I myself e.e. Cummings’ poetry. Now let’s talk about a special poem that is read in class from the anthology entitled “In Just”. The style that Cummings uses will appeal to someone who doesn’t care about the formalities within poetic structure, and doesn’t really care about grammar or spacing in their writing. A good example […]
Tag Archives: John Keats
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*Author’s note: These are being published to provide students with a fresh perspective on some frequently-studied works of American and British literature and relevant classic movies shown in progressive English literature classes. Feel free to play around with my point of view but please do not plagiarize in part or in whole. Consider my text […]
John Keats’ brilliance as a poet can be seen and felt by any careful reader who absorbs his work, but his true genius becomes apparent because of two particular odes, Ode On Melancholy and To Autumn. As both pieces of work are read, a great bridge is erected and the reader can see that the […]
The eyes of the dead, and finally the lymph rolling; He looks from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven; As imagination bodies The forms of unknown things, the poet’s pen He turns them into shapes and gives the air nothing Place of residence and name. (5.1.7-12). This stanza taken from Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s […]
John Keats was born in London, England, on October 31, 1795 (although, the true date is unknown, because Keats never admitted the real day of his birthday), the first child out of five, to Frances Jennings Keats and Thomas Keats. In 1804 while Keats was ten, John’s father died in an accident at work, and […]
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Since poetry’s inception, word rhythms – the ebb and flow between accented and unaccented syllables – have played a key role in the art and craft of creating a well-thought-out poem. Although rhyming conventions, certain metaphors, and even certain words themselves have come in and out of vogue throughout the centuries, poets ancient and modern […]