Strophe

four lines on a sour note. Next, the poem is an ode so there is a main underlining subject matter broken into three parts: Strophe, antistrophe, and epode. Therefore, the meaning I find is melancholy and beauty are intertwine where to understand one you would also understand the other. To understand the cycle of melancholy and beauty we need to start with one of the two a strophe and to start it off stanza one gives melancholy half first. In the first stanza some loaded words that connect to each other

Today we call the English romantic period the time which took place between the metaphysical poets and the Victorian age. This period was born because it was hard for the laypeople to understand the great messages the metaphysical poets wrote down. We also should not forget this is the age of the Great French Revolution. A famous distinctive mark of romantic poems is the presence of nature. This is also the case with the poem written by Percy Bysshe Shelley called Ode to the West Wind. Before I

The ode begins with a whole stanza exalting Zeus. The Oceanids sing of their hopes of avoiding his anger and punishment, and declare their loyalty to him and belief in his everlasting power – ironic when read in the context of the entire play. This powerful declaration gives the impression of being a shield to protect the chorus in case the rest of the ode, in which they speak fondly of Prometheus, offends. The chorus feel great fear towards Zeus - although they are deities themselves they act like

Critical Analysis of "The Indifferent" by John Donne "The Indifferent" by John Donne is a relatively simple love poem in comparison to his other, more complicated works. In this poem, "he presents a lover who regards constancy as a 'vice' and promiscuity as the path of virtue and good sense" (Hunt 3). Because of Donne's Christian background, this poem was obviously meant to be a comical look at values that were opposite the ones held by Christians. According to Clay Hunt, "['The Indifferent']

Planting A Sequoia, written by Dana Gioia, included in her larger work, The Gods of Winter published in 1991. The work is written in first person point of view because the narrator. This poem’s central assertion is remembrance and honoring of the dead with the family and rebirth. The poem is about the a father that plants a sequoia tree in honor of his recently deceased infant son. Gioia uses imagery in the first few stanzas to emphasize the severity of the father and his families’ grief and despair

Sometimes, art is a joke, or an explanation, or a song. Art can inspire, destroy, or create. Art can be whatever you need it to be. Sometimes, you need a scream. A scream into a void telling it what you think and feel all the while hoping for a scream back. That 's what Ode on Intimations of Immortality From Early Childhood by William Wordsworth is, Wordsworth 's desperate attempt to scream into the void the best he could. But, what is he trying to say? The title is the first indication of the meaning

Theodore Roethke in his poem “My Papa’s Waltz” tries to describe the relationship between the parents and children.The relationship that is portrayed in this poem is especially between a father and a son.Through imagery, this poem gives the impression of hardship as well as love between a son and his father. Imagery usage in poetry as a literary device is used to create vivid details dealing with one’s sense of sight, taste, smell touch and sound. Theodore Roethke imagery in his poem “My Papa’s Waltz”

Name Come live with me and be my love Focus: Marlowe’s use of words in communicating the meaning of the poem and how his poem is a memorable one. The poem “come live with me and be my love” is a love poem written by Christopher Marlowe, persuading his love to come and spend some time with him. It is a poem full of romantic and passionate words that form natural imagery to convey the poet’s feelings and what he means. By the way the poet uses words to persuade his love, makes the poem

“Afternoons” by Philip Larkin expresses his point of view which I, the reader find disturbing. The poem deals with Larkin 's view on young mothers watching their kids playing in a playground and on this he concludes that marrying young and having children young, lead to the mothers losing their identity and destiny. The techniques used by the poet such as theme, imagery and tone develop different connotations of who Philip Larkin was and also deepens the readers understanding of the issue. Throughout

In the poem ‘Walking Away’ by C. Day Lewis the poet effectively and vividly portrays two very main and important aspects of the daily kids. The poet talks about his son in the poem(Sean) who is mentioned under the title of the poem. Firstly, the poem which talks about Sean growing and separating from his father and developing an identity makes the father feels bad and shows how the father is depressed and worried about his son and writes this poem out of love. We see that the word choice of the