AMORETTI OVERVIEW Edmund Spenser

(1595) Edmund Spenser's Petrarchan sonnet sequence Amoretti was one of his later works, published in 1595, the year after his marriage to Elizabeth Boyle, the only partially imaginary inspiration for the piece. It consists of a dedication, introductory poem, 89 sonnets, and four shorter pieces detailing Cupid's intervention in the love experience. The sonnets follow a male lover's seemingly conventional pursuit of his female beloved, culminating in a disappointment and followed by a four-part...

Amoretti Sonnet 1 Happy ye leaves when as those lilly hands Edmund Spenser ca 1595

As the first sonnet in Edmund Spenser's sonnet sequence, this opening sally addresses the work holis-tically and introduces the audience to the Lady who is the inspiration. The happy leaues leaves, e.g., pages addressed in the first line are successively identified with the poetic work, which will hopefully be read by the Lady in question. The hands and eyes of the beloved are first addressed hands to hold the pages and eyes to read its contents. Thus, recurrent themes are established at the...

I prithee send me back my

HEART Sir John Suckling (1648) I Prithee Send Me Back My Heart was published after the suicide of Sir John Suckling in the posthumous collection Fragmenta Aurea. In a fashion poets typical of the cavalier the five four-line stanzas incorporate hyperbole in an attempt by the speaker to convince a young woman to yield her heart. His tactic is to bid her farewell, in hopes that she will change her mind after having rejected him. The speaker begins with a bid that his love return to him his heart,...

Maiden In The Mor Lay

MAIDEN IN THE MOR LAY Anonymous 14th century This enigmatic 14th-century Middle English lyric has delighted and perplexed critics for years. Its opening stanza quickly establishes a pattern of repetition that is followed throughout the lyric. The maiden is introduced, and the reader learns that she lay on the moor for a full week. The phrase in the mor lay appears in four of the six lines ll. 1, 2, 4, 5 . Technically, then, these lines rhyme only because they end with the same word. The final...

Amoretti Sonnet 15 Ye tradefull Merchants that with weary toyle Edmund Spenser 1595

In Sonnet 15 from Edmund Spenser's Amoretti, the speaker praises his Lady's beauty extravagantly, asking merchants why they look all over the world to buy precious beautiful things when all the world's riches may be found right here in the person of his beloved. Twelve lines of Sonnet 15 are a conventional catalogue of the lady's beauty, a blazon, but the couplet establishes the lady's mind to be that which fairest is, for it is adornd with vertues manifold ll. 13-14 . Unlike most English...

Amoretti Sonnet 54 Of this worlds Theatre in which we stay Edmund Spenser 1595

Seemingly one of the more conventional of Amoretti's sonnets, Sonnet 54 has, until recently, received little attention. The three quatrains repeatedly oppose the lover's volatile emotions to the calm, unmoving constancy of his Lady, to the extent that he ends by calling her a sencelesse stone. The first quatrain contrasts their demeanor. She is a cold spectator to a pageant and he the player in that scene. The second addresses his volatility, from heights of joy and mirth to depths of sorrow,...

DELIA OVERVIEW Samuel Daniel 1592

Delia was first published in 1591 and appeared in a volume of poetry containing 28 of Samuel Daniel's sonnets and a stolen quarto of Sir Philip Sidney's sonnet sequence, Astrophil and Stella. Sidney had been dead for five years, and the Sidney family was under-standly affronted by this unauthorized printing consequently, the volume was withdrawn. Nevertheless, Daniel was not held accountable, and a year later he republished Delia with A Complaint of Rosamond, dedicating it to Sidney's sister,...

Amoretti Sonnet 74 Most happy letters framd by skilfull trade Edmund Spenser

1595 This poem details the second year of the courtship between Edmund Spenser and Elizabeth Boyle. It uses the linked quatrain pattern of the Spenserian sonnet and blends the poet's love for the three Elizabeths in his life his mother, his queen, and his beloved. The speaker begins the first quatrain with a paean to the letters that make up the name of Elizabeth, because three women bearing that name have made him happy, giving him gifts of body, fortune and of mind l. 4 . The second quatrain...

Amoretti Sonnet 68 Easter Sonnet Most glorious Lord of lyfe that on this day Edmund

Spenser 1595 Sonnet 68 of Edmund Spenser's Amoretti is also known as the Easter Sonnet. Paired with Sonnet 22 said to invoke Ash Wednesday in the Christian calendar , it is central to autobiographical, numero-logical, religious, and calendar real-time interpretations of the sonnet sequence. Moreover, the number of sonnets between 22 and 68 equals the number of days between Ash Wednesday and Easter in 1594, the year of Spenser's marriage. Thus, the calendar and autobiographical interpretations...

INVITING A FRIEND TO SUPPER Ben

Jonson (1616) In Inviting a Friend to Supper, Ben Jonson imitates Horace but writes with an English sensibility. He had famously discussed speech as primarily an instrument for social interaction, noting, Pure and neat language I love, yet plaine and customary. While Jonson ostensibly communicates only with one close acquaintance in this poem, he retained not only a sense of his broader audience but also a I PRITHEE SEND ME BACK MY HEART 235 responsibility toward communicating with them. He...

On Mr Miltons Paradise Lost

Andrew Marvell (1681) Andrew Marvell wrote On Mr. Milton's Paradise Lost for inclusion in the second edition of Paradise Lost (1674) by John Milton. It would be published for a second time in the posthumous collection of Marvell's work, Miscellaneous Poems (1681). Marvell's voice is his own in this verse, which considers Milton's ability to encompass vast topics and themes in a single work, eventually concluding the superior poet is well equipped to do so. Eighteenth-century readers knew the...

HOW SOON hath TIME SONNET

VII) John Milton (1632) John Milton suppos edly wrote his Sonnet VII, How Soon Hath Time, after receiving a letter from a friend who took him to task for continuing his education instead of becoming a productive member of society. Milton was not the first poet to be accused of excessive affection for learning. As scholars note, Edmund Spenser served as a model, as did Sir Philip Sidney, both of whom had to defend themselves, as Milton did, against the charge. His sonnet reflects the Elizabethan...

