Mr. Nick Essay

She says “the same thing may be said for all of us, that we do not admire what we cannot understand.” The speaker suggests that many people don’t like poetry because it’s hard for them to comprehend or interpret. This idea is continued throughout the third stanza, which uses imagery to support her ideas. She uses images such as “elephants pushing,” “a tireless wolf under a tree,” and “the immovable critic twitching his skin like a horse that feels a flea” in order to compare poetry to nature. Poetry should be like nature; it should be useful and as important as any other work of

Since it does, when reading each line, there is a resilient connection that allows the reader to put together and feel for what the narrator is speaking of. As each line is metrically linked, the words are further recited in a durable voice and the poem is virtually put together, musically. In the first and second lines of the third stanza, an apostrophe, a figure of speech that directly addresses an absent person or entity, is presented, “We smile, but O great Christ, our cries to thee from tortured souls arise.”

without warning”. Then in the third stanza, where he illuminates the allure of letting go of

In “September, 1918”, Amy Lowell shows her readers an interesting and illuminating poem. That war can be an ugly time and the people that experience it often seems to live in a “broken world” (19). To fight an evil, sometimes war is needed, nonetheless it is still costly to the people living through the war. Some in a literal sense, like soldiers fighting in a war, while some in a physical sense by the world that they now see and live in. I find the poem truly interesting though, in how the author shows that even in war we can still hold onto hope for more promising days. Lowell portrays a melancholy mood throughout her poem that makes her readers thinking about war but also the hope of it being over.

The word choice used in this poem helps to portray a mood of isolation. “And all I loved, I loved alone” (8). What the speaker is saying with this quote is that everything they found interest in, nobody else did, and therefore he had nobody to share their life experiences with. Even from a young age, the speaker felt as if he were an outcast. “Then- in my childhood, in the dawn/ Of a most stormy life- was drawn/ From every depth of good and ill/ The mystery which binds me still” (9-12). The speaker felt that they had no control over their fate. No matter what happened, whether it be good or bad, the speaker felt abandoned

The first quatrain of the poem introduces us to a conflict; the man is depressed and conflicted. We know this because the speakers says, “mine eyes take no delight to range” (3). In the second

The first stanza is addressed to ‘old men’ and how they should not simply slip away and die quietly, they should fight death until the end. Poetic techniques

     There are several poetic elements within the context of this song. Most notably is the most common poetic element

Eliot’s “Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock” presents a world that is motionless, as “Prufrock” describes a life where individuals are paralysed to act and consumed by indecisiveness defying a real existence. The dramatic monologue of the poem becomes “the voice of a generation” conveying their inability to fully live life. As the domination of extending modern industrialisation and the outbreak of WW1 had dampened the morale of individuals in the modernist era, as they are left socially paralysed and unable to face the real world . Also the poetic formal features of irony and imagery allows Eliot to relay his message of damnation and interiority to the audience of any context, unravelling retrospectively through irony a defiance to the true meaning

The poem’s author, Robert Frost, focuses on the theme and the mood by representing the choices and decisions that have to be made.

Perhaps it’s only well to believe strangers form languages in their gazes. It is a language born with sentences we never learned how to speak and a history written with the curves of laughter lines and coffee-stained teeth that forget to form a passing grin. However, it isn’t just the work of a poet to turn to those that only kick up dust on the streets about us and assume a life for them. We all create a story all with the building blocks of the light in another's eyes and their tight-lipped grin they give us as we share for one moment a passing gaze. All we shall truly know of them, but that does little to cease the character of our creation that follows in their path. There is little we can do for this, for it is human nature to judge and,

“The poet is trying to break down our complacency, to shock us out of our convention habits, and make us admit that we are fellow- sufferers so that we shall be ‘on his side’ in the

In the third stanza, his point of view shows his frustration toward the woman that left him. He states, “And I have leave to go of her goodness,/And she also, to use newfangleness” (Lines 18-19). The reference to the woman’s goodness is rhetorical, as he says that the woman left him to pursue other men. Again, he is portrayed as the victim because the woman acted as an adulteress and left him, although he loved her.

The poetry of T.S Elliot portrays the nature of human conditions through the use of experiences such as alienation and how this leads to spiritual vacancy and paralysis which allow his poems to retain an enduring value. In Both the ‘The Love song of J.Alfred Prufrock’ (Prufrock, 1915) and Prelude (1917), poetic language convey the loneliness of humankind in a physical and moral way. Through a study of Eliot’s poetic forms, features and critical reception, we can better understand the message portrayed.

The third stanza is when the narrator has something physical. He mentions how he has an apple and his enemy knew that the apple was his. The