Language poets

throughout the work of female Irish poets. There are many factors that contribute to this. This essay will use two Irish female poets and their work in order to outline these factors. Eavan Boland and Eilean Ni Chuilleanain are both female Irish poets whose work focuses primarily on the issue of identity as a fragile, constructed thing. This essay will use close examination of both Boland and Ni Chuilleanain’s work in order to explore how two separate female poets deal with the topic of identity. It

Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman both were American poets who lived in the 19th century who strayed from the traditional style of writing poetry and formed their own individual style of writing which became the unique American style of poetry. Their lifestyles and writing styles were extremely different, as they shared little in common. The dissimilarities in these two poets are in the way they composed their poems and possibly in the content of the poems. Whitman established a unique style in

The Jet Black Flea: A Language Analysis of John Donne’s “The Flea” The cultural outlook toward the venereal desires shared by the population during the 17th century was essentially one of abstinence until marriage. In his poem “The Flea”, John Donne establishes an imagined debate regarding chastity and the mortal yearning between lovers. A scholar witnessing this debate in a modern social landscape characterized by a difference in values regarding pre-marital sex may have difficulty understanding

John Donne was one of the most influential poets of the seventeenth century. His often comical poems contain intricate dual meanings and his religious (divine) poetry is convincing and beautiful. Andrew Marvell also wrote during the same period as John Donne and the two worked on similar important matters concerning humanity throughout their careers. Both are classified as metaphysical poets, meaning the poetry employs paradoxes, and is “highly intellectualized, marked by bold and ingenious conceits

Metaphysical Poets. Donne was born into a Roman Catholic family and later moved to the Anglican Church. He was appointed later on as the Chief Secretary to the Lord Keeper of the Great Seal, however, his secret marriage caused him to lose his job. Thus, he lived in poverty about a decade until he published his first book “anti-Catholic polemic ‘Pseudo-Martyr’”. Now Donne mainly writes romantic poetry that reflects his childhood in the Catholic faith and often uses figurative language to describe his

Whitman talks about his connection to nature and how everything is connected to nature. He speaks as if what he says is a new or unheard language. Mr. Whitman believe that he is not tamed from himself and that he has transcended the notion. By that he means he have created a new language that is foreign to others since they have never heard of it. Around this time many poets were becoming more expressive and open. Walt Whitman motivated many artists that would have been considered “weird” during the time

The poet who marvelled the readers and critics alike in the last decade of the nineteenth century through his exquisite handling of subject matter and stylistic devices is obviously Andrew Marvell(1621-1678).Originally associated with the school of Donne ,that is , the metaphysical school of poetry which focused on abstruse terminology, dramatic beginning, ratiocinative mode, colloquial language, wit, pun, paradox, ambiguity and above all, the use of metaphysical conceit; his is a veritable mosaic

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was born on February 27, 1807 in Portland, Maine to the mother Zilpah Wadsworth and the father Stephen Longfellow who was a politician and a lawyer. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was an influential American poet, translator (He was the first American poet to translate Dante Alighieri's epic poem The Divine Comedy) and a professor at the Harvard University. One of Longfellow's most pretentious work is Evangeline: A tale of Acadie, an epic poem which follows the Acadian girl Evangeline

Jennings looks for order in her poetry. Auden also sought for order in both his life and art. Auden was an innovative and influential poet. During his lifetime he tried to write in every possible poetic form. His importance to poetry is so great that his influence, like Eliot’s has become almost a subconscious one. It is his choice of words and the particular care with language that had an

Throughout history, forms of language such as, speeches, poetry, and literature, have been strategically and efficiently utilized as a revolutionary tactic to fulfill a goal of social change. For instance, Langston Hughes was an incredible poet in which he used his words to question the racial division of the American society during the Harlem Renaissance. Additionally, Hughes became a vital figure in the movement for racial equality through the use of his language. Language and more specifically, words