"A Rapture" is more than a witty dream poem from which the speak draws poetic inspiration. The poem's opening image of honor as a masque is balanced by the poem's closure with the same type of images and its worldly power, showing a playful and sophisticated awareness of the resolution of the ideal fantasy or daydream, juxtaposed by the real external truths.
Thomas Carew's `A Rapture' was in its day an extremely shocking poem, considering the era in which it was written such erotic topics were unmentionable. The poem uses the traditional pastoral images permeated with a deeper animation. It acknowledges the conflict between eroticism and Christianity and obviously a conflict is bound to happen. Creating a puzzling and distressing effect; deserving of praise.
"The relationship between art and social life in the earlier seventeenth century is particularly fascinating to a study of Carew's poetry, which has so often been curiously cited by critics to condemn him to the status of merely an anthology poet." (Hannaford)
Each poem is both a system and a pattern of events in which neither of these aspects is wholly consistent. Many of the lyrics deliberately and often outrageously play with literary conventions or sources and by doing so; reflect an aspiring poet's intellect to an equally sophisticated audience. A concern is that of playful exaggeration and shrinking that exposes a clear pattern of perception of social values. (Hannaford) The need to expand and reduce ideas as well as objects is a mode of poetic activity that can offer a vision of self as limited, excising in opposition to larger, external forces, and social perceptions.
`Rapture" was a manuscript circulated widely and earned Carew the sobriquet (The Oracl...
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... by it. At the end of the poem Carew symbolizes her honor in political terms, tyrant, usurper; He asks how one can do what is proper when one's culture insists with equal vehemence on 2 incompatible types of behaviors, the erotic and the Christian.
As the last line stands, the word whores suddenly re-inverts the whole moral world that the poet has been setting up. Honor wins in the end, even with the wonderful sensations there is no way to withdraw and finally ungracious demands of society cause for reform. "A Rapture" exemplifies Carew's poetic strategies by creating a miniature world of fantasy and eroticism. His poem also shows the tensions, values that exceed in scope initial physical and mental motivations to confront private and public views.
1. Hannaford, Renee. Sexual Play and Sociability in Care.
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When I read poetry, I often tend to look first at its meaning and second at how it is written, or its form. The mistake I make when I do this is in assuming that the two are separate, when, in fact, often the meaning of poetry is supported or even defined by its form. I will discuss two poems that embody this close connection between meaning and form in their central use of imagery and repetition. One is a tribute to Janis Joplin, written in 1983 by Alice Fulton, entitled “You Can’t Rhumboogie in a Ball and Chain.” The second is a section from Walt Whitman’s 1,336-line masterpiece, “Song of Myself,” first published in 1855. The imagery in each poem differs in purpose and effect, and the rhythms, though created through repetition in both poems, are quite different as well. As I reach the end of each poem, however, I am left with a powerful human presence lingering in the words. In Fulton’s poem, that presence is the live-hard-and-die-young Janis Joplin; in Whitman’s poem, the presence created is an aspect of the poet himself.
Poetry is a very subjective art it is up to the authors to determine how they want to convey their message to the readers. Both Ezra Pound’s poem “In the Station Metro” and Emma LaRocque’s poem “The Red in Winter” use imagery, that is very subjective to interpretation, to convey their message in an economic manner. Pound’s artistic imagist poem shows that art isn’t just visual but it can also be portrayed through words alone; and that imagery is a powerful aspect of poetry. LaRaque’s however is focused on how images can portray political issues among differing cultures.
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Good poetry provides meaningful commentary. One indication of a poem’s success in this is the depth of thought the reader has as a result of the poem. The poems I anthologized may take different
"Sex without Love" is a poem by Sharon Old, who states in the opening line "How do they do it, the ones who make love without love?" It starts out with judging those, who have sex outside of having feeling for one another. It describes the sex in the third line as without feeling more as a techniques, which is describe "beautiful as dancers.. over each other like ice skaters." Sex without love to the author is described more as an act, which is performed instead of two people in love, who sex is in love not because of the act but instead of the love of the person. The author seems to climax in the literal sense at line nine : come to the Come to the … then God comes in picture after the act is done. Judgment and sin is the mood of this poem of how two people can commit an act of a heart and soul without disappointed God.
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Goblin Market” was considered to be a fairy tale however the poem had various erotic exploration of sexual fantasy, commentary on capitalism and the Victorian market economy. It is also interpreted about temptation, yearnings and atonement. On the other hand, “The Rape of the Lock” commented on human vanity and the custom of romance as Pope inspected the abused position of women. He’d pointed out that society recognized the upper class in a serious manner however they are in a frivolous manner. He’d used the poem to mock the noble and their lifestyles. “Goblin Market” and “The Rape of the Lock” related to each other as both poems have a significance of victimhood and hair being cut off.
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...sed society with religious overtones throughout the poem, as though religion and God are placing pressure on her. The is a very deep poem that can be taken in may ways depending on the readers stature yet one thing is certain; this poem speaks on Woman’s Identity.
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"The point of view which I am struggling to attack is perhaps related to the metaphysical theory of the substantial unity of the soul: for my meaning is, that the poet has, not a personality' to express, but a particular medium, which is only a medium and not a personality, in which impressions and experiences combine in peculiar and unexpected ways."