Poet Critical Thinkings Samples For Students

“America” is a poem written by Allen Ginsberg in the 1958. The poem revolves around the life of the speaker, who feels overwhelmed by life in U.S. Specifically, the speaker is dissatisfied with the level of capitalism in the country, which makes him admire his communist upbringing. He also conveys his admiration for Marxism. Although there are several literary strategies (put forward by different theorists) on the best means to interpret a text, none would be more appropriate than Michael Foucault’s in analyzing Ginsberg’s poem.
In his articles “The Archaeology of Knowledge” and “What is an Author?” Michael ...

Literature

Introduction
Since the beginning of the world, the female gender has faced suppression from the male section of the society. This has reflected in the literature, as well. Many authors, writers and poets, have used hard language to point out the wrong done against the women. The tailored language due to the dictatorial system by the mail dominance has been used in the literature works to give a message for the
Literature, on the other hand, has been the part of the world since its inception. Right from the beginning of the world, literary works have been proving ...

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Analysis paper
‘To a stranger’ is a poem written by Walt Whitman, which was published as a part of the collection of his poems titled ‘Leaves of Grass’, in the year 1855. The sexual nature of the poems in this collection fuelled a great controversy at the time of its publication, and in 1865, he lost his government job as a result of the ’indecency’ which his boss saw reflected in his works. In the ‘leaves of Grass’, there is a separate cluster of poems called the ‘Calamus’, and ‘to a stranger’, is a part of that cluster. The main theme discussed by Whitman in this ...

Times change and so do cultures, sometimes people get expose to a new culture and get to drop theirs as they get themselves acculturated to others which seem better or more unifying. Such is the case that happens in present day society where popular culture appears to override traditional indigenous cultures of different societies from across the world. That is mainly reflected in the poem Unearthed, which is written by Ali Cobby Eckermann. The main theme presented in this poem is focused on the maltreatment of the native Aboriginal people of Australia. That is especially seen through the poetic ...

“How with this rage shall beauty hold a plea,

Whose action is no stronger than a flower?” William Shakespeare (Ward 150)
Not Rose Petals
“Our love is not rose petals
or Valentine candy –“ (Ward 150)
“ . . .it is dirt and sand”
“. . . it is the soil we roll in”

“Our love is dirt and sand

and coarse pebbles in a shallow brook.” (Ward 151)

Naming the Growth

“. . . to call a single plant from one lone seed

“love-in-a-mist,” then “devil-in- the bush” (Ward 38) repeated 4 times

“A love that’s lush is grand until we’re touched
Spring Begins in Hinckley, Ohio II
of last year’s leaves . . . I love how they love
what is used and then spoiled – how they, deep
in ...

In T.S. Eliot's essay "Tradition and the Individual Talent," the renowned author discusses how he perceives tradition, as well as how it relates to poetry and the poet itself. To his mind, many people shy away from change in favor of tradition. As this relates to the poet, Eliot believes that the English tradition often only rewards those poets who remain traditional. While there are many who believe that outright change is a good thing, Eliot thinks that tradition should be considered in positive terms when evaluating new works. He wishes for a consideration of tradition, but warns against lacking innovation; " ...

The poem Annabel Lee is amongst the last published works of Edgar Allan Poe. The poem is about a young, attractive girl named Annabel Lee who was very beautiful. She and the poet fell in love, a love that was pure and intense. They had eyes only for each other and their love was sufficient for them, as the poet says, “And this maiden she lived with no other thought Than to love and be loved by me.”
However, the angels from the heaven and the demons from the underworld were jealous of the true love that the poet and ...

The Cavalier poets emerged in the middle of the 17th century, as followers of King Charles I, and they composed poetry which exemplified a sophisticated amalgamation of wit and clarity of expression, still retaining the necessary level of naiveté and elegance that did not cross the line of fine manners. Their polished lyrics mostly comprised of the courtly themes of praising a woman’s beauty and love, but also their sonnets were in debt to the more masculine themes of heroism in war, honor and the utter devotion to the king. The theme of friendship is one also infused within the ...

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The essay looks into the work of an author and a painter, and how they try to express the particular sentiments of the Romantic era. Two works are chosen for the purpose, one is Topic Delacroix, “Massacre at Chios” and the other is “Alastor” poem By Percy Bysshe Shelley.Massacre at Chios by Delacroix The “Massacre at Chios” has been a favorite piece of artwork among the historians and the art critiques. The 1824 painting by Delacroix depicts the aftermath of the invasion of Greeks on the island of Chios by the Turkish ...

