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A Dionysian Analysis of Three Poems, 2008.
This paper provides a Dionysian analysis of the poems "On the Pier" by Brenda Hamilton, "The Guild" by Sharon Olds and "Pride" by Yusef Komunyakaa.
1,586 words (approx. 6.3 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 51.95
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In this article, the writer notes that the Apollonian and Dionysian dichotomy has frequently been employed as a departure point for the critical evaluation of poetic works. In this essay, the writer proposes using those qualities typically associated with Dionysus - that is, the integration of the self into the whole, the life and death cycle (the myth of descent and ascent), the natural world, and the ecstatic - in order to analyze poems by Brenda Hamilton, Sharon Olds, and Yusef Komunyakaa. The writer shows that the Dionysian tendency, rooted in the belief that man plays a role in the drama of eternal repetition that is grounded in the cyclical view of nature, is present in these works and informs each poet's mythic vision of the universe.
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"What each of these three poems has in common is the fact that they are based around images of human figures confronting the Dionysian motifs of descent and ascent via nature. Each poem represents a struggle between the Apollonian and Dionysian extremes, a struggle that is very much part of every human being's life. In Hamilton's poem, the poet is quite eager to run away altogether from Apollonian order into the wild chaos of poetry and the sea. It does not take much convincing for her; from the moment the poem opens, she is ready to go. Olds's poem represents a more virulent struggle between the two poles. While the father in the poem has clearly made his choice and has learned to live with it, for the younger man, the son, the journey will be a much longer road, Olds infers, marked by pain and suffering. In Komunyakaa's poem, wild Dionysus is consistently present from the beginning in the form of the figure in the poem, who is apparently half-man and half-beast - a hefty dramatization of the sublimation of Apollo into Dionysus. The poem plays not only with this dichotomy between man and the animal kingdom, but between man and woman as well."
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Aristotle's "Poetics", 2002.
This paper is a response to Aristotle's "Poetics". This piece systematically interprets each relevant chapter of "Poetics" and relates the ideas presented to our modern world.
3,072 words (approx. 12.3 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 89.95
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This paper discusses how Aristotle feels all art should be judged. In this way, the classification schemes introduced in "Poetics" are represented. There is extensive discussion of how art springs from human instinct. Finally, the paper deals with Aristotle's conclusion that tragic poetry is the highest form of art.
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"The following essay is simply a thorough and systematic summary of Aristotle?s Poetics. I found it hard to characterize the Poetics in broad terms, because Aristotle is very concise in this work. With that said I found that going through and consolidating each section of the work was the best way to go about characterizing the Poetics as a whole. Basically this essay is my own reconstruction of the Poetics, which I have tried to present free of extraneous material and in an unbiased fashion. I can only hope that I have effectively conveyed Aristotle?s true meaning, and have not degraded his insights in any large way. In his Poetics Aristotle basically starts with the premise that all art is a form of imitation, and accordingly so is poetry. The function of the poet, and any artist, is then to imitate, not particular the particular but the universal features of his/her observation. These Universals would be things like the form or essence of the observed ?real? situation, which we idealize mentally. Further, poetry is an act of creation, because it is not direct copy of real life. While it is not a copy it is an actualized idealization of the artists mental image of a real event or thing. Thus, art must be closer to reality than an observational experience of a real situation, because a universal is more encompassing of reality than a particular. Although all arts imitate reality is this fashion they differ in four fundamental ways, that is the media they employ, objects they actually imitate, manor or method of imitation, and their function or purpose."
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Five Stages of D.H Lawrence's Poetic Maturation, 2004.
The style and growth of D. H. Lawrence's poetical works as the mirror his life experiences.
2,200 words (approx. 8.8 pages), 15 sources, MLA, $ 68.95
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This paper address the poetical style of D.H Lawrence from his early work up to his death. It discusses the usage of style, subject matter, and poetical maturation, both independently and as a reflection of his life.
