In Charles Baudelaire’s ‘Correspondences’, with direct reference in the title to the Swedenborgian concept, he reveals the connection between Nature and the Metaphysical world. Synathesia is said to “put the reader in contact with a forceful sensory presence, a primitive wholeness or synthesis of impression” (Hassan, 439). Through synathesia – in which sounds, colors, and ...
Tennyson’s “The Lotos-Eaters” was published in 1832. The inspiration for the poem was Tennyson’s visit to Spain (1829) along with Arthur Hallam where they visited the Pyrenees Mountains. About the Poem The prescribed poem deals with a group of mariners who after consuming the lotos, went into a state of trance or temporal amnesia. The ...
E.E. Cummings’ “Buffalo Bill’s” is an excellent example of the renowned writer’s penchant for avant-garde formatting and syntactical experimentation. If we are to look at the poem from an interpretive standpoint, we immediately find our work cut out for us. Buffalo Bill’s defunct Thankfully, we’re not looking to “interpret” anything here, so we can forgo ...
We stood by a pond that winter day, And the sun was white, as though chidden of God, And a few leaves lay on the starving sod; –They had fallen from an ash, and were gray. Your eyes on me were as eyes that rove Over tedious riddles of years ago; And some words played ...
“Woodchucks,” by Maxine Kumin, is an exploration of the dehumanization of a man when he can begin to justify mass extermination to himself and his conscience. Rather than a specific comparison to one event in history, this is an overall commentary on the effect hatred has on the soul of any human being. What begins ...
“Where is the life we have lost in living? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?” -T.S. Elliot Note: According to Measurement And Planned Development, who specializes in effective self-transformation, There are key ways to interpret and effectively enhance strengths and reduce weaknesses. The ...
In “Degas’s Laundresses,” Eavan Boland brings to life in words an oil painting by artist Edgar Degas. Although in the title of the poem Boland does not specify which of Degas’s several paintings of laundresses she intends the reader to reference, it can only be “Laundresses Carrying Linen in Town.” The proof lies in the ...
Claude McKay’s poem “Harlem Shadows” comes from one of his volumes of poetry also entitled “Harlem Shadows” (published in 1922), which initiated the new angry and defiant attitude in African-American writing toward racial prejudice. This volume of poetry was one of the catalysts for the commencement of the Harlem Renaissance and also began McKay’s style ...
The poem “Out, Out-” by Robert Frost was first published in 1916 in The Mountain Interval . The poem is “apparently based on a true story of a boy’s death whilst working in New England.” The boy in question is Raymond Fitzgerald who died in 1915. He passed away due to heart failure as he ...
John Donne is well known for his use of religious topics in his poems, coupled with seemingly unthinkable metaphors and conceits. This is most obvious in his collection of poetry called “Holy Sonnets”. His most famous of these is Holy Sonnet 10 in which the violence of the imagery shocks the reader greatly. The explication ...
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