Category: Metaphysical Poets
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Modern / Metaphysical Poetry
The three poems that I read were “To His Coy Mistress”, “The Flea”, and “Funeral Blues”. In “Funeral Blues” written by W.H. Auden, the main theme was grievance over a loved one. The tone that was emitted from his word choice was dark, gloomy, and sad. When reading, you could instantly tell that the meaning…
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Love and Loss in Metaphysical and Modernist Poetry
In “A Lady” by Amy Lowell, the overarching theme is gender and societal norms as it relates to sexuality. The tone of this literary piece seems to take the form of a longing for a nontraditional relationship in a judgemental society. One part that resonated with me was, “And the perfume of your soul is…
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Modernist and Metaphysical
“Funeral Blues” by W.H Auden. I noticed in this poem that the first two lines and the last two lines rhymed together making me read it as rhythm. I also noticed that it got sadder as I read it. It is a deep message of how someone is grieving the loss of a loved one…
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Metaphysical
Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night was the first poem I picked that piqued my interest. The title of this poem drew me in. When the author is talking about that “good night,” he is talking about death. I have lost so many family members, whether it be from old age, cancer, or…
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An Early Glimpse of Poetry
The three poems that I picked are what came most interested to me and what I felt drawled my attention the most. The first poem that I picked wad “The Road not Taken,” by Robert Frost. This poem reflects to the challenges that people take. It is an encouraging and positive tone. It talks about…
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Neruda: The Story of One in Love
I don’t love you as if you were a rose of salt, topaz, or arrow of carnations that propagate fire: I love you as one loves certain obscure things, secretly, between the shadow and the soul. I love you as the plant that doesn’t bloom but carries the light of those flowers, hidden, within…
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The Beauty in Love
“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where, I love you directly without problems or pride: I love you like this because I don’t know any other way to love,” -Pablo Neruda “Shall I compare thee to a Summer’s day” is a 14-line poem about love/beauty written by William Shakespeare. This…
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Summer Is Never Going To Die
“Shall I compare thee to a summer day? “-William Shakespeare In this poem, they talk about the difference between the young man and the summer day. He is a more lovely and more temperate kind of person. The brutal, rough winds often shake these summer days, and the sun shines too hot or too…
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assignment week 2
I picked the poem Funeral Blues by W H Auden. There is a simple rhythm to this poem. It can be a poem that can go at a slow pace. The poem shares the environment and the feeling of sadness it carries. The narrator shares a universal feeling that many people have felt when they…
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Metaphysical and Modernist Poetry
Introduction to Poetry This poem can be very insightful in many ways and gets the audience thinking about what the author really means. For example, near the end it talks about how people read poems to just find one singular straight forward answer, but that is not how most poems work. The author also mentions…