Amiri Baraka forward his radical view in the poem The New World by saying that he wants to dream with purpose the new world as a only real world for Black. Baraka is sure to get victory in making the new world which, according to him is inevitable in this poem.
The Lotos-Eaters, which describes a scene from the Odyssey (c. 800 b.c.e.) in which Odysseus and his men, after a terrible storm, arrive on the shores of the land of the lotos-eaters, is a poem typical of the Victorian age. It typifies Victorian consciousness.
Break, Break, Break provides almost a perfect example of a masterly lyric. It has somber music, vivid pictures, and profound feeling, expressed in a style marked by simplicity, economy, and directness of appeal.
The speaker in the poem Loveliest of Trees thinks that the cherry is the loveliest among all the trees. Now it is laden with white flowers at the side of the path in the woods. He is now twenty years old and he expects that he will die at the age of seventy.
In the poem's opening lines; lines one and two, Housman describes the brilliant, natural beauty of a spring day. However, the use of the word "now" and its strong emphasis at the end of the first line confronts the reader with the short life of the cherries and the blooms.
Posterity has remembered Alexander Pope for his satires. Undoubtedly, while shaping his growth in the direction demanded by classicism, the feeling for which he strengthened more and more within himself. Pope developed his talent for satire and argument in verse.
In the dedication to the poem, Pope explains that machinery is a term invented by the critics to signify the part which deities, angels, or demons play in a poem. He goes on to say that the machinery in his poem is based on the Rosicrucian doctrine of spirits.
The Rape of the Lock, originally published as The Rape of the Lock: An Heroi-Comical Poem 1712, is a mock-epic based upon an actual disagreement between two aristocratic English families during the eighteenth century.
The portrait of Belinda is an extract from the classical mock-epic or mock-heroic poem The Rape of the Lock, a description of make-up being made by the heroine of the poem, Belinda, as she prepares to go for a daily idle gathering in the afternoon.
I saw a speck. It would have been out of my sight. It is only because it appeared on a white sheet of paper, in my manuscript, that saw it. I wished to stop it by a period of ink (of my pen). But something strange about the speck made me think over.