How these texts talk about contemporary society: I agree with the popular saying that we reflect our past, because it is true our generation today is the way it is due to the past. Authors George Gascoigne, Thomas Lodge, and Richard Linche wrote poems that are a vivid example of this. In their poems And if I did, what then, Pluck the fruit and taste the pleasure, and The last so sweet, so balmy, so delicious all discuss issues that we face today even though they are in a different time period. These poems mainly debate the issue of being a rake, or a libertine, and the issue of sinning. In that time a libertine was considered an immoral person, someone who commits adultery or fornication, does bad things, someone who takes advantage …show more content…
The first ideology is that man is feeding his fancies and after death feeling no pleasure. The second ideology is the opposite, man does not feed on his fancies and feels pleasure after death. The writer of the poem encourages the second ideology and promotes man to not act on his fancies so after death can feel pleasure. The writer starts the poem in a sarcastic way and says “feed your fancies”, “feed your freely with your lovers”, and “taste sweet delights” and says in the end of each stanza “after death joy and pleasure is there none” ( “Pluck the Fruit and Taste the Pleasure”). The poem has a strong hidden meaning that relates to libertine. When he says fancies, he means a libertine committing a worldly sins “like having sex out of marriage, getting drunk, lying, stealing, and cheating”( Donald Capps). The poem is trying to explain that if you feed on the worldly pleasures and act on your fancies you will not go to heaven. However if you stay loyal in life you will feel pleasure after death in heaven. The poem is trying to persuade people to not do badly in the world, because it is not worth it you will suffer in the …show more content…
The language in this text is not as complex like the older texts and moves into a time period, which has advanced in literature. In the poem he is not afraid to sin and rather risk it. The poem goes into complete detail in describing, what he sees and how he likes it “ lips, breath, and tongue, which I delight to drink on: The first so fair, so bright, so purely precious! brow, eyes, and cheeks, which still I joy to think on” (“The last so sweet, so balmy, so delicious”). He also, has a feeling that what he is doing might be wrong, but he does not care. He is willing to feed on his fantasies even if his conscience tells him it might be forbidden “I am so forbidden” (“The last so sweet, so balmy, so delicious”). I assume, that the time period of this poem is, when people started to let go of the thought of religion. Therefore, started caring less about committing sins. According to scholars, “a person, especially a man, who behaves without moral principles or a sense of responsibility, especially in sexual matters.” (Hotline) In this poem, I think there is a libertine, but he is not harshly criticized and he is more open-minded about his actions. In the end, he questions himself if what he is doing is
Each literary work portrays something different, leaving a unique impression on all who read that piece of writing. Some poems or stories make one feel happy, while others are more solemn. This has very much to do with what the author is talking about in his or her writing, leaving a bit of their heart and soul in the work. F. Scott Fitzgerald, when writing The Great Gatsby, wrote about the real world, yet he didn’t paint a rosy picture for the reader. The same can be said about T.S. Eliot, whose poem “The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock,” presents his interpretation of hell. Both pieces of writing have many similarities, but the most similar of them all is the tone of each one.
The second poem, number seventy-two, discussed some a very significant aspect that exists in today’s society, which is cheating. Catullus accuses Lesbia of cheating in he couldn’t believe that she is doing this to him. “ ‘How,’ you may ask, ‘can this be?’ Such actions as yours excite increased violence of love.” He accuses her of putting the relationship in jeopardy and losing his love for her. You can’t help but feel sorry for Catullus is this scenario. He devotes his undying love to Lesbia and she cheats on him. Unfortunately, this is rather popular in today’s society. After time progresses in the relationship, intimacy start to decrease and the partners start to search for other sexual partners. This is the case with Catullus and Lesbia and how Lesbia is cheating on him.
...e people sexual desires just like runners concern about their health. As in the end of the poem, Olds reminds people the truth, "the single body alone in the universe against its own best time", after that short period of happiness, individual is still alone in the universe and "competing" against "its own best time".
“Marry, sir, nose-painting, sleep, and urine. Lechery, sir, it provokes and unprovokes. It provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance. Therefore, much drink may be said to be an equivocator with lechery. It makes him, and it mars him; it sets him on, and it takes him off; it persuades him, and disheartens him; makes him stand to and not stand to; in conclusion, equivocates him in a sleep, and, giving him the lie, leaves him.” (2.3.27-35) (pg 61)
And I think being aware of what we are is one of the positive messages of the poem collection. The past cannot be changed just by saying sorry.
