... his lifetime he wrote many books, one entitled The Republic: Book X, which deals with his opinion of the perfect society. In that book Plato talks about his love for art, but according to him, his perfect society did not have room for art. Plato felt art was useless in society and far from the truth. Although Plato loved Homer, author of The Odyssey, he felt ... Homer did not belong in the perfect society. Plato believed that any form of art was truth less. Plato's second reason for not allowing art was it affected people's emotions. Plato believed in only rational approaches in life, w...

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... his lifetime he wrote many books, one entitled The Republic: Book X, which deals with his opinion of the perfect society. In that book Plato talks about his love for art, but according to him, his perfect society did not have room for art. Plato felt art was useless in society and far from the truth. Although Plato loved Homer, author of The Odyssey, he felt ... Homer did not belong in the perfect society. Plato believed that any form of art was truth less. Plato's second reason for not allowing art was it affected people's emotions. Plato believed in only rational approaches in life, w...

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... century, ancient art was in fashion and Greek images were very popular. When he was taken by a friend to see the Elgin Marbles, the Urn, in particular, caught Keats' eye and he returned frequently to visit. Both the Romantics and Victorians addressed the idea of preserving the perfect moment and Keats ... ' "Ode to a Grecian Urn" is one such perfect moment captured in art. In the opening stanza, Keats addresses the urn, personifying it as: "Thou still unravish'd bride of ... but those unheard Are sweeter;" He describes how although music can be beautiful to listen to, none can be as sati...

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... an artist of literature Yeats understands he faces death like every mortal, but art is what makes things beautiful. Art can bring people joy even in the worst of times. Art can overcome the mere tragedy of events simply by knowing everything comes to ... The women's convictions make them ugly since they are not accepting of art into their lives; therefore they don't have joy. Yeats says that if everyone relies on politics instead of art, the world will come to an end. It isn't the ... extreme at their death, but "gaiety transfiguring all that dread." In stanza three the readers are intr...

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... Ode to Simplicity" is a poem praising and glorifying aesthetic and classic simplicity. The speaker of the poem is a poet who exalts the simplicity of classic art. It is a 1st person speaker. The addressee of the poem is Simplicity. The poet uses apostrophes: "O thou by Nature taught", or "O chaste ... of metaphor: "a decent maid,/ In Attic robe arrayed," which refers to simplicity as realized in Attic (Greek) literature. She despised the abundance in art, but is modest and decent. The Simplicity is called a nymph, it was a popular motif in classic literature. In Greek mythology a nymph w...

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... unique. This poem describes the pitcher in all of its lines. In the first four lines, Francis reveals the pitchers art, aim, passion, and technique. "His art is to be eccentric" (L1), which means that his art is to be odd or to act different. "His aim is to not hit the mark he seems to aim at ... a hidden metaphor, pitcher to poet and batter to reader. A metaphor makes a comparison between two unlike things. In line one, the poet's art is to be eccentric meaning that the poet's art is to be odd or different. In line two, his aim is to not his the mark he aims at, which is saying that he...

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... one of putting the complex into the simple" William Blake's art is one of putting the complex into the simple, as evident in the poems published in The Songs of Innocence and The Songs of Experience. His approach to most ... form of A, A, B, B, C, C and so on. All of these techniques used in The Lamb, and the fact that the speaker is an innocent child, add to the observation that Blake's art is one of putting the complex into the simple. The poems published in The Songs of Experience are somewhat simpler in the way that the speaker of the poem is ... coming into being. To make what wou...

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In Aristotle's "Poetics," we are introduced to the philosophers thoughts and writings on the varying types of art forms including poetry, dance, sculpture and some forms of music. Also, he focuses on theatre and literature (comedy, tragedy and epic). These were all fundamental parts of life for the ... in the full design of the work through the rhythm and meter of words, resulting in a beautiful composition. A poem may also be deeply descriptive, metaphorical and rhythmic resulting in the perfect harmony of written work and song. Homers the Iliad and the odyssey are some of the most recogniz...

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For Aristotle, all literature is an art of imitation. Just as an artist imitates life to produce his or her literature, the audience is inspired to imitate, in some fashion, what it reads, hear, or sees on ... literary devices. In dealing with the definition of tragedy, there are many vital aspects of literature that come together to produce a well-written tragedy. Some of these aspects include the art of imitation, reversal and recognition, pity and fear, catharsis, and even the effective use of a tragic hero. Imitation, then, can be in many models, but Aristotle asserts that imitation that...