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"To me, the earth rolls ponderously, superbly Coming my way without forethought or afterthought. To me, men?s footfalls fall with a dull, soft rumble, ominous and lovely, Coming my way. ( ?Revolutionary? 40-44) These lines, written by D. H Lawrence, are an excerpt from his life, as was most of his work. Lawrence was in love with the world, with the mystic reality, the language of true inspiration. Born before the turn of the century, Lawrence was the son of a coal-mining father and a middle class mother. One of four, he was always more interested in the arts than playing with the other boys. He didn?t begin writing until age twenty but it only took four years until he was published by Ford Maddox Hueffer in the English Review (Malmude 67). His poetic works follow closely in the veins of his own experiences, growing and changing with him. He was obsessed with ?mysticism, lore, dark urges and sexuality? (Smart 5136). A brutal objectivity and an almost circular description pattern offer a perfect setting for these obsessions, while strange but vivid image repetition sculpts Lawrence?s poetry with haunting accuracy. The images, although strange, are yet familiar, understood on a basic human level of being. This was the great crafted art of Lawrence that is present in his prose as well as his poetry, however, the latter being the only one examined here. Lawrence crossed through five significant stages in his poetic journey to maturation. Each change orbited a change in his personal life, and as Lawrence grew to self-realization so too his poetry became a life of its own. His eloquent perceptions paired with unique, often dark artistic expressions are present from the beginning, but they crystalize in Lawrence?s mature poetic voice just before his death."
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Poetic Composition in Chinese, 2002.
A biography of the careet and poetic works of Michizane.
650 words (approx. 2.6 pages), 1 source, $ 26.95
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This essay will argue that Michizane's career and poetic works illustrates the intellectual predominance of Chinese literature and culture in many aspects of Japanese life, while the traditional orders of Japanese class and hierarchical society remained intact.
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The Poetics of T. S. Eliot and Dylan Thomas, 2005.
This paper compares the personalities and traditions in the poetics of T. S. Eliot and Dylan Thomas.
1,205 words (approx. 4.8 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 41.95
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This paper explains that the poetics of Dylan Thomas and T. S. Eliot demonstrate the manner in which Thomas challenges and re-figures the previous aesthetic ideas of Eliot. The author points out that, whereas Eliot views tradition as a cultural accumulation of literary works within which the writer participates, Thomas shatters these historical bonds. The paper relates that, although both authors strive to achieve an emotional complexity and depth in their work, Thomas refuses the sublimation of the poet's personality to the literary medium by embracing the medium itself with the entirety of his personality and composition as an act of celebration rather than repression. The author underscores that, through his playful love of all the elements and structures of language, Thomas is able to achieve an emotional depth rooted in the medium of literature without the sacrifice of the poet's personality.
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"The value Eliot places upon tradition necessitates the depersonalization of the poet and the perfection of the medium of language to sufficiently express the concentration of the past and its convergence with the experience of the present. The personal experiences and emotions of the poet are too subjective to contain the enormity of what the present represents to literary history, so therefore he must engage in "a continual surrender of himself as he is at the moment to something which is more valuable." The poet is envisioned as a catalyst that collects and transforms his emotions and experiences into a new compound that is greater than the sum of its parts."
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The Transformation of Poetic Entry, 2002.
A discussion of the transformation of poetic entry.
1,900 words (approx. 7.6 pages), 5 sources, $ 71.95
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A paper on the transformation of poetic entry.
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"Poetics" and The Iliad., 2004.
This paper offers an analysis of Aristotle's main elements in "Poetics."
1,130 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 39.95
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An analysis of Aristotle's main elements in "Poetics" that applies these concepts to the epic by Homer, the Iliad. The paper discusses catharsis, tragic drama, the function of art and attributes of the Hero of the drama.
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"Poetics and The Iliad: Introduction. Aristotle's "Poetics" is considered to be one of the most useful critical works of classical antiquity. It is also one of the best depictions of the mode and aims of Greek art generally. In "Poetics" Aristotle affirms the capacity of human beings to imitate nature and life as a unique ability. His views on this issue are explicated in a discussion of various forms of epic poetry usually expressed as drama or other forms of theater in the Hellenistic world."
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The Poetics of Plato and T. S. Eliot, 2008.
