Many poets write about life, their opinion on life, and how they like to live it. Alexander Pope writes how he would rather spend his life in "Ode on Solitude". While William Wordsworth expresses his opinion on life "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud. The authors both have different opinions on life and how life should be taken. Both poems can be compared and contrasted about their perspective on life.
These two poems are from two different poetic ages. "Ode of Solitude" is from the Age of Reason. The Age of Reason was in the time period of 1600s-1800s. This age followed the Renaissance and was filled with valuing reason over emotion. The Age of Reason also had man being the center of all truth and thought. On the other hand "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" was from the Romantic period. The Romantic period fell between the years of 1798 to the 1830s. Unlike the Age of Reason period the Romantic period favored nature and believed that nature holds all truths. Though time periods may be the same, they can also be very different.
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The theme that is common among both poems is, life is whatever makes a person happy. Pope and Wordsworth both believe that life should be what a person makes it. Pope's opinion on life is being alone is better than being with other people. Pope would rather live off of his land. Pope has everything he needs like clothes and food, "whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread, whose flocks supply him with attire" (5-6). On the other hand Wordsworth believes that nature needs to be thought of, and properly "worshiped" when one is pondering about life, "They flash upon that inward eye which is the bliss of solitude" (21-22). Wordsworth also believes that a person should go walk among nature and take in all of its beauty to understand nature itself. Though two poems may seem different simply because of the periods, they may be very
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Compare the way in which these poets convey their attitudes to love. and relationships with the people. How is this affected by the era in which they lived. Then the s The two poems I am comparing are 'To His Coy Mistress' by Andrew. Marvell.
Both essays together give us a formula to achieve a life devoted to God and the plans He has for us. We need to enjoy life by seeking knowledge, questioning life, and discovering or God and the route He has planned. The threats we face in life should not hold us back we need to push on and uphold the life we are blessed to have. We need to focus on working through calamities and focusing on our true mission to God. There will never be a time in one’s life where there is no struggle or hardship. Dwelling over these constant hardships will never help us we must continue carrying out our duties. Lewis has a view on life that I agree with. I agree that all our duties are religions duties and help bring us closer to God.
All the poems you have read are preoccupied with violence and/or death. Compare the ways in which the poets explore this preoccupation. What motivations or emotions do the poets suggest lie behind the preoccupation?
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...’s reevaluation and extolling of the flesh body, it is not difficult for us to conclude that the essence of “Song of Myself” is a passionate praise for life. The poem fully expressed Whitman’s celebration of the force of life, which drives the universe to move forward. The life spirit is the key concept to summarize and outline this American poet and his poems. To display the life spirit, each “myself” must experience and encounter the world and the nature from both the physical and spiritual level. Body and sexual love deserve as much as praising as the soul. “God” is also no longer the one in a strictly Christian sense, but the universe itself driven by life spirit, the full and complete realization of each “self” in the universe. Correspondingly, the way to discover and meet “God” is to return to “myself” through embracing human nature and every aspect of life.
Dulce et Decorum Est’ by Wilfred Owen and ‘The Soldier’ by Rupert Brooke are both poems commentating on the effects of war, yet both have two drastically different viewpoints. Both poems are examples of the authors’ perceptions of war; Owen’s being about its gruesome and harsh reality during his experience and Brooke’s about the glory of dying for one’s country. The poets express their sentimental emotions on the subject matter in terms of figurative language, tone, diction and imagery. The tone is exhibited through the use of unyielding and vivid imagery, primarily by the use of compelling metaphors and similes.
Both poems are about the love each narrator feels, and both strive to express how intense this love is. Yet, each author comes from a different angle with the hope of explaining this love. Browning uses soft imagery with terms like, "ideal grace", "Most quiet need", and "purely" to show her narrator's love. These soft, feminine terms give the reader images of a pure, untainted love. Conversely, Auden's poem uses much darker, modern language, and instead of mentioning death only at the end of the poem, all but three lines concern death. This use of language and focus causes Auden's poem to be very negative, while Browning's remains positive, even in light of death.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was an influential literary figure during the nineteenth century; his works inspired people to think about the world and their own lives differently, but what prompted him to write his poems? How does his life reflect off of his poems? Longfellow’s philosophy begs the question how and why he wrote what he did and what deeper meanings lie behind his poems. His interest to pursue writing, had been encouraged by various events and led to the publishing of numerous essays, poems, novels and dramas, receiving great success. One of his more famous poems, entitled “A Psalm of Life,” had been influenced by the romanticism period and was known for its inspirational message to live life to the fullest. As Longfellow’s work
The romantic era was originally from Europe at the end of the 18th century. During this time nature and beauty was most importance to express their inner feelings. Poet Emily Bronte was born in Thornton in Yorkshire, England, on July 30, 1818, in the romantic era. She was the third child born out of six kids to Patrick and Maria Branwell Bronte. Her father Patrick use to be a teacher but became a minister after their mother pasted away from tuberculosis. Bronte grew up in the Haworth in the bleak West Riding of Yorkshire her whole life. When she finally went to school Bronte could not stand to be in large crowds of people, so she could not leave home for every long periods of time. Paul Laurence Dunbar was born at the end of the romantic period on June 27, 1872, in Dayton, Ohio. Both of Dunbar parent were former slaves. Dunbar’s mother enjoyed teaching him how to read. In addition Dunbar was also the only African American student in his high school also being the editor of Newspaper. Later on after graduating from high school Dunbar was not allowed to attend college so he became an elevator operator were he sold his books for a dollar to people who would read it. Even though these two poets are every different in their lives they still have a lot in common in there poems ‘The
In the late 1700’s, numerous young children were forced to clean the inside of chimneys, which was called the chimney sweeps which would then cause young children to have an early death. William Blake wrote two poems about this issue; both called The Chimney Sweeper in response to the condition of children sweeping chimneys. Blake’s first poem was published in 1789 while the second poem was published in 1794. However, there are many similarities and differences between these two poems as well. William Blake uses several poetic techniques, such as having similar meanings for the poems, using repetition, anaphora, alliteration, a metaphor, a simile, and onomatopoeia to help the reader see the similarities and the differences between these two
The 18th century was known as the Age of Reason, where the focus was on the search for truth and clarity in the world of disorder through reason. Alexander Pope displays his views and beliefs on world through his infamous poem "Essay on Man." Pope depicts the role of nature in the 18th century by setting the poem in a garden. Not only does the garden parallel John Milton's "Paradise Lost," the garden symbolize the limitations of man. Pope wants to convey the importance of how man must accept his own limitations and lead his life to "vindicate the ways of G-d to man." However, we must yield to our pride and take responsibilities of our actions by not blaming G-d. “Cease then, nor order imperfection name: Our proper bliss depends on what we blame.”
“Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.” By anonymous. In the Poems One Perfect Rose and How do I love the? Let me count the ways, they talk about similar things but there forms are very different. In this poems I will compare and contrast their forms, themes and rhyme.
He is writing the poem as if he were an object of the earth, and what it is like to once live and then die only to be reborn. On the other hand, Wordsworth takes images of meadows, fields, and birds and uses them to show what gives him life. Life being whatever a person needs to move on, and without those objects, they can't have life. Wordsworth does not compare himself to these things like Shelley, but instead uses them as an example of how he feels about the stages of living. Starting from an infant to a young boy into a man, a man who knows death is coming and can do nothing about it because it's part of life.