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Tag: Romance

  • How Pablo Neruda’s Sonnet 17 Portrays Passionate Love

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    Analysis by Aili Scott “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…

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    Grieving, Romantic, and Spiritful Poetry

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    “Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night” by Dylan Thomas “Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night” is an emotional poetic work accomplished by Dylan Thomas. The poem opens with the repetition, “Do not go gentle into that good night” which invites the reader to the poem’s urgent tone (Thomas, line 1).  This repeated…

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    Modernist and Metaphysical Poetry (Week 2)

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    Photo credit: Poem Analysis 2024 The first poem that I choose to analyze is “A Lady” by Amy Lowell 1874-1925. The writer starts off with imagery describing the lady, she is talking about hence the title of the poem. She is seen as “beautiful and faded”. The lady is then compared to an “old opera…

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    Desire, Adoration, and Imagery

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      The Metaphysical poem titled, “The Flea,” by John Donne (Norton p.738) had a very persuasive feel to it. I understood upon reading the lines, “How little that which thou deny’st me is, it sucked me first, and now sucks thee, and in this flea our two bloods mingled be” (lines 2-4) that the author…