Immortal Poetry
An Essay Study of Poetry and
A Poet's Ability to Forsee
The Future
The world is changing and evolving at an astounding rate. Within the last
one hundred years, the Western community has seen advances in technology
and medicine that has improved the lifestyles and longevity of almost
every individual. Within the last two hundred years, we have seen two
World Wars, and countless disputes over false borders created by
colonialists, slavery, and every horrid form of human suffering
imaginable! Human lifestyles and cultures are changing every minute. While
our grandparents and ancestors were growing-up, do you think that they
ever imagined the world we live in today? What is to come is ...
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In this brief essay, I will investigate the immortal
characteristics of poetry written between 1794 and 1919. And, I will show
that these classical poems can actually hold more relevance today, than
they did in the year they were written. Along the way, we will pay close
attention to the style of the poetry, and the strength of words and
symbols used to intensify the poets’ revelations.
The World Is Too Much with Us, written by William Wordsworth in 1807 is a
warning to his generation, that they are losing sight of what is truly
important in this world: nature and God. To some, they are one in the same.
As if lacking appreciation for the natural gifts of God is not sin enough,
we add to it the insult of pride for our rape of His land. Wordsworth
makes this poetic message immortal with his powerful and emotional words.
Let us study his powerful style: The world is too much with us; late and
soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in
Nature that is ours; ...
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God! (Lines 6 -
9) Wordsworth gives life to nature in his words, and displays to us nature’
s agony and pain, “howling at all hours.” But, we listen not! For we are
out of tune, and much too important to ourselves, that we may not listen
to the wind, rain, land or sea. I do not know which is the greater sin:
the pillage of the earth’s natural beauty, or man’s torturous inhumanity
toward his fellow man.
London, written in 1794, by William Blake is a poem of civilization’s
decline – and also the decline of compassion and humanity. I wander thro’
each charter’d street, Near where the charter’d Thames does flow, And mark
in every face I meet Marks of weakness, marks of woe. (Lines 1 - 4) ...
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