Go And Catch A Falling Star

John Donne (1630) John Donne enforced a tight structure on his song Go and Catch a Falling Star, with three stanzas each containing sestets with a rhyme scheme of ababcc and concluding with a rhyming triplet. That controlled format contrasts with the light tone used throughout, appropriate to a song about romance. However, as might be expected from Donne, the lyrical approach is undercut by a cynicism regarding the constancy of women. The speaker suggests that women who can be trusted are rare...

NYMPH COMPLAINING FOR THE DEATH OF HER FAWN THE Andrew

Marvell (1681) The date when Andrew Marvell wrote The Nymph Complaining for the Death of Her Fawn remains unknown. Some of its vocabulary may be traced to the 1640s and some possible associations can be made, especially with a poem published in 1642 by Rowland Watkins. However, its only secure date is that of 1681, the date of publication along with most of Marvell's lyrics in the posthumous Miscellaneous Poems. It represents the traditional format known as the lover's complaint, as Marvell...

HORATIAN ODE UPON CROMWELLS RETURN FROM IRELAND AN Andrew

Marvell (1681) Andrew Marvell wrote An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland between June and July 1650. He celebrates in rhyming couplets the fact that oliver Cromwell had distinguished himself in military expeditions to both Ireland and Scotland, becoming commander in chief of parliamentary forces. Marvell begins by establishing a comparison of Cromwell to a scholarly youth who had to forsake his Muses Dear and leave the books in dust, instead oiling th'unused armour's rust. This...

Parliament of fowls the Geoffrey

Chaucer ca. 1380 The Parliament of Fowls is one of Geoffrey Chaucer's major dream visions. Traditionally, there has been an assumption that the poem was written for an engagement perhaps that of Richard II and Anne of Bohemia , but no consensus has been achieved regarding which betrothal, if any, the poem seeks to comment on. The action of the Parliament takes place on Saint valentine's Day the poem may, in fact, have inaugurated the tradition of valentine's Day love poems. Chaucer wrote the...

How to Write a Reflective Diary?

Writing a reflective diary is a useful method of analyzing and evaluating experiences by focusing on the method of learning as well as the subject matter. Keeping a reflective diary or journal forces you to think more deeply and helps to provide a better understanding of a practice based learning experience and see the relationship between practice and theory more clearly. There is no one correct way how to write a reflective diary.

The Rabbit Catcher

'The Rabbit Catcher' was included in Plath's own 'Ariel' collection but not in the published Ariel. It was presumably excluded as one of the 'more openly vicious' poems, as Hughes puts it (Hughes, 1994, p. 166). The poem's 'viciousness' resides in its comparison between traps set for rabbits and the 'constriction' of a sexual relationship. The shape of the 'snares' - zeros, which shut on nothing - mimics the 'hole in the hot day', which is the speaker's refusal to hear the shrieks of death the...

Themes In Sonnet 45 Stella Oft Sees

De Grazia, Margreta. Lost Potential in Grammar and Nature Sidney's Astrophil and Stella. SLE 21, no. 1 Astrophil and Stella Sonnet 45 Stella oft sees the very face of woe Sir Philip Sidney ca. 1582 Sonnet 45 further explores how poetry can arouse the reader's emotions. Specifically, Astrophil comes to understand that poetry about his love might cause Stella to pity him more than his physical presence can. Astrophil claims that Stella looks at him and knows that he is truly sad, but she cannot...

7 Annoying Types of Students in the Classroom & How to Deal

School can be so u nbearable sometimes can't it On some days, it's the work, and on others, it's the teachers. But then you've got the days when school is killing you because of the people . Everything the people in your classes do annoy you to death. We all have those days, so here I'm identifying the annoying people in your classes, and how you should try to deal. Image from fanpop.com 1. The Teacher's Pet Overly Competitive Classmate .

The Gold Hesperidee

Square Matthew Hale's young grafted appletree Began to blossom at the age of five And after having entertained the bee, And cast its flowers and all the stems but three, It set itself to keep those three alive And downy wax the three began to thrive. They had just given themselves a little twist And turned from looking up and being kissed To looking down and yet not being sad, When came Square Hale with Let's see what we had And two was all he counted (one he missed) But two for a beginning...

The Road Back

The car is heavy with children tugged back from summer, swept out of their laughing beach, swept out while a persistent rumor tells them nothing ends. Today we fret and pull on wheels, ignore our regular loss of time, count cows and others while the sun moves over like an old albatross we must not count nor kill. There is no word for time. Today we will or watch its white bird into the ground. If I am really walking with ordinary habit past the same rest home on the same local street and see...

Word Repetition - Using The Same Word Twice In A Row

This writing behavior looks weird and feels weird, yet it is actually perfectly acceptable to repeat words in this fashion. If you read a lot of books you will often see words doubled up by seasoned authors who care not that it may look a bit silly repeating themselves on paper. However, you will notice, if you use MS Word, that the grammar checker highlights such behavior as an error (repeated word).

Warbands Return The Taliesin

(sixth century) This poem, contained in the Book of Taliesin, is one of the oldest poems in Welsh. It is attributed to the poet Taliesin, who was active at the end of the sixth century and was chief bard in the courts of at least three Welsh princes of that time period. While the manuscript itself is from the 14th century, it is generally assumed that the poems were orally transmitted through generations of bards to a monk of Glamorgan and are thus authentic. The poem itself is a reflection by...

The Old Barn at the Bottom of the Fogs

X here's this barn's house It never had a house, Or joined with sheds in ring-around a dooryard. The hunter scuffling leaves goes by at dusk, The gun reversed that he went out with shouldered. The harvest moon and then the hunter's moon. Well, the moon after that came one at last To close this outpost barn and close the season. The fur-thing, muff-thing, rocking in and out Across the threshold in the twilight fled him. He took the props down used for propping open, And set them up again for...

