and in a loosely iambic pattern.The last line of each four-line stanza shortens to tetrameter,with only four stresses,as in"And live alone in the bee-loud glade".Each of the three stanzas has the same abab rhyme scheme.Formally,this poem is somewhat unusual for Yeats:he rarely worked wit...
Frankenstein and the poem “A Work of Artifice” portray almost the same message. These pieces by Mary Shelley and Marge Piercy include both similar themes and ideas. The stories both involve a theme of misconception, similar characters in which is easily depicted, and the theme of alienation ...
Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for March 11, 2025 is: quark \KWORK\ noun Quark is a word used in physics to refer to any one of several types of very small particles that make up matter. // Quarks, which combine together to form protons and neutrons, come in six types, or [...
What we think of as “silent-film acting” is really just the transference of one style into an infant medium, not yet sure of footing. . Slowly, with the work of D.W. Griffith and others, the grammar of film began being written. With the advent of sound, you can see a temporary ...
Over the years, he has added to these qualities a range and a formal restlessness that seem to come from a skeptical turn of mind, an acute sense of the artifice of the poem and of the complexity of the world of lived experience that a poem tries to apprehend. Hass's work is ...
I’m thrilled and honored to have received the inaugural Shō Poetry Prize for my poem “The Starlings Were You.” Persistence is key—this poem was rejected 28 times prior to winning the prize. If you believe in your work, keep sending it out!
device- something in an artistic work designed to achieve a particular effect 5.conceit- the trait of being unduly vain and conceited; false pride conceitedness,vanity trait- a distinguishing feature of your personal nature narcism,narcissism,self-love- an exceptional interest in and admiration for...
Macbeth tells the murderers he employs to kill Banquo that the work of the highest rank of men is to kill without qualm of conscience. Lady Macbeth calls upon spirits to “unsex” her, to implant into her a male spirit, so she too could partake in acts of “the direst cruelty”. ...
own artifice. Welcome to the realm of metafiction, a literary playground where the story is keenly aware of its own storytelling. It’s a genre that doesn’t just tell a story; it comments on the very act of storytelling itself, inviting you, the reader, to ponder the nature of fiction...
work. To separate questions of a material order from those of a cerebral ordcr, but to take the former very seriously. Intelligence is the triumph of sound education and pragmatism. Fortunately life is something else and its pleasures are innumerable. They are not paid for in the coin of ...