The Poetry Of Sara Teasdale's Love Poetry

The poem “Love Song” by Carol Muske-Dukes is about lost love. She uses a sparrow that lost its family. The life in this poem is being lived in a house in a village. The poem suggests this when it states, “He and I had a blue landscape, a village street, some poems, bread on a plate” (stanza 5). The poem doesn’t tell us when this poem takes place only where it happens. The tone of the poem is nostalgic. The bird misses its family. Two times the poem shows that the bird is nostalgic, “All day it pecks at the tin image of a faceless bird.” (stanza 3-4), “Love was faceless even when we’d memorized each other’s lines.” (stanza 6) The 1st quote shows that he wants his family back because all he does is stay with a tin bird which is the only resemblance

Modernism was a battering ram against the traditional method of writing and introduce more modern techniques. Millay,was a unique modernist for she wrote with the more traditional style, yet her poems were clearly showing a modernistic point of view. An independent, bisexual woman Millay truly stood for the era she wrote in. Millay wrote about what she believed to be “political issues”, which included anti-war and “freeing women from the roles society has set for them”(Boyd). Many modernists of her time did away with the traditional writing style, but Millay added a new meaning to modernism when she kept the writing style but left the views.. Millay introduced a new way of expressing her ideas into the poetry world. Millay’s poems were admired (and imitated) by many of her time. Even in the heart of the Depression, Millay had time to pose a question many thought but never voiced. In “Love is Not All” she asks, “what would i give up for

Emily Dickson is a famous American poet. Her poems are expressions shown through her feelings towards love, death, and religion. Dickson’s poems reflect her behavior as a result of her secluded life style. Her writing style was expressed on what was possible, but not yet realized, meaning she had never experience most of what she wrote. Her childhood experience is what made her a poet.

A great poem shocks us into another order of perception. It points beyond language to something still more essential. It ushers us into an experience so moving and true that we feel at ease. In bad or indifferent poetry, words are all there is. Edgar Allan Poe’s poem “Annabel Lee” is a great poem, not because it is popular or it is classic, but because of its underlining message. “Annabel Lee” is a poem of death, love, and beauty. It captures the narrator’s interpretation of these three ideas through his feelings and thoughts for one woman. The narrator, Edgar Allan Poe, becomes infatuated at a young age with the character in the poem, Annabel Lee. Even after she passes away, his love for her only increases and only becomes

A great poet makes the reader feel connected and inside the poem. Shakespeare, Frost, and Angelou all encompass the great qualities of a wonderful writer, because readers are taken on a trip. Much like the Shakespeare, Natasha Trethewey, used “experience” to write poems that take readers on an adventure through the lives of 1912 New Orleans prostitutes. She gives these women identities. These normally shunned women were given families, backstories, and most importantly, emotions. She took what people consider the scum of society and turned them into normal women, who have doubts and insecurities. She manages to make women these women human. In this specific collection of poems, the focus is on Ophelia, a young woman who has to deal with a father

The poets, Gwen Harwood, Geoff Goodfellow and Judith Wright, all explore the idea of “individuals and those they love” using both imagery and form. Through female perspectives, each poet presents how women can feel conflicted, desiring a fulfilling relationship without the inevitable pain and suffering.

Edna Millay, in her sonnet, “What Lips,” describes her solitude after spending her life searching for love by having romances with several men. Firstly, Millay asks a rhetorical question: “What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why” to explain that she has forgotten her past lovers and the reasons they were together; secondly, to provide a visual image of the speaker’s lonely, quiet, and empty state caused by not finding love, Millay states that “the rain / Is full of ghosts tonight, that tap and sigh”; thirdly, Millay uses an oxymoron, “quiet pain,” to explain that although the speaker does not remember her past lovers, the hurt from not finding love still lingers in her; fourthly, Millay provides the image of a “lonely tree” as another

In this essay I shall explore the way poets Phillip Larkin and Elizabeth Jennings both show love. For Larkin I shall look at An Arundel tomb and Wild Oats and for Jennings I shall look at Absence and Disguises.

