W. H. Auden has written an unusual response to death in “Stop All the Clocks, Cut Off the Telephone.” The title itself demands that seemingly unreasonable actions be carried out. Why should all the clocks be stopped? Why should the telephone be cut off? The normal events of daily life, such as clocks ticking, telephones ...
W.H.Auden’s “Funeral Blues” focuses on death as a irreversible phenomenon Though people die ,this analysis of “Funeral Blues” echoes that relationships don’t. The poem “Funeral Blues” was first published as “Song IX” from Twelve Songs (1936). The poem conjures the atmosphere of a funeral. The tone of the poem is imperative as Death is commanding, ...
“An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.” Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790) Commencement Quips As eager high school and college seniors don mortarboard caps and glossy gowns for their parades across commencement podiums, families and friends seek memorable comments to enclose with graduation greetings, gifts, gift cards and other mementos. What are the ...
Abstractions are words or phrases that refer to concepts rather than specific things. Things like truth, beauty, love, and pain are abstract. If you can’t see it, hear it, touch it, taste it, or smell it, it’s probably an abstraction. Abstractions should generally be avoided in poetry. They are too broad and vague for readers ...
Dylan Thomas, the prophet of neo-romanticism infused the poetry of the times with intrepid Biblical and Freudian imagery. His poems are said to be a cerebral reproduction of sensory experiences. He consistently indulged in “a remaking “of the language and synaesthesia. He often uses expressions like “light of sound”,” sound of light”,” a grief ago”,” ...
While the concluding refrain of John Cornford’s poem “Full Moon at Tierra” compels to “Raise the red flag triumphantly / For Communism and for liberty” and in the process has the appearance of being taken verbatim from either Karl Marx’s The Communist Manifesto, or a pre-revolutionary address by Lenin, the graceful distinction of how Cornford ...
The Desolation Without Sun: an Analysis of Auden’s Line Each line of a poem represents a carefully crafted piece of artistry that supports the whole work. Via intentionally placed words, punctuation, and sounds, a poem moves forward with athletic quickness or slow realization. In the first stanza of W.H. Auden’s In Memory of W.B. Yeats, ...
Everybody’s trick to writing is their own – this is mine. It may or may not work for you just like sitting alone for hours over a blank sheet may or may not help you. This is written to help people in my position (that is, new to poetry) get off their feet. Like Richard ...
Words, when strung together like a beautiful rare necklace, are priceless, indestructible and eternal. Poetry is the grand ballroom these words live, breathe and dance in. Poetry waltzes into the heart and creates rhapsodies and symphonies for the soul. Her playground of emotions is peppered with excitement, enchantment, love, harmony, sorrow, heartache, empathy and bereavement. ...
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