Summary Of Poetry Makes Nothing Happen By Julia Alvarez

While both Keats and Longfellow often reflect on their own unfulfilled dreams and impending deaths, the poems however contrast on their own dispositions towards death and the future. Here, Keats expresses a fear of not having enough time to accomplish all that he believes he is capable of doing, but as he recognizes the enormity of the world and his own limitations of life, he realizes that his own mortal goals are meaningless in the long run of things. On the other hand, Longfellow speaks of a regret towards his inaction for allowing time to slip away from him in his past and is at a crossroads for the ominous future that looms ahead of him. Through the use of light and dark imagery, and personification, Keats and Longfellow similarly yet also differently, reflect on their own ideas for death and the futures that lay ahead of them.

Robert Frost and William Shakespeare have been celebrated by many people because of their ability to express themselves through the written word. Here we are years after their deaths analyzing these fascinating poems about life and death. It’s clear they had similar thoughts about this subject at the time of these writings, even though their characters could not have been more opposite. For both poets, life is too

In Writing Poetry to Save Your Life Maria Gillan talks about having an ear for poetry and listening to the beauty of the words. She says that listening is the beauty of the language is what makes you really connect to the poems. Gillan added her poem

The theme of Dylan Thomas and W.B Yeats poems are about death. In Do Not Go “Gentle Into The Good Night” the author is telling his father not to die and to stay strong. He does this by repeating ”Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light.” In ” When You Are Old “The narrator said” And pace upon the mountain overhead And his face amid a crowd of stars.” The narrator is looking down on her from when he passed away.

Without doubt, poetry is the most diverse, flexible and philosophically profound branch of creative writing; in fact, this is especially true about modern poetry. Alehouse, an independent literary journal, represents a remarkable example of the modern poetic liberation, providing a collection of short poems exploring different subjects and forms. As most poetry, the Alehouse poems have no plot, no immediate subject; nor do they allow one clear and simple interpretation. Although a poem’s ultimate, profound meaning is deeply impacted by its author’s personal journey, there is one theme that can be found in most – death. The perception of death is metaphorically represented in many modern poems.

For almost all people, death can be an unpleasant event and leave people mournful over a loss of a loved one. Two poems that Dylan Thomas and Alfred Tennyson wrote, both refer about the topic of death. However, “Crossing the Bar” by Lord Alfred Tennyson, is about not only the inevitability of death, but also about accepting it. The other poem, “Do Not Go Gentle Into that Good Night” by Dylan Thomas, is written to the author’s father, asking him to resist death and live. “Crossing the Bar” by Lord Alfred Tennyson, is about not only the inevitability of death, but also about accepting it. Although these two poems have the same subject that is expressed by metaphors, the two differences, mood and imagery,

The world of poetry is often thought of as a world of Shakespearian sonnets and sappy proclamations of love and longing. However, if you dig deeper you will discover poets such as Emily Dickinson, Allen Ginsberg, Sylvia Plath, Theodore Roethke, etc., who have all discussed suffering, sadness, and mortality in beautiful ways. Michael Dickman, a contemporary poet, is no stranger to suffering, and much of his works contain stories of the pains we must face in today’s society. Dickman’s poems discuss “spiritual longing, the improbable expectations fathers have for their sons, drug abuse, gritty neighborhoods, and unfailingly complicated human relationships (coppercanyonpress).” However, although his poems are bursting with loss and disappointment, they still allow the reader to know that “still/there is a lot to pray to/on earth” and that with suffering comes hope.

When first thought about, love and death seem like two completely different concepts. Death is universally seen as an end to life on Earth which is hard for people to fathom. However, love is seen as an indefinite journey even after death has come to it. The poems discussed in this essay explore those concepts and find similarities between two ideas that seem as different as two things could be. In William Butler Yeats’s “When You Are Old,” and José Emilio Pacheco’s “Ashes,” the physical sense of death and love are explored. And in Shakespeare’s “Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day?”and John Donne’s “Death be Not Proud,” the metaphysical understanding of the two are analyzed. These poems show that death is an end and love can die, but also,

Death is terrifying. This is the argument made by John Keats in his poem “A Draught of Sunshine,” in which he details the inevitable string of emotions which every man must experience on his deathbed. Keats uses a combination of religious allusion, ironic imagery, and an anxious tone to convey this message. Without the speaker’s religious allusions, the reader would have a difficult time recognizing the speaker’s fate in the poem – death.

In John Keats’s “When I Have My fears” and Henry Longfellow’s “Mezzo Cammin”, the poets share their outlook on death. Both writers filled themselves with the concern of dying before they created a fulfilling life. Although Keats and Longfellow both portrayed their similar theme using parallel structures and language, the two works differ in the two poets’ rhyme schemes and tones.

These poems are included because they had a strong feeling of mortality in them and summarize the concept of what Keats believed it to be. They were not the only two other topic that dealt with mortality but seemed to have a strong presence of it in them.

The theme mortality was expressed in similar manners but had opposite meanings in “When I have fears that I may cease to be” by John Keats and “Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking” by Walt Whitman. Bits and pieces of nature were used to personify mortality. Additional historical context showed that the poems are reflections of their respective authors’ view on mortality. The interpreted meanings of the theme from the poems were greatly different. Despite being written four decades apart, similarities between the poems were rampant.

Poetry allowed me to love without getting rejected or hurt on many occasions time after time.

Throughout history, there have numerous poets who have had grand influences on the future of literature. Many poets have different writing styles and themes, but nevertheless, they often share various similarities within their work. Wordsworth, Tennyson, and Keats can be seen as some of the most comparable people in both their personal lives and literary works. There are three specific poems, one from each poet that can be related to one another. There is: Wordsworth’s “Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey”, Keats’s “Ode on a Grecian Urn” and Tennyson’s “In Memoriam, A.H.H.” Wordsworth, Keats, and Tennyson never rationalize, argue, or preach; they carefully craft every word to maximize a reader’s understanding of the experience by absorbing the reader into the poem itself. Each poem has various philosophical truths that the reader has to ultimately discover on his or her own and learn about immortality and the effects of it upon human perception. Even though these poets differ in their messages, their styles and themes of writings can be linked together.

    The view of death from an aged individual can be one of acceptance of his life’s end or one of mystified wonder over the immortality of the soul. Both William Butler Yeats and David Herbert Lawrence take the latter view in their respective poems, "Sailing to Byzantium" and "Shadows." By viewing death as a continuation of their soul’s life in a different realm of being, they provide a comforting solution to the fear that death may be the end of their existence. In W.B. Yeats’ "Sailing to Byzantium" and D.H. Lawrence's "Shadows," death is addressed from the viewpoint of one preparing for its eminent arrival; Yeats, however, expresses the belief that he can live