Thus, by contrast with Bradstreet's self-imposed humility, Fuller displays a very high-regard for herself, obviously influenced by the Transcendentalist movement which was centered on the self. In her writings and meditations, Fuller makes use of the Transcendentalist philosophy to extol the self and at the same time to promote the equality between men and women, which is a logical consequence of the privileged position of the human being and of the spirit in the hierarchy of the creation. In he poetry as well as in her essays and memoirs, Fuller's most tackled themes are the position of Man in the universe, the importance of the human self, and the necessity for recognizing the place of women as equal to men in society. The gender hierarchy is thus one of the most poignant themes of her work. As Romano Carlin has shown, Fuller's probably most competent critic, Charles Capper, defended…...

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Works Cited

Bradstreet, Anne.

Dickinson, Emily. Dickinson, Emily. The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson. Boston: Little, Brown, 1924

Fuller, Margaret. The Collected Works of Margaret Fuller. New York: The Modern Library, 1970.

Kolodny, Annette. "Inventing a feminist discourse: rhetoric and resistance in Margaret Fuller's 'Woman in the Nineteenth Century.'." New Literary History 25.n2 (Spring 1994): 355(28).

Poetic Style in Pablo Neuda "twenty love poems"
Pablo Neuda's Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despai was inspied by an unhappy love affai, which accounts fo the poems expessing young, passionate, unhappy love pehaps bette than any book of poety in the Romantic tadition (Manuel E. Duan, Pofesso of Hispanic Liteatue, Yale Univesity, Bitannica Nobel Pizes web site).

The two poems, basis, which, this pape discusses the poetic style of Pablo Neuda, ae "Tonight I Can Wite" and " A Song of Despai." Both poems have seveal common themes, the most obvious being 'unhappiness ove a lost love.' In "Tonight I Can Wite," the theme is clealy expessed thoughout the poem in lines such as: "Because though nights like this one I held he in my ams / my soul is not satisfied that it has lost he." (30-31)

The same tone of unhappiness ove lost love comes though in "…...

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references to Nature which he used as a mirror to and symbolic of man's internal feelings.

Poetic Analysis of "Divorces"
In contemporary poetry in American literature, conventional themes about the deconstruction of the family institution through the emergence of divorce as a legal marital practice have become prevalent. Legally, divorce as a legal issue is already accepted by the American society, but in the highly rigid and conservative society in America, divorce as a social phenomenon is not widely accepted especially when put into moralistic standards. As a social phenomenon, divorce is a topic commonly discussed in American literature, particularly poetry.

The theme of the constructive norm of marriage and its anti-thesis, divorce, is the main idea expressed in the poem, "Divorces." The poem, which will be the unit of analysis of this paper, will be studied through the themes of the following ideas: (1) description of the process of marriage; (2) divorce as an unpopular practice in the society; and (3) the subjective point-of-view of the poet/Speaker…...

However, Cheevy sees Romance as wandering about town, homeless. Likewise, Art is a "vagrant," someone seen as a nuisance who has no home and begs for money. Both Art and Romance have lost their high standing; as Cheevy sees it, they are no longer respected as they should be. Similarly, Cheevy is also a beggar whom people despise, and he feels he should be more respected -- even though, as Robinson makes clear, he has done nothing to gain that respect. Cheevy might be where he is in life because of his lowly birth, but he has done nothing to improve himself.
While he may be thinking to himself or speaking to someone, Prufrock in T.S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Profrock" displays insecurities and feelings of failure, just as Miniver Cheevy does. The speaker of the poem, he considers that there will be "…time yet for a…...

e. cummings seems to embody an American ideal, that of the wild cowboy who admits no compassion and no law into his code of ethics, a showman who rides a: "watersmooth-silver / stallion/and break onetwothreefourfive pigeons justlikethat / Jesus." The creator of the "ild est Show" that made spectacles of violence attractive and engaged in shameless self-promotion can perhaps be best embodied in a figure like Arnold Schwarzenegger, an action movie hero that took his celebrity to new levels, entering politics and making violence seem cartoon-like, fun and almost wholesome and American. As an American archetype of entertainment and culture, despite the title of cumming's poem, Buffalo Bill is anything but "defunct." Although the cowboy is no longer as glorified as it was in American society during Buffalo Bill's day, the affection for lawless, violent men who possess charm and showmanship lives on.
orks Cited cummings, e.e. "Buffalo Bill's Defunct." 19…...

