Of the poets we've explored in class, the one I felt have most connected to is Paul Valéry. I became absorbed with his thoughts and writings on literature, many of which I find to be applicable to art, and all of which have helped give me some perspective on this course. Valéry writes, "Thought is hidden in verse like the nutritive virtue in fruit. A fruit is nourishment but it seems to be nothing but pure delight. One perceives only pleasure but one receives a substance." Of the poet specifically he writes, "In the poet The ear speaks/ The mouth listens;/ It is intelligence, vigilance, that...

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... been shown to be an accurate, and therefore interesting representation; it has to be shown also that it is a representation from which men can derive enjoyment. (Arnold, "Preface to Poems" 71) Poetry thus had to be both instructive and enjoyable. In a sense, Arnold shared with Carlyle the notion that the poet has a higher knowledge that s/he should communicate to ... " constitutes the ultimate "expression of the unresolved dialectic assumed to be characteristic of the early Tennyson, artistic detachment vs. social responsibility" (274). Being one of Tennyson's most famous works, "The Lad...

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... the poem, it says- "The old lie: Dulce et Decorum est Pro patria mori." The significance of this sentence is that it comes from the Odes written by a famous Roman poet, Horace. It means "Sweet and proper it is, to die for one's country." Another reason why Owen chose that line is because it was a very popular ... who encouraged him to write. Owen was very young but his writing shows a maturity that could have only come from doing what he did. In many of his poems, Owen seems to be mocking religion. This stems from the anger that he felt at the church for it's inability to stop the war and...

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... Dos Passos, who later played an integral role in the publishing of Cumming's first poetry collection in 1923. Tulips and Chimneys presented readers with a collection of Cummings early poems. Many of these poems were previously published in The Harvard Advocate, The Harvard monthly and a periodical called The Dial. Cumming's work debuted in The Dial in Issue I, January 1920 and presented readers ... provided readers with longer free verse poetry and Chimneys provided them with mostly sonnets. Each section was then further divided into fourteen segments, which followed Cumming's desire to...

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... freed him from the responsibility of bringing his villain to justice. Browning chose the Renaissance as the historical setting of many of his poems because it was a time of great energy and change. However Browning's characters are not famous personages but minor players. They are too busy concentrating on themselves and their own needs to think about their role in history. Through ... he abandoned the confessional mode and put many of the same thoughts and feelings into dramatic form. Therefore from now on his poems would be "dramatic in principle-. Two poems that Browning published so...

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... freed him from the responsibility of bringing his villain to justice. Browning chose the Renaissance as the historical setting of many of his poems because it was a time of great energy and change. However Browning's characters are not famous personages but minor players. They are too busy concentrating on themselves and their own needs to think about their role in history. Through ... he abandoned the confessional mode and put many of the same thoughts and feelings into dramatic form. Therefore from now on his poems would be "dramatic in principle-. Two poems that Browning published so...

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... editor for a brief time of the "New Orleans Crescent". In that city he became fascinated with the French language. Many of his poems contain words of French derivation. It was in New Orleans that he experienced at first hand the viciousness of slavery in the slave markets ... boundless faith in American democracy, Whitman tempered his version by his experiences as a volunteer hospital nurse during the Civil War (described in his poems Drumtaps and his wartime letters). After the war, he held secretarial jobs to support himself, and lost one such job when his employer's scandalized ... ...

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... to several young poets. Some of his major works include several collections of poetry, for instance, A Time to Change (1952), Sixty Poems (1953), The Third (1959), The Unfinished Man (1960), The Exact Name (1965), Three Plays (1969) and Snakeskin and Other Poems (1974). Characteristics of Ezekiel's poetry A Jew and raised as a secular rationalist by his scientist father, made Ezekiel an outsider to ... the educated and urbanized and need not be obsessed with mythology and peasants. What is significant about Ezekiel's poetry is several of his poems depict the quest for physical, social a...

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... dawning of the "Age of Reason" influenced theme, form and content of the poetry created. John Dryden and Alexander Pope are those poets most remembered from this age and their poems are prime examples of what distinguishes this period. John Dryden was poet laureate from 1668 to 1688. The restored monarchy needed morale and foremost it needed an example. This architects ... and poets alike found in the early imperialism of Rome. Here greatness, power and (so they thought) moderation had been combined to create a golden age. Dryden's most famous works are MackFlecknoe (published 1682) and...

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