Sri Aurobindo’s poetic output is enormous. The span of his creative activity covers a period of over sixty years, and his poetic output runs to over three thousand pages. He tried his hands at a number of poetic forms, and almost always with great success. He has to his credit lyrics, sonnets, narrative poems, epics, poetic plays, besides numerous translations and adaptations. For the convenience of study, his poetic career can be divided into three stages: The early stage, the middle stage and the last stage. This division is only to study his poetic career in a more lucid manner, for many of his poems composed in the earliest stage were printed at a much later date, and the trends and features of a later stage can also be noticed even in …show more content…
This phase of poetic activity was of prodigious literary productivity and most of his themes and the symbolism of his later poetry were first worked out during this period in works such as Love and Death, Urvasie, Uloupie, The tale of Nala, the Rishi, Ahana etc. Inspired by the British poets of the Romantic school, the matter is typically Indian and spiritual. As a poet, Sri Aurobindo is full of mystical approach. The poet has included the element of mysticism about the time and the place. The mysterious element ‘the Presence’ - ‘Thou’, has been left to be solved by the reader. In brief, this poem is the mystical narration of a mystical experience of the poet which encourages the reader to unravel the mystery of the further unfolding of the events on which the poet has intentionally chosen to remain mystically silent. Poems published in 1905 have a different tone. The problem of belief, and soliloquies and debates could be witnessed. The mood and manner of these writings explain why in certain minds Sri Aurobindo is equated with “The Philosopher as Poet”. An unequal volume, there are however, exceptions to the philosophizing mood. For instance, in a poem like Who, the poet speaks about the
The writers present differences in their opinions, approaches, proses and intentions making their narrations very distinct. Knight’s journal narration is a remembrance of her journey with the intention to entertain and she certainly did, even now her journal still entertains many Literature readers. It is clear that, she never had the intention to make it public, or make any monetary gain, which it make it remarkable interesting. In the other side, Bartram’s intention is to disclose information about the beauty and benefits of Nature for the good of humanity, or maybe monetary compensation. Moreover, these two author do not resemble on the way, they interact with people and nature; Knight’s attitude is impatient; Bartram is enthusiastic.
Poetry Analysis All over the world there are diverse authors who want to represent their feeling in the various types of writings. One of the most frequently used classifications of writing can include poetry; a composition that represents a feeling on a specific topic that is meant to be read or listened to. As stated before, there are hundreds of different poems, yet two of my favorite poems can include “The Tyranny of a Nice or Suburban Girl” by Sarah J. Liebman and “Autobiography in Five Short Chapters” by Portia Nelson. Although both of these poems possess powerful tones as well as structures that are able to pass the meaning of the poem to the reader, the two of them are very different when it comes to figurative language.
(1) Read “God: The Villanelle”. Research the structure of a villanelle to understand how the poem works and post a comment on its structure. Next, consider the title and the message conveyed throughout the poem, as it pertains to God. Finally, listen to the reading of Marvin Klotz - "An Open Letter to the One True God, Whoever She, He, Or It May Be" and post a comment.
In any given speech, or piece of literature for that matter, there is a certain amount of pathos, logos, and ethos used by the author, a technique that people like to call the “Rhetorical Triangle”. In the thought provoking speech: “Tide of Voices: Why Poetry Matters Now”, the speaker spectacularly uses these tactics to prove the validity, importance, and beauty of poetry. Mark Doty, the author, is a recognized American poet, who was the winner of the National Book Award for Poetry in 2008. This accomplishment on its own establishes ethos, a form of trust and credibility. Obviously, a poet defending poetry is as expected as a mathematician defending mathematics, but still, the reliability and status is there.
Francis Nosike 09/24/16 AP Literature Mr. Amoroso Death cannot be explained because it’s not a living entity; it’s the transformation from a physical state to dust. In the novel Bless Me Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya; Antonio, the protagonist, witnessed three deaths that fostered his religious ambivalence. Therefore, the three deaths formulated a cycle of inquiries that lead to the constant statement, ‘anyone could die.’ No living soul on this plain could ever explain how death operates. The abstract conception of death itself is challenging, but with time, we slowly begin to comprehend the ‘true’ nature of death and what it brings to us.
According to the text and its content the poem is carefully constructed to be formal and effective to represent the author’s strong opinion. Containing seventeen stanzas, the poem is basically a sonnet along with its ABBA format and short verses. The author’s chosen diction is also well executed thus, allowing us as readers to easily comprehend the main point. The poem could also be seen as an argument confronting the audience.
The term of his writing is about philosophical polemics, cultural critism and poetry. In his writing also tend to aphorism and irony. Some dominant elements of his philosophy which is radical critique of reason and truth in favor of perspectivism, genealogical critique of religion and Christian morality, his aesthetic affirmation of existence in
The lyrical style of each these poems, along with their subject matter, help to suggest that in the midst of the suppression of our natural human rights (as suggested by philosophers like John Locke), we are to make our “song” known by practicing love in both our lives and the rest
The fact that the phrase “Nevermore” is repeated at the end of each stanza makes the tension more intense. When all the elements of the new critical approach are taken into consideration, we can say that “The Raven” is a great poem to analyze for the new critics since it has organic unity with its inseparable form and content. In order to understand the mood of the poem, one really does not need to have any background information about the time or the author. The words that were used in the text were sufficient to understand the melancholic mood of the
Besides the author and the reader, there is the ‘I’ of the lyrical hero or of the fictitious storyteller and the ‘you’ or ‘thou’ of the alleged addressee of dramatic monologues, supplications and epistles. Empson said that: „The machinations of ambiguity are among the very roots of poetry”(Surdulescu, Stefanescu, 30). The ambiguous intellectual attitude deconstructs both the heroic commitement to a cause in tragedy and the didactic confinement to a class in comedy; its unstable allegiance permits Keats’s exemplary poet (the „camelion poet”, more of an ideal projection than a description of Keats actual practice) to derive equal delight conceiving a lago or an Imogen. This perplexing situation is achieved through a histrionic strategy of „showing how”, rather than „telling about it” (Stefanescu, 173 ).
Written poetry is seen as more universal than personal as the reader, instead of the
He produced several plays and poems as well as masques. He
This collection continues the reflective notes of her Collected Poems, sustaining a meditation on the nature of poetry and the other arts, especially music, and love, faith, joy, sorrow, friendship childhood and the passage of time. The preoccupation with music is dominant so to speak and there is a strong religious element in her affirmation of the artist as an instrument of God’s glory. The poems are entirely accessible, often intensely human in their vulnerality, and set firmly within the context of gratitude explicit in the book’s title. This underlying sense of joy, despite a real darkness that cannot be ignored, beautifully ignores the sequence “A Happy Death” , about the death of 57 of one of the poet’s friends , a Dominican priest. These four poems cover the same ground and ought to be repetitious merely, but mysteriously they are not - indeed they are very moving.
This is a very daring work, considering the fact that poetry is usually written in free verse today and drama has been written in blank verse, but the said novel has been written in iambic tetrameter.