Siti Aisah The Ambiguity in Anne Sexton’s Poems and Her Writing Technique especially in ‘Us’ Anne Sexton is a poet and playwright. She is famous for his poetry that plays some of his personal life. She also has the same tragic fate as Sylvia Plath. Anne Sexton's poetry tells stories that are immensely significant to the mid-Twentieth-century artistic and psychic life. Sexton understood her culture's malaise through her own, and her skill enabled her to deploy metaphorical structures at once synthetic and analytic.
Gwen Harwood’s poetry encapsulates human experiences as both timeless and integral to the formation of our present perceptions. By examining the role of memory in her poems “The Violets” and “At Mornington”, Harwood identifies that their significance is that of an everlasting memory that will dominate over time’s continuity and the inevitability of death. Through the exploration of this universal concept and its overarching examination across her body of works, Harwood’s poetry possess textual integrity and simultaneously addresses the personal and universal audience thereby resonating with a broad audience and a number of critical perspectives. Engaging with her own personal experiences, Gwen Harwood conveys the echoing message of the dominant
Later on he became a priest, and this greatly impacted his life and writing. He went from writing poems which talked about sex, like The Flea, to writing poems strictly about his faith. Gerard Manley Hopkins also wrote about religion in his later poems. Hopkins was born into the Church of England, but in school he had a teacher and mentor named John Henry Newman, who influenced him to convert to Catholicism. After Hopkins’ conversion, his writing became all about his love for God, similar to Donne.
Edward Taylor is an American colonial pastor and poet. Taylor mainly used his writings and sermons to talk about his belief in God. Taylor believed strongly in John Calvin’s philosophy of TULIP. TULIP stands for total depravity, unconditional election, limited atonement, irresistible grace, and perseverance of the saints. One of Taylor’s main rhetorical strategies in his writing is his utilization of metaphor.
Furthermore, the idea that religion was oppressive is directly linked to ‘the cathedral tunes’ and the sound of the poems ballad and hymn like appearance thus emphasising further the idea that religion is the light that ‘oppresses, like the weight’. Emily’s imagery overrides its meaning making it ambiguous and interestingly powerful. Her images are themed upon death, nature and religion. These themes are associated with both the puritans and transcendentalist. We can suggest that Emily was confused about her faith which was ‘sent of the air’, suggesting her high doubt and question of its origin, and hopeful through her imagery of the
This image introduces the feminist theme and sets the tone for the remainder of the poem. Atwood then takes the reader through a history of persecution and helplessness with references to women being branded as witches and the tying of their legs to prevent childbirth. The solution she offers lies in the power of words and language. By expressing themselves through writing, women have a voice which cannot be suppressed. In the eight stanzas of "Spelling," Atwood, as the speaker of the poem, successfully expresses her views on women's need for writing as a medium of making their opinions heard and to be treated equally.
| The Poetry of Emily Dickenson: Pain in Poetry | | Emily Dickinson has portrayed and focused repeatedly on pain within several of her poems. It is within this focus and description that we, as the readers, are able to interpret its effects on both the body and the soul. My review of Emily Dickenson’s poetry analyzes her poems and the poetic portrayal of “pain” as both a friend and an enemy. In poem 244, Emily Dickenson presents a comparison between physical and psychological pain. According to poem 806, pain is a state through which the soul gets liberated from the body.
In Sonnet 62 Shakespeare could be warning his friend to beware of self-admiration as it is mortal sin and not easy to discard. He is also saying he understands self-love as he also loves his image in the mirror, even with age, But when my glass shows me myself indeed, Beated and chapped with tanned antiquity (62; 9-10). In Sonnet 74 the poet is speaking of his death; The earth can have but earth, which is his due (74; 7) and also The prey of worms, my body being dead, (74; 10) This is referring to the Christian belief, of ashes to ashes and dust to dust. Shakespeare is saying that when he dies, his spirit will still exist; My spirit is thine, the better part of me (74; 8). Christians believe that the soul survives death.
Those saved enjoy some benefits here on earth during their pilgrimage. Salvation is not just an experience for the afterlife; it involves the "first fruits" of blessedness, that is, a proper relationship with God, a gradual transformation into the likeness of Christ, and the filling of the Holy Spirit.. After death, an eternal life awaits Traditionally, Protestants believe in a judgment day at the end of history. On this day all the people that have died throughout human history will be resurrected, and will possess some sort of physical body that will resemble but yet be different from the body possessed during their earthly existence. This is something I found extremely shocking, because although I am a Christian with no denomination, I never really thought about what would happen to your body other than decaying into the ground, and your spirit going to heaven or
A reading of Millay’s “I, being born a woman and distressed” “I, being born a Woman and Distressed”, by Edna St. Vincent Millay, is a vehement sonnet that attempts to express a political point as well as a personal one. The poem speaks to what it is like to be a woman in the 20th century. The sonnet is spoken by a woman with a sarcastic, cynical tone, in hope to show glimpse of a reverse the roles of men and women in society. Millay strategically places sarcasm and irony together to make her protest against the idea of female inferiority evident. In the first four lines, it is recognizable that Millay is using an iambic pentameter of an Italian Sonnet, instead of the more common Elizabethan Shakespearean structure.