During her last three years Plath abandoned the restraints and conventions that had bound much of her early work. She wrote with great speed, producing poems of stark self-revelation andconfession. The anxiety, confusion, and doubt that haunted her were transmuted into verses ofgreat powerandpath...
These dynamic and introspective poems explore the nature of power, its allure, and its consequences. They may examine the dynamics of power and more.
England had many more representatives than the other three nations, by virtue of its status as first among these four equals, the product of tradition as well as its greater political power and wealth. The upper house, the House of Lords, was populated principally by several hundred noblemen ...
ST: In terms of my own practice, I personally have worked with ekphrastic poetry films before, as in Villanelle for Elizabeth not Ophelia (based on the painting Ophelia by Dante Gabriel Rossetti) which takes a feminist stance against the position of the model and abuse of power, and there a...
On the one hand, the color connotes the regenerative power of nature and the vitality of the natural world. This is demonstrated through the successful manner in which the ivy has taken hold. On the other hand, green has connotations of decay and mold, which is also present in the poem ...
Also there are 125+ short poems ( 3-20 lines) I post and rotate on AllPoetry.com - specifically https://allpoetry.com/Dr_john_worldpeace_jd NOTE TO BOOKSTORES:I have designated a dozen or so books I think would be initial good sellers with bolded purple ink. These are generally 100...
Auden's poems demonstrate a deepening perplexity, and the development in his thought is marked by a shift from "the language of moderation" to "the language of learning and the language of love," from the vocabulary of assertion to the vocabulary of doubt and conflict. Another thought ...
, weight and power. Reading these pieces, we recognize how the hungers and desires, the fears and hopes, the regrets and epiphanies of his people have all somehow entered our cultural DNA, and how—like them–it’s up to each of us to come to terms with all the beauty and terror ...
Assessing The Tower (1928), Terence Brown says that ‘power celebrated and exercised in this self-consciously masterful book is in no way immune to an ironic vision’ (1999: 316). We shall see an ‘ennobling interchange’ (1850, xiii. 375) between...
These haunting verses witness the devastating impact of armed conflict on humanity. War poems capture the horrors of battle and loss of life.