God Speaks Through The Mouths Of Poets Essay

Lately, I have read a good deal of poems by Philip Larkin, and one unifying factor that I have noticed is that Larkin never seems to use a filler. Every word in every one of his poems seems to be carefully crafted and placed, to the point where the flow and rhythm of

Richard Blanco is a Cuban- American poet who was given the oppurunity to write an inaugaration poem for Barack Obama's second swearing-in. He wrote a poem titled "One Today" that praised the good and unique things about the United States and also the everyday people who's daily routines help to make America the proud country that it is.

Carolyn Forché’s statement, "I think poetry is the voice of the soul, whispering, celebrating, singing even,” spoke to me. I strongly agree with this statement because to me, poetry is extremely similar to music in that both forms of art are a voice of the soul. With both, the artist/poet is able to convey every emotion imaginable and teleport listeners/readers into a new dimension of emotion and story telling. Music has always been a huge part in my life and one of my favorite parts of it is its ability to convey a message and make you feel. Both music and poetry are able to convert an artist’s emotions into concrete form for audiences and I believe that is what Carolyn Forché is referring to in her previous statement. One example of this comes in Claribel Alegría’s poem “Documentary” when she writes about “[her] wounded country, [her] child, [her] tears, [her] obsession” (page 2). This line, as clear as day, comes from the soul. It comes from a soul that is aching for its country but is still proud. Observing this poem and numerous other poems from Claribel Alegría, it is obvious that she adores her country. This is where Claribel Alegría uses poetry as a “voice of soul… celebrating.” She makes her love for her country no secret and even goes so far to literallt refer to “Documentary” as a “love poem for [her] country.” She uses her poetry platform to show both her love, as well as her concern, for her beloved El Salvador and I believe that’s something that more artists, whether it be poets or musicians, should do as well.

Reflections Within is a non-traditional stanzaic poem made up of five stanzas containing thirty-four lines that do not form a specific metrical pattern. Rather it is supported by its thematic structure. Each of the five stanzas vary in the amount of lines that each contain. The first stanza is a sestet containing six lines. The same can be observed of the second stanza. The third stanza contains eight lines or an octave. Stanzas four and five are oddly in that their number of lines which are five and nine.

William Blake, author of The Chimney Sweeper, gives the reader an uncomfortable feeling of the acceptance, and cruelty of child labor. With the use of anecdote, biblical allusions and a very sympathetic and retributive tone—Blake is able to transform the surreal idea of child labor into a visual reality. The poem revolves around a little boy, who the narrator describes as a “little black thing”, who is working as a sweeper in very poor and hopeless conditions. Through the voice of the child chimney, he is able to convey the poem not only as a story, but also as a wake-up call that they way these children were treated, was extremely immoral.

A key point in the history of mankind was the Industrial Revolution. It was also a difficult time in history in terms of suffering, especially for the lower class that had to work twice as hard as the upper class for minimum wage. A young poet by the name of William Blake became livid and motivated in the late eighteenth century by the coldhearted usage of young boys for chimney sweeping. As a result, he created a demonstration in the arrangement of humble poetry "Deeper knowledge of Blake will reveal no darkly buried meaning, only a deeper sense in the meaning obvious to all (Schulz, Max F, 7)”. This is exactly the case in which Blake calls them "The Chimney Sweepers" Blake uses practicality, rather than in-depth imagery, to portray the ruthless conditions of the Industrial Revolution.

Over the years great writers have influenced literature in many ways from Shakespeare to Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Coleridge was a groundbreaking poet whose idea of poetry remains the standard by which others in English are tried. He was notably responsible for new German demanding philosophy. His talks about imagination remain the component of institutional criticism. All the while his infrequent notations on language helped develop Cambridge English in the 1920s. He is described as a literary critic, psychologist of the imagination, a crucial theologian, and conservative social philosopher. Coleridge’s poems and other works placed him in a high spot among major critics in literature. His early life helped shape who he became as an

ideas. For me, when I begin to read this poem I sense Blake has no

“God is a perfect poet” (Robert Browning). Everything which He does is closely linked. He creates the world, makes human, gives them a chance to live, helps them when they need, and challenges their belief in Him. His challenges can lead them to be a hero or a villain. Heroes and villains are two antagonistic poles. They parallel coexist in the life and create the balanced world. While heroes symbolize hopes and goodness, villains represent evil and hell on Earth. Although the meaning of them is quite opposite, a boundary between heroes and villains is so fragile. The reason why the partition object is not firm is because always having a hero and a villain exist inside everyone. Consequently, people have to choose a role which they want to

Another Key point that I would like to make is the comparison with Innocence and the term ‘good’, and Experience with the term ‘evil’. Blake also referred to his poem, The Lamb with innocence and goodness, contrary, The Tyger with evilness and experience. This collection of poems by Blake does make one question things that they normally would not. This in depth topic

Attempting to treat the ‘pastoral’ as a distinct mode which has endured from Theocritus and Philitas to the Romanticist and finally Post-Modernist world is highly anachronistic . And that is not the assumption which I have made in the title. Instead of reading ‘pastoral’ into the corpus of a poet who may have not even conceived it, this essai (and I have chosen that word carefully) is an effort to survey the poems of Catullus for evidence of agricultural, floral and rustic motifs. But Catullus is not a poet with whom this mode is traditionally associated. Indeed, the standard account of ‘Roman Pastoral’ begins with the “second birth of Theocratic poetry” in Virgil’s Eclogues which are typically credited with introducing the juxtaposition between urban and rural lifestyles as a political allegory . But Virgil probably also drew on the agricultural works of Cato and later Varro. Hence, since there is no evidence of this mode existing in previous Latin authors, Catullus must have derived any understanding of ‘pastoral’ from Cato and surviving works of the Hellenistic poets, in particular Theocritus . Therein is problem with our question. Whether Theocritus employed Arcadian motifs as a means of bringing out the pastoral charm of the land or understood them as something constituting a literary mode that embodied a lifestyle is highly contentious, and for Catullus even more so . This speculatory nature is probably what has dissuaded recent scholarship from engaging in such a

All of humanity is made in the image of God and has spiritual qualities that is not divided into compartments that feel different forms of love which are pitted against each other. Knowing God’s love is an experience through the unknowing or unlearning of my perceived learned ideas in the acts of daily transformation, and listening to the Spirit speak in a quiet, calm soothing voice, a divine love, that is for all humanity. The ongoing transforming gift from God through His Spirit, is in the receiving of God’s love, knowing that I am the one Jesus loves and that all people are the one that Jesus loves.

I need a thesis so bad. Socrates criticizes the poet 's’ speech since it does not really have any other purpose than to entertain, that is not a good enough purpose. Socrates concerns himself with corrupt education and wants to ensure that he (and the city; his ideal city really) does everything capable to produce well rounded fine thinking men (and women maybe). He reckons that his own literary speech be used instead since it would be more meaningful, and in doing so creates three myths to tell the people. Though he may reject the poet’s use of literary speech, Socrates develops his own type of literary speech to use.

this point. "He is meek, and he is mild . . . became a little child".

"The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato," claimed Alfred North Whitehead in 1929's Process and Reality. Plato studied under Socrates in Athens, Greece, and showed a deep interest for politics. It wasn't until Socrates death that Plato turned from politics to philosophy. He developed Idealism in opposition to the belief of the Sophists and opened a school in Athens. The Academy was one of the first organized schools in Western Civilization it was here that Plato taught his most famous student, Aristotle. Plato's most famous work is The Republic. In it Plato describes a perfect, or ideal, state. The beginning of the work investigates the true meaning