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Works Cited cummings, e.e. "Buffalo Bill's Defunct." 19 Mar 2008.  http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/buffalo-bill/ 

Shelley, Percy Bysshe. "Ozymandias." 19 Mar 2008.  http://www.online-literature.com/shelley_percy/672

poetic is used as a superlative to describe something, it means that whatever that thing is, is evocative of poetry in the best way possible. The true definition of the term poetic, then, relates to the definition of poetry. Despite the fact that there are a number of different connotations that poetry can take on, as denoted by the many varieties of poems and characteristics of them, above all else poetry is a human form of shaping words to describe the indescribable. The best of poetry is ineffable, especially via conventional methods of writing and speaking. Thus, the only way someone can describe something that is truly sublime, that has the ability to transcend reality with a truth or a form of beauty, is by relying on poetry.
Therefore, when one refers to the term poetic as an adjective for something such as a sunset, or a lunchbox, or a…...

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Works Cited

Williams, Charles, Harper, Jelani. 90 Degrees. Oakland: Higher Nature. 2008. Print.

Jones, LeRoi. Black Magic. New York: The Bobs-Merrill Company. 1969. Print.

poetic turn:' "Lower east side poem"
The 'poetic turn' is the moment in which a poem takes the reader by surprise and fundamentally shifts the reader's perspective of the poem. This is seen in Miguel Pinero's "Lower east side poem" which takes a conventional poetic subject -- death and life after death -- and celebrates the poet's desire to embrace seemingly negative and immoral aspects of New York City. Instead of repenting the error of his ways and seeking peace from a life of hustling and drug dealing, Pinero's poem turns all of these conventions on their heads and instead begs the reader to ensure that he can enjoy all of these things, even after death.

The poem begins with a vision of the author standing on a tenement building, dreaming of his death and seeing a vision of his ashes scattered across New York. The refrain of the poem "the…...

The windows for example would depict a large image of a saint, with smaller images from his or her life at the bottom. In this way, the windows could be seen as a conduit of the divine light bathing the congregation within. More complex themes were incorporated for rose windows, including prophets, apostles saints and angels.
Another interesting component of the divine light brought to the citizenry in this way is that the society of the time was largely illiterate. Hence stained glass windows illuminated, so to speak, the message of the bible in visual terms. Not only scholars, therefore, but also children, the simple and the illiterate could access the various legends depicted in this way. The "divine light" takes on a more literal significance in this way, with the windows not only symbolizing, but literally illuminating the bible for those who could not access it by reading. Later,…...

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Art Glass Association. 2006. "Stained Glass: A history."  http://www.greatbuildings.com/buildings/The_Parthenon.html 

Baroque Ceilings in Italy." 2006. http://www.students.sbc.edu/baigent03/baroqueceiling413.htm

Glynn, Simon. 2003. "Chapel of Notre Dame du Haut."  http://www.galinsky.com/buildings/ronchamp/index.htm 

Millet, Marietta S. 1996. Light Revealing Architecture. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold

Poetic Elements in Three Spiritual Poems
Biblical poetry (50): Both Sample Poem 1 and 2 could be considered examples of biblical poetry, as both Thomas and Hopkins explore themes relating to divinity, spirituality and faith. Hopkins' poem "God's Grandeur" in particular demonstrates the tenets of biblical poetry.

Figurative language (161): Each of the sample poems contains numerous examples of figurative language, as this is a cornerstone of poetic expression. In Sample Poem 1, for example, Thomas writes that "my youth is bent by the same wintry fever," even though youth cannot be bent and winter cannot be feverish.

Figure of speech (161):

Implied author (208):

Implied reader (208):

hetorical figure (391):

Structural Elements

hyme (392): Out of the three sample poems provided, the use of rhyme is most evident in Sample Poem 2, as Hopkins writes "It will flame out, like shining from shook foil;/It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil/Crushed. Why do men…...

