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Shelley cleverly uses both simple similes as well as complicated metaphors in the poem as he meditates on the beauty of nature in her gentle form as well as in her fury.... ??(Shelley, Ode to the West Wind) William Blake too uses similes and metaphors for comparison, but the etchings that accompany his...
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The most significant work of Whitman is his collection of poems named “Leaves of Grass,”4 which was first published in “1855,”5 and contains his worlwide acclaimed porm ‘song of Myself.... However, the incrediblility of this poet lies in is his typical use of free verse that makes his poem a “celebration of nature”8 in contrast to the “lifeless rows of numbers and calculations”9 used in terms of meter, rhyme scheme, line structure etc by other poets....
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Whitman's "song of Myself" is probably the most revealing of all his poems regarding his thoughts on life, death, nature, good and evil.... Though death as a possibility has been considered by Bryant in many of his poems, "Thanatopsis" is probably his most famous poem on death.... Another of Bryant's poem, "Hymn To Death" too lauds death as "Deliverer!... In this poem he explicates that all things, however big or small, good or bad, all are of equal...
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The comparison of Romance to a bird is one of the striking features.... "Arranged in tetrameter couplets, a sing-song pattern is avoided by occasional displacement of stress" (Stovall 208).... The essay “Romance by Edgar Allan Poe” focuses on the poem, which talks about Romance from a man's perspective.... hellip; The author states that the poem, in the first stanza, talks about the beauty of Romance.... This poem belongs to the genre of a lyric poem, which has a methodical stanzaic structure, imparting a tune to the whole poem....
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Blake's earlier… Inspired by mystical vision, from 1788 he embellished his poetry in design and color, so that each poem picture formed an artistic whole, with the written words of the poem forming a part of the picture.... For producing the twenty seven plates of his poems Songs of Innocence and Experience dated 1789, the artist-poet developed the laborious method of etching both poem and design in relief on a copper plate....
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In this poem the poet grandly makes use of an abundance of metaphors of nature as poetic expressions to beautifully articulate an intriguing aesthetic… In this poem, Shelly attributes the many virtues of the skylark to a myriad of things.... The poem ‘To a Skylark' is concerned
The Romantic poets of the 18th-century enriched English literature with their lyrical works.... The lyrical quality of the poem can be attributed to its arrangement which consists of 105 lines, arranged in 21 stanzas of five lines each....
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However, "Battle Hymn" was popularized as a song by Union chaplain Charles Cardwell McCabe, who often included it in his lectures and sang it on important occasions.... hellip; Julia Ward Howe wrote the poem “Battle Hymn of the Republic” in November 1861 in a flash of inspiration during the American Civil War.... This poem represents the poet's plea to a young man to get married.... She wrote the poem “Battle Hymn of the Republic” in November 1861 in a flash of inspiration during the American Civil War after she had visited a Union Army camp where she heard soldiers singing 'John Brown's body'....
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The poem is regarded as the only Spanish cantar de geste, or the song of heroic deeds, to have made through the fabrications of performers and minstrels.... The essay “El Cantar de Mio Cid - How Reliable Are the Described Events” tries to find out the degree of authenticity of certain episodes of the legendary epic Spanish poem, literary techniques that helped create the effect of the presence of both readers and listeners of the historical masterpiece....
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