Even though religion is an issue to the characters, their identity pushes that concept to the side so that they can do what they desire most. I believe that the author is trying to stress the point that these people are not obeying the word of God and leading themselves into their own temptations. Olds compares the truly religious to the ‘lovers’ by introducing them as people who have sex without being in love by saying, “These are the true religious, the purist, the pros, the ones who will not accept a false Messiah, love the priest instead of the God” (Olds 740). Part of this poem is ironic because the author
This shows that he thinks the woman is unlikely to recover. The technique used towards the end of the poem is oxymoron as the two words side by side contradict one another in “fruitless fruits.” Fruitless fruits links to the patient because you have a piece of fruit but it is empty inside, no taste and in a way it is the same for the patient because she is laying there but nothing is inside her. The reason for the book and fruit is they are two objects which are empty inside of them.
The director of “Dead Poet's Society” uses poetry to convey a passionate and introspective tone to the audience. As Mr. Keating says, “We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion.” Passion is definitely an amazing emotion that causes many events of life to happen. The greatest passion of all, is the passion for life. If you have a passion for life then you can do almost anything just by pure will. The quote,"I went to the woods because I wanted to live deliberately. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life;” describes this passion best of all. The latin phrase, “Carpe Diem” is used in the film as well which means, “seize the day.” This phrase summarizes many of the main conflicts in the film as well as the ...
...; ...some could not abide to toy, All pleasance was to them briefe and annoy: This fround, that faund, the third for shame did blush, Another seemed envious, or coy, Another in her teeth did gnaw a rush. (Stanza 35)
Gerard Nanley Hopkins’ poem “God’s Grandeur”, illustrates the relationship connecting man and God. Hopkins uses alliteration and stern tone to compliment the religious content of this morally ambitious poem. The poem’s rhythm and flow seem to capture the same sensation of a church sermon. The diction used by Hopkins seems to indicate a condescending attitude towards society.
The poets integrated ?metaphysical conceits? as focal parts of these poems. Along with these, they used effective language as a basis for their convincing arguments, they included subjects of periodical importance (e.g. ?courtship? and ?religion?), and use very clever structures that are manipulated in order to make the poem read in the desired way. The very clear indication of the theme in question was strongly aided by the way in which the personas portrayed the emotions they felt and the way they showed their attitudes towards the subject. Considering all these factors, the poets made critical arguments to the mistresses in order to alter their views, thus changing their minds, on denying the poets the sex that they desired so strongly.
“I” and “VIII” are easier to understand after they have been translated into everyday language. In main concept of the first verse of “I” is that success is valued most by those who never succeed and that fruit tastes sweeter to those that are hungry. The second verse goes on to enforce that those who are alive and well after a battle do not appreciate the victory. The ending of “I” concludes the statement started in verse two. Its concept is that the one who is dying is the one who truly values the news of triumph. Likewise, “VIII” starts off with a statement similar to that of “I”. A hurt animal jumps higher than usual due to the shock of death. The following verse reinforces the idea in a different manner, a hurt rock gushes, broken steel springs, and a cheek is red where it has been hurt. The concluding verse states that people only laugh to mask their pain in order to avoid showing the sadness that they harbor to the world. Now that each poem has been paraphrased, it is simple to spy similarities and differences in their topics and structure.
The woman, if only reading stanza one, would think her and the speaker are in total agreement. This idea, however, is fleeting as stanza two acts not only as a refutation for stanza one, but also as evidence for stanza three.... ... middle of paper ... ... The satire exists in the expectation that love has to occur before sex.
In conclusion "To His Coy Mistress" contains a sexual theme. He uses the "marble vault" and points towards death to scare and win the young lady over. In the 21st Century men use the same tactics as well. This shows that the people were not much different from today.
...milarly, Plato says that Poetry has the same effect on us when it refers to sex and violence, arousing an array of ‘desires and feelings of pleasure and pain… it waters them when they ought to be left to whither, and makes them control us when we ought, in the interests of our own greater welfare and happiness, to control them.’ What this indicates from a rational perspective is that imitation brings undesirable emotions to our surface, allowing it to cloud our judgement, weaken our psychological stability and change our outlook on life itself. This could therefore have a drastic effect, according to Plato, on the present and future guardians who are required by the rest of us to remain emotionally stable and in full control of their own irrational desires and fears.