Since poetry’s inception, word rhythms – the ebb and flow between accented and unaccented syllables – have played a key role in the art and craft of creating a well-thought-out poem. Although rhyming conventions, certain metaphors, and even certain words themselves have come in and out of vogue throughout the centuries, poets ancient and modern ...
In everyday speech, the emphasis of certain syllables can cause sentences to have a metered lilt. A poet will often use these syllables to make our language metrical and musical. Just as we measure distance in inches, we have a unit of measurement for meter in poems. The smallest unit is known as a metrical ...
John Keats’ brilliance as a poet can be seen and felt by any careful reader who absorbs his work, but his true genius becomes apparent because of two particular odes, Ode On Melancholy and To Autumn. As both pieces of work are read, a great bridge is erected and the reader can see that the ...
The poet’s eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven; As imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet’s pen Turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name. (5.1.7-12). This stanza taken from Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Nights Dream ...
Every high school student has wondered why he or she has to study at least one subject, and many college students wonder the same. Some subjects are easier to justify than others. Math has real-world implications for most (even those who do not play fantasy football), and the logical approach to algebra, geometry, and even ...
*Author’s note: These are being published to provide students with a fresh perspective on some frequently-studied works of American and British literature and relevant classic movies shown in progressive English literature classes. Feel free to play around with my point of view but please do not plagiarize in part or in whole. Consider my text ...
John Keats was born in London, England, on October 31, 1795 (although, the true date is unknown, because Keats never admitted the real day of his birthday), the first child out of five, to Frances Jennings Keats and Thomas Keats. In 1804 while Keats was ten, John’s father died in an accident at work, and ...
I personally liked e.e. Cummings’ poetry. Now, to talk about the specific poem that we read in class entitled by the anthologists as “In Just.” The style that Cummings uses should appeal to anyone who doesn’t care about formalities within the structure of poetry, nor does he really focus that on grammar or spacing within ...
