EXPLORING POETRY

Exploring Poetry

1.      Describe the differences between poem and prose?

2.      Give the example, each 2:

a.      That by studying poem you can build your character.

b.      That by studying poem you can improve your writing ability.

3.      Paraphrase one of the poems that you have already discusses in the class with your lecturer:

a.       Choice the following: English poem, American poem, or commonwealth poem.

4.      Please describe:

a.      What do you study the history of English literature for?

b.      Who was Shakespeare?

c.       What do you know about William Wordsworth?

d.      What is the intrinsic value?

5.     Write the introduction of the following mini paper: the title analysis of the poem entitled “the sick rose based on the intrinsic value” write the introduction only.

Answers:

1.    Poem is a piece of writing in which the words are chosen for their beauty and sound and are carefully arranged. While according to William Wordsworth, poem is a spontaneous over flow of powerful feeling recollected in tranquility. Then, compare to prose that prose is a piece of writing in the simple language isn’t limited by rules compare to the poetry.

2.    Exemplify,

a.     (1) By studying poem we can build our creativity to express what we fell to other with the beautiful way. Poem develops our emotions. For example, a romantic poem can build our feeling whether it’s happiness or sadness or anything.  (2) A poet or a poem may count to us historically, they may count to us on grounds personal to ourselves. By regarding a poet’s work as a stage in this course of development we may easily bring ourselves to make it of more importance as poetry than in itself it really is, we may come to use a language of quite exaggerated praise in criticizing it.

b.    (1) When we did the step of writing the poem, we worked beyond the basics of knowledge and comprehension, because poetry is a synthetic and an interactive process that naturally encourages critical, creative, and higher ordered thinking to imagery, choosing the diction, the figurative language etc. (2) Poem writing also extends our literacy knowledge such as sounding out the syllables word or phrase or tapping to rhythms and rhyming patterns.

3.      Lucy by William Wordsworth (English Poem)

She dwelt among the untrodden ways

Beside the springs of Dove

Maid whom there were none to praise

And very few to love

A violet by a massy stone

Half hidden from the eye!

Fair as a star, when only one

Is shining in the sky.

She lived unknown, and few could know

When Lucy ceased to be

But she is in her grave, and, oh,

The different to me!

Paraphrase

This poem tells the tale of Lucy’s short journey of life in this world (Lucy’s growth, perfection and untimely death.) The poet informs us that Lucy lived a delicate and solitary life in the world of Nature unpolluted by human intrusion. She lived beside the springs of Dove and she was unknown to human beings who could otherwise praise the greatness of her mind. In her isolation she was also quite stranger to human love. The poet also compares the fragility and the beauty of her existence to that of a violent which blooms by a mossy stone, where it remains half-hidden from others. He compares her unusual beauty to that of Venus, which is seen first in the evening sky shining with exceptional beauty in the midst of approaching darkness of night. In the final stanza Wordsworth informs the reader of Lucy’s secluded way of life and her sudden death. Just as she lived unknown, she also died unknown. No person other than the poet could know that Lucy became one with Nature. Finally the poet suddenly becomes conscious of the immediate reality that she is no more alive in this world and is sleeping forever in her grave. He feels acute pain in his heart and abruptly ends the poet with equivocal words. Now he can feel the difference of his situation of utter grief that has been created by the loss from the one of divine bliss when she was alive.

4.      Describe,

a.    (1) For learning the development of English language. (2) For learning the historical background of English people. (3) For improving our English knowledge. (4) For learning the outstanding people. (5) For learning the old literary.

b.    William Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright. He has written a play about tragedy, comedy, history, narrative poetry and sonnets. He wrote a lot of plays made ​​into a movie such as Julius Caesar, Romeo & Juliet, Hamlet, etc. He also wrote a great many poems like Shakespeare's Sonnets, Venus and Adonis, etc.

c.    William Wordsworth was a British Poet who defined the poetry as “The spontaneous overflow of powerful feeling arising from emotion recollected in tranquility.” Wordsworth was the quintessential poet as naturalist, always paying close attention to details of the physical environment around him (plants, animals, geography, and weather).

d.    The intrinsic value is relating to the elements of literary works. It is the way we are analyzing the poem/poetry by the nature of the poem/poetry itself, which are includes sense or theme, tone, feeling, intention. And also analyzing by the method of writing poetry, which are includes Rhyme and rhythm, diction, concrete words, imagery, and figure of speech.

5.      Mini Paper entitled:

“The Sick Rose based on the intrinsic value”

The Sick Rose is a part of William Blake’s Songs of Innocence and Experience. The two quatrains of this poem rhyme ABAB. Most interpretations of The Sick Rose conclude that the speaker addresses the rose to inform it of its death. The rose can be seen in both its literal sense as well as a symbol of love. The "sickness" that the rose endures is brought on by a worm, which has stuck in under the cover of darkness and has ultimately caused the death of the rose, although the rose is unaware of its own state. Blake uses the rose to symbolize love as to show the tainted view that society has attached to love.

The Sick Rose by William Blake

O Rose thou art sick.

The invisible worm,

That flies in the night

In the howling storm:

Has found out thy bed

Of crimson joy:

And his dark secret love

Does thy life destroy.