HELP! poetry questions please

[Gheed]

hello,
i am a new member, i like your forums so much and found many useful things ;)
I need your help plz, i have 4 questions and need answers from you,
My poetry exam will be next weak and i need these answers as soon as you can answer them
lets start ;)
First( Ode to a Nightingale, was a poem full of romantics elements and belife) by Keats, Discuss, comment
second( Discuss the Use of symbolism in"Ode to the west wind" ) by shelly
Third(Discuss the meaning of Innocence and experience in william blake poems)
Last( William Blake and William Wordsworth as social Reformers) Comment wilth examples,

Hope you can do it 4 me brothers and sisters, My Licturer will get 3 of these questions in the final exam next weak, :goof:
your help will be great to me,
I AM WAITING,
YOURS Gheed

[Charles Darnay]

hello,
i am a new member, i like your forums so much and found many useful things ;)
I need your help plz, i have 4 questions and need answers from you,
My poetry exam will be next weak and i need these answers as soon as you can answer them
lets start ;)
First( Ode to a Nightingale, was a poem full of romantics elements and belife) by Keats, Discuss, comment
second( Discuss the Use of symbolism in"Ode to the west wind" ) by shelly
Third(Discuss the meaning of Innocence and experience in william blake poems)
Last( William Blake and William Wordsworth as social Reformers) Comment wilth examples,

Hope you can do it 4 me brothers and sisters, My Licturer will get 3 of these questions in the final exam next weak, :goof:
your help will be great to me,
I AM WAITING,
YOURS Gheed

I'm not going to do it 4 u, but I can offer some strategies to go about it.

1. For the Ode to a Nightengale - the question wants to know hw Keats incorperated the beliefs of the Romantics in his poem. So, first, you must find out what are the beliefs/elements of the Romantics (passion, a reverence for nature, etc), then you must find these elements in the poem and figure out how and why Keats uses the elements - what is he trying to say/what is the effect.

2. The second is a very simplre question. I haven't read the poem in quite awhile, but go through the poem, picking out all the symbols used, then once again, discuss the effect of the symbols (is he trying to convey a deepr meaning), (does it make the poem more powerful).

3. First, you must know what innocence and experience mean in this context - know that they are contrasting terms (with experience you lose your innocence). Pick two or three poems from each section and compare them. What is he trying to say about the innocent, what is he trying to say about the experienced?

4. Know that the goal of mostly all Romantic poets was to provoke some change in society. Pick out around three poems from Blake and three from Wordswoth and go through them, looking for anything that might be a message to the world, advice, a warning, a plea. Once you have found these, look for how these poems might have changed society once distributed to the general public.

I hope that helps.

Best of luck
Charles Darnay

[behindblueeyes]

Hmm I'm not sure this will help but for the first one you should first decide the dominant effect (either developing theme or character- i don't know the poem so i dont know which) and then show how the diction and romantic elements develop the effect. the 'how' is what my teachers always emphasize

2nd sounds pretty easy-once again find the purpose (dominant effect) and then use examples of symbolism to illustrate how the author uses it to convey the theme/character

3rd- i dont know the theme but basically just identify a theme carried throughout his poems and give examples from various poems..

4th- what was their goal? What were the trying to tell people? and explain where they revealed and promoted it

[Gheed]

thank you so much dear,both of you
im sure this will help me so much
but i need you to show me how i can start my answers!
specially Ode to a nightengale> there are 3 or 4 belifes in this poem 4 romantics(scapticism,isolation,emagenation and sensitivity)
i think this is not enough!
ok,i will try to answer them but can i show you my answers?
but plz show me how to start answering these questuins if you know,
all the best
yours Gheed

[behindblueeyes]

ok so i found this as the ode to a nightingale theme:
"the world of imagination offers a release from the painful world of actuality, yet at the same time it renders the world of actuality more painful by contrast."
so obviously he uses imagination. the poem starts out with him depressed with real world. his "heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains/ My sense" so then he moves to an imaginary world which pleases his more. He escapes into his imagination and "Away! away! for I will fly to thee" shows his willing departure from real world.
There are many lines that can be used from the middle of the poem to capture the exultant mood and the happiness and reprieve from anxiety and such that he finds in his imagination, such as "flowers are at my feet" and "soft incense hangs upon the boughs." Those are the things imagination has to offer, but reality plagues even these good things and he says he "half in love with Death" because he cannot take the actual world.
If you mean sensitivity in an actual sense, there are references to "flowers beneath my feet" but isolation is meant probably by his isolation from the real world into his dreams and at the end he asks "do i wake or do i sleep?" which shows the disillusionment the dreams have given him.
oh and, "Forlorn! the very word is like a bell/To toll me back from thee to my sole self!" conveys that he is uneager and unwanting to return to society and would wish to remain in his dreams.

I'm not sure if you're meant to analyze the poem like a commentary or if you're just supposed to show how romanticism conveys theme but i hope that helped..

[Gheed]

thank you so much dear behindblueeyes,
this really will help me,
and all of ur comments were very good and useful
this poem is alike with robert frost (stopping by woods on a snowy evening)
thank you so much
your sister Gheed