Making sense of your gpa: math, myths, and misconceptions

Image from Design You Trust. You can't lurk on College Confidential or sit in a college information session for very long without hearing about somebody's ber-high GPA, usually completely unqualified by any mention of grading scale or class rank. Back in April, when Suzy Lee Weiss's controversial op-ed (read about it here and here) was going around, everyone kept talking about how she had a 2120 on the SAT, experience as a Senate page, and a 4.5 GPA.

Gondibert Excerpt William Davenant

(1651) William Davenant remains most important for his involvement in restoring drama to the stage after the long Cromwellian moratorium on public performance. However, he was also a poet, who wrote the incomplete romantic epic poem Gondibert while imprisoned as a Royalist by Cromwell's forces. Set in Lom-bardy, Gondibert followed the adventures of feudal knights. Davenant based the poem's quatrain form on Sir John Davies's Nosce Teipsum, or, Know Thyself (1599), a poem of natural philosophy...

Robert Frost

IfRobinson brought American poetry into the twentieth century, it was his fellow New Englander Robert Frost who would make the decisive break from the inflated style of Victorian and genteel poetry. Where Robinson's poems remain highly literary in their diction and syntax, Frost adopts the idiosyncratic, colloquial, and locally inflected voice of the New England farmer. Where Robinson made brilliant use of sound and meter to emphasize the meanings of his poems, Frost articulated a more...

Inside a perfect score: what does it mean to get a 2400?

Image from eSAT Prep Tips. Getting a perfect score on the SAT or ACT is thought to be among highest accolades a high school student can attain. According to many people, it's patent proof that a student is smart, dedicated, and primed to take on the Ivy League of his or her choosing. It's known as an accomplishment so exceptional that even Bill Gates fell ten points shy of the magic number.

Amoretti Sonnet 66 To all those happy blessings which ye have Edmund Spenser 1595 In

Some ways, Sonnet 66 of Edmund Spenser's Amoretti is a continuance of the argument for marriage that was offered in the previous sonnet. The speaker describes his fianc e in the most exalted terms about himself he uses the most humble and self-deprecating terms, describing himself as something that is made even baser through his comparison to her. To all those happy blessings which ye have, . . . this one disparagement they to you gave, that ye your love lent to so meane a one ll. 3-4 . It is...

Graduating early: the three-year option

As a freshman in college, I realized I have a lot of friends engineering majors and the like who aren't graduating in four years, and honestly, it scares me. College is already expensive enough for low-income and middle class students just a little too rich for a full financial aid package, tuition costs alone are brutal. So when I heard that President Michael Roth was promoting the three-year option here at Wesleyan University , I had to check it out.

College confidential: looking past the chance me's to find true insight

College Confidential has a reputation amongst anxiety-ridden college applicants and their parents. Most people think it's this scary place full of whining and pathetic students crying out for someone to chance them for schools they are applying to (as in, tell them what their chances are of getting in).

Petrarch Francesco Petrarca

(1304-1374) Francesco Petrarca, better known simply as Petrarch, spent his early years at Avignon where his father, a lawyer, worked at the papal court. Petrarch also studied law, but he eventually devoted himself fully to literary pursuits. He spent most of his life, until 1361, in Avignon and Vaucluse, although he retired to Padua, where he enjoyed the friendship of Giovanni Boccaccio. Credited as one of the fathers of humanism, Petrarch not only studied the classical authors but also avidly...

Amoretti Sonnet 4 New yeare forth looking

Out of Janus gate Edmund Spenser 1595 Sonnet 4 of Amoretti is at once humorous and profane, underscoring the inevitable consummation of courtship with marriage and the marriage bed. Edmund Spenser's sonnet sequence loosely follows the liturgical calendar, with the 21 sonnets referencing January ordinary time and the courtship phase of his relationship. Thus, Sonnet 4, which employs simple rhyme and sexual imagery, is meant to woo. Spenser combines imagery, metaphor, and personification as New...

Amoretti Sonnet 30 My love is lyke to iyse and I to fyre Edmund Spenser 1595 One of

The many Sonnets on the lover's pain, Sonnet 30 of Edmund Spenser's Amoretti is tempered by a humorous turn of phrase, playing with poetic convention as well as with natural order. it may also be classified as one of the cruell fayre sonnets so characteristic of this poetic form and the courtly love tradition. In this case, the conceits are organized around the contrast between ice or iyse and fire, a Petrarchan clich taken to extremes common contrast rendered absurd through repetition. My Love...

Southwell Robert ca 15611595

Hailing from a gentry family, Robert Southwell was born in Norfolk, one of the places where Catholicism prevailed even under Elizabeth I. The exact date of his birth is unknown, but he claimed that he was 33 when he stood trial in February 1595. In 1576, Southwell was sent to school in Douai, France, a refuge for exiled English Catholics. From here he went to the Jesuit college of Clermont in Paris. In 1577 he applied to enter the Jesuit order, and in 1578 he went to Rome, where he remained for...

The do's and don'ts of college confidential

Ah, College Confidential the web's premier community for college-bound individuals. Some love it, some have described it as, an absolutely awful website that privileges and celebrates the Ivy League-Potential student, while completely forgetting about everyone else. It's, erm, controversial, to say the least. But despite its elitist, overzealous reputation, there are ways that any student can get something out if it if you use it correctly.

Sonnet On Ticho Brahe A James

VI I ca. 1590 In October 1589, Scotland's James VI King James I of England sailed for Norway to marry Anne of Denmark. During the couple's stay in Denmark, James visited astronomer Tycho Brahe on March 20, 1590. On the island of Hven, between Denmark and Sweden, Tycho had built an observatory named Uraniborg, after Urania, the astronomers' muse. Tycho Brahe's work, undertaken before the discovery of the telescope, is of great significance for Renaissance astronomy, influencing Johannes Kepler...

Faerie Queene The Overview

Edmund Spenser 1590, 1596 According to the Renaissance idea of a poetic career, Edmund Spenser's epic poem, which he dedicated to the most high, mightie and magnificent empresse renowned for pietie, vertue, and all gratious government Elizabeth Elizabeth I , marked his transition from a novice to a master poet. This idea derived largely from Virgil's 70-19 b. c.e. poetic career. Virgil became the inspiration for a number of Renaissance poets, both because of his artistic success and because his...

