Ode on Melancholy

poem, “Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori” translates to “It is sweet and right to die for one’s country.” A popular saying at the time of the First World War when Owen penned the lines, the title of the poem originates in the Roman poet Horace’s Odes. However, as Owen so painfully illustrates, there is nothing sweet or right about the bitterness of death and devastation that war brings. Beginning as a personal account of life lived on the front lines of war, “Dulce et Decorum Est” employs a narrative

Art is in everything. Artists can be experts with a paintbrush, phenomenal with piano or a master of their pen. Authors and poets have a chance to manipulate words like no other artist can. Poets in particular can use their words to encompass different kinds of art by painting a picture with lyrical rhythm and imagery. Poets may be common, but for their poetry to be timeless it must be universally relatable. Edgar Allen Poe is regarded as one of the most famous poets in American history due to his

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My taste for music is unusual, not many songs please me. My aversion to saxophones is unmatched, but I love wooden instruments, the traditional flute, the Andean reed zambona, fisarmonica, congo drums, rebaba, the violin. The saxophone, however, scare me more than a Black Mamba snake. I wish Eritrean musicians introduce other instruments, the world has many of those and it's okay to borrow. I am into folksongs; that is why I tolerate country music, even those with awful lyrics, like "boiled potatoes

William Shakespeare's As You Like It As a Study of Perception and Misperception The concepts of perception and misperception are common themes in many of Shakespeare's plays and can be found in his comedies, tragedies and histories alike. Shakespeare explores these often-parallel elements through several different forms in his work, such as disguise, mistaken identity and blindness, and events caused by these can lead to amusing, confusing or sometimes tragic consequences

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his writings. However, his personal life was absorbed with various family problems, and he experienced much solitary anguish. This resulted in depression for Coleridge, and he often based his stories and poems on themes of dejection, sadness, and melancholy. But he was neither a nihilist nor a pessimist by any stretch. He believed in the healing powers of love, and had hope for recovery. His writings were described as being versatile, and scholars have found a great variety of themes, styles, and techniques

Ode to an Indian beggar He sits near the temple gate Waiting for worshipers, this late He stretches out his hand for alms Nobody seems to notice his palms He sings a repeated song Nobody wants to listen to this monk. Proud ladies bring gold and gems They place it at the Lord’s lotus feet. A part of which will be kept by the priests, The ones, with a little tuft of hair hanging neat. Rich gentlemen donate money at the altar of the Holy place. They should be punished instead for the money Earned

The Young Genius: Ezra Pound’s influenced poetry on Benito Mussolini and the Fascist movement, time of his stay in St. Elizabeth’s Hospital and the concept of Imagism. “If a nation's literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.” (Ezra Pound Quotes) Ezra Pound was not a man of many words, but he certainly did have a knack for turning simple words into something beautiful. Pounds’ poetry was influenced by his fascination with Benito Mussolini and the Fascist movement, the time of his stay

The title of this poem is very powerful. It tells the reader that this is a very sad poem and that by going to war death is almost certain. Sassoon has done this to give the reader an idea of war, and, as the reader reads the poem their insight into the brutality and the sorrow of war increases. The first paragraph of this poem tells of the slow death of a soldier as the sun rises. Sassoon has skilfully manipulated language and his choice of words in order to create a visual image that is slowly