From the poets we’ve read in the class, Apollinaire is one who has a certain flair to him. The name “Apollinaire” is his own creation, one that as we speculated in class could even be a sort of rhymed play after Baudelaire. He famously pioneered the poem in the form of a calligram, a subversion of the norm with its melding together of the verbal and visual. However, in spite of all this, his poem “June 14, 1915” initially seems to lack that flashy flourish that is more visibly present in his other writings, for example “The Little Car.” Even though it operates with a flare to an arguably lesser degree, the poem still operates significantly with a “modernist” sensibility. A marked modernist poetic practice within “June 14, 1915” is how it …show more content…
Especially for this poem which is framed by a very specific date, that experience of the “now” is especially crucial in establishing the poetic world and setting the reader engages with. The constant movement and the immediate temporality of the lines lends an alluring credibility to the poem; somehow, this vitality allows for the date of “June 14, 1915” exist within a condensed space. In reading it, the immediacy makes me not question possibilities of filtering through the poet or the strange concept of an entire day living in just fifteen …show more content…
Without them, we lose a framework for what holds it together. How could we even read this if not considering its poetic “now-ness?” Thinking about this for “June 14, 1915” allows us an initial glance into how the poem works, rather than what the poem is, and without the understanding of this dimension, the poem becomes unsubstantiated, just a set of arranged words on a page that we assume intention for. As readers, this recognition allows us into the sense of urgency that Apollinaire wrote with and imbued his words with; subsequently we can live inside the moments created by the world of “June, 14
Topic #2- Describe and analyze the role that community plays in the conflict of the novel. Does Fast see community as an important asset in the opening days of the Revolution?
What information from this source would be most useful to include in your informative/explanatory article?
Spring is the season of growth, revival and beginnings. In the poems “Spring and All” by William Carlos Williams and “For Jane Meyers” by Louise Gluck, the poets talk about this very season. In fact, the two poems are contradictory, in that, Williams writes about the bleakness of winter and the awakening of spring. On the other hand, Gluck’s romantic poetry associates the natural renewal of spring with bereavement and death. Both poets use abundant imagery, symbolism, metaphors, different tones, and similes, to affirm their contending attitudes towards the season. Consequently, although the poems are about the same subject, the demeanor of the poets are varied.
Poetry has a role in society, not only to serve as part of the aesthetics or of the arts. It also gives us a view of what the society is in the context of when it was written and what the author is trying to express through words. The words as a tool in poetry may seem ordinary when used in ordinary circumstance. Yet, these words can hold more emotion and thought, however brief it was presented.
The appreciation of nature is illustrated through imagery ‘and now the country bursts open on the sea-across a calico beach unfurling’. The use of personification in the phrase ‘and the water sways’ is symbolic for life and nature, giving that water has human qualities. In contrast, ‘silver basin’ is a representation of a material creation and blends in with natural world. The poem is dominated by light and pure images of ‘sunlight rotating’ which emphasizes the emotional concept of this journey. The use of first person ‘I see from where I’m bent one of those bright crockery days that belong to so much I remember’ shapes the diverse range of imagery and mood within the poem. The poet appears to be emotional about his past considering his thoughts are stimulated by different landscapes through physical journey.
To help Year Twelve students that are studying poetry appreciate it's value, this pamphlet's aim is to discuss a classic poem and a
Gallahan’s article grants the reader with an article containing the advantages and disadvantages of a year round school. In the beginning of the article Gallahan discusses that year round school is always a debate the moment it is brought up. While the author mentions that the article is about the two different sides of year round school, it is mainly focused on the advantages. For example, “Schools utilizing a year-round calendar are experiencing benefits of remediation and retention as other traditional calendar schools are reaping the benefits of calendar unity and less funding commitment” (Gallahan). This intext citation displays that even though her article addresses the debate, her voice of reason is directed more towards the advantages.
In Panama City Beach, Florida, drinking on the beach during Spring Break is illegal, but that is only one month out of the year. Panama City Beach is a tourist town and it relies on people coming from all over the world to visit. The busiest months are during Spring Break and when summer vacation starts. Right now, the law only states drinking any kind of alcohol on the beach during March is illegal and bars that are on the beach front must close at 2 am. The law should be changed to include drinking on the beach during the summer months illegal. If drinking on the beach during Spring Break and the summer months was made illegal fewer people would end up dying while vacationing, less sexual assaults, it will cut down on underage drinking, and the crime rate.
The use of symbolism and imagery is beautifully orchestrated in a magnificent dance of emotion that is resonated throughout the poem. The two main ideas that are keen to resurface are that of personal growth and freedom. Furthermore, at first glimpse this can be seen as a simple poem about a women’s struggle with her counterpart. However, this meaning can be interpreted more profoundly than just the causality of a bad relationship.
Love makes people become selfish, but it is also makes the world greater. In this poem, the world that the speaker lives and loves is not limited in “my North, my South, my East and West / my working week and my Sunday rest” (9-10), it spreads to “My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song (11). The poem’s imagery dominates most of the third stanza giving readers an image of a peaceful world in which everything is in order. However, the last sentence of the stanza is the decisive element. This element not only destroys the inner world of the speaker, but it also sends out the message that love or life is mortal.
The possibility of year round schools has been a hot debate topic for quite some time. The question is, is the idea of year round schools acceptable considering all the potential drawbacks? Year round schooling can be disruptive to both the family of the students and the teachers themselves, it can be too costly for a large group of people, and year round schools do not provide the same opportunity for learning as the traditional school year does. For several reasons, the traditional school year, which runs for ten months instead of eleven, is more beneficial in comparison to year round schooling.
This lyrical poem by the author who was a pioneer of the Romantic movement, uses the earths elements and human emotions to take him back and recollect how much something had an an effect it had on him at the time.
Adam Cooper started out as a fifteen-year-old boy, but became a fifteen-year-old man. In the beginning, Adam could not get along with his father, Moses Cooper, and truly believed that his father hated him. Moses was always getting on to Adam for everything he did. In Moses’ eyes his boy could do better than he let on if he would only apply himself a little bit more. “There was nothing that a Cooper man couldn’t do.”
Many poems in the collection feature a speaker who looks back at his old time in introspection disapprovingly. For instance, in the poem “The Coming of Wisdom with Time,” the speaker refers to his old time as “the lying days of my youth” (Norton, 38). A similar sentiment can be found in the poem “All things can Tempt Me,” in which the speaker laments that “a woman’s face”—love, and “the seeming needs of my fool-driven land”—nationalism have once tempted him away from the “craft of verse” (Norton, 40). In the poem “Reconciliation,” too, the speaker recalls that “you” (presumably Maud Gonne) took away the verses that could move readers. Deaf and blind, the speaker “could find / nothing to make a song about but kings, / Helmets, and swords, and half-forgotten things / that were like memories of you” (Norton, 37). In these three poems, the speaker is incapacitated by his love for a woman, for his country, or both. As the speaker of “The Fascination of What’s Difficult puts it, “the fascination of what’s difficult / has dried the sap out of [his] veins, and rent / spontaneous joy and natural content / out of [his heart]” (Norton, 37). These lines summarize Yeats’s torment between 1903 and 1908, when he was tortured by unattainable love and preoccupied with the management of the theater.