A comparative analysis of the poetic views of Plato and T. S. Eliot.
2,566 words (approx. 10.3 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 77.95
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Through an examination of Plato's "Republic" and ""Ion" and T.S. Eliot's "Tradition and the Individual Talent" this paper attempts to compare Plato's and Eliot's views on poetry. The paper discusses how Plato saw poetry as a claim to truth that he rejected as a subjective interpretation of the world at best, falling further away from any knowledge claims with every successive interpretation. The paper then compares Plato's view with T.S. Eliot's view, which places poetry within a tradition that is informed by the past as well as the cultural present, a collectivity that mitigates the poet's subjective experiences and functions as an objective correlation between art and the world.
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"In the Ionic dialog, Plato examines the interpretation of poetry by the rhapsodes, and attempts to establish the grounds by which this interpretation is enacted. Through the character of Socrates, Plato interrogates Ion, a professional rhapsode; one who recites poetry for an audience and also interprets passages for them. Ion's ethos is established through his achievements, recently winning first prize at the festival of Asclepius at Epidaurus as well as being "crowned with a golden crown by the Homeridae" for how well he "embellished Homer". Ion proceeds to admit that, while he is an expert on Homer, he knows very little about other poets. As the poets often deal with much the same subject matter, Socrates exposes a problem with Ion's interpretation of these texts; he is not an expert qualified to critically assess the content of the works, only Homer's usage."
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Aristotle's "Rhetoric and Poetics", 1990.
This paper examines the issue of probability in Aristotle's "Rhetoric and Poetics" especially the relevance to contemporary culture.
3,600 words (approx. 14.4 pages), 7 sources, $ 127.95
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"The purpose of this research is to examine the issue of probability in Aristotle's Rhetoric and Poetics, with a view toward showing how or to what extent Aristotle's analysis has relevance to the contemporary culture. The plan of the research will be to set forth the fundamental concepts informing Aristotle's discussion of these disciplines, and then to discuss the consistency with which he develops his analysis of their principal attributes.
At the outset, it is important to note that Aristotle makes certain assumptions about the character of the universe. In particular, he assumes that man is a social being, that civilized man lives in a political community, and that he addresses remarks to members of an ordinary, rational, common-sense civilized society. The audience for the Rhetoric and the Poetics is ... "
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Poetic Techniques, 2004.
An analysis of the poetic techniques of Elizabeth Bishop and James Merrill.
1,408 words (approx. 5.6 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 46.95
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This paper looks at the poetry of Elizabeth Bishop and James Merril. The poems chosen here include Bishop's "Filling Station", ?At the Fishhouses" and "Lost in Translation". From Merril, the writer looks at "Willowware Cup" and "Voices from the Other World". The paper includes excerpts from the poems themselves.
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"In ?Voices From the Other World,? we see the confessionalist poet emerge. this poem reveals how the poet experimented with the Ouija board. The poet describes for us the teacup circling ?lazily about? (2) on the game board. The poet tells us an objective story about an engineer who died of cholera in Cairo when he was 22 years old.
Then, the poet brings us into his immediate world when the board tell him, ?Flee this house ?. . . You have no choice? (19-20). Shaken, but not moved, the poet does not flee the house and subsequently grows ?nonchalant/Towards the other world? ."
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Poetic and Technical Concerns of American Poets, 2008.
A brief examination of the different styles of poetry of Billy Collins, Donald Hall, Mary Oliver, Sharon Olds and Gary Soto.
707 words (approx. 2.8 pages), 7 sources, MLA, $ 25.95
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This paper discusses how each of the great current American poets has developed a distinct style that is reflected in their technical and poetic form. The paper briefly looks at and discusses the poetic and technical concerns of the following poets: Billy Collins, Donald Hall, Mary Oliver, Sharon Olds and Gary Soto. Included in the paper are quote examples from each of the poets' works to illustrate the differences in their style.
