Stars and Astronomy Art forms like poems and paintings can express great emotion through theme and tone. From here the question is asked: What makes a piece of art significant and have a lasting affect on the audience? The two poems, “Stars, I Have Seen Them Fall” by A.E. Houseman and “When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer” by Walt Whitman express a powerful message. Also, the late Vincent Van Gogh’s painting Starry Night is still one of the most well known pieces of art due to its distinct color and geometrical patterns. These three pieces of art are similar in the way they address astronomy and the stars, although they are very different in the messages that they produce. Therefore, this proves how artists of all kinds are connected and can impact their audience with their work by expressing great themes and tone. …show more content…
As Houseman noted, “The toil of all that be; Helps not the primal fault” (5-6). The author elaborates that shooting stars are like human life; there are so many stars in the sky and even if one is lost, the sky will remain the same. This relates to people when there is a tragedy but they keep living their everyday lives. Meanwhile Whitman explains, “Till rising and gliding out I wander’d off by myself; In the mystical moist-night air, and from time to time; Look’d up in the perfect silence at the stars” (9-11). The narrator in the poem describes his position as a student being taught the mysteries of the world. They walk outside for some fresh air and realizes the impact of experiencing things for himself. The two poems are similar in their meanings because they acknowledge how the stars can relate to
This shows that the novel and the poem compare because they both grow up and they are not so innocent as they grow. In both the novel and the poem talk about making mistakes and how no one is
For this work, artist used canvas of almost 5 ft tall. Myriads of tiny stars are scattered over the darkest black of a night sky. This painting has such an incredible depth, that it is impossible to reach the background. The fulcrum is lost, and the painting looks like a window to the universe. Reverse Night Sky #4 (Fig.2) is a negative image of starry sky, where shiny stars are turned into black particles, and darkness of the sky is reversed to blinding brightness. It creates interesting feeling, as we could observe the underside of the cosmos. Another spacey painting is Untitled (Ochre) (Fig.3), for this work Celmins adds color to her monochrome palette. This work could look like photograph of the galaxy, with golden radiance behind numerous speckles of stars. Again, artist achieved infinite depth, that background totally
Surprisingly small compared to other works, “Astronomer by Candlelight” by Gerrit Dou could be easily overlooked by a casual stroller. However, as I approached it to have a closer look, other paintings quickly lost interest for me. The closer I got, the more detail appeared; the scene came alive with the play of light and dark. The astronomer, eternally still, pulsed with life, pondering over his books. Within a foot of the painting I began to feel as though I was looking through a keyhole into his study. Indeed, Dou's work and all its facets becomes an emblem for "the inquiry of truth, which is the lovemaking, or the wooing of it... [as] the sovereign
While the beginning half of the poem feels joyous and lighthearted, it is masked by a thin facade. This is portrayed by the nighttime setting and the shakiness of the seemingly cheerful terms, such as the verses “while the stars, that oversprinkle / all the heavens, seem to twinkle” (6-7). In the latter half of the poem, the tone becomes openly dark. The speaker probably sees this poem and its four sections as stages in life, which quickly dive from a bright atmosphere to a downright distressing one. Together, they represent the idea that happiness is
In poem two, the theme is, similar. The theme is, there's hope even at the worst times even if that mean change. The poems are different, but also similar. In both stories one of the topics in weather.
Art comes in many different forms, and there are similarities and differences in all forms of art. While “Stars, I Have Seen Them Fall” by A.E. Housman, “When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer” by Walt Whitman, and Starry Night by Vincent Van Gogh have some obvious similarities, they have striking differences as well. While the poems and painting may seem like innocent pieces of work, they all share a similar theme and tone. “Stars, I Have Seen Them Fall” just sounds like a more pessimistic poem just by the title, but when if someone were to actually read the poem, they would come across “But no star is lost at all / From all the star-sown sky” (Housman 3-4).
These are two poems about nature. Now they are talking about the same thing. Well, they say it differently, you see the first one is talking about how the sun is rising and it shines on every leaf and they use a simile which is just perfect. Then on the second one, then they use many, many metaphors which are ok, but they rhyme a little which is better for the reader and it is longer and so they make it more interesting. They are very interesting, and they make you want to just get up and go outside. So you can feel what they are talking about so should right now just get off the couch and go outside. Run around make some camping plans so you can go into the forest and then see all the beauty of the world. Or you could go camping in the wrong spot where there was a forest fire and so then you will see all the destruction and you will try to do something about it. So then will decide that you need to do something about it so join a group that goes around and helps put up signs that say. Fire Resrictions No Campfires No Barbeques Nothing that are a Fire Hazard But then people will get very mad and so then you will need to go and talk to your group and you will go and make new signs that
In the first poem, the light is nonexistent, as the speaker becomes adjusted to the power of darkness. “But as they learn to see” refers to the narrator becoming accustomed to the dark as the narrator learns to cope with the potential struggles of being alone and becomes optimistic of their circumstances. In the second poem, the narrator has been consistent with grief. “I have walked out in rain -- and back in rain.” The rain symbolizes the narrator’s desolation of life.
Stars can be described through poetry in many different ways, while having the same idea, but differing themes. In “Stars, I Have Seen Them Fall,” the author explains that the loss of one star makes no difference in the sky, “Stars, I have seen them fall, / But when they drop and die / No star is lost at all / From all the star-sown sky” (Housman 1-4). No matter how many stars fall, there will still
tells a tale of a student that grows uninterested in what is being taught to him/her. Thus, the student decides to leave and self-educate him/herself. Whitman writes this poem to demonstrate how experiences and learning within one’s mind can help an individual flock intellectually rather than being taught by someone based on their thoughts. Obviously, Whitman took part in the transcendentalism movement; which members believed that one must learn through instinct and through their own ideas. The student in the poem leaves the astronomer in hopes of finding answers for themselves through their own interpretation of whatever they are interested in. This is evident when the student observes the stars for him/herself. The student no longer limit
The poem is about animals being free like the are in the wild. The poem uses the sky and the moon to show how wild and untamed wild animals should be “they belong
The most significant lyric, “That the universe was made just to be seen by my eyes”, shows the audience what the storyteller has grasped from this conversation with his late friend. He now realizes that anything outside of his own mind is unsure and that what his friend has seen was only for him. He understands that it is his turn to watch life pass by him, and benefit him the way it may have benefitted his friend, and in a way that will make his heart swell or ache.
In Vincent Van Gogh’s “Starry Night” he used five of the seven elements of art, including Space, color, line, texture, and shape/form to create a beautiful masterpiece. The art work goes into great detail, showing a small town, which uses shape/form and gives a satisfying setting and gives very much detail. The element line is what is used to create the art piece. The mood of the artwork, the sky, is created by using lines, “line is the most prominent elements in this painting,” Many different lines are put together, to create the sky, and the effect of the stars. He uses long, organic, short, sharp, and many other lines.
The word "twinkle and star" represent a small hope of light that remains. The lines 45-51 of the poem, shows the interest of the hollow men about the "Death other kingdom" The
They both display a vive image of what they see around them. From the dust in the rainbows to the shadows on the ground. While reading this two poems I can see what the author is trying to show his readers. In the beginning of the “Two Somewhat Different Epigrams,” it did give a more colorful image with an angry end.