Amoretti Sonnet 75 One day I wrote her name upon the strand Edmund Spenser 1595

This sonnet, like the previous one in Amoretti, addresses the courtship between Edmund Spenser and Elizabeth Boyle. The rhyme scheme follows the linked quatrain pattern of the Spenserian sonnet, and themat-ically it plays with the familiar conceit of immortality. The speaker begins the octave by setting a scene at the beach one day, when he writes his beloved's name in the sand however, as is to be expected, the waves come in and wash the name away. So once again, he writes the name upon the...

Admissions fact or fiction: yield protection aka tufts syndrome

Admissions decisions are out in the world and reactions range from elated to disappointed to angry. One reaction response you might have heard is, Oh, I got rejected from X University because I was over-qualified. Totally Tufts Syndrome. No, Tufts Syndrome isn't a disease that can be found on WebMD or Mayo Clinic, rather it's something that can be found in the threads of College Confidential.

Blazon Blason Blason Anatom

IQUE A blazon is a poetic technique in which a woman, often the beloved in a sonnet or love lyric, is described in terms of individual body parts and not as a collective whole. These descriptions are elaborate, ornate, and eroticized. In this way, the real woman disappears, and her image is reconstructed according to the male poet's point of view, resulting in the re creation of an idealized woman who thus becomes his possession. This is particularly important in sonnet sequences, as the...

Is there such a thing as too much studying?

When people say if I study anymore, I'm literally going to die, of course it is assumed that they are not being literal. But, as always, history has prevailed to prove us wrong, because, yes, studying too much can kill you. Just ask good o'l William Thornton Parker, Jr, a Harvard Law student who died in 1900 because of abscess on the brain, a result of overstudy. Go ahead, read his obituary here.

Poem Without A Main Verb By John Wain Analysis

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Roger Gilbert

The story of the first half of the twentieth century in American poetry is largely a story of individual poets Frost, Stevens, Pound, Williams, H. D., Moore, Eliot, Crane. By comparison the second half of the century looks muddy and crowded. While a few postwar poets have achieved demi-canonical stature, there still seems to be little agreement about which individuals or groups have mattered most in the last fifty years. This means that doing justice to the richness and variety of the period...

Anthologies Polemical and Historical

Anthologies have always served a valuable purpose in bringing back into print poems that have appeared in the more ephemeral media of newspapers, magazines, or journals, putting the poems between hard - or, later in the century, soft - covers, at least as a bridging operation until the poet published the poem in his or her next collection. Such was the value, for example, of the annual Anthology of Magazine Verse and Year Book of American Poetry edited by William Stanley Braithwaite from 1913...

The New Formalism

The revival of metered and rhymed poetry in the 1980s among a group of younger poets constituted the third generational wave of formal verse in the twentieth century. Adopting the somewhat pretentious title the New Formalism, poets disaffected by the unstructured free verse of the workshop lyric (the dominant style in university creative-writing programs during the 1970s and 1980s) sought to reinvigorate the practice of American poetry in traditional forms and meters. Depending on where one...

Zukofsky Louis 19041978 Louis

Zukofsky came to early public attention with his leadership of the objectivist movement in the early 1930s, but nonetheless he spent much of his career in obscurity. only in the 1960s, when his poetry began to be published in widely available editions, did he achieve some recognition as an important poet, and only since his death has a larger readership come to recognize Zukofsky as a major figure in 20th-century poetry, a crucial bridge between the high modernism of Ezra pound, William Carlos...

Wright James 19271980 James Wright

Was part of a large and diverse community of American poets born in America in the 1920s. John ashbery, Galway kinnell, W S. merwin, Robert bly, Robert creeley, Donald justice, Gerald stern, Carolyn kizer, Maxine kumin, Kenneth koch, Phillip levine, Adri-enne rich, and Richard Howard were all born within two years of Wright. His work as a whole speaks to the rural and industrial landscapes of the American Midwest particularly Minnesota and his native ohio , the sad turbulence of war and...

Grammar And Metre

The interplay between verse and other strata of linguistic patterning is such a vast subject, that here I can do little more than indicate the vastness of it, and touch upon one subject of particular importance and interest the relation between grammatical units and metrical units. Verse can interact with linguistic patterning on many different levels. To give a complete account of this interaction, we should have to consider separately the different levels of linguistic organization-phonology,...

Gendered modernism

With the exceptions of Marianne Moore and H. D. (Hilda Doolittle), women poets of the modernist era have not fared especially well in accounts of American literary history. Not only has the importance of women modernists often been overlooked by male poets and critics, but it was at times deliberately suppressed by male writers who were threatened by the entry of women into the world of literary high culture. When women poets made a concerted attempt to compete in the literary marketplace, they...

Joanne Feit Diehl

Despite many poets' explicit aversion to literary theory, poetry and theory have been closely entwined throughout the twentieth century. Indeed, from the era of the New Criticism to the current experimentation of the Language Poets, poetry has reflected and responded to theoretical premises, sometimes to embrace and at other times to challenge theory's presuppositions. In this essay, I assert that poetry has a distinctive relationship to theoretical issues because poetry, by its very nature,...

Language Poetry and the postmodern avantgarde

While the idea ofpoetry as language experiment can be traced as far back as Whitman, the evolution ofAmerican poetry from Whitman to the modernists to the postmodern Language writers involves a gradually increasing attention to the potential of poetry as a medium for the exploration of language itself. Like their predecessors in the New American Poetry movements of the 1950s and 1960s, the Language Poets of the 1980s and 1990s were strongly committed to the idea of poetry as an agent of social...

The masnavfs of Attar

Farld ad-Din 'Attar was probably a slightly younger contemporary of Nizaml's. It is unknown whether the two poets, who spent their apparently uneventful lives in different parts of Persia, knew about each other's works. However, they do have at least two things in common they made important contributions to the tradition of the mystical masnavl, and they were both great storytellers. Of one of 'Attar's poems it could even be said that it resembles the romantic stories of NizamI the Khusrau-nama...

