Critical analysis of where the essence of poetry lies for G. A. Bécquer. The Post-Romanticism movement in which Gustavo Bécquer’s poems were written in reflect many themes, some which evolved during that period; the subject would generally have a greater connection to nature, included intimate emotions and influence from other poetry. Containing 77 poems it; therefore; enables the collection to be split into five sections; what poetry means, love theme, disappointment, illness and death. To explore where the essence is embedded in the Rimas three sections of the book shall be analysed; the first section about the meaning of poetry, second about love and third about religion. Furthermore, the brief history of the poems will also be provided. …show more content…
It could have been that in the prologue he included his personal thoughts on the spirit of poetry and what his role as an artist means to him. However, the order which his friends created did in fact add a poem which works as both; a poem and a personal introduction from the poet himself. From the opening which is the poem I, one can realise that the poet was struggling to find a sufficient tools and words in language to portray it; on one hand, the poetic nature and the baseline of this enormous hymn. On the other hand, something that would fulfil the romanticism movement yet, appear new to the public. The two lines which denote the idea given above are: “Yo sé un himno gigante y extraño/ que anuncia en la noche del alma una aurora” (p109) It must be taken into consideration that the original replicated version which Bécquer created did not include this poem as an opening prologue. Nevertheless, it works successfully as an introduction because of the close connection to the poet himself, the readers are able to visualise the powerful and great flow of poetry and its direct significance to Bécquer. From this one can understand that to some extend the essence of poetry lies within the poems. It cannot be directly given to the reader only suggested in the word choice and it is thanks to the first part of the poem collection that this can be found. To some extend it can be said the divine essence of life in embedded in poetry and its essence. As Bécquer suggest in poem five; “Espíritu sin nombre, indefinable esencia” (p114) It can be argued that the essence of poetry lies within all the readers as they connect with the poem. What is achieved here is that poetry is a mean of portraying emotions and experiences that the poet has lived through; conversely, the readers can only reach that essence by engaging their own emotions and experiences with the poem. It
Without the use of stereotypical behaviours or even language is known universally, the naming of certain places in, but not really known to, Australia in ‘Drifters’ and ‘Reverie of a Swimmer’ convoluted with the overall message of the poems. The story of ‘Drifters’ looks at a family that moves around so much, that they feel as though they don’t belong. By utilising metaphors of planting in a ‘“vegetable-patch”, Dawe is referring to the family making roots, or settling down somewhere, which the audience assumes doesn’t occur, as the “green tomatoes are picked by off the vine”. The idea of feeling secure and settling down can be applied to any country and isn’t a stereotypical Australian behaviour - unless it is, in fact, referring to the continental
In Tim Seibles' poem, The Case, he reviews the problematic situations of how white people are naturally born with an unfair privilege. Throughout the poem, he goes into detail about how colored people become uncomfortable when they realize that their skin color is different. Not only does it affect them in an everyday aspect, but also in emotional ways as well. He starts off with stating how white people are beautiful and continues on with how people enjoy their presence. Then he transitions into how people of color actually feel when they encounter a white person. After, he ends with the accusation of the white people in today's world that are still racist and hateful towards people of color.
The prose poem “Quinceanera” by Judith Ortiz Cofer can be characterized as being free verse as the poet talks about a young girl’s rite of passage into womanhood. By using a series of various figurative language devices such as diction, imagery, and similes the writer is capable of portraying her observations of people’s despondent feelings towards adulthood which have transcendent upon her poem as she projects the negative essence behind the young girl growing up as she comes in touch with the responsibilities that she will carry with her after she celebrates her Quinceanera.
Vallejo utilizes the form of free verse in this poem. He uses free verse to go beyond the constraints of usual structures and forms to express his point of view on the hardships of the world, without regards to the “beauty” of the poem. This poem consists of thirteen non-rhyming couplets, each being identical in structure. This poem is without rhyme because Vallejo wants the content to be perceived as deeper than a rhyme scheme. Rather than writing poems for the art form and beauty of it, Vallejo often writes to bring attention to human suffering and problems in the world
...s poems publication. In `A un olmo seco', we discover references to the cemetery of Leonor's grave, and the beauty of new shoots set against the decay of the `olmo's' trunk, which evokes Machado's young wifr in her terminal condition. `A un olmo seco' is highlights the central theme of landscape and countryside, and through the physical description, Machado remembers his personal experience in Soria. The river Duero acts as a leitmotif for the cemetery where his wife was buried. In `Caminos' as Machado develops the theme of his displacement in Baeza, his mood is finally attributed to the loss of his wife. Landscape can be linked with inner emotional landscape. The landscape in this poem is ominous, violent and inflexible: "hendido por el rayo." Therefore, landscape acts as a way of revealing inner emotion and Spanish National character throughout the collection.
Imagine yourself lying in the sun, feeling the warmth on your skin, when a cloud cover the sun and you feel the sudden coldness that you can seem to shake? The feeling is similar when you love someone very much but they don’t return the feeling. The band, 5 Seconds of Summer (5SOS), in their song, If You Don’t Know, sings about how a singer is in love with a person. The person seems to not be sure if they are in love with the singer, and the the singer wishes for the person to let them go. The couple that 5SOS wrote about was in love at one time, but the person is slowly falling out of love with the singer.
