The Ghost Song of Jim Morrison is a very modern way of thinking about William Blake’s themes in the Song of Innocence. In the collection of these poems, Blake uses the two themes very well: nature and innocence. The former he describes through the use of good imagery and figure of speech, the latter he…
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Detachment of the Mind
The poem The Snow Man by Wallace Stevens is a short poem filled with various imageries that the poet uses to relate to more general concepts. The poem has a wintery pastoral setting that gives a cold mood to the poem but points to a more significant issue. The poem seems to be a rejection…
Read MoreComparing and Contrasting Two Modernist Poems
Poetry is an art that can be written in many ways, as can be seen from the many examples from different eras. The Imagist movement that generated from the modernist movement depended on solid images that were depicted with clear and non-literal language rather than the traditional poetic of the past movements. Modernist-Imagist poems have…
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