Ode on Melancholy

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    in 1939 in the midst of Frida Kahlo’s divorce from Diego Rivera, this painting embodied Frida Kahlo’s progression at this time in her life, dealing with what she is and what she wishes to be; as well as setting out how she wishes to do it. An ode to melancholy and overcoming adversity, “The Two Fridas” is a universal, eternal reminder of human capability. The painting is of two versions of Frida Kahlo, closely gripping hands and sharing one heart between them. They are dressed in contrary clothing

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    Modernism is a literary movement that was born in the 20th century in order to find new forms of writing and create something entirely different that the world has seen before. Modernists proclaimed about a complete separation from realistic traditions that took place in the 19th century and decided to put an emphasis on Impressionism, Perspectivism and Subjectivity in their literary works. The main idea of Modernism is that emphasis was put on how we see rather what we perceive. Our own understanding

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    we see the two poems “that time of year” by shakespeare and “To Autumn” by Keats has inseparable role of youth and death as a analogy for life flow of season,.although both poem depict death and dying as tribble tragedy. poem To autumn presents death as season while That time of year present death as . First , we see In theses poems, the act of creation is pictured as a kind of self-harvesting; the pen harvests the fields of the brain, and books are filled with the resulting "grain" . In "To Autumn"

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    In the poem Ode on a Grecian Urn, John Keats talks about three drawings that he sees on an ancient urn. Throughout the poem, Keats uses rhetorical questions, imagery, and a change in tone to explain to the readers what he sees on the urn and the feelings he is getting from the old urn’s pictures. He helps the reader understand there is a deeper meaning beneath the surface of the art and how the urn is teaching life lessons while it stays there silent. In the first stanza lines 5-7, the poem asks

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    The poem was written in the year 1802. It was first published in Poems in Two Volumes, in 1807. The very starting line of the poem “I wandered lonely as a cloud” informs the poet’s profound sentiments of being left alone. It was actually the death of his brother John that led him to “loneliness”. We should remind the readers that this poem was not a result of imagination. Dorothy, Wordsworth’s sister provides us an explanation of the occasion which inspired Wordsworth to produce this masterpiece:-

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    However, there was still certain exceptional poets during this period who wrote lyrics such as Thomas Gray and William Cowper. In the poem ‘Ode On The Spring’ by Thomas Gray, the reader comes across an elaborated view of spring and its beauties. It is shown that for Gray, spring brings fields imbued with flowers and greenery: ‘long-expecting flowers’. According to Gray, spring brings along

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    of the most comparable people in both their personal lives and literary works. There are three specific poems, one from each poet that can be related to one another. There is: Wordsworth’s “Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey”, Keats’s “Ode on a Grecian Urn” and Tennyson’s “In Memoriam, A.H.H.” Wordsworth, Keats, and Tennyson never rationalize, argue, or preach; they carefully craft every word to maximize a reader’s understanding of the experience by absorbing the reader into the poem

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    In William Wordsworth’s poem, The Prelude, he describes how he imagines London to be. He is very descriptive when he touches on what he expects upon arrival to the city, and then realizes London was not the paradise he alluded to earlier in his poem. William Wordsworth use of imagery and diction reflect the city’s natural environment, which he also uses in order to convey his feelings of anticipation and dissatisfaction with what he has discovered. In the beginning of The Prelude, William Wordsworth’s

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    Elizabeth Correll November 29, 2016 ENGL 227 Professor Tessone Expressions of Grief, Loss and Mourning in Romantic Poetry In A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful Edmund Burke writes, “It is the nature of grief to keep its object perpetually in its eye, to present it in its most pleasurable views, to repeat all the circumstances that attend to it”. Burke’s writing attempts to clarify the “pictorial, literary, cultural, economic and psychological” phenomenon

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    Romanticism was a specific, complex, widespread movement in thought and culture. It continues to have a huge influence on our own era’s poetry, novels, songs, films and sometimes our entire philosophy of what life is about. This kind of Romantic is always written with a capital “R”- don’t confuse it with the the narrower, Hollywood style, small ’r’ idea of romantic” that means related to being in love! Romantic (capital ‘R’) thoughts and values are something different and further-reaching. Romanticism

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