Erica Jong collection, “Love Comes First” is her latest version of her poetry books. The book is useful to individuals who wish to bring Eros in their sweet life. The book is also useful for learning the diction, styles, thematic structure, and the brilliance of the poet. The literature review has helped to make a comparison with other books to show the uniqueness of the author’s piece of work. The poetry book is mainly concentrated with the death shadow. The poems in this book are speaking direct to the authors and this makes them more persuasive to the readers. ...

Charlotte Gilman’s short story “The Yellow Wallpaper” tells the tale of a young married woman who suffers from what is presumed to be post-partum depression. Her physician husband decides to sequester her for a ‘rest cure’ in their summer home, which turns out to backfire when she starts to slowly go insane. The story takes the form of journal entries denoting her gradual slide into madness, as she hallucinates and forms paranoid thoughts about her husband and the outside world. The audience sees all of this through a first-person perspective that allows us to see inside the mind of the protagonist, ...

In “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night,” it becomes almost impossible to separate Dylan Thomas, the poet who has written this poem, from the speaker of this poem, who is urging father to struggle fiercely with death. In other words, Thomas is used the speaker of this poem to say things he was probably not able to say to his own ageing father, whose health was declining and death was impending. The fact that the speaker has several autobiographical elements cannot be denied, which makes him the poet’s alter ego, but he is still not quite ...

Discussion Board Questions

Question 1
“A Modest Proposal” by Jonathan Swift contains many aspects that are difficult to understand. One of the aspects that Swift constantly uses in his work and that are one of the major sources of understanding difficult is irony. I experienced great difficulty in understanding the poem because of the presence of irony. The irony is demonstrated at the story’s end where Swift states that his proposal would not in any way affect him because all of his children have matured and his wife is unable to give birth anymore. It is actually absurd to imagine ...

‘My Last Duchess’ is a well-acclaimed and famous poem by Robert Browning. Born in 1812 in London, Robert went on to become one of the most celebrated and accomplished English poet and playwright. As a poet of Victorian age, he was known for his grip and mastery of dramatic monologue and psychological portraiture. He came up with many famous poems and plays throughout his life, with ‘My Last Duchess’ being one of them.
The poem is based on historical events and involves Duke of Ferrara as its central and most important character. The Duke recites this poem to an emissary ...

Reviewing "The Yellow Wallpaper" through Plato and Christine de Pisan

Charlotte Gilman’s short story “The Yellow Wallpaper” tells the tale of a young married woman who suffers from what is presumed to be post-partum depression. Her physician husband decides to sequester her for a ‘rest cure’ in their summer home, which turns out to backfire when she starts to slowly go insane. The story takes the form of journal entries denoting her gradual slide into madness, as she hallucinates and forms paranoid thoughts about her husband and the outside world. The audience sees all of this through a first-person perspective that allows us to see inside the mind of the protagonist, ...

Introduction

Literary critical theory is a complicated process - there are many different ways from which one can look at a story. The question remains, however, whether or not these readings are valid. Is the process of literary criticism a means of mental gymnastics, where theorists can force a reading into a text like a child pushing a square peg in a round hole? Looking at the various theorists who make up the most prominently observed members of the literary critical canon, it becomes clear that the act of reading itself is an interactive one, with the reader bringing just as much into the experience of reading as ...

Although Sir Philip Sidney wrote the poem The Defence of Poesy in 1583, while Alexander Pope's Essay on Criticism is believed to have been published sometime between 1705 and 1711, both poems are iconic in the message they delivered.
Sidney wrote the poem at a time when religious conservatism was on the rise across Europe and poetry was looked upon as a means of corrupting the society and inducing people to commit immoral acts. Sidney’s attempt was to highlight the different ways in which poetry had, over the years, played a significant role in advancing knowledge and triggering ...

Everybody has memories of their childhood, both good and bad, but it is the good ones that many people remember. But that does not rule out the possibility of remembering bad memories because they also bring into a person sad memories they would wish to forget. In the poem, My Papa’s Waltz that is written by Theodore Roethke, a picture of a boy waltzing with his father is created. By the look of things, the story is told by a grown man who has gone back into time to pick an incident from his childhood. The title of ...