Poetry presents the words of the unspoken truths. Throughout history, many influential writers have made an impact on society through their writing. Raymond Carver, an award winning writer, wrote many poems and stories throughout his career that shaped writing for many other poets. Carver was born into a family of poverty and from a young age, he did not have an ideal relationship with his parents due to the strong use of alcohol by his father. Later in his life, Carver suffered from alcoholism as well and tried to distance himself from everyone around him and pushed a career to the side. Carver was headed down a toxic and negative path whether he liked it or not; Carver rushed into an unhealthy marriage, was diagnosed with cancer, hospitalized for his alcoholism many times and was told he was going to die. Once he moved to California and found his passion for literature, his whole life slowly turned around. He began to feel happier, quit drinking, divorced his first wife and married the love of his life, Tess Gallagher. Carver typically writes short stories and he was also a confessional poet, which was someone that broke the mold of traditional formed poetry and began to write narrative poems about their life. In Raymond Carver’s “Late Fragment,” an enforced message is that it is not necessary to dwell on the smaller things in life, because in the end it’s all up to how we feel we lived life.

Two poets can be both alike and different, just as the two poets Edgar Lee Masters and Amy Lowell are Edgar Lee Masters and Amy Lowell write poetry about life, finding love and experiencing loss in very different ways, but both are successful in bringing about a truly touching connection with their readers. These two poets have an extraordinary ability to attract their audiences, by using both romanticism and modern techniques in their writing. Amy Lowell said it best when she said, “A poet feeds on beauty as a plant feeds on air,” and both of these poets are obviously very talented and successful in using natural beauty to be a driving force in their poetry. In her book Tendencies in Modern American Poetry,

Poetry is a timeless form of art, where a function of poetry can be used to share a message, idea, or perspective that was written hundreds of years ago with the world we live in today. In the poems “Sadie and Maud”, “The Buried Life”, and “This Moment”, we witnessed three poems, written in three very different time periods, by very different poets, all portray very similar messages by using the poetic function of inspiration. Inspiration is something that surrounds all of us, and having the ability to find inspiration in timeless pieces of poetry is a tool we all can use, no matter what part of society, culture, or background we come

Dorothy Parker “A Certain Lady” is a lyrical poem that possesses several different elements of poetry. While reading, it is evident that the speaker in this poem is struggling with the constant changes of emotion compared the effects of an up and down roller coaster ride. The lady speaking in this poem is exhausting all her attempts of trying to entice the man she desires and love. But in the latter part of the literary work she realizes that there is a greater pain than love. Granted, this is a poem written in past times, it epitomizes on the modern- day women continuous quest for love. Considering, as the speaker expressing great emotions, the fate of writer attempt is to get the audience to bring in one’s own emotion and feel the emotion

The poets view on modern love is scary because he uses death to represent love how someone feels when the one they love dies and they don’t know what to do with their self and all they can do it just sit and mope around looking for a way to get over it but can’t until death take over them. “By this he knew she wept with waking eyes” George Meredith. When her husband died she didn’t know what to do but, he knew every night that she would lay awake crying because she misses him. Modern love feels like death “and strangled mute, like little gaping snakes, Dreadfully venomous to him.” George Meredith. You just give up and when their gone you feel like a snake just bit and you have the venom in your skin and your dying. Or, you start to be depressed

Poetry offers writers a means to access a vast and diverse form of personal expression, accordingly, poetry spans from the transcendent to the depraved. This full range is explored in the work of the late poet Franz Wright, who himself oscillated between spiritual redemption and self destructive instability. The only person to ever win the Pulitzer Prize in the same category as a parent, poetry was foundational in Wright’s childhood, but equally so was the emotional turmoil resulting from his intermittent, abusive relationship with his father, James Wright. Wright’s poems depict these struggles without compromise, and Wright’s confessional, often self-accusatory style lends itself to his recurring themes of hatred, death, suicide, and regret.

In this essay we will look into her life through three of her poems in