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and Robert Hayden An Evaluation of themes from Mirror, Courage, Explorer, and Douglas During the 1900’s, a series of new poets came into existence. These poets brought about new themes and perspectives that manipulated the minds of humans all across the world. The poets that are in our study are Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, Gwendolyn Brooks, and Robert Hayden. These four poets wrote detailed, intricate poems that are packed full of a slew of different themes and perspectives. These themes can be distilled

poems are Alan Seeger, Emily Dickinson, Henry Scott Holland, Pablo Neruda, and Sylvia Plath. My favorite poem is Death is nothing at all and my favorite authors are Emily Dickinson and Sylvia Plath. While going over the poems and learning about the poets, my favorite poem is “Death is not all” by Henry Scott Holland. This poem caught my attention because it evokes my thinking. What this poem is trying to say is that even when you die; your soul stays alive. One of my favorite lines in this poem is

matters¡K. but also transforms the sexual seduction lyric into a more serious persuasion to full affectionate and physical loving."iii[iii] The other is Donne's skill, dramatic monologue. In both line one of the first and the second stanzas, the poet began with strong voice. Later in the following lines of the two stanzas, Donne himself explained his reasons logically. The only difference is his attitude. The tone of stanza two is stronger than stanza one, and stanza three is even stronger than

in tranquility". This quote definitely holds true to Andrew Marvell's poem "To His Coy Mistress" and John Donne's poem "The Flea". The theme of each of these are quite similar, these two metaphysical poets both used poetry as a way to convince their lovers to have sex with them. Being metaphysical poets, their writing styles are indeed similar as well; argument, union of lovers souls, abstruse terminology, and carpe diem. Although both Donne and Marvell used the same theme and writing styles, the way

The purpose of this essay is to compare the of Wendell Berry’s essay, “The Failure of War”, Dorianne Laux’s poem, Staff Sgt. Metz and Damon Winter’s photograph of Sgt. Brian Keith. All three of these pieces represent the controversial issue of War which is a topic for a argumentative piece. In two of the written pieces the writer acknowledges the opposition, however, the picture the opposition is implied. Each piece has a purpose aimed at an audience with an emotional appeal. All three of these

of the poem. Donne does this throughout the whole poem. He was called the founder of the “Metaphysical Poets”. “The Metaphysical Poets are known for their ability to startle the reader and coax new perspective through paradoxical images, subtle argument, inventive syntax, and imagery from art, philosophy, and religion using an extended metaphor known conceit”(https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/john-donne). Donne was a master of thinking outside of the box and combining like things that you would

in the household. Sylvia Plath and Sharon Olds may come across as two seemingly different poets, however, they are really quite similar, especially in their driving forces behind their writing styles in poetry. The lives of Plath and Olds are both expressive of the realities of a father-dominated family, in which both of these poets lost their fathers at a young age. This is significant because both poets have faced a similar traumatic event that has had everlasting effects on their adult womanhood

John Donne’s poem “The Flea” tells a man’s argument in order for a woman to sleep with him. He uses a flea to explain to the woman that life is too short for someone to be living a short life. Donne uses meter and symbolism in order to express the main theme of carpe diem. Donne uses the rhyme scheme that consists of three couplets and one triplet at the end of each stanza. When he starts a new rhyme, it is almost as if the reader gets a new idea or new concept that the speaker has made. Donne has

Research Paper Alfred Lord Tennyson was one of the most prolific poets throughout the whole Victorian era. A.E Housman is one of the most significant poets from the Modern era. Both of these magnificent authors lived distinct lives. Housman wrote “To an Athlete Dying Young” and Tennyson wrote “Break, Break, Break.” Both of these poems deal with the tragedy of death in different perspectives. Housman was born in Worcestershire, England on March 26, 1859.At such a young age of 12 years old he lost

The Flea, by John Donne, is a well known poem which even now has a bold meaning. Overall in this poem the speaker is attempting to take the virginity of a woman he is with by using the flea around them as a way to convince her. In the first stanza the flea has come and bit him and then bit the woman. He says that their blood is already intertwined in lines three and four “it sucked me first, and now sucks thee,/ and in this flea our two bloods, mingled be.” He goes on to say that she should not