`` Ode : Intimations Of Immortality From Recollections Of Early Childhood ``

In Ishmael Reed’s 1070 poem, Beware: Do Not Read This Poem, lines one to four represents the backbone upon which the entire of the poem rest. Great writers and storytellers have been known to build a complex body of work, based on a small sample of the work itself. This trend in common even in other forms of art like music, where simple lines composed as the chorus of the song, describe the purpose and intent of the entire song. This is also true in poetry, as well as in prose and in most plays. In a play, a scene in an act can define the structure of the play and a paragraph in an essay can serve as the soul of the essay. The same is true in Ishmael Reed’s 1070 classic poem, Beware: Do Not Read This Poem; a complex body of work whose soul can be understood in the first stanza, which describes the personality of the subject (the reader) and the poem itself. The purpose of this paper is to provide an in-depth analysis about how the beginning four lines help us understand the rest of the poem.

Poetry is oftentimes filled with several literary elements, but many make a single one its main focus. This same concept is seen with the poems “The Parable of the Good Seed” by Matthew, “Love Calls Us to the Things of This World” by Richard Wilbur, and “The Second Coming” by William Butler Yeats. All three poets focus on the same allusion of religion throughout their poems all in their own unique way. Each alludes to ideas outside of the actual poem by incorporating religious structures and beliefs. Whether its literature straight from the Christian Bible or their interpretation of its promised afterlife, each of these poems includes allusion that makes the reader wonder about these unearthly, eternal ideas. By recognizing and going into depth of each of their allusions, we accomplish the Student Outcome of being able to identify and demonstrate the use of the basic structural element of allusion in poetry.

The poem suddenly becomes much darker in the last stanza and a Billy Collins explains how teachers, students or general readers of poetry ‘torture’ a poem by being what he believes is cruelly analytical. He says, “all they want to do is tie the poem to a chair with rope and torture a confession out of it”. Here, the poem is being personified yet again and this brings about an almost human connection between the reader and the poem. This use of personification is effective as it makes the

A text is essentially a product of its context, as its prevailing values are inherently derived by the author from society. However, the emergence of post-modern theories allows for audience interpretation, thus it must be recognised that meaning in texts can be shaped and reshaped. Significantly, this may occur as connections between texts are explored. These notions are reflected in the compostion of Edson’s W;t and Donne’s poetry as their relationship is established through intertextual references, corresponding values and ideas and the use of language features. Edson particularly portrays key values surrounding the notions of the importance of loved based relationships, and death and resurrection: central themes of Donne’s Holy Sonnets

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.

Although both men are both devout Christians, they have different views. For instance, William Blake wrote his poems in order to teach children the necessity of being in church and accepting Christ as a personal savior. Many of his poems stress how important it is to know God and how their faith can save them from their worries. An example of this is in the poem "The Chimney Sweeper" when the little boy had a dream about an angel setting free men that were trapped in a black coffin. Throughout his poetry, Blake uses many nouns to indicate the biblical meaning of something. For instance, in the poem "The Lamb", he uses the lamb as a metaphor for Jesus Christ to show that he too was a humble lamb. This metaphor showed that Jesus is close to us humans by using the word lamb to describe both children and Jesus Christ. However, in Wordsworth's poems, the topic of religion is seen through a more naturalistic view. In other words, William Wordsworth viewed that in order for religion to be truly appreciated it must be in nature where God truly is. This view is seen in his poem "We are Seven". The setting of the poem takes place outside of a churchyard in which the narrator and a little cottage girl are discussing her family members. Wordsworth did not use his poetry to show the importance of going to church or being a Christian like Blake did, however, he did use children to show that they are the ones closest to God. In Wordsworth's poetry, the child is what is able to be free in nature, and since nature is where God is that meant that the child was the closest to God. Not only were children used to show the importance of religion to Wordsworth but is also shown through the capitalization of some of the words throughout his poems. Words such as Boy, Girl, and Creature were all capitalized to show that God created all things, and these nouns were capitalized to show that God was

It also gives a reference to 'God', which immediately gives the poem a more heavenly and important meaning. This isn't to say Wordsworth does not use any devices to help deliver his thoughts to the reader. He uses personification a lot throughout the poem, 'in his first splendour,' is a good illustration of this. It also mentions that it 'houses seem asleep And all that mighty heart is lying still!' which suggest this image that London isn't an industrial and mechanical city, but is

This poem is very meaningful and inspirational to those who have experienced a lapse of faith, a heartbreak, a deep sadness or a hopelessness. Written by Ethel Song, it exposes the connection between words and faith and explores the pain of words caused by love. In “Spoken Into Creation,” the writer uses hyperbole, simile, and symbolism to portray the idea that words have a powerful influence on a soul through faith and love.

