In Letters to a Young Poet, “Letter One” has very similar ideas and thoughts to the excerpts from Black Swan Green, “Hangman” and “Solarium”. In “Letter One” by Rainer Rilke, the central idea is that beauty is already in poetry but the author inputs his or her own flare to the already beautiful work. Rilke also explains that criticism does not make the rough edges round, because those rough edges make the piece literature unique. The ideas in “Hangman” and “Solarium” are similar but different. David Mitchell’s version of beauty in poetry is that the words the author chooses add beauty, but if all the words are beautiful that makes the beauty normal. In “Letter One”, “Solarium” and “Hangman”, there are similar yet different central ideas about beauty and its impact in poetry. In Letters to a Young Poet, “Letter One”, Rilke is writing to a young poet who wants his poems criticized. Rilke goes on to tell the young man how his poems are good but criticism does not help his work get better. Criticism is only an opinion that causes more harm than good. Criticism is a “loophole” to say negative things to or about one person and get away with it. Rilke goes on to give the man pointers on how he could improve, but does not say that anything is wrong with the poems and even goes on to say how courageous the man was because he wanted to be criticized. Some of …show more content…
The central idea for Rilke’s letter was how beauty is put into poetry and not made into poetry. While Mitchell’s book excerpts were about how beauty is preexisting and how too much beauty is bad. This brings both of the works of literature together because of the main point, beauty. Beauty is a word of different meanings. In Mitchell’s eyes, beauty is a preexisting entity that can be in anybody or anything but cannot be in mass quantities because then it is gone. In Rilke’s eyes, beauty is created and can be in any amount that is
After a complete analysis of “Beauty” by Tony Hoagland, there are multiple ways he succeeds in writing a meaningful poem. Each of the literary devices used played an important role in perfecting his poem. Hoagland did an excellent job at sending a message and his tone played an important role in making the message more sincere. Hoagland's use of imagery, figurative language, and personification made his poem more entertaining to read. Throughout this poem, Tony Hoagland shows that beauty, along with poetry, goes deeper than the
Whenever I read a poem and begin to examine it, it seems most poems remind me of the simple quote, “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.” All I mean by this is everyone always seems to look at a poem a little different. I believe this to be no less true than when I read “Onions” by William Matthews.
Robert Frost, author of “Nothing Gold Can Stay”, and Mark Twain, author of Two Ways of Seeing A River, explore the idea of beauty by putting their personal feelings into what they see. Both of these American authors use nature to interpret the ways of beauty into words. Frost and Twain go hand in hand with each other in the aspect of their diction. While Frost and Twain both use imagery to demonstrate fleeting beauty, frost includes time indicators, while Twain uses rhetorical questions.
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.
Poetry has a role in society, not only to serve as part of the aesthetics or of the arts. It also gives us a view of what the society is in the context of when it was written and what the author is trying to express through words. The words as a tool in poetry may seem ordinary when used in ordinary circumstance. Yet, these words can hold more emotion and thought, however brief it was presented.
Archibald believes that a poem should capture a reader’s attention with some sort of allure, like a painting. “A poem should not mean/ But be” (Ars Poetica). He views a poem like a painting, hanging on a wall, it’s just there. Archibald thinks that a poem shouldn’t be this great puzzle, but simple; a work of art.
In today’s modern view, poetry has become more than just paragraphs that rhyme at the end of each sentence. If the reader has an open mind and the ability to read in between the lines, they discover more than they have bargained for. Some poems might have stories of suffering or abuse, while others contain happy times and great joy. Regardless of what the poems contains, all poems display an expression. That very moment when the writer begins his mental journey with that pen and paper is where all feelings are let out. As poetry is continues to be written, the reader begins to see patterns within each poem. On the other hand, poems have nothing at all in common with one another. A good example of this is in two poems by a famous writer by
Rilke finds beauty within many things and such as beauty comes from within and beauty in everyday. Rilke writes back to Kappus an aspiring young poet looking for criticism. Rilke explains how you can
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
poem is not merely a static, decorative creation, but that it is an act of communication between the poet and
Edgar Allan Poe was a popular American author during the Romantic Era. During this era, authors wrote with emphasis on emotion and imagination, and Poe fits this stereotype perfectly. John Chua describes his reasons for writing by saying, “Poe’s writing aims at a concentrated affection or emotional response from the reader.” In many of his poems, Poe uses characters and plots that touch both the reader’s heart and imagination. These characters were often modeled after actual people in his life, such as his mother and many lovers. His poetry became even more famous after his death because of the “evil” persona that was adopted to his name (Meyers 263). In fact, two of Poe’s most famous poems, “Annabel Lee” and “The Bells,” were published after his death in 1849 (Poetry of Edgar Allan Poe). He achieved this reaction by using many different literary devices. Edgar Allan Poe’s biographical background contributed to the theme of death, role of women, and the use of doppelgänger to produce an emotional response from the reader.
In the first letter, Rilke cautions Kappus against turning to outside sources for advice, “you ask whether your verses are any good … you send them to magazines, you compare them to other poems, and you are upset when certain editors reject your work” (Rilke 5). Seeking others to interpret his own poems was a mistake for Kappus, and an abuse of outside sources. Criticism is an aspect of society that combines straightforward words, meaningless connotation, and negative judgement into a harmful concoction of all that is to be avoided in branching out of solitude. Finding the middle ground between blocking out every other voice to accepting criticism is important in the journey of a poet. Rilke’s letters themself are proof of this middle ground. Rilke warns against criticism in the beginning of his first letter, stating that it only results “in more or less fortunate misunderstandings,” yet then goes on to offer his own ideas on Kappus’s work in a fashion that may seem
There are many people who travel a distance in life to find the path they should take or to remember the path they once took. In the poem “The Path Not Taken,” by Robert Frost and the short story "I Used to Live Here Once" by Jean Rhys there are many similarities and differences. The authors’ use of describing a path helps them personify life’s journeys and self-reflection.
The poem “How Do I Love Thee”, by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and “What Lips My Lips Have Kissed”, by Edna Vincent Millay are both well-known poems that both have themes of love. (LIT, Kirszner & Mandell, Pg. 490). In both poems the poet helps the reader experience a lot of emotion with the use of certain words. There are speakers in both poems. In Mrs. Browning’s poem, the speaker is undefined, leaving open that the speaker could be a he or she. Millay’s poem which is written in first person, the speaker is more defined leading the reader to believe it is a she who is talking about love in the past tense. Both poems are sonnets written with fourteen lines, and written in Italian style. When comparing these poems we will be looking at the use of rhyme scheme and metaphors and how they were used to express emotions in these two sonnet poems.