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What is Poetry?

EnglishBy William Anderson (Schoolworkhelper Editorial Team)December 27, 2022Leave a comment

What exactly is poetry? Poetry is one of the oldest means of remembering and maintaining history. It is very difficult, if not impossible, to give a precise definition of poetry, but this doesn’t necessarily matter as we can have a perfect understanding of what something is without being able to define it.  Poetry itself is…

Impact of Renaissance on Prose, Poetry and Drama

EnglishBy William Anderson (Schoolworkhelper Editorial Team)March 7, 2016Leave a comment

Renaissance and its Implications The Revival of Learning denotes, in its broadest sense, the gradual enlightenment of the human mind after the darkness of the Middle Ages. The names Renaissance and Humanism are often applied to the same movement. The term renaissance, which was first used in England, only as late as the nineteenth century,…

Geoffrey Chaucer: Biography, Poetry, Influence

EnglishBy William Anderson (Schoolworkhelper Editorial Team)March 5, 2016Leave a comment

Early Life Chaucer made his living as a civil servant and composed poetry as an avocation. His career, however was such as to contribute to his literary growth. He was born about in 1343 of a prosperous family and reared in London. His father, a wine-merchant, was able to find him a position as a…

Haiku: Poetry, Structure, History

Media & ArtBy William Anderson (Schoolworkhelper Editorial Team)October 8, 2014Leave a comment

A Haiku is a short poem that consists of 17 syllables formed in 3 unrhymed lines. The first and third lines have 5 syllables, and the second line has 7 syllables. This type of poetry usually creates two clear images within the stanza relating to the topic. According to Japanese tradition, each Haiku primarily contains…

Analysis of Wordsworth’s Poetry

EnglishBy William Anderson (Schoolworkhelper Editorial Team)June 8, 2011Leave a comment

Wordsworth’s poetry derives its strength from the passion with which he views nature. Wordsworth has grown tired of the world mankind has created, and turns to nature for contentment. In his poems, Wordsworth associates freedom of emotions with natural things. Each aspect of nature holds a different meaning for Wordsworth. ‘The beauty of morning; silent,…

Carl Sandburg: Biography and Writings

EnglishBy William Anderson (Schoolworkhelper Editorial Team)June 8, 2011Leave a comment

Carl Sandburg was a great man. His life was one of fame, once he began writing. He inspired many people. He also became an American Marvel. His works still remain read even today, 30 years after his death.  His life was an interesting one. His parents immigrated to the US from Sweden. His parents moved…

Robert Penn Warren: Biography & Poetry

HistoryBy William Anderson (Schoolworkhelper Editorial Team)May 25, 2011Leave a comment

Robert Penn Warren, born in Guthrie, Kentucky in 1905, was one of the twentieth century’s most eminent American writers.  He was a distinguished novelist and poet, literary critic, essayist, short story writer, and coeditor of numerous textbooks. He also a founding editor of The Southern Review, a journal of literary criticism and political thought.  The…

Alfred Tennyson: Biography & Poetry

HistoryBy William Anderson (Schoolworkhelper Editorial Team)May 13, 2011Leave a comment

Alfred Tennyson was born on August 6th, 1809, at Somersby, Lincolnshire, fourth of twelve children of George and Elizabeth Tennyson.  Tennyson, said to be the best poet of the Victorian era and his poetry will be discussed in this essay. Tennyson had a lifelong fear of mental illness, because several men in his family had…

Homer: Iliad, Odyssey, Greek History

HistoryBy William Anderson (Schoolworkhelper Editorial Team)February 11, 2011Leave a comment

Homer and History Influential poet, every Athenian schoolboy studied and knew his works by heart A guild, the Homeridae claiming to be descendants of Homer devotes their lives to the recitations of his poems (rhapsodes, did professional recitations of Homer) Apart from his name, all aspects of Homer are controversial, the exact time of his…

Poetry: Terminology & Devices

EnglishBy William Anderson (Schoolworkhelper Editorial Team)August 28, 2010Leave a comment

POETRY A type of literature that expresses ideas, feelings, or tells a story  in a specific form (usually using lines and stanzas) POET The poet is the author of the poem. SPEAKER The speaker of the poem is the “narrator” of the poem. POETRY FORM FORM – the appearance of the words on the page…

Heian Period

HistoryBy William Anderson (Schoolworkhelper Editorial Team)July 28, 2010Leave a comment

Movement to “Heian-kyo” known today as Kyoto, capital of Japan from 794 until 1868 Abandoning the Chinese Sent no further missions to China severed continental contact = increasing independence, adaptation The City of Heian-kyo Rectangular about 2 1/2 miles across from west to east and about 3 1/2 miles long from north to south. A stone…

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