The ghazal in the history of literature

Before we enter into this, something should be said on the origins and the history of the ghazal. The term itself can be met with from the earliest times in Arabic poetry. In pre-Islamic bedouin poetry, love songs were named so but it is not quite certain that the word was used already to denote separate poems. Perhaps ghazal was originally the name of a particular lyrical topic rather than of a concrete form of poetry. Although a certain amount of influence from Arabic love poetry is...

The ghazal as a mystical poem

The adoption of the ghazal by the Sufi poets should be interpreted as a borrowing from a secular and well-established tradition of love poetry, which originally belonged to Persian court literature.28 The history of this process is difficult to trace in all its detail because it must have started already long before the time of the oldest datable specimens known to us. It is certain, however, that the mystics of Islam were almost from the very beginning fascinated by the theme of Love as one of...

Ke 6-8018 Analysis

Oh shaip diamond, my mother I could not count the cost of all your faces, your moods that present that I lost. Sweet girl, my deathbed, my jewel-fingered lady, your portrait flickered all night by the bulbs of the tree. the red-haired toddler who danced the twist, your aging daughters, each one a wife, each one talking to the family cook, I sat up drinking the Christmas brandy, letting the tree move in and out of focus. They were a halo over your forehead. each with its own juice, each hot and...

Witness Tree

Following a page containing two short introductory poems ( Beech and Sycamore ), the contents of A Witness Tree was arranged in five sections One or Two (including The Silken Tent through The Discovery of the Madeiras ), Two or More ( The Gift Outright through The Lesson for Today ), Time Out (the poem of that title through It Is Almost the Year Two Thousand ), Quantula ( In a Poem through An Answer ), and Over Back (being the last six poems of the book). Besides the regular trade edition, a...

Stricken Deer The William Cowper

1785 The Stricken Deer is among the poems included by William Cowper in his six-volume collection The Task, where it appears in book 3. Self-reflexive and thoughtful, the poem allows Cowper to compare himself to a deer, struck from his herd after wandering away. As a result of recurrent mental illness the poet also felt separated from his friends and cheated by his deteriorating mental acuity of achieving all he desired before dying. The figurative language figure of speech of the extended...

Ask Me No More Where Jove Bestows Thomas Carew 1640 One of the

Most loved songs of the dozens written by the Cavalier poet Thomas Carew was Ask Me No More Where Jove Bestows, a lyric poem set to music in various ways. It exists in several forms, with the five four-line verses bearing the rhyme scheme aabbccddeeffgghhiijj. Carew adopts nature imagery to make the point that although time passes, evidenced by changes in the natural state of earth and heaven, the beauty of a woman remains eternal. He uses repetition of the opening phrase, Ask me no more, to...

Valerie Rumbold

These two early poems appeared in the 1717 folio Works in which, still aged only twenty-nine, Pope demonstrated to the literary world the impressive range and accomplishment of his career to date. Eloisa was presented there for the first time, while versions of the Rape had already appeared in 1712 and 1714. The two poems served to show not only the quality but also the variety of which Pope was capable. While Eloisa draws on the tragic and elegiac rhetoric of the heroic letter (dramatic...

The Nature and Development of Satire

Satire is the art of holding up to ridicule an individual, or an institution (such as the Church or the government), or a more abstract entity such as humankind. Early English verse satirists, for example Thomas Lodge, John Marston, and Joseph Hall, writing at the close of the sixteenth century, were not receptive to the idea that satire was an art. Satire's muse, they considered, was a snarling muse, fueled by anger and indignation. The satirist's vocation was to pinpoint abuses, identifying...

Isobel Grundy

As a girl of about fourteen, Lady Mary Pierrepont (later Wortley Montagu) neatly transcribed into first one and then another handsome blank volume an ambitious collection of poems that emulate such respected models as Abraham Cowley, Katherine Philips, and Aphra Behn. She gave the first volume a self-defining preface, and arranged its successor's title-page like a printed Complete Works. This upper-class girl presents herself as a serious poet, even though in a memorable image she sees the poet...

General Survey Of Periods Authors And Works

As in most discussions of literature, this one acknowledges the critical penchant for dividing and labeling certain periods into which literature may be loosely categorized. It is to the credit of those responsible for such matters that the divisions are not strictly applied. In this volume, entries cover and or reference those eras labeled the Renaissance, the Restoration, the Augustan age or age of reason, the romantic period, and more. Each term loosely indicates what common sense tells one,...

Montagu Lady Mary Wortley

(1689-1762) Lady Mary Wortley Montagu was the daughter of the first duke of Kingston, born in London as Lady Mary Pierrepoint. Her father, although a youngest son, would inherit his grandfather's fortune and the Evelyn estates. He obeyed his parents, taking part in an arranged marriage to Lady Mary Fielding the couple had three daughters, Mary the eldest. She enjoyed an excellent education, although she had to seek it for herself, as her father took an active part in the court of King George I....

Verse Satires 17001800 A Brief Commentary

One of the most powerful weapons in the satirist's arsenal is parody. Literary parody involves imitating the characteristic features, stylistic and other, of another work and turning those to ludicrous effect, often by applying them to a ridiculously inappropriate subject. Some of the most successful satires in the period are parodies, or involve parodic techniques. John Philips's The Splendid Shilling (1705) is a near-miss as far as the genre of satire is concerned this autobiographical poem...

Transference Of Meaning

One of the reasons why figurative interpretation is not completely random is that language contains rules op transfep ice, or particular mechanisms for deriving one meaning of a word from another.2 A general formula which fits all rules of transference is this 'The figurative sense F may replace the literal sense L if F is related to L A simple example is the rule which allows one to use a word denoting such-and-such a place in the sense 'the people in such-and-such a place' the following...

