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2. A poem is a way of expressing emotions and feelings. Poems usually include the use of irony and symbolism. A poem can be anything. A a novel or a long story isn't considered to be a poem, although The Illiad and The Odyssey are considered to be epic poems. There is a difference. An epic poem is a long poem that tells a tale of a heroic figure. Regular novels and stories are long narrative written in literary prose.
3. Emily Dickinson was born in Amherst, Massachusetts in 1830. Throughout her life she rarely ever left her house and never had any visitors. Although the people who she became friendly with had a major impact on her poetry. She never had any romantic love but had close friends from time to time. Dickinson's poetry reflects her loneliness and the speakers of her poems live in a state of want but they are also marked by the intimate recollection of inspirational moments which are decidedly life-giving and suggest the hope for happiness. She was heavily inspired by the Book of Revelation which lead to a conservative approach to Christianity.
A Bird came down the walk
A Bird came down the Walk— He did not know I saw— He bit an Angleworm in halves And ate the fellow, raw, And then he drank a Dew From a convenient Grass— And then hopped sidewise to the Wall To let a Beetle pass— He glanced with rapid eyes That hurried all around— They looked like frightened Beads, I thought— He stirred his Velvet Head Like one in danger, Cautious, I offered him a Crumb And he unrolled his feathers And rowed him softer home— Than Oars divide the Ocean, Too silver for a seam— Or Butterflies, off Banks of Noon Leap, plashless as they swim
John Keats was an English romantic poet born on 1795 in London. He was the oldest of four and he lost both his parents at a young age. At the age of fifteen he dropped out of school to become an apprentice to surgeon. He studied medicine in a hospital in England. He was licensed apothecary but never worked in that field and decided to write poetry instead. His greatest work was the Hypernion but was never complete because he had to come home and take care of his brother who later died due to tuberculosis. Keats family suffered to tuberculosis and at the age of twenty five tuberculosis took Keats life...Ironic!
On the Grasshopper and the Cricket
The poetry of earth is never dead: When all the birds are faint with the hot sun, And hide in cooling trees, a voice will run From hedge to hedge about the new-mown mead; That is the Grasshopper's--he takes the lead In summer luxury,--he has never done With his delights; for when tired out with fun He rests at ease beneath some pleasant weed. The poetry of earth is ceasing never: On a lone winter evening, when the frost Has wrought silence, from the stove there shrills The Cricket's song, in warmth increasing ever, And seems to one in drowsiness half lost, The Grasshopper's among some grassy hills
Excellent selections! However, why are these poems examples of what poetry is to you?
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