- Describe a full entry in the OED
A complete entry in OED does not only provide the meaning of particular English words; instead, the entries are distinctively represented based on their value, the background or the history they have behind each phase of evolution that it took for such work do be developed. This is the reason why OED is often used when trying to decipher a particularly classic literature that uses old English terms or at some point symbolic phrases that are based on critical principles of semiotics.
- A) Describe the English major rule in Cartoon
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The Opposing Emotions Found in Roethke's "My Papa's Waltz"
Roethke's "My Papa's Waltz" is a very brief poem, but one filled with powerful verses and a plethora of emotions. It is a poem that talks about a bedtime dance performed by a father-son duo. The poem has given birth to multiple interpretations over the years, regarding the speaker’s emotion towards his father. While some argue that the poem is about a father physically controlling or even abusing his son, some see it as an expression of love by a clumsy and rough, yet, affectionate father. However, familial relations are a complex subject, and ...

In taking into consideration of her confinement, the loom, the mirror and/or Camelot, the part that presented the qualities of The Importance of Being Earnest and which happened to be most humorous would be covered. The mirror providing the reflection seems to be carrying the day. It reflects the shadow that makes her feel half sick. It then heightens the perceived tension that exists between the woman’s cloistered position and the world in the exterior.
There are presence of many and varying allusions in T.S Eliot’s work of art ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’. ...

Literary works of the Romantic Era, reaching its peak in the 1800-1850, reveal that artists of that generation renewed a sense of nationalism and voiced their concerns on issues of national importance. In addition, writers of that generation made several clarion calls for patriotism. In Britain, for instance, Alfred Lord Tennyson led the pack in immortalizing heroes of war and calling on the people to honor the heroic deeds of their soldiers. Tennyson’s poems coincided with the Victorian Era - a period associated with national self-confidence in Britain. A cursory look at Alfred Tennyson’s “The Charge of the Light ...

Literature Studies

- The theme of Robert Hayden’s “Those Winter Sundays” is a parent’s love. Hayden wishes to express that often we do not realize the importance of our parent’s love until later in life.
- The subject of Robert Frost’s “Out and Out” is a boy who has a fatal accident. The theme of the poem is existential contingency. Because of the mundane nature of how the boy was injured it is meant to engage the readers in thought about the suddenness of death. Since he was also young, the author wants to express that one never truly ...

Entry One: When I Am Old, I Shall Wear Purple

The first thing I thought of when I considered the idea of aging issues was a poem by Jenny Joseph, who wrote Warning, the first lines of which are, “When I am an old woman I shall wear purple/ With a red hat which doesn't go and doesn't suit me” (Sachteleben 2009). Joseph was born in 1932 in England composed this ode to being elderly in 1961. Although she grew up in a different generation, Joseph’s poem still resonates. In some ways, there is a certain freedom for the elderly. Many people spend their younger lives trying to do the right thing, ...

I think Wiesel is writing this essay for the dead. He talks of the great Yiddish and Hebrew poet who lost his family, and being alone, he makes words. Wiesel refers to his reluctant use of words. The Hebrew poet writes to his dead family as do Wiesel. He entered literature through silence having survived death, and he knows it is a mandate to explain his survival and escape from death since it was his role as a witness. The dead cannot give their opinions by word of mouth. The language of the dead is inhuman; it is like that of ...

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‘Suburban by John Ciardi’ and ‘The Secretary Chant’ by Mage Piercy are poems which are full of life experiences and are also replete with satire. This analysis attempts to convey certain messages and subtle lines which demonstrate that they are truly poems of the world.
"Suburban" by John Ciardi ,

“Yesterday Mrs. Friar phoned."Mr. Ciardi,

how do you do?" she said. "I am sorry to say
this isn't exactly a social call. The fact is
a large repulsive object in my petunias."

John Ciardi’s poem focuses on some intriguing aspects especially with regard to some sexual orientations especially with the parallel between a girl ...

The “New Negro Movement” came about as a result of a need to establish new identity for African-Americans after their freedom in the Civil War. There was still a great deal of racism present throughout the country, even in the comparatively enlightened cities of New York and Chicago, among others. The primary battlefield of this cultural movement was Harlem, New York, considered the “cultural capital of black America.” A great number of blacks had moved to New York in order to become part of this burgeoning musical and art culture, as well as financial and job opportunities. This soon-to-be “mecca for black ...