Richard Lovelace was, and still is, regarded highly as an an excellent poet. Being a captain of war, he was very highly ranked, and King Charles I thought highly of him. His poetry makes the reader think, and look at the reality of life in early London. Through the use of personification, similes and heavy imagery, Lovelace is able to capture his readers and create an image that sticks with the person after they have finished the piece of literature. Richard Lovelace was born December 9, 1618 in Woolwich, England. He was the oldest out of his four brothers and three sisters. He was born to a well off family, and gained much respect from King Charles I for this fact. Lovelace attended Charterhouse School and later on attended Oxford. While at Oxford, at the age of sixteen, he wrote “The Scholar,” a comedy that was performed at Oxford, and also “with applause” in London. Lovelace served in the Military and took multiple expeditions to Scotland, eventually becoming a captain.
Lovelace was imprisoned twice, both times for the accusation of being a dangerous royalist. While Lovelace was imprisoned the first time at Westminster Gatehouse, his stay was just shy of two months. In that two month span, he was able to write one of his most well renowned and most commonly quoted poems, To Althea From Prison. Lovelace died poor
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Lovelace wrote this piece with elegance even though the content is less than elegant. This piece of literature is very risque but it is written in a tasteful manner. Hammond describes this piece as amorous, which is very prevalent from the beginning, starting with Lovelace referring to a spicy
Over a three week period in October 2002 a series of random sniper attacks paralyzed the Washington D.C. area. The shootings happened in in various establishments such as super markets, gas stations, restaurants and near schools turning normal tranquil areas into chaotic murder fields. There were no age group, gender or ethnicity that was safe, Victims were randomly selected and everyone was targeted. After the murderous spree, ten people were declared dead and several others wounded. The perpetrators were finally apprehended while they were sleeping at a resting spot and later identified as forty-one-year-old John Allen Muhammad and his seventeen-year-old Jamaican-American protégé, Lee Boyd Malvo.
Name of serial killer: My serial killer is named Richard Chase. He was also known as the “Vampire of Sacramento” or the “Dracula Killer”.
William Clark was ½ of the genius team that made their way through miles of unknown land, unknown nature, unknown natives, and came home with all but one voyager, who was killed of natural causes. William Clark and Meriwether Lewis were the first Americans to try and map the Louisiana Purchase area, and not only did they map it, they discovered allies, new plants and animals, and discovered new land and water routes that could be useful for future travelers.
He then spent 11 months at the University of Virginia but due to his gambling problem, his guardian refused to let him continue his schooling. In 1827 he published his first collection of poems. His poems didn’t do so
The poem has a great language use. The poet does not use many metaphors, similes, and symbolism, but the words still have resonance, even though the poem is quite short and literal. The poet describes Richard Cory throughout the poem, giving the reader a clear idea of who Richard Cory is. In the first stanza, the poet tells the reader wh... ...
When readers reflect on the poetry of the seventeenth century, poets such as John Donne and the
He was the leader or the romantic revolution and was celebrity in his time. His poem that made him well know was Childe Harold's Pilgrimage.
One of the themes of this poem is love in association with sex. Through the authors careful use of word choice an erotic tone is carried throughout the poem. Through this and the violent actions the reader is able to recognize the women is going through am unfamiliar sexual experience- what sex is when not accompanied by love. “Did I know you? No kiss/ no tenderness–more like killing, death-grip/ holding to life, genitals, like violent hands clasped tight.” One may instantly read this line and think of a forced sexual act on the males part. However, ...
Using this choice of words like “then worms shall try” and “…turn to dust”, the speaker essentially tells his mistress that there will be consequences if she does not engage with him. He believes his wit will gain control over his mistress, and her “coyness” will inevitably disappear. In his mind, the repercussions are if she dies without having sex with him, the worms will take her virginity, which can be considered as phallic imagery. In the lines, the worms symbolically mirror the narrator’s male sexual organ. Marvell creates an interesting approach with this daring and disturbing language because the appealing strategy grasps the reader’s attention and explores the question of the extent a person will go to fulfill their sexual desires. While discussing this proposed tight-lipped subject, the tone of the narrator in “To His Coy Mistress” greatly differs from the narrator’s tone in “A Rose for Emily.” The readers can perceive that Marvell’s speaker is intelligent and informed in the sexual category because of his style and word choice. He creates a relaxed tone with his audience, which makes the readers feel comfortable, and he is very clear about what he writes. The direction of the arguments he makes is very undeviating because he goes straight into what he wants
The Theme of Imprisonment in Great Expectations The renowned poet, Richard Lovelace, once wrote that "Stone walls do not make a prison, nor iron bars a cage. " Although many think of a prison as a physical building or a jailhouse, it can also be a state of mind. A great number of people are imprisoned mentally and emotionally.
Marshall, William H., ed. The Major English Romantic Poets. New York: Washington Square, Inc., 1966. Print.
Ada Lovelace is often referred to as the world's first computer programmer. Which is a little surprising, since she died roughly one hundred years before the computer as we know it was invented. She was born Augusta Ada Byron in London on December 10, 1815. Her father Lord Byron, the famous poet, and Lady Byron separated early in Ada's life.
William Wordsworth is a British poet who is associated with the Romantic movement of the early 19th century. Wordsworth was born on April 7, 1770, in Cockermouth, Cumberland, England. Wordsworth’s mother died when he was seven years old, and he was an orphan at 13. This experience shapes much of his later work. Despite Wordsworth’s losses, he did well at Hawkshead Grammar School, where he firmly established his love of poetry. After Hawkshead, Wordsworth studied at St. John’s College in Cambridge and before his final semester, he set out on a walking tour of Europe, an experience that influenced both his poetry.
John Donne delivered, like all of the other great poets of the renaissance era, an invaluable contribution to English literature. However, it is the uniqueness of this contribution that sets him apart from the rest. This statement seems somewhat ironic when one analyses the context of his life and the nature of his writing, for Donne is clearly the rebel in English poetry. He is the one poet that deliberately turned his back to the customs and trends of the time to deliver something so different to the reader that he will be remembered forever as a radical and unconventional genius. This is most probably the way that he would have liked to be remembered.
One of the most famous poets in literary history is that of William Wordsworth. He lived between the years of 1770-1850. He was a very strong poet and many of his works have some degree of a pessimistic view to them. They could be understood after the hard life he led. He saw the French Revolution at its height and wrote several poems about it. He had an illegitimate daughter with a woman in France. When he returned back to England he married Mary Hutchinson, who gave him two sons and another daughter.