He transposes the Bible into an idiom that is partly derived from folklore and partly based on a Scottish literature, with a subtle attack on the idea of Calvinism. ... Burns cleverly moves the poem through two transition stanzas (lamenting the loss of the privileged tax-free still of the upper-class and cursing the excise) to end on a note descriptive of his own ideal. ...
The exploited and abused the working class for their own personal gain. ... The parliament (senate) composed of mainly the aristocratic higher class who held positions of power at the time, is also positioned to be uncaring with no concern for the people. ... The aristocratic ruling class would have addressed this poem differently as their position in society, derived from inheritance would have been seen as traditional and conventional to them and they would have rejected these kinds of ideas as they were attacking their position in society. ... BUT the English aristocracy was known to ...
"William Wordsworth was considered one of the greatest and most influential English romantic poets of his time"(Young 369). He was known for his innovative concepts of nature, his use of "language really used by men," and his use of simple topics surrounded by mass detail. "What made Wordsworth's ...
Eventually when her poetry was published, editors grouped them into classes- Friends, Nature, Love, and Death. ... Dickinsons poetic form has customary four-line stanzas, ABCB rhyme shecmes, and alternations in iambic meter- this is derived from Psalms and Protestant hymns. ...
His motivation in writing poetry derived from these revolutionary ideas as well as "his consciousness of his duty as an artist in the immense and fiery process of social change of which he knew himself to be part-, according to Richard Holmes. ... In early 19th century, England contained a privileged class which was so afraid of revolutions after the Napoleonic Wars while the lower classes were hungry for parliamentary and economic reforms. ... Overall, he intended to attack all of the ruling class and conventions. ...
Allen Ginsberg's Motivation for writing Howl Richard Eberhart, the Pulitzer Prize winning poet of 1966, remarks, "Ginsberg's Howl ushered in a new generation." Many 20th century poets have attested to the freeing effect that Ginsberg's poetry had upon them in the late fifties. But to allege th...
Feeling Poetry Linda McCarriston shapes feelings of anger, rage, contempt and healing in her poetry through narration, metaphors with detailed sensory language as she unfolds the painful story of sexual abuse and family abuse at the hands of her alcoholic father. In an interview with Bill Moyers...
