Two Poets Essay

writers of the age revolted against the deification of material progress. The poets were perhaps the best interpreters of the age (Brett 18). They illustrated in their poems the religious temper, its faith, doubts and conflicts of their time. The age these poets inherited was rather a fluid transitional one. The dilemma of the age assaulted the poets very deeply

Before winning awards and gaining the reputation of being a great poet, Robert Frost struggled early in his life. Before taking his family to England to start a new life in 1912, Frost’s life was highlighted by “variety of different jobs” (727), inconsistent attendance at college, and the attempt to run a farm. He also lost his father at a young age and two of Frost’s children either died or had a mental collapse. However, after his move to England and the publication of his second book, North of

it is already a solid concept, therefore it would appear to be the same in all Romantic poetry. While Coleridge and Shelley sometimes share ideas about the Aeolian harp, they manage to transform it in a multitude of ways that differ between the two poets and sometimes even in the individual poet’s own poetry. To Coleridge and Shelley the Aeolian harp is much more than an instrument that is played by the wind, it also stands for poetry, or humans themselves, and even the so-called “one life”. The

Not The two poetics from whom have created pieces of literature in the past such as “The Flea” by John Donne and “To His Coy Mistress” by Andrew Marvell, whom were highly educated poets in the 17th century, in which their writing styles were pieces of unique abstract, theoretical forms, and one particular famous style called metaphysical conceit to which “John is known as the founder of the  HYPERLINK "https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/text/brief-guide-metaphysical-poets" Metaphysical Poets, a term

John Donne, a famous poet in the 17th century, was well known for writing love poems. In his early years, Donne was a Catholic Priest who in his later converted to church of England and became an Anglican Priest. During this period, he wrote poems that reflected his religious views and his love for his wife Ann. In one of his poems, John Donne uses the word Canonization to confuse his readers to believing that the poem is about religious views. However, he actually uses the word ‘Canonization’

Alfred, Lord Tennyson, a British poet was and is one of the most popular and famous poets from Victorian era Britain. In fact he survived for basically the entirety of the era, as he was born in 1809 and died in 1892, as stated in John Maynard’s Alfred , Lord Tennyson (page 4). Born into a large family in somewhat less than adequate conditions, he found solace mostly in writing, even from a young age. According to online-literature.com he lived with what the world now knows as depression and was

An example of this is Herbert’s looking towards the Bible for stylistic inspiration rather than to alien imagery and ideas of Donne. Another very important and distinctive characteristic of the poetry is Herbert’s introduction of two quiet final lines, resolving the previously mentioned argument within the poem, without answering any specific points mentioned. The doubts in faith and religion are expressed in intellectual terms by Donne, and the argument is answered in this intellectual

Mistress” By John Donne. “To His Coy Mistress” and “ To His Mistress Going to bed” are two poems that feature “carpe diem”; they are also written by two of the most well known metaphysical poets. Andrew Marvell, the author of “To His Coy Mistress” and John Donne, the writer of “To His Mistress Going To Bed”. Both poems were written through the 16th and 17th Century, where love and sex were describe as two different things. 16th and 17th century attitudes to love and relationship were much stricter

Theodore Roethke “Roethke was a great poet, the successor to Frost and Stevens in modern American poetry, and it is the measure of his greatness that his work repays detailed examination” (Parini 1). Theodore Roethke was a romantic who wrote in a variety of styles throughout his long successful career. However, it was not the form of his verse that was important, but the message being delivered and the overall theme of the work. Roethke was a deep thinker and often pondered about and reflected

As a poet, he began writing at a young age though his initial poems that were published. while he was still in college, were in Greek and Latin. It is ironical that much of his sarcastic political satires were not published during his lifetime, and he became recognized as a major poet only after his death. The life of this enigmatic poet has always fascinated historians due to the scarcity of information about his personal