... with emotion, and aesthetic qualities. Because every line, and verse for that matter, is particularly short it must include great imagery to still be effective. This imagery also heightens the emotional effect. Also, with short lines, Mason must choose which details he thinks are the most significant to include. For example, when describing a character, he has to decide which defining characteristics ... conjunction create strong imagery and comparisons for the reader and they can imagine what it is like to be Luisa in that moment. As mentioned prior, imagery definitely heightens the em...

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... reader in seeing what he was feeling. This aspect of his artistic methods would be compared today to story books or nursery rhymes written and illustrated for children. Or they could also be compared to some animated movies or cartoons of our time. Emotional boundaries were torn down with his poems. Blake used his personal spirituality and knowledge of theology to enhance ... this time for parents to use as tools to teach their children about the good and the evil of the world. Much like parents today would use modern day story books and fables to teach their children about the ways of ...

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... essayist, literary critic, and author of endearing stories and verse for children b. Wrote "Miscellaneous Pieces in Prose- and "Miscellaneous Pieces in Prose- 2. Charlotte Smith a. She heightened the emotional and aesthetic register of her works, thus bringing them in line with "and/or helping to create, actually "the emerging intellectual and cultural currents of Romanticism b. Wrote "Emmeline ... their first poems a. By 1830, the major writers of last century were dead or no longer productive 2. England experienced change from an agricultural society to a modern industrial nation 3. T...

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... and spiritual poverty of women, racial discrimination, stereotypes, the hollowness of love and fame, and the effects of war on marriage. She wrote of things like abortion and chemical and emotional addiction when such things were hardly whispered. Her most used subjects were of love and death, which were also her obsessions. There is a sort of irony about a writer whose main ... attempt the impose upon her a tyranny of privacy" (Davidson 769). In her writings Parker brought forth struggles of the sexes and classes, she spoke of her concerns "Primarily with the emotional and intellectual...

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... its rhyme and metre is supposed to delight our senses. Would it be fair to judge philosophy according to its aesthetic beauty? Could one ever say that a line from Plato's books sounds as pleasing as one from Homer's Iliad? Banksy once said about art: "Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable." [2] If an artist achieves what he ... of a logical and reasonable mind. It causes the reader to think that extreme emotions are acceptable reactions to events in their life. According to him, poetry sets dangerous precedent for emotional behaviour. However, he does not consider...

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... , she did not lay there and allow her life to fade away; this is where she gained most of her knowledge about English. Shaw wrote " Miss Barrett devoured all the books she could bring within her reach,- (3) Elizabeth's father was also very interested in English, so it helped her to be interested also. She started writing poetry when she was younger ... she is madly in love with Robert. As one reads on throughout the poem, Browning elaborates more on the subject of love; the love that is there is just not emotional, it is also physical. Readers see this on line nine when she moans "I love...

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... if the red wheelbarrow was not there or if the rain water did not provide a glaze. Perhaps as the setting is described in the poem, a child will develop special and emotional memories to the place, but if the chickens were not beside the wheelbarrow he will forget the scene altogether and never return to it in his mind. The narrator is ... Estate of W. H. Auden, 1940). Jan. 13, 2003 . Hughes, Langston. "Theme for English B." Poetry Exhibits. The Academy of American Poets. Reprinted from The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes (Knopf and Vintage Books, 1994). Jan. 13, 2003 . Sexton Elaine...

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... young men. He was also a meticulous craftsman and something of a technical innovator above all in the development of pararhyme. Other important poets are: Edward Thomas (1878-1917), who had written books of travel and literary criticism and studies of the English countryside; Isaac Rosenberg (1890-1918), whose work approximate to the work of the European Expressionist painters: it is energetic, dense ... , even clotted in verbal texture and emotional. His Break of Day in the Trenches' seems to be not only Rosenberg's finest poem, but also one of the finest of all war poems. And finally T...

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... as many provocative short stories and poems as popular songs. A book on musical lyrics that a college English class would study would not contain the extremely offensive examples just as the books used in classes today do not contain the obscene poetry that has been written. There are poems written by Edgar Allen Poe that are so obscene and descriptive about death ... a class, close attention should be paid to the accompanying music. This would take away one of the main complications of poetry. It is extremely difficult many times to comprehend the emotional status of the poet. Lyrical ...

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... " as he moves out of the woman's awareness. "Fainter" may also be a pun, suggesting his feelings of faintness in his emotional state. The closing images are pitiful ones, describing the gifts which he has brought and now leaves behind: the "books that will not be read/ and fruitless fruits". The final bitter pun underlines the pointlessness of his visit and a sense of ... ...

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