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Good morning fellow panel members today I have been asked to research and analyse a poem for Get Poetic, which will inspire our target audience and gain an interest in poetry. Poetry is powerful tool which changes the way people look at the world. I believe the song “We Are Going to Be Friends.” By The White Stripes, is a great song to spark, an interest for poetry in our target audience. This song is about a school child’s day and this song is definitely thought provoking and I am sure it is a

The poem I chose to do was Sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare. When I first read it, a couple of things stood out to me, such as, how the narrator is comparing someone (maybe a lover or friend) to a summer’s day. The narrator then proceeds to tell the person how “Thou art more lovely and more temperate,” which means that they are more beautiful and gentle than a summer day might be. It goes on saying how the person is not

English 1102-265 April 19, 2010 Imagery in Robert Frost’s “Desert Places” Robert Frost, an American poet of the late 19th century, used nature in many of his writings. One of the great examples is the poem “Desert Places” that express feelings of a speaker and the meaning of the entire poem through images of nature. The poem describes two different kinds of desert places and clearly emphasizes the most frightening one. To help readers understand the meaning of “Desert Places”, Frost uses variety

We can see transcendentalism with William Blake and his poetry. William Blake, who is a pre-romantic poet, handles his themes sincerely with a mind that is not distracted by the existing opinions such as rationalism, suppression and reason of opinions in his society. Although, he favors the morals of love, freedom, brotherhood and equality. Therefore, I believe he is considered one of the best romantic poets of all time. The majority of Blake’s poems show the romantic side of things such as simplicity

Traveling through time In the poem “A Can of heart of Palm” by Jeff Dolven the author talks about a Can of heart going back to its origin. This demonstrates the idea of going through time, The author uses a reversal to give a description of what is happening throughout the poem. The author also uses repetition of back and sign to show the importance of the word and how these words play a factor in the journey of a can of heart of palm. In the first stanza the author states, “can of heart

once the poem was published the author of the poem Nothing Gold Can Stay was Robert Lee Frost. I think Robert frost based his poem on things he has seen in his life and based it off of nature. the poem was written in 1923. the poem was one of many poems the author robert frost wrote, its own poem but has the same author of multiple poem the main style of this poem is narrative. I think its narrative because the poem tells a story and digs deep into things found in nature. it's not focused on a person

Analysis of “The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock” and “Richard Cory” “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” by T.S. Eliot is a poem unlike any I have ever read before. The poem starts off with the speaker taking what seems to be a potential lover along for a walk. The speaker first describes their surroundings and says that “the evening is spread out against the sky like a patient etherized upon a table” and that “the streets follow like a tedious argument”. The sky is described as someone who has

In the three poems “The Wife’s Lament”, “The Wanderer”, and “The Seafarer” from The Exeter Book, it’s clear that travel and exile are recurring and important themes. Is there a possibility that these themes and elements have a significance that goes above and beyond their literal meaning? Though they may experience it differently, all three of the speakers from these poems in The Exeter Book deal with the great pain of exile, or being driven out, resulting in the need or desire for travel. This takes

Carpe diem is Latin for “seize the day” and can be translated into “ YOLO” or “ you only live once” in modern day society. “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” written by Christopher Marlowe conveys this message the best compared to the other mentioned Carpe diem poems due to its tone, syntax and symbolism. However, the Carpe diem poem “To The Virgins, To Make Much of Time” written by Andrew Marvell appears to be least persuasive out of the other Carpe diem poem due to its hasty tone, figurative

The Wasp’s Nest by James L Rosenberg serves to primarily describe the life and troubles of wasps, making references to how they build their nests and interact with the humans around them. However, in the final stanza Rosenberg draws parallels between the life of a wasp and humans. Through his use of harsh diction while at the same time maintaining a somewhat solemn tone, Rosenberg is able to express the poem’s bigger idea - having to build lasting love and relationships while trying to deal with