The idea of drama and poetry is not a new theme in writing. It has been around for quite a while. Within Shakespeare’s plays there are constant examples of this idea. Take for instance Full Fathom Five within The Tempest. It illustrates the versitility of a dramatic piece shared with a poetic sense. Because I focused last week on Shakespeare’s ( Read more... )

After a relaxing, exciting and much needed almost one month break, it’s time to get back into the weekly process of poetry blogging. For this weeks discussion, I chose two Shakespearian sonnets. The first, a very well known Shakespearian sonnet, number 18, illustrates the most familiar form of love. Whereas the second, Sonnet 130, displays a much ( Read more... )

This week in lecture and tutorial we looked at the works of Sappho and Catullus. This type of poetry originates from ancient Greece and Rome. This style of love poetry offers a different aspect in regards to the types of poems we have looked at so far this semester. Rosita provided examples to look into and I decided to use a few in my blog ( Read more... )

For my blog this week I decided to write about the poem 'Funeral Blues' by W.H. Auden as suggested by Rosita in this weeks tutorial. She mentioned that it was recited within the movie 'Four Weddings and a Funeral'. I thought that this poem would be interesting to look into. Here it is ( Read more... )

The subject of everyday poetry leaves the imagination free to dream up many creative ideas of what could be considered everyday. To me, the thought of an everyday poem deals with a theme or idea of a somewhat simplistic nature. Although the idea may be simple, the poem does not have to be. The straightforward aspect of these topics allow the author ( Read more... )

For my journal this week I decided to focus on another work by Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus). The poem 'To Chole' is an example of a much different style of writing than that of the poem studied this week in lecture and tutorial. It was retrieved from www.poetry-archive.com. Although the poem is short, it illustrates a variety of poetic devices ( Read more... )

I was first introduced to epic poetry last year in my English Literary Genres class. We looked at some epic poetry, but the poem that had the greatest impact in regards to my understanding of this form of poetry was seen in Homer's 'The Odyssey'. What was first thought to be a "normal" novel; one that I had become accustomed to reading for years, ( Read more... )

Jabberwocky is a poem by Lewis Carroll from his work "Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There". Throughout both highschool and university I have often heard the name of this poem, but it was not until class this week that I actually had a chance to read and discover it for myself. This poem is an original in terms of ideas and use of ( Read more... )

After reading the poems within the book the Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T.S. Eliot, I decided to discuss the poem The Ad-dressing of Cats. I found this poem to be entertaining and amusing. This was a good sign as I am a dog lover. The poem creates the idea that cats are much like humans; especially in their need to be named. There are ( Read more... )

To me, the idea of prose poetry is fairly new. I have read prose poems in the past without realizing what kind of poem they really were. Professor Kuin put the idea in to easily definable terms. "Prose poetry is everything that is not formally or recognizably verse." This simplified explanation made the idea behind prose poetry less difficult to ( Read more... )