The Greatest Gift Giver The Greatest Gift Giver Theodore Roethke was born to Otto and Helen Roethke in Saginaw, Michigan, in 1908. He had one sister named Helen June. His father was a floriculturalist and greenhouse owner, which was where Theodore spent a lot of time as a young boy. His imp...

The three poems by Emily Dickinson, poem 449, 465, and 501 are closely related. All three of these poems are related to death and dying. Dickson has an imaginary and creative way of dealing with death. Being born in a time of high mortality rates, she had to have experienced many a deaths and thi...

THE TRULY GREAT – Stephen Spender. Honour, tribute and commemoration are the central concerns of the poem 'The Truly Great.' Stephen Spender teaches the reader lessons involving these themes throughout the poem, the primary lesson being the celebration of the "truly great&qu...

In both "Sailing to Byzantium" by Yeats and "The Oven Bird" by Frost, the bird represents the art of poetry and its value. In "Sailing to Byzantium" Yeats realizes that the value of poetry has been diminished and lost, and therefore wants to go to Byzantium in hopes of...

Plato\'s belief was that art is fundamentally based on imitation. It was this imitation which made art inferior, combined with the unsuitable moral content of some art. Plato\'s condemnation of art is seen by some as too rationalist and \"depriving it of all its charms\" (Otto Apelt). Modern obje...

Being one of the most popular and widely read poets of his time, E.E. Cummings was a very accomplished person. His success can be mainly attributed to the unconventional ways in which he chooses to write. His parents, being indulgent towards their son, encouraged him early on to develop all the c...

The word carbon- tetrachloride means a chemical compound containing four chlorine atoms per molecule. The word tetrachloride is used in the poem "Where I'm From". It is found in the first stanza, second line. The word tetrachloride supports the theme of family, and how unique a ...

Gwendolyn Brooks The late Lorraine Williams Bolton once said, speaking of Gwendolyn Brooks, "the pattern of her rearing was similar to...that of many Chicagoans. It tended to encourage inwardness and withdrawal into imaginative resources." (Kent 4) Brooks's childhood and upbrin...

WORKS CITED Clausen, Christopher. The Moral Imagination: Essays on Literature and Ethics. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1986. Jung, Carl. The Spirit in Man, Art, and Literature. Vol. 15 of The Collected Works of C. G. Jung. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1966. Leedy, Jack J., e...

Response to Emily Dickinson, Selections from " The Complete Poems" I found Emily Dickinson to be a wonderful poet. Her way with words is astounding and timeless. To be so full of creative energy to write thousands of poems is almost incomprehensible. Although we covered several poems d...

In William Blake's book "Songs of Experience" his poem entitled "The Tyger" is an inquisitive look at creation. He vividly describes the ferocious persona of the animal and rhetorically asks, "What immortal hand or eye, dare frame thy fearful symmetry (Songs of Exper...

In Coleridge's piece entitled "The Eolian Harp", the Eolian harp, or music, is seen as an influence on one's interpretation and affection with a situation. Coleridge's affinity with nature and the mystical relations of music and himself develop from his descriptive languag...

Quality of poetry is not always measured by skill in rhyme or verse, and the abstract beauty of a poem became appreciable partly thanks to the delirious writing of "Kubla Kahn." Samuel Taylor Coleridge is considered an intellectual center of the English Romantic movement, as he felt that ...

Lord Byron was not only just an average poet as people of his time thought he was. Byron was a celebrity, for his stardom was rising every time. He was very sexually active, he attracted many young girls and ladies because of his good looks. He inherited his father's property at a young age. By...

William Wordsworth is a well-known man for his writings that he contributed to the Romantic period. His passionate feelings of nature and strong feelings of materialism are what defines Wordsworth's poetry. In two sonnets that he wrote, "London 1802" and "Composed upon Westmi...

Anne Sexton Anne Sexton became one of the best known of the often-controversial Confessional poets. Anne Sexton wrote openly about menstruation, incest, adultery, and drug addiction at a time when these topics were forbidden in poetry. There's possibly no other American in our time that ha...

Carpe Diem is a style of poetry formulated during the English civil war. Carpe Diem means, \"Seize the Day.\" It describes the passion of society and how their mentality in the fulfillment of their lives. Metaphysical poetry was popularized after this when the people started using science to explain...

Poems are centralized as written expressions of thoughts, emotions, and/or ideas written by the author to express a theme in an art form that appeals to our senses. Through the words written in poems, we perceive images that can appeal to our senses of: sight, smell, touch, taste, and hearing. Not o...

The art of poetry requires time and skill combined with practice and creativity. In George Eliot Clarke's Blank Sonnet the central theme revolves around the complexities of creating a well devised sonnet. Using different poetic tools, such as imagery, alliteration and sonnet style, Clarke write...

Aristotle was the first person to describe theatre theory, he also was the first who social and spiritual interpretation of text. He first classified, described and moreover produced a clear idea which way theatre is structured. According to Aristotle text is representation. It is important to l...

Archibald MacLeish never truly set out to be a poet. At Yale, MacLeish was a very scholared student as well as an athlete. In his junior year, he was elected to the Phi Beta Kappa Society where he began writing poetry and short stories. This is when MacLeish knew he had the abilities for poetry. ...

When life restricts our flow of happiness with tragedy and heartbreak, another door is opened up. It is the door of creativity, of art, of flowing insights. And although for the individual this experience is void of smiles and full of tears, it provides the rest of us with a small glimps...

Audrey Lorde believes that speaking your mind will set you free (Lorde 43). Not only is Lorde correct but the power of speech has made changes all through out society. In her essay "The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action" and the poem "Coal" focuses on the spoken ...

Whitman's and Dickinson's poems convey a connection between sexual and spiritual ecstasies. Dickinson's #249 uses suggestive sexual language along with an interpretation of divine love to reveal her private, obscure vision of life. Her structural and synthetic choices add feelings to...

Pablo Neruda starts his 1971 Nobel Lecture Towards the Splendid City, stating, "so remote are we Chileans that our boundaries almost touch the South Pole," and continues by speaking of the, "vast expanses in my native country," most specifically his journey across, "the Ande...