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Here Keats is personifying beauty, to which he is a slave. He pursues her but can reach her only through the imagination or dreams. And that state cannot be sustained. So he suffers. The...

I misread "love" for "loved" in suggesting Keats' Ode. With an apology I want to add that Marvell's "To His Coy Mistress" should be on the list of best "love" poems.[/i]

I agree that Donne's Valediction poem is one of the best loved with its wonderful figure of the compass. I think Keats' "Ode to a Nightingale" should also make the list.

One book I have entitled "A Handbook to Literatire" quotes 21 definitions of poetry by poets themselves. My question on the board was a challenge to the persons who flippantly and offhandedly say...

But what is poetry?

In all the discussion I have read, I still wonder what the discussers have in mind when they use the word "poetry."

Wordsworth sensed a connection between plants, animals, etc., and the human soul. Instead of using the word God, he uses a spiritual entity he calls Nature. We are getting into metaphysics here.

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Yeats and Eliot are thought by some scholars to be the greatest poets of the 20th centuiry.

All of Keats's Odes are poetic marvels. And most of his other poems are "joys" to behold.

Just paraphrase the stanzas sentence by sentence. Use your own words. The meaning of the poem is philosophical, but the content is pretty obvious.

The happiness and pleasure W feels in viewing natural phenomena are being contrasted with the unhappiness that man has brought upon himself. He reads in, or hopes he sees in, Nature a spiritual...

Wordsworth, Keats, Hardy, Yeats--anyone interested in one of these as poets?

Litlenani. I wish I had written that. Putty

Can we talk about Wordsworth a while?

Peeru, I don't know if your are interested in Marvell or Eliot. Whick poet are you waiting to hear about anything I might write? Maybe neither?

I see that I wrote something about Prufrock on this board. I don't know how I made the mistake, but if you would like to continue with the coy mistress, I'll give my opinion.

From what I have read, I think Eliot praised Donne and the so-called metaphysical poets because they communicated their ideas with sharp, images that conveyed the meanings and more--that is a reader...

Yes, Munro, one of the major themes in the poem is pretentiousness. Three of the many examples. Prufrock's name with the initial only at the beginning suggests one of a high society, a person of...

In the context of the whole poem, it seems that the line stating that ladies come and go talking of Michelangelo is another image of the artificiality and superficiality of the society Prufrock is...

In the context of the whole poem, it seems that the line stating that ladies come and go talking of Michelangelo is another image of the artificiality and superficiality of the society Prufrock is...

What happened to the two messages of late--one asking me to follow up on Eliot's technique, and the other showing by example some of that technique? Does anybody know?

For a couple starters, notice the length of the second line--it is spread out complementing the image of how the evening looks, or reinforcing it, if you wish. Notice how the image in the third line...

The poem is a dramatic monologue in which Prufrock builds up a mood of social futility and inadequacy. The title implies an ironic contrast between the romantic ideas of a love song and the dull and...