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References

Tate, W.R. (2012). Handbook for Biblical Interpretation: An Essential Guide to Methods,

Terms, and Concepts. Baker Books.

poetic form involves some kind of structural formula dictating how it is to be written. Beyond this, myriad of differences exist among abstract or genre poems. The three poems, "My Last Duchess," by Robert Browning, "Richard Cory" by Edwin Arlington Robinson and "We Real Cool," by Gwendolyn Brooks truly exemplify such variety.
In "My Last Duchess," Browning offers readers a personal view of an aristocratic Duchess from the mid-1840s. While standing in front of his late wife's portrait, Alfonso II, Duke of Ferrara of Italy talks about her failings and imperfections to a member of his fiancee's family. The ironic twist comes when it is realized that the young wife's faults were simply "a heart too soon made glad, too easily impressed." In other words, she was too friendly to others -- especially men -- and thus the arrogant, jealous and controlling Duke had her killed.

The poem offers an example…...

Alfred Lord Tennyson "Break, Break, Break"
The poem "Break, Break, Break" is a short four stanza poem with each stanza containing four lines wit irregular syllables. The rhyme scheme throughout the four stanzas takes the ABCB scheme and the poet uses this particular rhyme scheme for a particular reason as will be seen herein. From the onset, it is expressed that this is an internal dialogue that the persona is having with self and nature. He speaks to the internal emotions and feelings as well as the nature around him.

The persona in the poem is a sad individual seated motionless by the sea, overwhelmed by emotions of how indifferent the nature and the people around him are to his emotional predicament of losing a person he was close to, most likely a friend or lover. He looks at the ways from the sea, and they repeatedly batter the rocks by the…...

Semantic vs. Poetic Meaning in Human
Language

Rhetorically speaking, semantic (i.e., useful) and poetic (i.e., artistic) uses of human language may seem different from one another, in form as well as function. Semantic meaning is the literal, utilitarian meaning of a word, that is, the way or ways a word is typically used in everyday speech and/or writing. Poetic meaning, on the other hand, generally has to do with way(s) in which a word is used artistically, that is, metaphorically, as synecdoche, or in various other symbolically inflected ways. For example, in comparing the two sentences "Earth has five oceans" and "She cried oceans of tears," comparative semantic and poetic meanings of the word "oceans" become clear. However, the argument exists that semantic and poetic meanings are inherently the same, due to the imbedded "Symbolic Action" ("Burke, Kenneth") of words themselves, i.e., the theory that words themselves are so deeply symbolic in…...

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Works Cited

"Burke, Kenneth." Michael Groden and Martin Kreiswirth (Eds.) The Johns-

Hopkins University Press, 1997. Retrieved July 5, 2005, from: .

nature of the poetic turn, the structural component of a poem, which may occur multiple times in a poem, in which your expectations are upended or displaced, in which you are surprised or affected by the direction the poet is taking. What is the purpose of the turn and how is it accomplished? Why is it an important part of a contemporary poem and how does it function particularly in the poem you selected for this week's DB. For many of you, you might begin with the poem and discuss how it sets its reader up for the turn, delivers the turn -- or turns -- and to what effect and use that discussion to allow you to reflect on the questions you've been asked.
Miguel Pinero's poem 'A lower east side' is about his pride in being a citizen of the Lower East Side and his subsequent desire that…...

Rather than Klein's more stagnant relationship with his father, a man locked, in the past, the subject of the poem "Keine Lazarovitch" is almost as complex as the ebb and flux of Jewish life as a whole, rather than one segment of it, and her hold upon Layton is likewise more stormy, cyclical, and complex than the relationship of old to young detailed in Klein's poem about his father.
In Klein's poem the physicality of the father's books function the touchstone with which the poet accesses his father's memory, rather than his physical, father -- the father in death, much like the father in life is of the book, rather than a loving and guiding force, or even a force to be clashed with, as in Layton's poem. Klein's poem makes reference to the father's pamphlets, prayers, and tomes, as if these are the subjects of the man's life entirely,…...