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... make the events of the past seem unimportant. In the third stanza, Bradstreet openly criticizes her work, "My foolish, broken, blemished Muse so sings; / All this to mend, alas, no art is able, / "Cause nature made it so irreparable" (16-18). This line sums up that Bradstreet feels her writing is too flawed for anyone to expect it to be worthwhile ... . In the next stanza, Bradstreet boldly states her work will never be perfect. The line, "Art can do much, but this maxim's most sure: / A weak or wounded brain admits no cure" (23-24) says the problems she has with her writings are not som...

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... adjectives to relate to the sun, the lovers must automatically appear outstanding in comparison. The structure of the poem is also used to indicate the egoism of the lovers. The perfect construction can be seen by the rhyme scheme and the amount of syllables. There is a set rhyme scheme that is followed through the whole poem: ABBACDCDEE. There is also a set ... poet strays from this pattern that the seeming precision is called into question. Line 25 jolts the reader because it breaks the pattern: it has an extra syllable. "Thou, sun, art half as happy as we," (25) would initially appea...

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The Renaissance rose from the Middle Ages in the Sixteenth Century. It was a golden age of music, philosophy, architecture, art, and perhaps most importantly, literature. Many topics were written about and reflected on. Among these topics were romance and chivalry. Italian poet and scholar Petrach testifies to the popular use ... sonnets have been named Petrarchian. They tend to have a narrative tone and revolve around the theme of courtly love. Petrach's "She Used To Let Her Golden Hair Fly Free" is a perfect example of this concept. It uses metaphor, and compares the woman in question to o...

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... deems her as greater, and superior to a summers day. The repetition of "more" in Thou art more lovely and "more" temperate strengths her superiority. Furthermore, the adjectives "lovely" and "temperate" insinuate that Shakespeare's lover is of perfect balance, unlike nature that experiences "Rough winds." In both the sonnets, different elements of life ... ...

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... beauty of this particular person. In the first quatrain he begins his comparison between this person and nature by comparing them to a summer day. In the second line, "Thou art lovely and more temperate", he is saying that this person is lovelier and gentler than a summer day (Shakespeare). A summer day usually has the implications of something being beautiful and ... of a typical summer day. "Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines and often is his gold complexion dimmed;" (Shakespeare). This quote explains how nature is not always perfect by saying the sun is sometimes too hot and o...

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... so that you can appreciate the feeling the view gives him and the impression it makes, "..such exquisite art that you regard them with delight and astonishment." Also the use of abstract nouns and the adjective 'exquisite' here is a perfect example of how Polo has used words to depict passion and surprise. The poem is a recollection of an opium ... ...

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... analyzed so to speak, because a poem does not mean anything. Though for Macleish, a good poem is timeless and lasting through the ages. The title, Ars Poetica, is Latin for the "art of poetry". Therein the poem itself becomes a reflexive depiction of poetry itself. The successive lines of what a poem "should be" are all connected to the tangible things of the world ... walker. Ferlinghetti describes of how the poet as acrobat moves through delicate footwork and ballet-like positions. These "sleight-of-foot tricks" being analogous to the poet's ability choose the perfect words of percept...

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... to writing [3]. Baudelaire's immediate talent for writing enabled him to vary from different types of works. Besides his writing of poetry, he wrote a number of prose works, including a collection of art and literary reviews and several short stories and novels. His earliest work, in 1847 was a short autobiographical story titled La fanfarlo. He incorporated into his protagonist, Samuel Cramer, many of ... things that surrounded him. Like many other writers in his period, Baudelaire, due to his theory of beauty and its role in poetry, would succumb to the conclusion that the "perfect ty...

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... his times. Blake describes the woes that the Industrial revolution and the breaking of the common mans ties to the land results in. He uses many methods to gain the perfect description of how he saw industrial London but the most outstanding method is his use of imagery. His first use of imagery is the first and second lines of the ... every in the second stanza seems to stress the pounding of the poem further. Blake's use of imagery, repetition, punctuation and rhyme all work together to produce a powerful work of art in my eyes. It shows how times really were in London and how it was ...

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... )." While the origins of dramatic monologues date back thousands of years, when they took the form of long dramatic speeches that revealed something about the speaker, by the 1800's, the art of dramatic monologue had adopted three things that would influence T.S. Eliot and his poem, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock." They are a "distinctive manner of speech," the unintended revelation of ... monologue, so as to separate himself from the individual in the poem, while allowing the audience to play a sort of voyeuristic role. As an example of dramatic monologues, "Prufrock" is perfect. ...

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