As a young mother that experienced post-partum depression, the poem “Daystar” by Rita Dove and “To a Daughter Leaving Home” by Linda Pastan were easy to relate to. Each of the poems successfully represented the positives and negatives of being a mother. Poetry was never exactly my thing; I hated trying to decipher the symbols in poems and never quite understood why it was okay to use incomplete sentences. Dove and Pastan each wrote about their experiences as mothers but stood on completely opposite sides on the emotional spectrum, ironically, I couldn’t agree more with both of them.
The most preeminent quality of Sonia Sanchez “Ballad” remains the tone of the poem, which paints a didactic image. Sanchez is trying to tell this young people that we know nix about love as well as she is told old for it. In an unclear setting, the poem depicts a nameless young women and Sanchez engaged in a conversation about love. This poem dramatizes the classic conflict between old and young. Every old person believes they know more then any young person, all based on the fact that they have been here longer then all of us. The narrative voice establishes a tone of a intellectual understanding of love unraveling to the young women, what she comprehends to love is in fact not.
Everyone grows old, right? The poems To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time by Robert Herrick and To His Coy Mistress by Andrew Marvell both have messages about life, time, and how they interact. Through their differences in tone, imagery and exquisite word choice, the two authors achieve virtually the same idea two different ways.
This darkly satiric poem is about cultural imperialism. Dawe uses an extended metaphor: the mother is America and the child represents a younger, developing nation, which is slowly being imbued with American value systems. The figure of a mother becomes synonymous with the United States. Even this most basic of human relationships has been perverted by the consumer culture. The poem begins with the seemingly positive statement of fact 'She loves him ...’. The punctuation however creates a feeling of unease, that all is not as it seems, that there is a subtext that qualifies this apparently natural emotional attachment. From the outset it is established that the child has no real choice, that he must accept the 'beneficence of that motherhood', that the nature of relationships will always be one where the more powerful figure exerts control over the less developed, weaker being. The verb 'beamed' suggests powerful sunlight, the emotional power of the dominant person: the mother. The stanza concludes with a rhetorical question, as if undeniably the child must accept the mother's gift of love. Dawe then moves on to examine the nature of that form of maternal love. The second stanza deals with the way that the mother comforts the child, 'Shoosh ... shoosh ... whenever a vague passing spasm of loss troubles him'. The alliterative description of her 'fat friendly features' suggests comfort and warmth. In this world pain is repressed, real emotion pacified, in order to maintain the illusion that the world is perfect. One must not question the wisdom of the omnipotent mother figure. The phrase 'She loves him...' is repeated. This action of loving is seen as protecting, insulating the child. In much the same way our consumer cultur...
Soto’s “Black Hair” is a perfect example of a poem that is effective through close analysis of certain concrete images which hold the key to the foundation of the poem and its underlying themes. In this poem, the universal themes of family and culture are hidden under the figure of Hector Moreno, the image of the narrator’s hair, as well as the extended baseball metaphor about culture. Although the title may seem ordinary at first glance, the challenge that the poem presents through its connection of concrete images and themes is very intriguing, and the themes are made clear through the effective use of certain poetic elements.
In conclusion, `La Tierra de Alvargonzález' highlights many recurrent themes which can be seen throughout the collection of `Campos de Castilla', such as the interaction of the landscape, not only with the narrator, but also the characters within the story which is told in this poem. This poem can also be compared to the `romances viejos' in its constant references to the Old Testament.
“Fast Break” Have you ever been on a fast break? Author Hirsch utilizes imagery that describes a fast break in detail. The author depicts this fast-break by promoting simile’s and vivid language. Imagery is a grandiose part of this poem, it’s help the reader to comprehend the enhanced pace fast break of this poem. 6.
Four of the poems The Lamb, The Piano, Baby Tortoise and War Photographer express quite profound positive affection although in different ways (The Tyger more than anything else expresses an overwhelming feeling of awe.) With War Photographer and Education for Leisure the emotions probably reflect the greater complexities of the time. The persona in War Photographer is faced with the moral dilemma of taking pictures of dying war victims. Through the poem’s description, the reader is challenged to consider the emotional and moral tensions felt by the photographer, as well as to question the attitudes of the public to suffering as seen in the mass media. With War Photographer the relative simplicity of the emotions in Blake’s and D.H. Lawrence’s poems have been left long way behind. With Education for Leisure, which is in fact about hatred, megalomania and even the effect of celebrity culture we are now even further away from Blake and Lawrence’s poems than the war photographer is. However what unites all these poems are feelings of great intensity.
In Federico Garcia Lorca’s poem, City That Does Not Sleep, there are very prominent images and realistic ideas that are instilled upon the reader. The question is the meaning of life, one that is shrouded by dreams and countless deaths. Garcia Lorca expresses this idea through his use of surrealism to push a paradoxical idea onto the reader. In a sense, our existence is only a perception of our minds and there is not a reality that we truly believe in.