The term Modernism refers to a movement, which began to get under way in the closing years of the 19th century. The modernist movement affected poetry, fiction, drama, painting, music and architecture. The true birth of modernism in poetry is often dated to the publication of T.S. Eliot\'s \"The Lov...

Oh, my love is like a red, red rose. thats newly sprung in june. my love is like a melody thats sweetly played in tune. So far art thou, my bonny lass, so deep in love am I. And I will love thee still, my dear until the sea gangs dry. Till a seas gang dry my dear and the rocks melt with the sun, an...

Dear Sir/Madam, As a fan of modern poetry, I would like to publicly express my outrage at the comments made by Peter Bloxham in his article, \'Poets Cornered\' (The Australian Magazine, 9 June 2001). I believe that poetry, like most other things, is simply moving with the times, constantly adapting ...

Figurative language occurs whenever a poet uses words in ways that deviate from their usual meaning. Sometimes, complex examples of figurative language leaves me puzzled but if I sit down and think about what I am reading, the underlying meanings become apparent. A metaphor is a comparison between t...

The Greek philosophers Plato and Aristotle were among the most important and creative thinkers of the ancient world. Their treatises set forth most of the important problems and concepts of Western philosophy, psychology, logic, and politics, and their influence has remained insightful from ...

\"Sonnet 18,\" written by William Shakespeare during the Renaissance Period is very much a reflection of the poet\'s own feelings of immortalising beauty which is captured magically amongst the quatrains. This is depicted utilising a number of poetic devices throughout the sonnet and reflects the pe...

Poetry is a very powerful way of communication between a writer and a reader. Different poets express them selves in a variety of ways, writing about what they have gone through or just simply what they dream about, both spiced up with twists and double meanings. Every reader gets a different reacti...

The Metamorphosing World of Literary Criticism The critical view of any literary work is always subject to the societal vices of the time. Judgement of a piece of writing changes over time because new view points, set to different fields of experience, fixed by completely different historica...

The Author and His Times When, in 1939, W. H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood set sail for the United States, the so-called 'All the fun' age ended. Auden's generation of poets' expectations came to nothing after the end of the Spanish Civil War, and they, disillusioned, left the European conti...

Emily Dickinson was born in Amherst Massachusetts, in 1830 and died in 1886. A shy, reclusive person, Dickinson has come to be known as one of America's greatest poets. Even though only seven of Dickinson's poems were published in her lifetime, her poetry was published after her death an...