Taranis Thor

In Celtic Gaul and Britain the god of thunder was worshipped under the name of Taranis, Taranus, or Tanarus compare Old Irish torann, Welsh taran, 'thunder'. The corresponding Germanic theonym, Old High German Donar or Thunar, Old Norse Porr, goes back to *Punaraz, from which also English 'thunder'. These all seem to be cognate variants, related to Latin tonare, tonitrus, Vedic (s)tan-, 'thunder'. It may originally have been an onomatopoeic word for thunder that could be used also for the...

Ovids Last Night in Rome

CWhen sent into exile by Augustus, Ovid was ordered to live in Tomis, an outpost of the Roman Empire on the west coast of the Black Sea now Constanta in Romania . Though condemned there to live a hard and dangerous life, he continued to write poetry. The following lines describe the last night before he left the Rome he loved to which he was never to return. Cum subit illius tristissima noctis imago, quae mihi supremum tempus in urbe fuit, cum repeto noctem, qua tot mihi cara reliqui, labitur...

By WA Clouston

Contents Start Reading Page Index Text Zip format, 300Kb Ibn Altalmith was expiring when his son approached his bed, and inquired whether there was anything he wished for. Upon which the old man in a faint voice exclaimed 'I only wish that I could wish for anything '--p. 435. This is an anthology of 19th century Orientalist translations of Arabian poetry, many of which are very rare, as is this particular book. Most of the included works either predated Muhammed or were contemporary, so there...

From Epilogue to the Satires

Virtue may choose the high or low degree, 'Tis just alike to Virtue, and to me Dwell in a monk, or light upon a king, She's still the same, beloved, contented thing. Vice is undone, if she forgets her birth, And stoops from angels to the dregs of earth But 'tis the fall degrades her to a whore Let Greatness own her, and she's mean no more Her birth, her beauty, crowds and courts confess, Chaste matrons praise her, and grave bishops bless In golden chains the willing world she draws, And hers...

Pros and cons of taking a heavy college course-load 18 units

If you're like me or the typical overachiever, you're looking forward to doing everything that is possible to do in college, in order to make the absolute most out of your college experience. You might think that taking a heavy course load in college is no big deal due to your success in high school with millions of AP and Honors classes. A few of you may even have had community college classes or other extracurriculars on top of this heavy work load like I did.

Dealing with perks syndrome aka i'm freaking out because my friends are graduating!

It's that time of year folks graduation. Seniors are reveling in the fact that they're finally out of high school after four years. You probably remember coming into high school and admiring the seniors and their senior privileges. Your upperclassmen seemingly ran the school, and you would've never imagine that you could get so close to them so quickly and as soon as that friendship blossoms, it seems they leave high school just as quickly. Your time with them has come to an end.

Sing Of A Maiden Anonymous 15th

Century Though this brief religious lyric is simple, many scholars have deemed it among the best of the medieval English lyrics for its effortless elegance and beauty. The subject of the poem is the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of God. She is introduced in the first stanza as a woman who is makeles and who chose the king of kings for her son. The poet puns on the word makeles, which means spotless, matchless, and mateless. In other words, she is perfect and without blemishes there is no one in...

Could rory gilmore have gotten into the big three??

Remember Gilmore Girls You might not, though the frequent rerunning of the show on ABC Family should have tuned you in at least a few times. Gilmore Girls was focused around the women of the Gilmore family, particularly Rory Gilmore and her mother, Lorelai Gilmore. We followed the girls from Rory at 15 to Rory graduating from Yale. That's right, Yale University.

5 Awesome Uses for Your Dorm White Board

As is custom for many college students living in standard dorm rooms, my roommate and I have strategically placed a dry-erase board directly to the right of our door. Looking down the hall, it is noticeable that the majority of our fellow Caughlin Hall residents shared the same idea. One's mind can't help but be captured by the infinitude of words, phrases, and drawings which line the narrow hall.

Understanding mormon missions after high school

Gap years can take many different shapes a service trip abroad, a year working at home, backpacking across Europe or for some, a mission. In the Mormon church, young men are highly encouraged to take two years to spread their faith to the people of the world. If you're anything like me, most of what you know about Mormon missions comes from the Broadway musical The Book of Mormon which, while excellent, doesn't exactly exist to provide an in-depth look at the experience of...

How to use a brag sheet for teacher recommendations

Image from NYCID With the college application season looming for you rising high school seniors, many different things may be on your mind. While you might already be drafting your Common App essays, one item often forgotten is the recommendation letter your teachers will write for you. Summer is an excellent time to think about all the pieces of your application, so definitely consider the different factors that revolve around the teacher and counselor recommendations.

Words to Minutes Converter – Best Speech Calculator Ever

At some point in time, you might be too focused on writing a speech and you do not know exactly how long it spans or how many words it has. You could also need to know exactly how long it takes for you to make the speech from the text you have written with the speech length calculator. This is particularly based on the number of words contained in your reflective journal template.

Power Writing

Traditional Power Writing is based on a numerical approach to the structure of writing. It replaces the ambiguity and abstraction of writing terminology with a numbered structure that students can understand more easily. This numerical structure provides the basis for all forms of writing expository, persuasive, narrative and descriptive. Power Writing solves the writer's frequent problem of how to say it and in what order.

Sci Surfer: real-time search on journal articles

Imagine a world where real-time search is the norm. You will get just the information you seek landing on your lap the exact minute it becomes available, without you having to explicitly search for it. Will this change the way you do science SciSurfer thinks it will. The release cycle of scientific knowledge is slow. It may take up to 2 years for a paper to get accepted in a journal.

10 Tips on Writing a Reflective Log

A reflective learning log is a record of your learning experiences written in a reflective writing style. When writing a reflective log, focus is on the learning process as well as the subject material. By reflecting on the experience itself including your reactions, feelings and thoughts at the time you can gain a better understanding of what happened and why. Reflective logs and reflective journals for students may cover an extended period of time.

Stephen Regan

In critical studies and literary histories of postwar British poetry, a good deal of discussion has been concerned with the existence - real or imagined - of a group of writers known as the Movement. The common assumption is that the Movement was largely a reaction against the inflated romanticism of the 1940s, a victory of common sense and clarity over obscurity and mystification, of verbal restraint over stylistic excess in short, the virtues of Philip Larkin over those of Dylan Thomas. Those...

