W.B Yeats
He was born 1865 in Sandymount, Dublin, Ireland. He died on the 28th Januray 1939. He was an irish poet and was one of the most successful writers under the 1900th century. Later in his life he was a irish senator. He resived the nobel price in literature. And he was the first irishman who got that award. All of his popular poem’s starts with an “A”. Most of his poems is about love. But not always happy love but most of them are actually about miserable love. He has writen a poem which is called “A drinking song”. It’s writen in english and is only 6 lines long. It’s about feelings, mostly love. He says in the text “I look at you, and I sigh”. That shows some disappointment.
Wine comes in at the mouth
And love comes in at the eye;
That’s all we shall know for truth
Before we grow old and die.
I lift the glass to my mouth,
I look at you, and I sigh
Emily Dickinson
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson was an American poet. She was born in Amherst, Massachusetts in December 10, 1830. She died 56 years later on May 15, 1886. Her ancestors had arrived in The New World 200 years before Emily was born. In school, Emily took classes in English, classical literature, Latin, botany, geology and history in her 7 years of education. Emily's poems had no major theme, and she was referred as an transcendentalist. Transcendentalism is a movement where you protest against the general state and society, and in particular, the state of intellectualism at Harvard University and the doctrine of the Unitarian church taught at Harvard Divinity School.
Emily Dickinson's poem "Going to Heaven" is about Emily questioning herself when she are going to heaven and how it will be. The language in her poem is a bit weird and very old. The poem describes the feeling confusion and love. The poem lack rhymes but got a good rhythm.
| GOING to heaven! | |
| I don’t know when, | |
| Pray do not ask me how,— | |
| Indeed, I ’m too astonished | |
| To think of answering you! | 5 |
| Going to heaven!— | |
| How dim it sounds! | |
| And yet it will be done | |
| As sure as flocks go home at night | |
| Unto the shepherd’s arm! | 10 |
| Perhaps you ’re going too! | |
| Who knows? | |
| If you should get there first, | |
| Save just a little place for me | |
| Close to the two I lost! | 15 |
| The smallest “robe” will fit me, | |
| And just a bit of “crown”; | |
| For you know we do not mind our dress | |
| When we are going home. | |
| I ’m glad I don’t believe it, | 20 |
| For it would stop my breath, | |
| And I ’d like to look a little more | |
| At such a curious earth! | |
| I am glad they did believe it | |
| Whom I have never found | 25 |
| Since the mighty autumn afternoon | |
| I left them in the ground. |
Alfred Tennyson
Alfred Tennyson was born 6th of August 1809 in Somersby, Lincolnshire, he passed away 6th of October 1892 in Aldworth, Berkshire, he ws a british writer and a national poet. In Sweden he is most known for his poem ‘’Nyårsklockan’’ which is traditionally recited in Skansen at midnight every new years eve. Alfreds belonged to a family of 12 children, he was son to Elizabeth Fytche and George Clayton Tennyson who was a rector. His first poems namned ‘’by two brothers’’ were published in 1827. He published his first solo collection of poems named ‘’Poems Chiefly Lyrical in 1830.
He excelled in short lyrics. Much of his verse was based on classical mythologies.
Ring Out , Wild Bells
Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky,The flying cloud, the frosty light;
The year is dying in the night;
Ring out, wild bells, and let him die.
Ring out the old, ring in the new,
Ring, happy bells, across the snow:
The year is going, let him go;
Ring out the false, ring in the true.
Ring out the grief that saps the mind,
For those that here we see no more,
Ring out the feud of rich and poor,
Ring in redress to all mankind.
Ring out a slowly dying cause,
And ancient forms of party strife;
Ring in the nobler modes of life,
With sweeter manners, purer laws.
Ring out the want, the care the sin,
The faithless coldness of the times;
Ring out, ring out my mournful rhymes,
But ring the fuller minstrel in.
Ring out false pride in place and blood,
The civic slander and the spite;
Ring in the love of truth and right,
Ring in the common love of good.
Ring out old shapes of foul disease,
Ring out the narrowing lust of gold;
Ring out the thousand wars of old,
Ring in the thousand years of peace.
Ring in the valiant man and free,
The larger heart, the kindlier hand;
Ring out the darkness of the land,
Ring in the Christ that is to be.
The poem is about all the new things that are to replace the old “bad” things that happened in the past. The poem is very formel but yet free minded. I get the feeling that he is welcoming the new generations that are to chaneg the world and his country to “their” world and “their” country. It rimes every third row. He similies foul diseases with lust of gold and power. He writes metaphores of young people. That with young people comes good new stuff.
Ezra Pound - Born on the 30 October 1885 Dead the 1 November 1972
Ezra Pound was an american writer and poet. When he started writing poetry he promoted imagism, a movement that derived its technique from classical Chinese and Japanese poetry. His best known work is; Ripostes (1912), Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (1920) and a unfinished 120 section epic The Cantos (1917 - 1969).
He helped to discover and shape the works of T.S Elliot, James Joyce, Robert Frost and Ernest Hemingway while working in London in the early 20th century. He was outraged by the lost of life during the first world war he lost his faith in England and moved to Italy 1924. In Italy he embraced Benito Mussolini’s fascism and expressed support for Hitler. The Italian government paid him during the second world war to do broadcastings criticizing the US and jews. The broadcast was monitored by the US government and he was arrested for treason by american forces in Italy 1945. He spent months in a military camp and 25 of them in a six-by-six foot outdoor steelcage which lead to a mental breakdown. He was edmitted to St. Elizabeths psyciatric hospital in Washington D.C.
While in the military camp he started to work on The Cantos, the work was later awarded the Bollingen Prize by the Libary of Congress in 1949.
In the poem Alba, written by Ezra Pound, he describes his feelings for a girl. He describes her as a highly toxic flower (lily-of-the-valley) because she infects his heart with love for her but she does not love him back.
Alba
As cool as the pale wet leaves
of lily-of-the-valley
She lay beside me in the dawn. Jane Austen and Pride and Prejudice
Shakespeare and Macbeth
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