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"Billy Collins, an American Poet Laureate, has a form that uses a distinctly sarcastic and humorous tone. This form is evident in his poem "The Art of Drowning", where he states about life flashing before one's eyes as they drown, "But if something does flash before your eyes as you go under, it will probably be a fish, a quick blur of curved silver darting away, having nothing to do with your life or your death" (Qtd. in Khoury). Mazin Khoury states, "Collins uses simplistic stanzas to try to create images that pull the reader away from real life and draw them into his poetic creation" (Khoury). This use of imagery and sarcasm distinguishes Collins' style."
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Poetic Usage in Literature, 2002.
An analysis of the two poems "Howl" and "A Supermarket in California" by Allen Ginsberg.
650 words (approx. 2.6 pages), 1 source, $ 26.95
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This paper will analyze the two poems entitled: "Howl" and "A Supermarket in California" by Allen Ginsberg and discuss the elements of poetic usage that are present within the poems. By revealing the concepts of representation and subversion, as well as the rhythm and form, we can see how these poems were meant to be read at a deeper level. The main objective is to discover these elements within the two poems and relate them to each other in the spectrum of poetical analysis.
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Countee Cullen's Poetic Universality, 2008.
This paper analyzes the cultural universality in the poems of Countee Cullen.
1,058 words (approx. 4.2 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 37.95
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The paper focuses on the diversity of cultural and race issues within the poetic works of Countee Cullen. The paper looks at the poems "Heritage" and "Yet Do I Marvel" and discusses how Cullen is able to convey a sense of awareness of his own cultural background without the monolithic view of race issues in his work. The paper highlights Cullen's broad sense of poetic universality across cultural and racial lines during the Harlem Renaissance.
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"For Countee Cullen, poetry was often deemed "raceless" due to the way that he interpreted human relationships within the big city. New York City was a massive "melting pot" of immigrants and people of differing races, which became manifest during the Harlem Renaissance. Cullen lived in this section of the city where African Americans were indeed marginalized, yet they were able to have greater freedoms that what was allowed at the time in the South. Cullen is aware of cultural roots going back to Africa in this urban milieu, which helps to dictate his ideas about the limitations of African American identity in the poem "Heritage"."
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Emerson and Poe on Poetic Truth, 2004.
This paper discusses that poets must write from the soul of their experience, knowing that what they experience and feel will also connect with the truth of their readers' own experiences and feelings.
2,550 words (approx. 10.2 pages), 14 sources, MLA, $ 77.95
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This paper explains that poetry is too complicated to relay truth so it focuses on beauty, and truth must be sought within the beauty of the poem. The author points out that Ralph Waldo Emerson was able to understand empirical experience through the auspices of transcendental thought with his insight into the divine presence in nature. The paper relates that Poe?s poetic principle states that the truth of the poem is contained within the words and the use of language.
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"In Poe's poem, "The Raven", he is lamenting the death of a loved one. The Raven represents the memory of the person and reflects the knowledge that she will never be in attendance in real life again. The narrator personifies the Raven by imploring him to "Tell me what thy lordly name is on the night's Plutonian shore?" to which the Raven replies, "Nevermore!" The Raven also encompasses the freedom associated with the symbol of birds in general ? as well as the freedom from the restrictions of life. The bird becomes a symbol and a metaphor for death. Poe was able to take an event from his own life and, through the use of metaphor, include it into a poem that allows the reader insight into his personal ordeal."
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The Rules of Landscape Painting and the Poetic Practice of Xie Ling-Yun, 2002.
A review of Xie Ling-Yun's poem "Visiting the Southern Pavilion" in light of the generic rules of landscape painting.
1,400 words (approx. 5.6 pages), 2 sources, $ 53.95
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This paper will discuss the representation of the natural landscape in Xie Ling-yun's poem "Visiting the Southern Pavilion". It will be shown, through a comparative analysis of Chinese texts on landscape painting, that Xie Ling-yun's poem plays with, and is juxtaposed against, the generic rules of landscape painting. The poetic landscape, which appears to be a celebration of the beauty of summer, is actually a reflection upon mortality and suffering. From this perspective, Xie Ling-yun's poem may be seen to have philosophical depth lacking in most landscape painting.
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