The Struggle is Real: Tips and Tricks to Stay Awake in Class

Image from When the Baristas Start to Recognize You by the beloved Beth Watson. Late night studying (partying) Recovering from first wave of the flu this season The Breaking Bad series finale aired the night before your chem exam Whatever your reason, staying up late, or even pulling a classic all-nighter can make things tough for the next day or two.

Poetry In Performance Poetry in

Performance is a broad category used to describe the work associated with a wide range of literary movements and trends, including beat poetry, the black arts movement, the language school of poetry, the oral poetics movement, ethnopoetics, rap, slam poetry, fusion poetry, and cyberpoetry, and it may include activities as diverse as the private oral recitation of poetry, live and recorded poetry readings, sound poetry which emphasizes the sound of words, instead of their meaning , and...

Now That Of Absence The Most Irksome Movement Sonnet Analysis

Sidney, Watson, and the 'Wrong Ways' to Renaissance Lyric Poetry. In Renaissance Papers 1997, edited by T. H. Howard-Hill and Philip Rollinson, 49-62. Columbia, S.C. Camden House, 1997. Astrophil and Stella Sonnet 81 O kiss, which dost those ruddy gems impart Sir Philip Sidney ca. 1582 In Sir Philip Sidney's Sonnet 81, Astrophil uses extravagant praise of her kisses to convince the blushing Stella to silence him by kissing him again. The tone of this Italian Petrarchan sonnet...

Edwin Arlington Robinson

Robinson was born in 1869, making him the oldest of the American poets who successfully made the transition into the twentieth century. Robinson's poetry was, as the poet Louise Bogan later observed in an essay entitled Tilbury Town and Beyond (1931), one of the hinges upon which American poetry was able to turn from the sentimentality of the nineties toward modern veracity and psychological truth. Robinson's poetic output was considerable, and not all of it was of the highest quality, but his...

American Poetry and a Century of Wars

Many essays on twentieth-century poetry and war are likely not to mention any examples of American poetry. Nevertheless, American poets have fought in and responded to many of the major conflicts of the century, and a case can be made that war, and the subject of war poetry, has been a significant concern for a number of American poets. The United States entered the First World War late, in 1917, and did not have such poets as Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, and Isaac Rosenberg on the front...

Disappointment The Aphra Behn

(1680) Aphra Behn's lengthy poem The Disappointment features the well-known tale of the shepherd Lysander and his unsuccessful attempt to rape the not unwilling nymph Cloris. Its source was likely the French poem Su rune impuissance by Jean Benech de Cantenac, published in 1661 in Amsterdam in the collection Recueil de diverses po sies choisies. While that work presented the problem from the male viewpoint, Behn relates the incident from the female point of view. Highly erotic, the poem...

Enquire vs. Inquire

I received an email from a reader asking me to explain the difference between inquire and enquire. This is an interesting one so thank you Tom from Arizona for prompting this post. What you will find is that most websites say you can use these two words interchangeably, and if you are writing American English that is generally the case.

Harlem Renaissance The

(1919-1934) Between 1919 and 1934 African-American artists flocked to New York City, specifically to Harlem. This era was to become one of the most prolific periods of African-American writing. What Alain Locke called in 1925 a New Negro Movement was later defined by historians as the Harlem Renaissance. Among the poets who gained popularity during this era were Langston hughes, Claude mckay, Countee cullen, Jean toomer, Arna Bontemps, Anne Spencer, Gwendolyn Bennett, Helene Johnson, Angelina...

Abstract Expressionism Beginning

In New York in the late 1930s and influential until the late 1950s, abstract expressionism was the first major international art movement to originate in the United States. In painting, it combined cubism, fauvism, abstraction, expressionism, and surrealism. In poetry, as in painting, the style is marked by spontaneity, gesture, focus on process rather than product, invitation of accident, and collaboration. Its influence on American poetry is not limited to a single group of poets, although...

Batter My Heart John Donne 1633

Critics feel fairly certain that one group of John Donne's Holy Sonnets was published in 1633, a collection that included Batter My Heart, sometimes listed as Batter My Heart, Three Person'd God. It gained fame as a prime example of the style of metaphysical poets and poetry with markedly unusual figurative language (figure of speech) or comparisons. Victorian readers found Donne's comparison of God's effect on his life to the violent act of ravishment, or rape, so disturbing that the poem...

Long Love That In My Thought Doth Harbor The Sir Thomas Wyatt

1557 By most accounts, Sir Thomas Wyatt's visit to Italy in 1527 gave him the incentive to translate several of Petrarch's sonnets into English, including this version of Sonnet 140, which was also translated by Wyatt's contemporary, Henry Howard, earl of Surrey. Wyatt's confidence both in the suitability of English and in his competence as a poet may account for the freedom with which he reinterpreted, rather than slavishly translated, the Petrarchan poems. For example, in this sonnet, line...

Alisoun Alysoun Anonymous 1340

This playful love poem is one of the many fine medieval English lyrics found, in London's British Museum MS Harley 2253 , in a 13th-century manuscript. Ali-soun has received a great deal of scholarly attention both for its formal qualities and for the way the poet responds to the traditions of medieval love poetry. striking features of the verses in Alisoun include strong alliteration and the rhythm created by varying three or four stresses per line. Both contribute to the rapid pace of the...

April Inventory Wd Snodgrass

1959 April Inventory comes from WD. snod-grasss Heart's Needle, a book which, Robert Phillips writes, proves that Snodgrass must indeed be recognized as a cofounder of the school of confessional poetry 6 . The poem describes the poet turning 30 while in graduate school at the University of Iowa, as well as offers witty insights into why he is not a successful professor in a tenured job. He has shortcomings as he tells us, I haven't read one book about A book or memorized one plot. The poem...

