Romanticism In George Byron's Apostrophe To The Ocean

Sinclair’s use of imagery further enriches her poem by using sensory details that insert readers into the world created in the poem. “This smashed archipelago. Our wild sea grape kingdom” (line 30) depicts the speaker, mother, and setting to be shrunken by the ocean that surrounds and sustains them. Throughout Hands, the imagery depicts objects, actions, and ideas to appeal to the readers physical senses. Sinclair’s vibrant imagery injects inanimate objects, like the ocean and kingdom with soul and stirs them to life.

In his poem “The Tide Rises The Tide Falls”, we can see the use of personification as nature comforts a traveler facing death. The seashores are busy throughout the day and night. Many people stroll by including a traveler moving in haste. In a place crowded by modern society the tides continues to rise and falls even when it is filled with darkness, leading up to the traveler’s death. With many different kind of people that passes by the nature of the waves Longfellow writes, “The little waves, with their soft white hands,/ Efface the footprints in the sands,/ And the tide rises, and the tide falls” (Longfellow lines 7-10). In this we can see the use of personification as he says that the waves have soft white hands. This shows a gentle and soothing effect in which nature has to clear the footprints off the sands with their hands. Death is inevitable as shown in a relatable cycle with nature where the tide rises and falls, giving a comfort to individual to understand that death is just a process. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow poetry reflects his ideal on nature and its comforting

To start out analyzing this archetypal setting we must identify what the sea archetype actually is and where it came from. According to Deborah Rudd from billstifler.org, she says that the sea is, “the mother of all life; spiritual mystery; death and/or rebirth; timelessness and eternity”. It also says this on Yourdictionary.com, a site where education from levels 7 to even collage is accepted, that the sea,”Can be both good and evil, with dangers and treasures. It can also show infinity.” Both sites said something similar in terms of life but when looking at the article from your dictionary there can be good and bad sides to the sea and this stays true throughout different cultures.

“The Sound of the Sea” is a sonnet by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, describing the sounds of the sea and relating it to human inspiration. Through only auditory images of the sea and other powerful natural forces, Longfellow effectively alludes to the nature of human inspiration. Through detailed and sensory imagery, Longfellow communicates the subtle details of the human soul and how inspiration functions.

The sea is breaking the men down to little or nothing and showing their true flaws. In the story

(213). The narrator once again speaks of the sea as if it were human. Stating the “waves paced to and fro” and “the great sea’s voice”, he gives the sea life and a voice. Having figures of speech such as these gives the story life and a vivid

Sir Edward Elgar composed the song cycle, Sea Pictures, in 1899. The five songs in this cycle that will be discussed in detail in this paper are: “Sea Slumber Song” by Roden Noel, “In Haven (Capri)” by Caroline Alice Elgar, “Sabbath Morning at Sea” by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “Where Corals Lie” by Richard Garnett, and “The Swimmer” by Adam Lindsay Gordon. First, the life and early influences of Elgar will be explored, followed by a close look at the text of each poem in the song cycle. A compositional music analysis will be discussed as it pertains to providing a distinct picture of the imagery goals chosen by Elgar for his audience.

We witness her unpredictability by standing on the shore watching the joy of the surfer as [his] ‘Muscle of arm thrust down long muscle of water;’ yet the joy is short lived as she becomes worried about the growing menace of the water when she says, ‘Turn home, the sun goes down; swimmer, turn home.’ Wright’s tone shifts and we feel her anxiety standing on the beach, imploring the surfer to come back to us as she replaces the growing swell with a ‘grey-wolf’. The personification reinforces our fear for the safety of the surfer. The ocean has become unpredictable, wild and malevolent towards the man in the water who was once powerful, now metaphorically reduced to a ‘broken toy’ against the ‘pebbles and shells.’ of the land. The surfer, once able to manoeuvre his body through the water, is now vulnerable to the raging water. Judith Wright’s appreciation and respect for the natural world is demonstrated as she serves up a warning to us mere mortals that though we may have split the atom and engineered amazing feats of ingenuity, we cannot harness or control Mother Nature. As the sea rages in Wright’s futile war between man and surf, Oodgeroo Noonuccal simmers and stews about the damage White Australia has inflicted on the land of her

The first quote is important because it shows how emotional humans can relate to the sea, with its blue, rolling waves sinking into the beach and rising again, a thousand fold of times, repeating and representing the moods that sentient beings can

Lord Byron’s works, such as Don Juan and other poems reflect not only the suave and charming characteristics of the Romantic Period, but they also reveal the nature of Byron’s uncommitted and scandalous life. Byron, like most Romantic era authors, was very unpredictable and opinionated in all of his writings. From the hatred of his upbringing, to the love of adventure, and also to the love of meaningless relationships with various women were majorly influenced and illustrated through all of his works and especially in “Don Juan.” Yet he still managed to infiltrate his poems with charm, romance, and heroism. Byron was a perfect fit for the Romantic Period and his poems and he was therefore known as a great contributor towards the era.

Mary Shelley and Samuel Taylor Coleridge are two established writers of the Romantic era. Works by both writers are unique in many ways. The profound influence of Coleridge's " The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere" is reflected in Shelly's "Frankenstein" in terms of narrative structure, themes and literary techniques. This essay will compare and contrast the "Frankenstein" extract and the poem, "The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere" in three aspects, namely the narrating voice, the themes and the literary techniques used.

The poem, “Apostrophe to the Ocean” written by George Gordon Byron expresses his love for the ocean and nature through numerous different writing styles and techniques. The poem is dedicated to the deep, powerful, and ferocious ocean, the main subject of this poem is humanity and civilization versus nature and the universe. Byron’s view of humans versus nature is revealed through his belief that the power of nature is inseparable and that it is greater than any human or civilization. Bryon depicts his love for the ocean through, literary techniques, his thoughts about industrialization and romantic writing styles.

In 1798, Samuel Taylor Coleridge published his poem “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”. Several editions followed this, the most notable being the 1815 version, which included a gloss. This poem has grown to become well known and debated, especially concerning the message that Coleridge was attempting to impart. The interpretation of the poem as a whole and of various characters, settings, and objects has been the subject of numerous essays, papers, books, and lectures. There are approximately four things that are major symbols in this work, along with the possibility that the structure itself is symbolic.

A Journal Analyzing the Byronic Hero, Those who Closely Resemble the Hero, Byron’s Writing Styles and Literary Criticism

With the formation of a “rare device”, symbolizing his masterpiece of poetry, Coleridge acknowledges that poetry forms through the combination of nature and human perception. In the end, Coleridge demands the readers to “beware” (49, p.1634) of the power of the inspired poet, who recreates his own “sunny dome” (47, p.1634) in the protection of a “circle round him thrice” (51, p.1634). The energy from nature is eventually transferred to the poet, the poet to use his imagination to create his own “Paradise” (54, p.1634), which resembles Xanadu of Kubla Khan. Through the metaphors developing in the poem, Coleridge pieces together the process a Romantic poet creates a poem from the inspiration of a nature scene.