On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer

The similarities between the poems lie in their abilities to utilize imagery as a means to enhance the concept of the fleeting nature that life ultimately has and to also help further elaborate the speaker’s opinion towards their own situation. In Keats’ poem, dark and imaginative images are used to help match with the speaker’s belief that both love and death arise from fate itself. Here, Keats describes the beauty and mystery of love with images of “shadows” and “huge cloudy symbols of a high romance” to illustrate his belief that love comes from fate, and that he is sad to miss out on such an opportunity when it comes time for his own death.

The study of any poem often begins with its imagery. Being the centralized idea behind the power of poetry, imagery isn’t always there to just give a mental picture when reading the poem, but has other purposes. Imagery can speak to the five senses using figurative language as well as help create a specific emotion that the author is trying to infuse within the poem. It helps convey a complete human experience a very minimal amount of words. In this group of poems the author uses imagery to show that humanity is characterized as lost, sorrowful and regretful, but nature is untainted by being free of mistakes and flaws and by taking time to take in its attributes it can help humans have a sense of peace, purity, and joy, as well as a sense of

Homer had a way of illustrating the natural world in exquisite detail. To him, the irregular shapes and bold colors that surrounded him told stories only he could fathom. No one could have guessed that Homer was blind. Every reader makes a choice to either read the top layer of his work and visualize what their brain desires, or absorb the creativity and stand in the middle of his flamboyant visions, not realizing that they have been changed forever. John Keats expresses how Homer’s writing had a way of healing his own ignorance, and changing his life from the moment he read it. Keats writes about how he was most definitely not the same person he was before his exposure to Homer. The poem, “To Homer” by John Keats explicates the idea that although Homer was physically blind, he enabled a man blind with ignorance (Keats), to see the world through his literature.

This can assist the reader to put his/her view in the author's point of view, which he does in those stanzas. This poem is used by both literary devices which makes

Finally, the structure of this sonnet brings the reader’s attention to what the point really is. Instead of making the narrator, full of desire for self-improvement, the hero of the sonnet, the final couplet corrals the reader’s attention back to the personality of the lunatic, who is the true focus of the poem.

But, we should first and foremost put this sonnet back in its context. We can easily presume that it is autobiographic, thus that Keats reveals us his own worries. In 1818, he is aware that he has short time left to live due to the fatal illness

Furthermore the authenticity of the novel is what draws a dedicated audience to it, because not only are the themes universal, but they are expressed in an equally odd and captivating way. This makes the messages in the work memorable, but the factor that really pulls the story together and catapulted it to fame is it does not give the reader the impression that the author is overtly trying to be unique or impressive. The casual tone in which the story is told gives an air of familiar transparency, allowing the reader to have a connection and relationship with Holden Caulfield as they both struggle with the seemingly impossible questions of life. This seems to be the case with many people who have an unhealthy and compulsive connection to the

with greater meaning. The poem is about the narrator sitting in and listening to an astronomer

Kevin Kovacs ENGL 102-007 Professor Estes December 10, 2015 An Unexpected End “Richard Cory”, by Edward Arlington Robinson is a narrative poem about how a collective group of people perceive a man of high status. The townspeople look up to Richard Cory and strive to be just like him. For the most part, the poem itself is quite basic and somewhat uneventful. However, the reasons I take an interest in the poem are based on Robinson’s decision to write the poem so plainly, the phrases used to describe Richard Cory, and the shocking finale.

The sonnet begins by awkwardly detailing how the persona arrives at some location. He recounts: “I get there early and I find a chair.” Rather than describing any details about the event, the audience is only presented with two seemingly trivial details. Nonetheless, it is evident that this speaker is out of place from the beginning. It is socially unacceptable to get to parties early and antisocially slump down in a chair. More conventionally, partygoers arrive “fashionably late” and spend the evening mingling. From the instant this disparity in what is expected is recognized, the mood of the poem remains combative with the reader; provoking a uneasy and repulsive feeling regarding the speaker’s behavior. The first stanza continues with clumsy and elaborate depictions like

Poets and authors alike evoke emotion and pictures from one single word. The imagery and thoughts put into the readers’ heads by these different writers are the base of one’s creativity and imagination while reading the author’s work of art. William Shakespeare is one of the most well-known poets of all time that is able to elicit these emotions from the reader to allow the reader to fully understand what Shakespeare is trying to accomplish with his poems. Shakespeare keeps his audience entertained with a whopping 154 sonnets, each having a different meaning and imagery associated with it. Sonnet 18, “[Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day]”, and Sonnet 55, “[Not Marble, nor the Gilded Monuments]”, are both one of Shakespeare’s most famous works. Shakespeare uses these sonnets to explore the powerful relationship between humanity, art, and time.

Poetry is often meant to be smooth, flowing, pleasing to the ear and the mind. To achieve this effect, many poets use different poetic techniques to help convey the meanings of their poetry. In the sonnet, 'Yet Do I Marvel' written by Countee Cullen, many different features of poetry is used. In this essay, I will discuss the relationship between the meanings and the theme Cullen tries to convey in his sonnet and the techniques of metaphors, both religious and non-religious, allusions to Greek mythology, different rhyme schemes and repetition that he uses.

     The sonnet, being one of the most traditional and recognized forms of poetry, has been used and altered in many time periods by writers to convey different messages to the audience. The strict constraints of the form have often been used to parallel the subject in the poem. Many times, the first three quatrains introduce the subject and build on one another, showing progression in the poem. The final couplet brings closure to the poem by bringing the main ideas together. On other occasions, the couplet makes a statement of irony or refutes the main idea with a counter statement. It leaves the reader with a last impression of what the author is trying to say.

Here is the interpretation and analysis of the poem based on the sections that respect the grammar and meaning of its sentences:

Keats, on the other hand, uses the “Ode on a Grecian Urn” to express his perspective on art by examining the characters on the urn from either an ideal or realistic perspective. In the beginning, Keats asks questions regarding the “mad pursuit” (9, p.1847) of the people on the Grecian urn. As the Grecian urn exists outside of time, Keats creates a paradox for the human figures on the urn because they do not confront aging but neither experience time; Keats then further discusses the paradox in the preceding stanzas of the poem. In the second and third stanza, Keats examines the picture of the piper playing to his lover “beneath the trees” (15, p.1847) and expresses that their love is “far above” (28, p.1848) all human passion. Even though