Poetry

“Poetry, once a preeminent form of entertainment, has long since receded to the far, dusty corners of popular culture” (Giggs). Music and poetry have forever been connected. They follow the same poetic devices because music is based on poetry. Over time, poetry has become a lesser-appreciated art form because of the popularity of music. Music has evolved, while poetry has been fairly stagnant for a long time. With the use of metaphors, free verses, assonances, and its cultural influences, the…

of originality in his poetry by demonstrating how he used influences from his childhood experiences, imagism, and concrete poetry to write the poems we now admire. Known throughout Cambridge, Massachusetts for working in the Emersonian style of romantic transcendentalism, Edward Estlin Cummings, recognized as E.E Cummings, was born on October 14, 1894. He presented romantic literature in experimental versus to create a distinct personal style. Who wrote moving poetries that were influenced…

Luci Tapahonso has fed and continues to feed the minds of people all over the country with her beautiful poetry and writings. Her poetry often features women, much like herself, as well as stories from her childhood. She has written for many popular magazines as well as academic and poetry journals about her struggles growing up as a Native American woman. Her stories are an inspiration to all Native and non-Native alike. Born in 1953, she was raised on a farm on the Navajo reservation in…

Billy Collins (born 1941) has worked to craft a poetic art that is accessible without being sentimental or crass. Named poet laureate of the United States in 2001, Collins became the public face of American poetry and embarked on an ambitious effort to insert poetry--not the teaching of poetry so much as the raw material of poems themselves--into American secondary schools. His own books have enjoyed a rare combination of popular and critical success, selling tens of thousands of copies and…

Poetry, like all forms of art, matters because the meaning portrayed in poems can affect the reader by fueling their actions and understanding of society. Whether it is a love poem or politically-charged poem, the audience has some sort of reaction. In the sense of love, poetry helps us as a society express emotions better. Other emotions expressed in poems that helps us sympathize with others includes depression, happiness, anger, etc. Having a mutual expression affects our development as…

Poetry Advice and Techniques (Pope, Aristotle, Wordsworth and Woolf) There are countless types of poetry that have been very successful in our history. All poets and writers have their own little twist on their work that makes it unique and original. Some poets or writers like to stick with one type of writing because it is what they are best at. For example, Pope and Aristotle have a similar type of way they like to write poems. They find it very important to stay within the lines and use a…

Poetry and rap, two literary works that can be very different, yet they are extremely similar. Poetry is a literary work that may use rhyme, which expresses feelings or ideas in a distinctive style. Rap is a literary work that always uses rhyme, which expresses feelings or ideas in a distinctive style. Poetry however, came first and greatly influenced early rap and still influences rap and rappers today. Because of poetry, rap is what it is today. This is not to say however that some forms of…

According to the Poetry Foundation, Modernism originated by growing “out of the philosophical, scientific, political, and ideological shifts that followed the Industrial Revolution, up to World War I and its aftermath.” Furthermore, it “was a re-evaluation of the assumptions and aesthetic values of their predecessors.” As Modernism began, many writers including T.S. Eliot, William Butler Yeats, and Ezra Pound began creating poems with this new, innovative style. One such writer, Wallace Stevens,…

decided to put the rest of his love and passion into his poetry and became one of the most famous and well-known poets of all time. Hughes was born on the first of February in 1902 in Joplin, Missouri. [Although] he was born in Joplin, he mostly grew up in Lawrence Kansas. When his father moved to Mexico after the divorce, Hughes and his mother moved around a lot until he moved in with his grandmother, Mary and he then began the start of his poetry career. [After] his grandmother died when he…

the 21 century and Gustavo Alfonso Becquer a Spanish poet from the 18 century will shows us what they believe when writing poetry. Based on Rosario’s poem “Poesia no eres tu” and gustavo’ rhyme “Rima 21”. In the poem “Poesia no eres tu” by the poet Rosario Castellanos is a reflection of the poet Gustavo Adolfo Becquer rhyme “Rima 21”. It contradicts Gustavo’s view of poetry being a vivid interpretation of love and women persona. Gustavo Adolfo Becquer was a poet in the 18 century known for…