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Works Cited

Klein, a.M. "Heirloom." From 15 Canadian Poets X 3. Edited by Gary Geddes. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2003.

Layton, Irving. "Keine Lazarovitch: 1870-1959." From 15 Canadian Poets X 3. Edited by Gary Geddes. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2003.

It is impossible to have one without the other. The progression of shadows is used to indicate the passage of time in Ando's work. One can watch the progression of shadow across a light piece of concrete and track the passage of time.
It can be said that light represents the concept of somethingness and shadow represents the concept of nothingness. It is the nothingness that humans seek to understand in their spiritual endeavors. The world of somethingness represents the reality that we know in our physical world. Light allows us to see our world and the things in it. Darkness, however, masks these objects. The objects themselves are still there, only we cannot see them until it is light again. Shadow represents the human journey into the nothingness of the soul. hen we sit in the shadow and cannot see our physical world, we are forced to confront the…...

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Works Cited

Altsai, A. "The Church on the Water." MIT Department of Architecture. Last Updated

December 10, 1999. Accessed January 7, 2007. Available at  http://cat2.mit.edu/arc/gallery/4203_final/gal_altsai/andoinfo.html 

Barandon, J. "Tadao Ando." The Architect. Mit Department of Architecture. Last updated

November 25, 2001. Accessed January 7, 2007. Available at http://architecture.mit.edu/~barandon/4.203/overview_page.htm

The Ethereal Beauty of Mount St. Helens

Beyond the devastation and scientific significance that often dominate discussions of Mount St. Helens, there lies a realm of ethereal beauty that few explore. Its volcanic scars have transformed the landscape into a captivating tapestry of colors, textures, and otherworldly formations.

1. Symphony of Hues:

The aftermath of Mount St. Helens' eruption unveiled a vibrant palette of colors that paint the slopes like an abstract masterpiece. Reds, oranges, and yellows dance across the scorched earth, reminiscent of an autumn forest aflame. Ash-covered trees stand as ghostly sentinels, their branches reaching towards the sky like skeletal fingers.

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Chaucer's Mythic Tapestry: Unraveling the Influence of Ancient Lore on His Literary Masterpieces

Introduction

Geoffrey Chaucer, the revered English poet of the 14th century, left an enduring legacy in literature with his groundbreaking works, including "The Canterbury Tales." His writings are renowned for their vibrant characters, sharp wit, and insightful social commentary. However, less explored is the profound influence of ancient mythology on Chaucer's literary imagination. This essay will delve into the realm of news and scholarship to uncover recent advancements in understanding Chaucer's mythological influences, providing a compelling essay subject.

Medievalism and the Rediscovery of the Classics

During the Middle Ages, a renewed....

Alluring and Impactful Titles for "The Dust Bowl: A Global Perspective"

Descriptive and Emotive

Dust to Dust: The Devastation of the Global Dust Bowl
Whispers of the Wind: The Silent Agony of the Dust Bowl
Choking on Dust: The Environmental Catastrophe That Stunned the World

Historical and Geographic

The Global Dust Bowl: A Transcontinental Catastrophe
The Dust Bowl: A Worldwide Crisis in the 1930s
From the Prairies to the Pampas: The Global Reach of the Dust Bowl

Metaphorical and Poetic

Symphony of Destruction: The Dust Bowl's Toxic Legacy
Dance of the Dust Devils: Witnessing a Global Calamity
Ashes in the Wind: The Lingering....

Twilight's Reflection on Easter's Themes

1. The Duality of Light and Darkness

Easter marks the triumph of light over darkness, the resurrection of Jesus from the tomb. Twilight, a state of transition where light and darkness intertwine, mirrors this duality. An essay could explore the symbolic interplay between the waning light of twilight and the darkness of the tomb, contrasting it with the dawn of Easter's hope and victory.

2. The Transformation of Dawn

Twilight precedes the dawn, a time of anticipation and renewal. Easter is a celebration of the transformation wrought by Christ's resurrection, bringing hope and a new beginning. An essay could....