Light Shining Out Of Darkness

William Cowper 1773 William Cowper's Light Shining out of Darkness testifies to his evangelical faith, a faith that convinced him he was evil and condemned by God as he sank into a depression that eventually resulted in insanity. It adopts the traditional Christian metaphor of light as knowledge, grace, and Christ and includes familiar lines from the Bible, such as its opening, God moves in a mysterious way. The poem's format is six stanzas of four verses each, with a rhyme scheme of...

On My First Son Figurative Language

Ben Jonson Public Poet and Private Man. New ON MY FIRST SON Ben Jonson (1616) As does another of Ben Jonson's elegies, On My First Daughter, On My First Son draws its power from the stark purity of Jonson's emotions expressed with a simple clarity found in much of his work. The child died in 1604 of the plague, and Jonson noted he had a vision of the boy while in Paris with his mentor and friend William Camden at the time of young Benjamin's death. In his vision the boy had a...

Absalom And Achitophel John Dryden

1681 John Dryden's publication of Absalom and Achitophel had a specific political motivation. He wrote the poem during the threat of revolution in England, connected to the so-called Popish plot and the move to exclude the reigning King Charles II's Catholic brother, James, duke of York, from his right to follow the Protestant Charles to the throne. The protesting faction supported instead Charles's bastard son, James, duke of Monmouth, whom Charles recognized as his son but not his heir. Born...

Undertaking The John Donne 1633

In The Undertaking John Donne, a poet who exulted in challenging traditional ideas regarding love and gender, counters his era's belief in the false nature of women. He engages in what the scholar Susannah B. Mintz terms a playful transgressivenes. His speaker admits to knowing a constant woman but holds that he, and other males who had enjoyed the same exposure, keep their discovery quiet. That need for quiet Mintz calls a space of anxiety in Donne's love poetry. While she views Donne's...

Earl Eric Hakonsson 10001014

Of Eric's birth we are told in the Kings' Lives that his mother was an Upland woman of low estate. Having named and 'sprinkled* her child she took him to Hakon, who acknowledged the boy and gave him in fosterage to Thorleif the Wise, who dwelt up in Medal-dale (Meldal). Eric was soon of ripe growth, most fair to look on, and soon grew big and strong. Hakon did not care much about him. The remarkable beauty which he afterwards transmitted to his son Hakon was a family characteristic. Eric's life...

The key words of poetry

'Why Sir, it is much easier to say what it is not. We all know what light is but it In the study of literature, the questions which seem most straightforward are often the most complex ones to answer. In particular, innocent'sounding questions of definition such as 'What is poetry ' or 'X hat is Romanticism ' can be addressed in an almost bewildering number of ways, as the scholarly quarrels over the definition of these words demonstrate. Much critical ink is spilt as to what a key poetic term...

On Her Loving Two Equally

Aphra Behn (1684) Feminist critics believe that Aphra Behn wrote On Her Loving Two Equally as a parody of the men of her era who were not socially censured for having both a wife and a mistress. Most of the humor of her three six-line stanzas is based on the fact that women ould not escape such censure if they publicly kept both a spouse and a lover, or if a single woman openly adopted multiple lovers. Wives were supposed to excuse or, even better for their husbands, disregard sexual...

To His Coy Mistress Andrew Marvell

(1681) One of his best poems, To His Coy Mistress is the most read of all work by Andrew Marvell, characterized by some critics as the best metaphysical poem in English. Widely anthologized, this poem appears often in undergraduate poetry survey courses. Its carpe diem, or seize the day, theme, was a popular one in English Renaissance poetry, drawing on a classical tradition exemplified by Catullus in his vivamus, mea Lesbia, atque amemus, or Let us live, my Lesbia, and love. Adopted widely, it...

Sun Rising The John Donne 1630

John Donne's The Sun Rising serves as a perfect example of the style of the metaphysical poets and poetry, written early in Donne's career as part of his romance oeuvre. In three 10-line verses with the rhyme scheme abbacdcdee, the poet uses figurative language figure of speech to personify the sun. In addition he incorporates one of his most often used themes, that an entire world may exist within a single organism, as in The Flea, or that the union two lovers experience constitutes an entire...

Description Of Cookeham The

Ameilia Lanyer (1611) This poem predates To Penshurst (1616) by Ben Jonson, long credited as the first country house poem. Drawing on classical generic features, Lanyer expresses the virtue of Margaret, countess of Cumberland, by creating imagery that includes her honoring by the plants and animals of the estate. Feminist critics find the poem of great interest in its focus on the custom that did not allow women to inherit property. Rather than featuring the countess and her daughter, Anne...

As You Came From The Holy Land

Sir Walter Raleigh ca. 15807-1593 As You Came from the Holy Land is a brief poem attributed to Sir Walter Raleigh. Like most of Raleigh's poetry, it serves as a tribute and complaint to Queen Elizabeth I, Who like a queen, like a nymph, did appear l. 15 . The poem shares Raleigh's recurrent theme of a suitor abandoned by his love. In this case his love has ventured on pilgrimage and no longer loves him, for he is old Love likes not the falling fruit From the withered tree ll. 27-28 . The date...

Analysis Of Thomas Wyatts They Flee From Me Using A Formalistic Approach

Collected Works. Edited by Leah S. Marcus, Janel Mueller, and Mary Beth Rise. Chicago and London University of Chicago Press, 2000. Hopkins, Lisa. Writing Renaissance Queens Texts by and about Elizabeth I and Mary, Queen of Scots. Newark University of Delaware, and London Associated University Presses, 2002. WULF AND EADWACER Anonymous before 1072 The Anglo-Saxon Old English poem Wulf and Eadwacer is found in the Exeter Book. A 19-line puzzle that is considered by...

Mine Own John Poins Sir Thomas

Wyatt 1536-1537 This poem is one of three epistolary satires satirical poems written as letters attributed to Sir Thomas Wyatt. It is addressed to John Poynz Poins , a fellow courtier and friendly correspondent from Gloucestershire. The poem is a rough translation of Luigi Alamanni's 1495-1556 Tenth Satire, and follows the Italian poem in several particulars though it also focuses more specifically on Wyatt's own de facto house arrest on his family's estate during 1536. It is a long answer to...