Poetry Article Reviews Samples For Students

Derek Pearsall’s essay “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: An Essay in Enigma” is part of The Chaucer Review’s commemorative issue celebrating the work of C. David Benson as he approaches the age of retirement. Pearsall hearkens back to his master’s thesis days when he writes about Sir Gawain and the Green Knight; he begins by noting that even though he is quite familiar with the plot of this tale, to the point where he can tell a slightly less salacious version of the tale to his children and grandchildren. However, he also points out that ...

It’s not easy to know what is true for you or me

at twenty-two, my age. But I guess I’m what
I feel and see and hear, Harlem, I hear you:
hear you, hear me---we two---you, me talk on this page.
(I hear New York too.) Me---who?

Well, I like to eat, sleep, drink, and be in love.

I like to work, read, learn, and understand life.
I like a pipe for a Christmas present,
or records---Bessie, bop, or Bach.
I guess being colored doesn’t make me NOT like
the same things other folks like who are other races.

So will my page be colored that I write?

Being me, it will not be white.
But it will be
a part of you, ...

Critical review of Chinese Art and Literature

Introduction:
Chinese art is varied and intriguing both in the literary or dramatic aspect, as well as in the visual aspect. These two articles analyse various aspects of Chinese art dating back to several centuries. A typical example of the development of Chinese art are the famous flower paintings by Chien Hsuan that date back to at least the thirteenth century. This work, which according to a fifteenth century colophon, dates from Xhien’s maturity and is probably one of the finest of his flower paintings, apart from its interaction with poetry. The painting also reveals the richness and ...

Introduction

The Chinese people experienced eminent growths in terms of art and their culture between the period of 950-1200 AD. There were many developments in music, philosophy, literature and visual arts, which blossomed due to printing activities, hence making the Chinese culture spread to other regions. Among the major contributors towards this growth are the Song, Ming, Qing and Yuan Dynasties, which did many paintings and poetry to reflect further their culture 1. These works of art were exhibited for viewers during religious and other seasonal activities, an event that made the Chinese appreciate their culture. At some point during ...

According to T.V Reed, a feminist writer, poetry is not a luxury to women but the way they give names to the nameless for its thought, something vital for their existence. The poetry aims at serving the feminine interests and their personal interests which makes it political. The ability to read the lines communicated to them by other women, it gives them a sense of belonging to women faction. Their experiences and thoughts are reflected in the lines metaphors of the women’s writing.
The writing is public rather than personal hence applies the woman lot. The 1960s women’ liberation movement ...

“The Two Languages” is chapter 1 in Part I of book “Making Your Own Days” written by Kenneth Koch essentially “to say some clear and interesting things about poetry. The term “The Two Languages” is a metaphor for poetry identifying poetic language as its own language within language it’s written. While regarding poetry as a mysterious being that no one has quite been able to explain where and how it comes from, author Kenneth Koch invokes the ancient Greeks calling the Muse the source of poetry and others ascribing it to coming from some residually creative place in an unconscious ...

Boris by Candlelight: Analysis
The narrator speaks of this girl, Natasha who is supposedly someone who serves as a partner (or someone significant) to the narrator. The narrator seems to think that the girl is becoming a distraction to him. Instead on trying to focus on his battles under the command of this “Fearless Leader”, his heart wavers at the sight of this woman, and in his mind he knows that he cannot risk losing himself in the midst of his cause. Despite that, he does not make little of his feelings of attraction towards this ...

Question 1

Does the Harlem Renaissance have one unified style?
No, the Harlem Renaissance is characterized by the multiple experimenting of different forms and styles. This cultural movement encompasses a wide variety of styles including music, poetry and plays.
The variation and experimentation of styles and elements of this cultural revolution evident in the poems of Hughes, McKay and Countee contributed to a new identity or consciousness – ‘New Negro’ identity.
The poetry of Cullen and McKay has roots in conservative traditional poetry influenced by European literature while Hughes’s style is more modern.
Experimentation and diversification provides the basis ...

“Annabel Lee” by Edgar Allen Poe, and “How Do I Love Thee?” by Elizabeth Barret Browning are both poems with love as their main theme. Although both follow many traditions of love poetry, such as form and rhyme, the fact that Poe’s is a narrative poem and Browning’s a lyric poem cause them to read very differently. The question of which is more effective in conveying the theme of love is a difficult one to answer as this is a matter of opinion. However, overall, Poe’s poem gives the reader more to relate to and, therefore, is the more effective.
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The Lament for Prince Peer of the Sun, of The Lament for Prince Kusakabe, is among the earliest poetic works of Kakinomoto no Hitomaro that have survived until modern days. The poem, which is an elegy in form, was originally intended to commemorate the late Japanese crown prince Kusakabe, a successor of the emperor Tenmu. The beginning lines of the poem point to the place of Kusakabe’s temporary burial palace and express the poem’s relation to the mourning period following Kusakabe’s premature death.
The first meaningful section of the poem is a clear allusion to Japanese ...

In this episode of Radiolab, Robert Krulwich and Jad Abumrad interview Jim Dickson and Albert Zinc, who tell us the story of Ötzi. Ötzi was discovered in 1991 by two German hikers about 10,500 feet up in the Alps. These two hikers had decided to head off the trail, moving away some 100 yards from the beaten track. This decision led them to discover Ötzi, a frozen corps lying face down high up in the Alps. The hikers' first thoughts were that they stumbled on a man who recently had a mountaineering accident. The body was extraordinarily well-preserved. ...

Summary

Reading the bible and getting meaning out of the passages is most probably one of the most complicated things for Christians. The bible has been mentioned as one of the most inspiring books and the most read. However, despite all the worth that is attached to the bible, many people still finds it hard to not only read it but also get the most out of it. In the article How to read the bible for all its Worth by Gordon D. Fee and Douglas Stuart, they highlight some of the strategies that can be followed by a Christian to ...

Article Reviews

Article Reviews

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As the author rightly claims that many literary scholars do not take hip-hop and his texts as an important chapter in modern poetry. However, rap lyrics, though being quite provocative, often represent significant social issues and problems, which in real life remain uncorrected and disturb many people.
Knowing this, there were many attempts to create a book about the features of the hip-hop language. One of the most revealing and successful one is Jay-Z`s "Decoded". He says that people need to understand that there are several layers of meaning in the rap texts. The first, of ...