Plato once said: “At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet». Through poetry, one can express feelings in a way no other medium allows: there are no expectations for the poet to build a climax or depict family drama, creating advanced characters, surprising endings or writing chapter after chapter (but, of course, they can if they want to). Poems are simple, but advanced at the same time - just like feelings are. Therefore, a poem is the perfect medium to channel out one’s effusion. In this text, I will take a closer look at the two poems ‘The Apple Orchard’ and ‘A Very Short Song’ and through my analysis of them discuss some possible thoughts and emotions the poets are sharing with us.

In Wordsworth’s Preface to Lyrical Ballads, he writes, “I have wished to keep my reader in the company of flesh and blood, persuaded that by so doing I shall interest him” (297). With this assertion, Wordsworth highlights his desire that readers of his poetry respond with sentiment when presented with genuine, unembellished characters. His attempts to prove this claim can be seen in the poems Michael and The Ruined Cottage. Observing how the two poems handle certain rhetorical devices—a frame of narration, personification of nature, meditation on ordinary objects, and Biblical allusion—reveals their intended purpose as promotions of empathy. Discerning the similarities and differences between Michael and The Ruined Cottage allows the moral lessons within Wordsworth’s poetic experimentation to be uncovered.

Wordsworth’s Lyrical Ballads were published in 1789, with no preface as an “advertisement.” Another Lyrical Ballads, this time with two volumes, a preface, and no poetic diction, was published in 1800. In 1802, another Lyrical Ballads was published with two volumes and a preface. Wordsworth’s Elegiac Stanzas are an internalization of epic. Nature, memory and imagination all play a huge role in the poem, as does imagination’s relationship with knowledge. Wordsworth talks about imagination as an absolute ideal, although that is dangerous because it divorces us from the rest of the world.

In this essay I will discuss “London 1802” by William Wordsworth in terms of romanticism. Firstly, a brief background of the romantic era will be discussed, then the term romanticism will be defined followed by its characteristics. Next, the term theme will be defined and the two main themes of the poem will be discussed in terms of romanticism and its characteristics. Then metaphor and simile will both be defined and discussed in terms of the poem and to how it forms part of romanticism and the romantic era. Furthermore, personification will be defined and discussed as it appears in the poem and to how it is connected to the romantic era followed by the definition and discussion of apostrophe found in the poem. Lastly, symbolism will be defined

Within society, many people oversee the true capabilities and voices a child can demonstrate and express due to the ideologies and assumptions created through social construction. One core assumption about childhood is the opinion of age and how it is thought to be a measure and an indication of a child’s competency and rationality.

Imagery has been one of the most pivotal movements in the cultural and intellectual history of English Literature. The comparison is not only among the works of their own rather it also includes the differences and traces of similarity with the works of others writers of different ages. The analysis is done by reading the actual text and interpreting the meaning by understanding the deep phrases hidden in the poetry. Different critics showed different aspects by their research. Some found out merits and some found out demerits in the works of Wordsworth and Coleridge. The merits includes uniqueness, healing power of poetry, and interpretation of their imagination for things whereas the demerits include slack of humour, lack of range and lyricism in their poetry. On a whole Wordsworth and Coleridge works have gained lot of interest and tempted many critics to write on their methods and strategies which they adopted in their work.

Where Wordsworth focused too on love and nature at first, he then took on more spiritual subjects. Further, if we assume that Wordsworth’s imitation of “The Retreat” was intentional, then Vaughan may have even been a poetic model (in some sense) for Wordsworth later in life. True, Wordsworth is not generally considered a religious poet; he would never have originally considered Vaughan a model because of the latter’s extreme religiosity. Yet if these two poems don’t echo in godly gestures per se, they do in a more spiritual sense—and perhaps Wordsworth, as a man confronted with his own mortality, found Vaughan’s treatise on the spirit’s immortality a sympathetic sentiment. Thus by comparing the two, we also might better understand Wordsworth’s poetic progression.