Ode

To Autumn by John Keats exemplifies a poem full of imagery that showcases the scenery of a typical Autumn ensemble. The name itself is something worth analyzing. The “To Autumn” deems autumn as the recipient of the rhetoric. The title is pregnant with personification. It is structured in three eleven-line stanzas that follow the chronological progression of autumn with autumn (personified) performing three distinct occupations at each level/stanza. Personification is habitually present throughout

In the memoir The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates by Wes Moore, the main character Wes Moore grew up in the rough city of Baltimore, where the future of a typical black male teen is often associated with illegal activities.  Contrary to these discouraging expectations, he went on to become a successful and prominent business leader.  This unusual phenomenon is called being an outlier.  According to Malcolm Gladwell, an outlier is a “scientific term to describe things or phenomena that lies outside

“If Poetry comes not as naturally as Leaves to a tree it had better not come at all” (biography). John Keats was an English-born poet who was known for his sonnets, romances, and epics. He was a well-known romantic poet who was criticized because of his style of poetry. In his poems, Keats uses frequent themes such as death, the five senses, reality departures, and nature. As a romantic poet, John Keats uses imagery and emotion based themes as way to display his beliefs in his poetry. Born in

disconnect from the real world problems that may cause fear, despairs, or isolation. In John Keats poem, “Ode to a Nightingale” discusses the idea of mortality and death throughout the poem by escaping reality. By looking at escapism, one can see the poet’s struggle with physical and mental state, which most readers don’t see; this is important because it shows symbolism through the nightingale. In “ Ode to a Nightingale” Keats writes, “ My heart aches,and a drowsy numbness pains/ My sense, as though

Beauty is truth, truth beauty discusses Keats’s exploration of the themes of beauty, truth and imagination in two or more of his works. Prior to the Romantic Movement, the prevalent notions in European culture was that the understanding of the universe could be comprehended with the application of rationality and logic. The belief that reason and logic could and should determine all aspects of life arguably underwent a shift of consciousness and was subordinated against the ideas of the Romantic

The Odes of Horace – Summary Horace, whose full name in Latin is Quintus Horatius Flaccus, was a Roman lyric poet. He is best remembered for his poetic works The Odes, Satires, Epistles and the Episodes. His works, which were mostly in Latin, have been translated severally since they were first published more than 2000 years ago. The Odes, which are now mostly referred to as the Odes of Horace, have been used widely for academic as well as recreational purposes. In total, Horace wrote 103 Odes which

An Ode To America by Cornel Nistorescu poses a very interesting question. Nistorescu wonders what it is that unites Americans. In the end, he decides that it is their freedom. I agree. Americans have fought for freedom over and over again in the American Revolution and in the Civil War. The whole American government system was created in a way so that they can keep their freedoms. The rights Americans have is what distinguishes America from other countries. It only makes sense that in times as horrific

Poem # 1 In reviewing the poem, “Ode to Browsing the Web”, I see a person that is like many of us that spends hours a day on the internet as well as social media to get some type of entertainment or to pass time. This person is lonely and sees this way to stay in touch with the world. The person seems to be begging for attention when they say” O World Wide Web, o viral video, o god of excrement, befriend me, be fucking infectious” (Wicker, 2013). But instead of trying to get to know their neighbors

Ode to Mill’s Utilitarianism The Enlightenment has not concluded, their posterity, rationality bequeathed to them, begat a new Age of Reason. Ye, sentient being, vehement vis-à-vis the tenets of Utilitarianism, thou shalt cogitate! Will, indubitably and universally, what comportment is propitious to the happiness of a sagacious being. Words making abortive essays at elucidating the quintessence of Utilitarianism. Hallow thy progenitors, Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill, for not a soul can

Dennis Crumb Jr. CW-3 Free Poem 9-29-15 Draft 1 Ode to a Bonfire A clouded road for this Undead, What I’d give to know the road ahead, My only solace, only clue, When I stumble upon one of you, A fire I can ignite, and be rid of this horrid blight, but I’ve known death a thousand times, a thousand times, a thousand times. Death I’ve known a thousand times. And so my sanity dwindles. I’m sick of it’s mocking flame, It cracks and licks at my shame. But I’ve rested and now I see, all my hate, was