Poet Course Works Samples For Students

Summary:

These ten letters by Rilke are replies to a young poet in which he encourages the poet to develop a connection to, and an understanding, of his inner creative soul. In these letters, Rilke explores themes related to how creativity, nature and sexuality are interrelated, the importance of living a full life, and the necessity of solitude. These letters can be seen as sort of a guide to life, not merely for creative individuals for just about anyone has the desire to develop a connection with their own humanity.

Quotes:

Some of the most notable quotes from the last three letters by Rilke include:

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The poem entitled “I Ask It,” written by a renowned Aztec poet Nezahualcoyotl is a very short piece, though very potent as it touches upon profound human truths of existence and being, which is actually what the Aztec religion concerned itself with. The Aztec people understood their place on earth; that all life is transitory, and that humans are not granted the life cycle of nature, which is to die and be reborn every spring. The life of a human being is merely a speck in time, barely perceptible, and their fate is subject to the whimsies of the gods, who ...

We Real Cool

The three videos watched are The Sentence by Anna Akhmatova and read by Nancy Narsessian, The Emigrant Irish by Eavan Boland and read by Stephen Murphy and We Real Cool by Gwendolyn Brooks and read by John Ulrich. Out of these three, I liked most We Real Cool mainly because it vividly portrayed the reality faced by the youths once they went for the option to drop out of school. The poem was written in the backdrop of the Civil Rights Movement. The poet further describes the lives of uneducated youths. She lists out the illegal activities they partook ...

Summary of the Article

The discourse entitled Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke presented diverse letters starting from one which was written in Paris on February 1903 and ending with a letter, five years later which was dated December 1908, also in Paris, and written by the author to a young poet, named Mr. Kappus. Letters five to seven actually started with the letter written in Rome on October 29, 1903 which talked about Rilke’s travel to Rome; letter six, dated December 29, 1903, talked about solitude and God; while the seventh letter (dated May 14, 1904) continued relevant discussions on topics ...

After the War by May Wedderburn Cannan is a beautifully written poem that has a strong emotional and moral appeal. In the poem, the poet has tried to develop a deep sense on the terrors of the war. The two stanzas poem is showing a cause that the war is a dreadful thing. She further emphasizes that hope is all what she is left with. The poet emphasizes that after the war she is going to sit with her friend on the terrace, where she used to sit with her, and will watch the beautiful sky changing to blue; the sky which once used to ...

The Song of Songs poem has two voices that must be thought together. The voices within the poem are two women. The first one is holding back to love whereas the second one is giving herself too much to love. The girl must decide if she will marry King Solomon for his money or love a shepherd boy for love. In the beginning, she swoons for Solomon and is astounded in her good fate of marrying a dreamy but on the other hand she is disconcerted when her heart keeps on thinking about the shepherd back home. Her dilemma of having ...

- Virgil. Classical poet, who lived in the 1st century B.C. His most important work was Aeneid, which describes adventures of Aeneas, the leader of Trojans.
- Homer. Ancient poet, the author of Iliad and Odyssey.
- Ovid. Roman poet, author of the Metamorphoses, which provides an insight into dozens of Roman myths.
- Lucan. Roman poet and historian. His most famous work named Bellum civile sive Pharsalia. It describes war between Caesar and Pompey.
- Beatrice. Beatrice Portinari, Dante’s muse. She died in younger age and Dante placed her in Heaven.
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Literature

Anzia Yezierska draws Hanneh Hayyeh in a way that makes readers to sympathize with her. Hanneh is a lower class lady who works for Mrs. Preston. She owns nothing that she can really attribute to herself. More so, Preston discriminates her and does not want to treat her in decent manner although she has the ability to do so. This also makes me to dislike Mrs. Preston since she lacks the sense of humanity though she is not fully heartless. She does not view Hanneh as her equal simply because Hanney is poor. A writer can use strong characters that should take ...

What is the tone/language of the three Charles Bukowski poems? Is the tone/language the same for all three?

All three poems by Charles Bukowski (namely, ‘so you want to be a writer?’, ‘the suicide kid’ and ‘The meek have inherited’) can be united due to their dramatic, and even tragic tone. One can feel the dull mood of everyday reality, man’s aversion to life and desire to die. To create the following tone of the poems, poet demonstrated his perfect mastery in using stylistic devices.

To be more precise, there are a lot of metaphors in all three poems, mostly personification, (e.g. ‘the libraries of the world have yawned themselves to sleep’, ‘the next day waited for me’, ‘ ...

The Iliad

In history, The Iliad is included in epic poetry’s oldest collection. The Iliad is an ancient poem in which similar with the Odyssey, was argued saying that it was created by a person named Homer. Even though no one provided reliable evidence in relation to the creator of this Greek poem, it was generally accepted that the alleged creator, Homer is a visually challenged poet. This poet was written sometime between eight hundred and seven hundred Before Christ. The Iliad was translated to many languages, which was then used in silver screen and stage presentations and even motivated many untold ...

A Postcard from the Volcano by Steven Wallace

This short poem written by Steven Wallace is more about the remains of a person after his demise. It is related more to the impact that the future generations would have as a result of the remains after the death of an individual.

The poem is written in verses of three lines. This short poem written by Steven Wallace, offers a unique perspective to its readers. Steven Wallace starts the poem with imagery as the tone for the entire poem is set through its imagery. Every image that Wallace uses in the poem convey various emotions.

There is significant shift ...

Is a writer (“Poetry is my thing”), but once upon a time used to be a visual artist.

In 1994 – came from Toronto. Had a dream of becoming a visual artist then. Worked in collage, photography, installation and a little bit in performance.
Two years after she moved to West Coast – started writing in a more serious way. Writing went further than visual arts. Started practicing spoken word.

Got her start as a poet during the poetry reading series in late 1990s – early 2000s. Spoken word – memory work, but also realizing what your body can do (“Inside your body, inside ...

Steve Bantu Biko, a spouse to Ntsiki Mashalaba was born in December 1946 in King William’s town in South Africa. He was a son of Mathew who was occupied in the police force and Alice who worked as a domestic servant at a hospital in the town. He was an Anti-apartheid activist in the country between the year 1960 and the year 1970. At the University, he was the student leader that later spearheaded the formation of the Black Consciousness Movement. It is this movement that endeavored to empower as well as mobilize much of the urban black populace in the country.

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow a successful American poet whose works carry a lot of sentimentalism. Sentimentalism is the act of stimulating tender emotional responses towards a given work of art that are not really due that work. Wadsworth successfully brings out this aspect especially in A Psalm of Life. “ tell me not in mournful numbers, life is but an empty dream (Longfellow n.p).” The two lines bring out a sense of hopelessness that there is no much meaning to life no matter how hard we attempt to live. Wadsworth was trying to show human beings the vagueness in life and the need ...

1. Paraphrase the poem: "Lines composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey."
Despite that these forms of beauty are not easily seen, they are unseen to me. The situation is just like that of a blind man, who cannot explain the appearance of a landscape. I am owed to them to them like a man in solitary in a quite room does to the middle of a busy city. I have owed to their familiarization for knowledge in my pure mind.

The goodness of a man is owed to pleasure and good acts. This quality is worth trustfulness irrespective of the burden of mystery which ...