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Metaphysical Poetry Metaphysical poetry arose as a reaction to the extremes of Patriarchies; one problem with Patriarchate poems is a kind of predictability-the conceit is found, presented, & elaborated, but there are few subsequent surprises. Done and his followers like to catch us off-guard, change direction, etc. , to foil expectations. Metaphysical poetry is, in…

“Mid term break” was written by Seam’s Haney, an Irish poet who lived together with nine siblings. Many of his works are about everyday life, a testimony to his profound observations of even the smallest things. This poem, “Mid term break”, was a reflection of his brother, Christopher death. Although it is entitled “Mid Term…

The beginning of the Romantic Age in English literature is usually taken as 1798, the year in which William Wordsmith and Samuel Taylor Coleridge published a book of their poems called Lyrical Ballads. The Romantic Age traditionally ended in 1832, with the death of Sir Walter Scott. But it is a mistake to assign any…

One manner in which otter is able to connect to the readers is through the voice of the poem. When it is sincere, voice is incredibly powerful and persuasive because it holds great sway and power over the reader. While it can be difficult to fully immerse poems with sincerity, once this is accomplished a…

Mackerels wrote “My Country’ during the First World War on a visit to England, where from then on it became one of the best-known Australian bush poems due to its appeal to the sense of patriotism encouraged by the war and post-war nationalism (Kingston, 1986). The poem was believed to have been directly influenced by…

The theme of the poem is focused on roads hat they are traveling through life, and no matter which road people travel, humans may or may not be happy with the choices that they take in life. These choices can cause unhappiness and regret. This is a lesson that all of humanity endures at multiple…

In the poem, the reality revealed is that we will someday fade away from people and this world. But that the true beauty lies during the events in our lives and until the finale, we are the ones to hold the sweet, ripe “Persimmon,” a sacred and distinct “sun inside [each of us]… Golden [and]…

The main two similarities in these two poems are choices and the love for nature. In “The Road Not Taken”, the speaker comes across two roads. We can see this when he states in the first stanza “two roads diverged in a yellow wood” (Robert Frost, 2013, p. 613) but then says ” Had worn…

John Skelton, Jonathan Swift and Alexander Pope wrote three of the most satirical poems of the period before 1914, they have become renowned for their poetry and for deriding people and societies of their time. Satire is the use of humour, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people’s stupidity or vices or a…

While reading the speaker will make notice that between the physical and material level of existence, there is a constant pattern of loss or something that is considered great ending and losing the shine. This pattern is helpful in predicting why Frost decided “Nothing Gold Can Stay’ was an appropriate title for his poem. The…