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Metaphysical Poetry- Characteristics,Types and Major Poets, 2005.
A discussion of the origins and nature of metaphysical poetry.
2,728 words (approx. 10.9 pages), 5 sources, MLA, £ 57.95
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This paper examines the origins of metaphysical poetry and its characteristics. Poetic terms are defined and the types of metaphysical poetry are discussed. The major poets of this genre are introduced. Although the paper considers metaphysical poetry in a positive light, criticism of the movement is also presented.
Introduction
Characteristics of metaphysical poetry
A.Delight in Novel Thought and Expression
B.Far-Fetched Images
C. Affectation and Hyperbole
D. Obscurity
E. Learning
Types of Metaphysical Poetry
A. Amorous Poetry
B. Religious Poetry
Sources of Metaphysical Poetry
Poets of the Metaphysical World
A. John Donne
B. George Halbert
C. Andrew Marvell
D. Henry Vaughn
VI. Conclusion
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"Metaphysics or the branch of philosophy dealing with the nature of existence, truth and knowledge based on abstract reasoning, was first applied to poetry by Dr.Samuel Johnson. He borrowed it from Dryden's derogatory phrase about Donne-"He affects the metaphysics." Dryden criticized Donne for his excessive obscurity and Dr.Samuel Johnson later used the term 'metaphysical' to describe the specific poetic method used by poets like Donne."
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Marvell & Donne: 17th Century Metaphysical Poetry, 1996.
Analyzes 17th century metaphysical poetry by comparing & contrasting two poems: Andrew Marvell's "To his Coy Mistress" & John Donne's Valediction Forbidding Mourning.
1,575 words (approx. 6.3 pages), 7 sources, £ 39.95
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"The poems "To His Coy Mistress" by Andrew Marvell and "Valediction Forbidding Mourning" by John Donne are both examples of what is called metaphysical poetry from the seventeenth century. This poetry was produced by a group of poets of the seventeenth century, called the metaphysical poets by critics Herbert Grierson and T.S. Eliot because the poets showed certain similarities in their philosophical conception of the universe and in the way they expressed this philosophical view in their poetry (Lanstaff and Kermode 14).
Andrew Marvell wrote such poetry and addressed a number of recurring themes, shaping his poetry through symbolism and the development of involved conceits that included more than a little sense of coy humor along with the philosophical base (Roth 98). "To His Coy Mistress" is a poem of seduction offered as..."
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English Metaphysical Poetry, 1999.
A look at the works of Donne, George Herbert, Richard Crashaw, Andrew Marvell, and several other lyric poets, and the influences and styles that shaped their works
3,505 words (approx. 14.0 pages), 6 sources, £ 69.95
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"Donne, George Herbert, Richard Crashaw, Andrew Marvell, and several other lyric poets. Poetry is this type is distinguished form other poetry of the period by metrical form that imitates the rhythm of oratory rather than of song (Grierson, xxv), and by thematic emphasis on thought rather than feeling. The poetry of Donne and his followers is especially characterized by elaborately worked out figures of speech called ?conceits.? These conceits are usually extended metaphors or similes that illustrate the poet?s thought by analogy to some more or less far-fetched comparison. Dame Helen Gardner describes the ?conceit? by saying hat it is a ?comparison whose ingenuity is more striking than its justness?.a comparison becomes a conceit when we are made to concede likeness while being strongly conscious of unlikeness?"
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Type A and Type B Personalities at Work, 2004.
A comparison of Type A and Type B personalities in the workplace and the advantages and disadvantages of both types of personalities.
1,567 words (approx. 6.3 pages), 3 sources, APA, £ 36.95
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This paper describes both Type A and Type B personalities, as well as the different categories of Type A personalities, and compares their characteristics to see which one most contributes to a working environment. The paper also explains how a manager can best balance the different elements of Type A and Type B personalities in the work force.
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"Imagine this scenario. It?s a critical time during a particular business deal. The entire management ?team? of one company reconvenes for lunch in an isolated conference room to discuss what has just transpired with the representatives from the other company over the course of the morning. One individual slams the door angrily behind him. With many an explicative, he sits down, complaining about the behavior and unfair tactics of the other negotiators. Another individual attempts to calm the raging man down. He waves off the succoring individual with an angry shrug, refusing to be calm and continuing to shout."
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Shakespeare: Metaphysical Aspects in Sonnets, 1993.
Examines a number of sonnets from Shakespeare's sonnet cycle, deciphers them, explains how they are constructed and explores the ways in which they anticipated the Metaphysical movement in poetry.
2,025 words (approx. 8.1 pages), 2 sources, £ 50.95
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"In the study of literature, the term "Metaphysical" refers to a type of poetry initiated by John Donne in the early seventeenth century--it is characterized by "conceits," elaborate, sustained metaphors (Abrams, 1993, 1081). In his use of such conceits, a Metaphysical poet "displays his own ingenuity but may express a deep vision of the world and the strands of analogy that seem to hold it together" (Abrams, 1993, 1081). Although William Shakespeare wrote and published his sonnet cycle before Donne's Metaphysical poetry was published, there are traces of what could be argued to be Metaphysical images and conceits within Shakespeare's work. This research will examine a number of sonnets from Shakespeare's sonnet cycle and decipher them, explain how they are constructed, and explore the ways in which Shakespeare anticipated the Metaphysical movement."
