Essay on H.D.: The Fusion of Classicism and Modernity

     Lord George Gordon Byron was most notorious for his love affairs within his family and with Mediterranean boys. Since he had problems such as incest and homosexuality, he did not mind writing about his love for his cousin in “She Walks in Beauty”. Byron wrote the poem after he left his wife and England forever. Byron made his own trend of personality, the idea of the ‘Byronic Hero’. “Byron’s influence on European poetry, music, novels, operas, and paintings have been immense, although the poet was widely condemned on moral grounds by his contemporaries” (Dick, 54). Overall, the study focuses on the life of Lord George Gordon Byron, imagery, and about the lyrics of

The diversity of Brooks’s poetry leaves a reader who first encounters her work to draw, as Bolton argues in Gwendolyn Brooks and the Epic Tradition, “overly hasty conclusions about the natures of her subject and verse form” (56). Brooks’s mastery is found in her extended lyric voice characterized in her various poems. From colloquial language in “We Real Cool” to her tense and complex style in the “Anniad”, Brooks’s audience is just as diverse as her anthology. Hovarth identifies the significance of form in relationship to her

“In your view, how has textural integrity been achieved in Harwood’s works. Support your view with detailed reference to at least two of the poems set for study, evaluating the structure and poetic techniques”

The Great War and Modern Memory, is collection of literature from World War I, and is about World War I, that he uses to create an all encompassing picture of the war and how it was experienced by those who fought in it. In Paul Fussell’s The Great War and Modern Memory, he argues that, war is irony, and that World War I was hope abridged, and this parallels his presentation of homosexuality in World War I. Throughout the work, Fussell argues that World War I was an agony of irony, and moreover that all wars are ironic. To do this he uses literature of the time and analyzes the circumstances, thoughts and literary craft of the writing. Finally, one of the most ironic parts of this work, was the section “Soldier Boys” and Fussell’s analysis of homosexuality on the

Complementary to the structure of the poems, the imagery evoked by the passages further exemplifies Wealhtheow’s more restrictive power in comparison with that of the Lady. The image induced of

American poet Edna St. Vincent Millay can be seen to fit into this category. She is particularly well known for her sonnets. This essay will analyse one of Millay’s sonnets in to context of the evolution of courtly love poetry. The history of the sonnet will also be examined to demonstrate how Millay has faithfully refashioned her poems. However, whist Millay has kept the construction of sonnet pure she has differed in the message it portrays. Hence this essay will also deconstruct Millay’s poem and discuss how its tone differs from traditional courtly love poetry.

“From the sphere of my own experience I can bring to my recollection three persons of no every-day powers and acquirements, who had read the poems of others with more and more unallayed pleasure, and had thought more highly of their authors, as poets; who yet have confessed to me, that from no modern work had so many passages started up anew in their minds at different times, and as different occasions had awakened a meditative mood.” (2) (paragraph 31).

The poems are similar in that they look to important figures from the time of their making, John Milton and Fredrick Douglass. This plea to greatness emphasizes the importance of the speakers' concerns. John Milton, a 17th century

For many centuries people have assumed that Romantic poets and authors are adverse or merely incompatible with the natural sciences. This normative view has persisted though the ages and has transformed the way readers interpret and react to Romantic era poetry. Not only has this assumption disillusioned readers, but also it has led many to cripple their perspective and limit their judgment of such poets. A prominent example of the adverse of this assumption is Percy Bysshe Shelley. Shelley, within his ode Mont Blanc: Lines Written in the Vale of Chamouni, proves that romantic era poets are capable of blending romantic ideas with natural sciences enlightenment era thought. In fact, Desmond George King-Hele, a prominent British physicist and

Veering from the egocentric poems of the Romantic era, Victorian poets began to write poetry not only to express the feelings of an “I,” but also to inspire change in the collective “we.” Being from a historical period with a dramatic class divide, Victorian poets wrote with the intention of crafting beautiful lasting poetry as well as articulating a need for cultural reform in their now. One of the most renowned Victorian poets, Elizabeth Barrett Browning possessed the expert skill of integrating not only imagery and precise rhyme scheme into her poetry, but afflicting her readers with a sense of pity so paramount they had no choice but to make a change.

“The relationship between the energies of the inquiring mind that an intelligent reader brings to the poem and the poem’s refusal to yield a single comprehensive interpretation enacts vividly the everlasting intercourse between the human mind, with its instinct to organise and harmonise, and the baffling powers of the universe about it.”

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Letitia Elizabeth Landon is recognized as the most read British poet of the early nineteenth century. Landon is regarded as a renaissance woman—among the first wave of women to gain individual recognition, financial independence, prestigious literary acclaim, and supporters of her unique style of poetry. Landon published an enormous amount of literature from 1820-1838; generating seven book of poetry, creating literary annuals, authoring three novels, several children’s stories, publishing translations, a number of short stories, and providing literary reviews/criticism. The quality of Landon’s work speaks for itself and is consistently reviewed in the literary society. For this paper I intended to compare and contrast the textual similarities and differences of Letitia Elizabeth Landon and George Gordon, Lord Byron—using literary devices and subject matter.

Often times when discussing literary time periods, different traditions are thought of as distinct splits, where one ends and the other one begins immediately afterwards. This thought does not allow us to study particular writers and their works as thoroughly as we are capable of, as we cannot place them easily into one category or the other. Around the time of the First World War, Modernist writing “replaced” traditional Victorian writing. The “transitional” period between these two literary periods is often not studied in depth, and more attention is given either to Victorianism or Modernism. There are many noteworthy aspects of this “transitional” period between the two traditions, however, and one of the most important is that it allowed women writers to occupy an influential space that they were barred from within both Victorian and Modernist literature.

Bridging the distance between nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Gerard Manley Hopkins’ poetry is of great significance. As often the case with innovators and artists who are ahead of their times, Gerard Manley Hopkins was torn by contradictions and his poems regarded as unconventional for the historical period. His works are specifically marked by the varied use of linguistic features and rhythmic patterns which did not match the traditional writing styles of the