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| Definition of Poetry |
| 700-800 1300-1699 1558-1603 1564 1600 1609 1700-1725 Beowulf is composed Renissance Elizibethhian Age William Shakespeare born Enlightenment Period WS published sonnet Scottish Enlightenment 1740-1750 1750-1899 1757 1830 1837-1901 1875-1899 The Graveyard School Welsh Lit. Renissance Will Blake Born Emily Dickenson born Victorian Age Aestheticism and Decadence "Poems about death" 1894 1900-1999 1902 1900-1950 1916-1924 1925 1920-1938 e.e. cummings born Existentialism Langston Huggs born Modernism Dadaism Expersionism and Symbolism movement The lost Generation 1920-1970 1920-1966 1950-1975 1960-1975 1960-present 1962 1970's New Criticism Philosophy Surrealism Structuralism Blank Aesthetic Movement Post structuralism Theory e.e.cummings dies New Historicism |
| Poetry is an abstract, indirect way for people to express feelings with the manipulations of style, structure, symbolism and other literary devices. Notorious authors, such as William Blake and e.e. cummings use the art of poetry and a plethora of literary devices to express their feelings of everyday life. |
| "The Sick Rose" Analysis |
| The poem "The Sick Rose" by William Blake appitimizies symbolism and extended metaphors. The poem is literally about a garden or nature, while the symbolis meaning defines an affair and its effect on the author. The extended metaphor is used for the same affect, to symbolisw an affair. Blake uses a "rose" probably because the woman he was speaking of was once beautiful. Therefore, it is now "sick" because it has now become tainted. "Thy bed of crimson jou emphasizes the passion and pleasure that has arose in Blakes bed. Lastly " The invisible worm" speaks of the man that Blake had discovered was a secret, then he compared the man to an insect to be offensive. Those examples provide provide representation of extended metaphors and symbolism, which is a common use of poerty. |
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| William Shakesspeare |
| e.e. cummings |
| Excerpt for the Epic poem Beowulf |
| Links to poetry websites |
| General Poetry. Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poetry Academy of American Poets http://www.poets.org/ Poetry Magazine http://www.poetrymagazine.org/ |
| Bibliography |
| "Poetry." Wikipedia. 2007. Wikipedia Foundations, Inc. 16 May 2007 http://em.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poetry "Poets.org" Poets.Org 2007 The Academy of American Poets. 17 May 2007 http://www.poets.org Monroe, Harriet "Poetry" Poetry May 2007 Poetry Foundation 17 May 2007 http://www.poetrymagazine.org "Poetry" Dictionary.com 2007 Lexico Publishing Group, LLC 16 May 2007 www.dictionary.reference.com/browse/poetry Wbster,Micheal, ed. "Spring" Grand Valley State University 10 April 2006 GVSU English Department 17 May 2007 www.gvsu.edu/english/cummings/Index,htm Blake,William "The Sick Rose" Wikipedia 18 May 2007 Wikipedia Foundation, Imc. 18 May 2007 http://wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sick_Rose "Poetry" Wikipedia 18 May 2007 Wikimedia Foundation, Inc 18 May 2007 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/poem "Emily Dickinson" Theotherpages.Org 2003 Poets' Corner Editorial Staff 18 May 2007 http://www.theotherpages.org/poems/faces/dickins.jpg "ee cummings" Theotherpages.Org 2003 Poets" Corner Editorial Staff 18 May 2007 http://www.theotherpages.org/poems/faces/poet-eec.jpg |
| "Poets.org" Poets.Org 2007 The Academy of American Poets 18 May 2007 http://www.poets.org/page/php/prmID/116 "Biography of E.E. Cummings" American Poems 2007 Gunnar Bengsston 18 May 2007 http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/eecummings "The Sick Rose" The Literature Network 2007 Jalice Inc. 18 May 2007 http://www.online-literature.com/blake/623 "Symbolism" Wikipdiea 17 May 2007 wikipedia Foundation, Inc 18 May 2007 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbolism |