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Sappho was one of the most important poetess of her time, if not the most important of all. To talk about Sappho is to summon intense feelings related to love and eroticism. All who enjoy her poetry know it. Sappho is a Greek poet of antiquity who lived a life of almost legend, on the island of Lesbos which is near the Turkish coast. In the city of Mytilene she ran a school for aristocratic girls; in this environment combined pedagogy with sensuality, and in it appeared her poetry. With respect

The Effects of Form in Poetry Form is important when it comes to literature, especially poetry. It helps keep a certain rhythm or rhyme pattern that pleases the reader, but it also gives many advantages to the writer. Over many decades in the development of literature, new forms have appeared because writers like to try new things, but this does not mean that one form is better than the next; each form has its own advantages through the effect that it gives to the poem because it communicates something

Close reading - Poetry What similar ideas explored in the poems? Shakespeare and Bruno Mars both have expressed their love for a certain person in their love poems. The poems are about they way they feel towards their person, how they never want them to change and loving them the way they are. To achieve this, both artists use different techniques to express the love they have. Bruno Mars uses personification, repetition and hyperbole in his song. Shakespeare uses rhyming and stresses. Both

Love or Lust? Poets are famous for their sweet love poems, or better yet lust poems. Poetry has a way of making even the worst stories sound lovely. The way the words roll off your tongue can fool even the smartest off readers. The hidden meanings are buried within the literary devices that poets use. In Andrew Marvell’s poem “To His Coy Mistress” there are plenty of hidden messages buried in the literary devices, but before we start digging in the lines of the poem let us think about what is going

"Richard Cory" is a short, sensational sonnet about a man whose outward appearance gives a false representation of his inward turmoil. The disaster in the sonnet is reflected in its soul the tragedies in Edwin Arlington Robinson's own particular life: Both of his siblings passed on youthful, his family endured monetary disappointments, and Robinson himself continued hardship before his verse picked up acknowledgment. Robinson distributed the poem himself in 1897 as a component of a verse gathering

heightened emotion, crises in his characters’ lives, watershed moments of sudden insight. Why wouldn’t he? He wanted them to stand out in the play. He knew about the effect of contrast, vital in all art forms, be it painting, music, film or literature: light and shade, night and day, happy and sad, funny and serious, fast and slow, whispered or shouted, poetry and

Wilfred Owens ‘Disabled’ (1917) and WH Auden’s ‘Refugee Blues’ may seem to be juxtaposed at first glance but when observed from a deeper perspective , focuses on the effects of wars and conflict on a macrocosmic as well as a microcosmic scale. In the first stanza Owen introduces an amputated individual devoid of his life spirit like an empty shell. This is evident in the poet’s portrayal of this individual as “waiting for dark “, who “shivered in his ghastly suit of grey” for whom the playful voices

Explication Remember viewing the world through of the lens of adolenscence? That all-encompassing innocence that drove headfirst into all of lifes experiences with passionate optimism. Emily DIckinson definitely remembered that youthful spirit, as it's something she carried with her long into her adult years; not only in her personal life, but in her poetry as well. Despite the standards of verse being quite set in stone at the time of its publication, Dickinsn followed in the footsteps of ?? and

the night, which covers everything and made difficult to see anything or to find her way. She started wailing, a little glow worm heard her wailing. He felt sympathy and showed a readiness to help her in finding the way to her nest by his twinkling light. So the poet sent a very strong message through this short poem that only those people in the world who

The first stand out feature, is the use of repetition for the words ‘imagined’ and woman’. Dunn utilizes the device of repetition well making the poems overall sound structure pleasant to the ear. The ‘m’ strung through the first line sound great, between the words ‘imagined’, ‘woman’, ‘makes’ and ‘woman’ again. As well as a great sound in the chiasmus structure in line 4 and 5 with ‘you…imagines’ and ‘your…imagination’ and again used between lines 5 and 7’s with the openings ‘can only’ and ‘can