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Poetry, 2005.
An overview of different types of poetry.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 1 source, £ 24.95
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This paper examines various forms of poetry, including a selection of age appropriate poems for 5 to 6 year olds. The poems examined range from lyrical to narrative to dramatic. It looks at how poetry can dramatically enliven a writing workshop environment in a classroom, and help young writers, especially the ones that struggle to find their voices.
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" Poetry began in prehistoric times when people passed down their oral history in poetic language and song. There are three specific types of poetry including lyrical, narrative, and dramatic. Lyric poetry is any poem that is short in length. Narrative poems tell stories, an epic or ballad. Dramatic poetry also tells a story, but in this case one or more of the poem's characters acts out the story. In order to select the right poems to read to kids the reader must choose poems that are age and content appropriate."
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Middle Eastern Poetry, 2008.
This paper discusses Middle Eastern poetry, noting that such poetry tends to concern the conflict experienced around the poets.
2,056 words (approx. 8.2 pages), 7 sources, MLA, £ 45.95
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In this article, the writer notes that Middle Eastern poetry is often peppered with honest assessments of the physical and emotional turmoil of conflict. The writer discusses that poetry in the Middle East tends to be a voice of record, in stylistic descriptions of the conflicts of mind, body and spirit that demonstrate a life or many lives in the turmoil of conflict and change. The writer maintains that many Middle Eastern authors feel a fierce obligation to write not only about the joy and struggle of writing poetry but also the trails and conflicts of their nations and the people whom they have known and whom they have imagined to have been deeply affected by all. The writer concludes that in the works of Ozkan Mert (Turkish) Taha Muhammad Ali (Palastinian) Eliaz Cohen (Israeli) and Aharon Shabtai (Israeli) one can locate the human drama of living in strife as well as the pleasure of poetic expression, without any real difficulty and with a great sense of wonder that is expressed through poetry and the wondrous human mind.
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"Each of these writers are expressing the nature of self, the body of self and the nature of political and social upheaval, as it is expressive of the self and the whole. Each may be writing from an opposing side, but clearly their views are not opposing. Their voice is one that asks those who would choose to subvert them to listen to their voice as the voice of the individual seeking individual reconciliation in the face of conflict. The Middle Eastern conflict is a constant point of discussion in every arena, those offering solutions and those offering greater strife, and the words of these poets exemplify that the voice rarely heard is the voice of the people, the individual bodies and souls who live every day facing the results of conflict and the candor of legislative results.
"Ozkan Mert probably best exemplifies the passion and power of poetry, as a simple form that can convey a meaning beyond the nature of it length or even it s breath. Mert in his poem Whose on the Side of Poetry expresses the fear that some have of poetry, as a tool used by people to express the nature of strife, often when many wish that such strife not become public knowledge."
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What is Poetry?, 2006.
The paper looks at how Samuel Taylor Coleridge in his "Philosophic Definitons of a Poem and Poetry" defines poetry.
736 words (approx. 2.9 pages), 1 source, MLA, £ 18.95
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The paper relates that Samuel Taylor Coleridge's approach to defining poetry is a combination of an examination of the purpose of poetry as well as the humanistic qualities of the poet. The paper discusses Coleridge's idea that the conglomeration of the human condition is necessary in order to manifest poetry. The paper explains this to mean that the full force of the heart and soul is necessary in order to create true art.
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"Throughout the ages, philosophers have attempted to answer the question, what is poetry. Plato, Aristotle and Longinus contributed fine essays on this topic. During the Romantic era, a redefinition of the art of poet occurred, mandating a re-evaluation of what poetry is. The Romanic author and poet, Samuel Taylor Coleridge endeavors to answer this question in his essay, Philosophic Definitons of a Poem and Poetry. Coleridge's approach is a combination of an examination of the purpose of poetry as well as the humanistic qualities of the poet. Coleridge examines what poetry is, what a poet is and what the cumulative result of answering these two questions."
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The Poetry of Longfellow, 2002.
Analyzes the poetry of Henry Wadworth Longfellow from the perspective of romanticism and American pragmatism.
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This essay analyses the poetry of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Three aspects of the poetry are considered: romanticism, American pragmatism, and the art of Longfellow's writing. This essay examines three of Longfellow's poems - The Slave's Dream, My Lost Youth, and A Psalm of Life - and concludes that Longfellow's poetry demonstrates characteristics of romanticism, but with an American perspective on pragmatism and art.
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Poetry in Elementary School Curricula, 2004.
This paper discusses ideas for the integration of poetry and the creative energy poetry can engender into non-poetic school learning environments.
2,115 words (approx. 8.5 pages), 5 sources, MLA, £ 46.95
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This paper explains that poetry is a tool to stimulate creative problem solving, build an ability for creative expression, help a child develop literacy skills, and learn other subjects through the imaginative, resourceful use of poetry. The author points out that a 'persona poem' is a poem that is written in the first person; the writer imagines that he or she is an animal, a movie star, a politician, or anything or anyone he or she is not. The paper stresses that innovation and doing the unexpected are extremely important for elementary school teachers when coaxing students to love and use poetry throughout their curricula.
