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 ...
If you’re a poet and want to go down in the annals of history, it might perhaps interest you to dash off a bird sonnet or two. Students may be studying them in school centuries hence. One of the more famous bird poems is a Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) composition entitled To A Skylark. “Hail ...
In the play Othello by William Shakespeare, Iago is a malicious manipulator who commits treacherous deeds without true motives. Samuel Taylor Coleridge, a famous English Poet, describes Iago’s actions as “the motive-hunting of motiveless malignity” because in the play Iago spitefully creates havoc and desperately seeks motives for his malice. Iago’s scheme to depose Cassio, ...
As famous French writer Stendhal comments, “Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.” Perhaps that is why some people just hate to read romance. It seems that something in the pleasure of sexuality is lost when it hits the pages of a trashy romance novel. Ages before contemporary writers such as Nora Roberts began pouring ...
People often use the bird word albatross figuratively. Something that causes worry or trouble can be called an albatross. And a colorful way of expressing the idea that one has a serious problem is to say that there is an albatross around one’s neck. Why did the albatross, instead of some other bird, develop a ...
Marco Polo is the 13th century Venetian explorer credited with discovering and exploring the land of the Kublai Khan, grandson of the marauding Genghis, and his Mongols, which is modern day Mongolia. Marco Polo’s life, travels and writings are shrouded in a cloak of some confusion as to exact details. But we do know that ...
Chiasmus is a type of rhetorical balance in which the second of two parallel phrases or clauses reverses the order of the syntactic elements in the first. Skillfully used, it can produce a successful dramatic or oratorical effect, as in many passages in the Bible and in other great literature. A simple example of chiasmus ...
In a majority of poems from the Romantic era there is a profusion of the use of supernatural and mythological references in reference to the content of the individual pieces. They would come in various states and mean different things, yet they would all serve the same purpose and that would be to help the ...
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