Looney, George
In the poem “The Second Coming”, by William Butler Yeats. He writes this poem after World War I, around 1919. Yeats is a Irish poet, who came from Protestant parentage. The over all theme of the poem is that God will come back again. There are many versions to how God will appea...
In 1939, shortly before his death, Yeats wrote to a friend that he "foretold" the advent of World War II in "The Second Coming." Over time, some of the poem's phrases have become aphorisms for social disorder. In 1961, Nigerian author Chinua Achebe titled his famous novel about coloniza...
human life a poem人生如诗 human life a poem i think that, from a biological standpoint, human life almost reads like a poem. it has its own rhythm and beat, its internal cycles of growth and decay. it begins with ...
the Shakespearean sonnet is similar to the Chinese "eight-part essay":the first quatrain begins an argument,and the second follows it,the third"turns"by arguing the other way round,and the couplet concludes the argument by offering a conclusion to the argument of the poem.The pattern is ...
The second continues the theme of intimate nearness, inviting us to respond in like manner: For as the body is clad in the cloth, and the flesh in the skin, and the bones in the flesh, and the heart in the trunk, so are we, soul and body, clad and enclosed in the goodness of ...
One of the simplest kinds of poem is the "list poem", which contains a list of things, people, ideas, or descriptions that develop a particular theme. List poems have a flexible line length and repeated phrases which give both a pattern and a rhythm to the poem. Some rhyme( like B an...
Written with the tune of a traditional Scottish folk song,the poem simply but effectively expresses the theme of fresh but ever lasting love.In the first stanza,the speaker compares his love with a red rose,"That's newly sprung in June"and with a melody,"That's sweetly play'd in tune"...
In honor of National Couples Day today, I’m sharing a reading of two of my poems. The first poem, “Pier 12,” is written in free verse. The second poem is a haiku fromSimple Pleasures, which holds an echo from “Pier 12.” ...
In China,Spring Festival is the biggest day.People will come back home and enjoy spending some time with their families.So no matter how far they are,they will figure out all the ways to come back home and get reunited.The house cleaning work before the coming of this big day always bri...