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- 5541: John Keats
- ... and his sister Fanny. Keats was well educated at a school in Enfield, where he began a translation of Virgil's Aeneid. In 1810 he was apprenticed to an apothecary-surgeon. His first attempts at writing poetry date from about 1814, and include an `Imitation' of the Elizabethan poet Edmund Spenser. In 1815 he left his apprenticeship and became a student at Guy's Hospital, London; one year later, he abandoned ...
- 5542: “The Birds” by John Updike
- ... is employed by the author so that as one reads, one must really stop and pause and this line. The reader assumes that he or she is reaching the climax and so this short stylistic writing contributes to the growing anticipation. Also in the second stanza the author separates to lines to illustrate the great difference between those two ideals: “As if out of the Bible or science fiction[.]” Updike intentionally ...
- 5543: Poetry Analysis of "No Loser, No Weeper"
- ... the speaker of he poem sound calm and nonchalant about the whole matter of losing someone important and warning someone else to stay away. This part of the poem again can be related to her personal life because when her mother died she locked herself in a room and cried for an entire week and when she came out of the room she had a gray streak of hair in front ...
- 5544: To Autumn by John Keats
- ... has shown us continuing warmth of spring, in which pleasure is maintained beyond its expected span. The transition is gentle and unforced to the question, “Where are the songs of Spring?” and his purpose in writing the poem emerges from the tenderness of the second line: “Think not of them, thou hast thy music too” (line 24). And now we see the “soft-dying day,” the redbreast can only remind us ...
- 5545: Analysis of Stephen Crane's "War Is Kind"
- ... forces, our all-volunteer military is focused on preventing conflicts rather than seeking glory in it. If this brilliant anti-war poem contributed to this philosophy then I certainly cheer and admire his bravery in writing it during that period of our history. Stephen Crane, wrote "War Is Kind" a year before his untimely death in 1900, at the age twenty-eight from the scourge of tuberculosis
- 5546: The Works of Edwin Robinson and Paul Simon
- ... He wept that he was ever born and he had reasons." Both Simon and Robinson had unattainable dreams. This can be proven by the following quotes from the two poems. Robinson stated this idea by writing lines 9, 10, 25, and 26. These lines read as follows: "...Miniver sighed for what was not and dreamed, and rested from his labors...Miniver scorned the gold he sought but sore annoyed was he ...
- 5547: Orson Welles
- Orson Welles Orson Welles was an actor, producer, director, writer, and columnist who revolutionized the film industry by directing movies that depicted men and woman as real human beings. Throughout his writing career, Welles’ characters reflected his own personality and inspired others to write about human struggles, both good and bad. An innovative, dynamic individual, Welles spent his entire life experimenting with different mediums and bringing to ...
- 5548: Sonnet 71: Forget Me When I’m Gone?
- ... even speak the poet’s name. This repetiveness of forgetting the poet would really make the audience feel guilty, and make the audience feel obligated to mourn, which is the poet’s true intentions in writing this particular poem. This poem does contain some imagery reinforced by alliteration. The words, “surely sullen bell”. The sullen bell is a form of auditory imagery. It simulates bells chiming at a funeral service at ...
- 5549: The Judgments And Moral Lessons Of Robert Browning’s Poetry
- ... of the reader. With the definite purpose of grasping the attentions of his readers, Robert Browning accomplishes this goal through the dramatic monologue. In this form of poetry, a fictitious or historical character reveals a personal testimony of his life, often disclosing the undesirable attributes of his character. While some of Browning’s monologues serve to inform and entertain, others provide a hidden message for the reader to cogitate. After reviewing ...
- 5550: Critisism On Robert Burns (1759-1796)
- ... much of his time and talants were frittered away in compiling and composing for musical collections. There is sufficiant evidence that even the genious of Burns could not support him in the monotonous task of writing love verses on heaving bosoms and sparkling eyes, and twisting them into such rhythmical forms, as might suit the capriciaous evolutions of Scotch reels and ports. Besides, this constant waste of his fancy and power ...
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