carlos Williams and Robert Frost are known as two of the greatest poets of their time and still highly regarded as two of the best poets of all time. Robert Frost was born in 1874 in San Francisco, California according to The Associated Press. William Carlos Williams was born in 1883 in Rutherford, New Jersey, according to the poetryfoundation.org. Both men died just two months apart in 1963. Williams is the author of the poem “Spring and All” and Frost is the author of “Dust of Snow”. These two poems

Barrett, blamed for being outright careless in her management of rhyme, defends "that in no spirit of carelessness or easy writing or desire to escape difficulties, have I run into them - but chosen them, … with the determinate purpose of doing my best" (19). Barrett's motivation for continuing to write poetry, in spite of her critics, was to simply become better at it. When accused of affectation and of studying attitudes by several reviewers of her 1838 poems Barrett responded, "As to attitudes I never study them. I never did take any thought as to forming a style - which formed itself by force of writing." She continued, "If I live I hope and believe that I shall write better - not more from natural impulse - but better"(17). Hayter suggests that Barrett's work is the result of laborious experimenting. In all her work Barrett attempted to convey her interpretations, spluttering the truth out" as effectively as possible (18).

Poetry is a varied art form. Poetry is expression with words, using aesthetics and definition. Word choice in poetry is the single most important thing. Devices such as assonance, alliteration and rhythm work in a poem to convey a certain image or to facilitate understanding. Similes and metaphors can take two unlike objects, such as a potato and cinderblock, and if done the correct way use them to describe how Abraham Lincoln dealt with scoundrels. Poetry is beautiful. One of the best genres in poetry, let alone a great literary movement is Romanticism or the post-enlightenment Romantics.