Ode to a Grecian Urn “Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard Are sweeter; therefore, ye soft pipes, play on; Not to the sensual ear, but, more endear’d, Pipe to the spirit ditties of no tone:” (lines 11-14) Ode to Psyche “Nor virgin-choir to make delicious moan Upon the midnight hours; No voice, no lute, […]
“‘Twas Autumn, and a calm and placid day, With warmth as much as needed from a sun Two hours declined towards the west, a day With sliver clouds, and sunshine on the grass, And, in the sheltered grove where i was couched A perfect stillness. On the ground I lay Passing through many thoughts, yet […]
“When from behind that craggy Steep, till then The bound of the horizon, a huge Cliff, As if with voluntary power instinct, Upreared its head. I struck, and struck again, And, growing still in stature, the huge Cliff Rose up between me and the stars, and still, With measured motion, like a living thing, Strode […]
The lesser celandine is a yellow flower in the buttercup family that grows well in warm, springtime climates. In the poem, “The Small Celandine” by William Wordsworth, Wordsworth uses the flower, a celandine, as a metaphor for human life. In stanza one this metaphor can be seen when Wordsworth states that the celandine “shrinks…from cold […]
Before this course, I never really thought deeply about beauty. I would mostly call something beautiful because it appealed to me and then that would be the end of it. I always imagined that beauty was depicted almost always through nature and art, but now I see everything can have its own form of beauty. […]
Brooke describes the beauty of the poem “A Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost. She writes about how the imagery, word play, and symbols create beauty through a sense of illusion and mystery. Reader’s of this poem wonder what Frost’s journey can hold and ask questions making Frost’s poetry a reality. She connects this idea […]
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