Pessimism And Fears Of Ezra Pound's Brother Wasp Song

In the poem “I wondered lonely as a cloud”, Wordsworth compares himself to a lonely floating cloud,

The first element our writers used to express their message of wanting to be free is form. The narrator for ‘The Caged Bird” feels alone and wishes to be able to snatch the chains that keep her tied down. Also, in the poem “Sympathy” by Dunbar as well an in “The Caged Bird” both authors used a bird to symbolize the captivity and aspiration for freedom. Both poets wrote their piece in lyric form because of obvious reasons. A lyric poem is defined as a poem that expresses personal and emotional feelings. Writing poems with this form shows the amount of deep emotion that the narrator feels toward this work. In addition, both authors wrote their poems in iambic pentameter to make the poem sound like a natural flow of speech to really show the deep feelings the poets are feeling.

Wordsworth stood on the cliff 'not only with the sense of 'present pleasure'; (63) but he joyfully anticipated the moments 'for future years'; (65). He came back to reality and began to analyze the situation after his reminiscing. Wordsworth realized that he had lost some guidance and was searching for the presence of nature when returning to the Wye. He remembered when he used to wander and roam as free as a roe but as he matured he felt content with tapping into his memories of his youth because as Wordsworth stated, 'That time is past? other gifts have allowed; for such loss, I would believe, abundant recompense'; (83-88). He realized that he was involved with more mature things in life because he had become more intelligent through the years and saw nature in the light of his intelligence. Yet, he insisted that he was 'still a lover of the meadows and the woods, and the mountains; and of all that we behold from this green earth'; (102-105) but indeed, in a more composed way.

The effect that captivity can have on someone is massive. Jimmy Santiago Baca, the author of A Place to Stand, describes his life and his choices that formed him into the man that he is today, through this memoir. Unfortunately, it took Baca years of struggle and hardships to get there, but thankfully, incarceration led him to the revelation that changed his life, writing poetry. Within his work, Baca expresses, “My writing became the receptacle for my sorrow. I wrote even when I didn’t want to, because I knew that, if I didn’t, my sorrow would come out in violence” ( Baca 234). During adolescence, he often found himself in seriously violent situations. Through his experience in prison, Baca was able to distract himself from all the terror

Sounds especially play a major role; they allow the poem to convey the contrast between untouched nature and its destruction to the text's intended recipient, a human being, whose senses include not only sight, but also hearing. The poem's content shapes a precise scene, which is reinforced with the various way sounds are used to link or oppose words together or against each other. For instance, the surroundings of the poplars tree are depicted as a river bank on which the trees' shadow is swaying gently. Binsey Poplars' structure mirrors the river bank's length visually, as the corresponding line, “On meadow and river and wind-wandering weed-winding bank.” (8), is the longest one in the poem. The lack of punctuation and the repetition of the conjunction “and” (8) in this line also emphasizes its length. Similarly, an alliteration of the sound “w” alternated with a consonance of the sound “an” and an assonance of the sound “i” in the same line produce words that require the mouth to move a lot to pronounce them. Those movements mimic a river's tumbling waters, like the one pictured in the poem. On the contrary, a consonance of the sound “ck” in “hack” (11), “rack” (11), “havoc” (21) and “prick” (15) makes those words seem rougher. This consonant is defined as a plosive in phonetics, which means that the sound is blocked in

Most people can not imagine being in a prison cell, with no windows, no fresh air, no socialization, and with all hope gone. They are in total isolation. Most would not consider that an illiterate man could embrace education and become a world famous poet in such circumstances. However, in Jimmy Santiago Baca’s case, he describes his five year experience in prison as educational and positive, despite the real horrors he met there. In Baca’s memoir, A Place to Stand, he brings his readers through his journey, of a transformation in life of a man in Florence State Prison in Arizona during the 1970’s. The author reveals his long ongoing saga of imprisonment with vivid detail of his experience, and personal conflicts he had to overcome throughout

The final quatrain highlights a depressing state of mind through assonance and alliteration. Words like ‘keen’, ‘deceives’, ‘me’, ‘tree’, and ‘leaves’ exhibit the assonance of the ‘ee’ sound. Although Hardy tries to keep a neutral opinion of his experience of love, beneath the surface, the reader is aware of the inner emotional turmoil that the author has experienced.

The interesting sound each poem produces, is one of the first areas that one begins to see the many differences of the two poems emerge. In Thomas’s poem, the sound that he created with his end rhymes produce a gentle and almost sweet sound. To hear Thomas recite this poem, it reinforces the gentle sound that he creates with his choice of end rhyme (Hocus Pocus). In contrast, Smith’s poem produces a much harsher sound. When Smith uses words such as, “queer” and “prize”, it resonates a more rigid sound. The sound produced overall by Smith’s poem gives it a desperate and erratic quality. These two contrasting sounds produce two very distinct poems, and these contrasting sounds gives each speaker a different personality.

Some sound imagery can make the whole passage lively, in the poem, the author describe the duck’s sound “ A wild duck calls to her mate , and the ragged and passionate tones tagger and fall, and recover, and stagger

My poem is stylistically closer to William Carlos Williams than Ezra Pound. Pound seems to reach deep for his subject matter, looking outward while William Carlos Williams seems to delve more deeply into emotions for his subject matter. My poem is just feeling that spilled out of my person through my fingertips. Ezra Pound’s work that we have discussed and/or read is more complex and seems to evolve from a completely different place that Mr. Williams’ work.

The two poems “The Man he Killed” by Thomas Hardy and Wilfred Owen’s “Anthem for Doomed Youth” both have similar qualities but each have different meanings.

The mood of “Caged Bird” changes drastically from stanza to stanza. Angelou’s specific diction choices help to reflect the change from being positive to negative with some elements of hope involved. The parts of the poem involving the free bird provide the reader with a feeling of self government.In contrast, the mood associated with the caged bird is confinment. Despite the negative mood tied to the caged bird there are still elements of hope woven into these stanzas.

Ezra Pound was shaped by the way he lived his life to write his poetry.First of all,Pound became mentally ill and was sent to St.Elizabeth hospital in washing DC in 1945.Pound was found mentally insane,while being held in a detention center,he remained there until 1958.Second of all pound faced economic depressions and was poor

"Tintern Abbey" is a combination of all Wordsworth's feelings about his past and his love of nature. We consider the first two lines of the poem, "Five years have

1. Introducing what is going to be discussed in the paper (analysis of Arms and the Boy , its relation to one of Owen's poem).