Table of Contents
Introduction
The American Poetry and Literacy Project
The Persona Poem
Using Persona Poetry in Social Studies, Music, Math, Science, and Art
Conclusion
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"To move to another area of study, math; the student could write a persona poem pretending to be Albert Einstein?s pencil sharpener. Imagine all the work that sharpener must do ? since Einstein was said to go through a number of pencils each day during his mathematical research and formula writing ? and imagine all the grinding sounds and shavings, too. Or, alternatively, what would it be like to be the number ?1?? Would that be a grand feeling of winning (?number one? can mean the best, the first, the top choice), or would being ?number one? seem like a person had a long way to go to get to ?50??"
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Love and Religion in Donne's Poetry, 2004.
An analysis of how John Donne's metaphysical work uses many correlations between love poetry and religious verse.
1,456 words (approx. 5.8 pages), 3 sources, MLA, £ 34.95
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This paper explores the poet John Donne's philosophy regarding love and marriage, which can often be traced to Ovidian or Platonic sources through an analysis of poems such as "'Batter My Heart", "The Flea", "Elegie" and "Aire and Angels". It looks at how relationships portrayed between body and soul are often exposed and how Donne analyses the human experiences of being in love and of sensual delight, which are inextricably bound to his vulnerable search for religious certainty.
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"In ?The Flea? Donne uses a logical mock-religious argument in an attempt to persuade his mistress to partake in sexual activity with him. The reasoning Donne uses to try to entice his lover to bed is based on a metaphysical conceit, which makes the unlikely comparison between their union and a flea biting them both. He creates a sexual image of their ?two bloods? mingling in the flea, and promises that sex involves no more ?loss of maidenhead? , a pun on French puce, ?flea? and pucelage ?maidenhead?, than allowing the flea to bite her."
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Nostalgia in Romantic Poetry, 1996.
An examination of the use of nostalgia in the poetry of the romantic era (1768 - 1839), focusing in particular on the poetry of William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
1,951 words (approx. 7.8 pages), 5 sources, MLA, £ 44.95
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This paper argues that nostalgia in poetry can be considered a particular kind of literary device, through which it is possible to gain some degree of insight into the whole ideology on which the romantic movement was based. Through an analysis of the poetry of William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, it looks at how the romantics mourn the fleeting nature of time and look back to the golden age of childhood - which can only be recaptured through nostalgia. It shows how nostalgia allows the poets the opportunity to not only recapture the past, but to manipulate and control it and how the nostalgia displayed in romantic poetry is, then, a tool of the intellect and a calculated attempt to make sense of a confused world of impressions and feelings, to bring order where previously there was only chaos.
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"Coleridge?s is an extreme model of nostalgia. Casting his mind back to childhood, he finds that the child he once was is also indulging in nostalgic thoughts of a still deeper past; the past he may have experienced even before birth, on a far different plane. This is the blissful, innocent world which becomes the ideal for all present existence, and the child who can still recall it, and imaginatively re-inhabit that world through nostalgia becomes, to the romantic mind, like a visionary without language or the proper means of expressing his recollection."
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Poetry of Sensibility, 2004.
An examination of the Romantic period of English poetry.
1,102 words (approx. 4.4 pages), 5 sources, MLA, £ 27.95
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This paper briefly looks at the poetry of Thomas Gray and William Wordsworth and discusses how they symbolize the poetry of the English Romantic era. The paper consists of examples of their poems and an explanation of the different characteristics of Romantic poetry.
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"It has also widely been felt that the English Romantic poets were the direct inheritors of the eighteenth century tradition of ?poetry of sensibility.? In truth of fact, romanticism as a genre in English literature, developed out of social repression by the government and press censorship, which forced writers to develop a form of narrative that was more ephemeral in nature. Thus, sensibility and the issues on which it focuses found a more romantic form of expression."
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Open Form Poetry, 2002.
A study of the open form style of poetry, as seen in the anonymous poem: "What a wonderful bird the frog are,?.
1,160 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 3 sources, MLA, £ 27.95
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This paper examines attention-attracting styles in poetry, primarily open form poetry. It uses the anonymous poem: "What a wonderful bird the frog are,? to highlight the characteristics of open form poetry explains the effect that this style of poetry has on the reader. It also touches on other attention-attracting devices, such as startling and repetition.
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"Artists and writers utilize all manner of devices to attract their readers? attentions. Vladimir Nabokov, in his tome ?Pale Fire,? framed a novel in the form of a poem and its associated criticism. Nabokov publically stated that he attempted absolute mediocrity in writing the poem ?Pale Fire,? but this only showcases the unerring genius in the remainder of the work -- and as some critics would have it, genius in the poem itself despite Nabokov?s own disclaimer. Thomas Pynchon, in his epic ?Gravity?s Rainbow,? used all manner of attention-getting including various songs that the reader automatically sets to music in her head."
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