In epics, fame and glory, perseverance and leadership are commonly topics explored.
An epic poem may be described as a long, narrative poem that usually deals with heroic deeds and events that are significant to the culture of the poet. Many ancient writers used epic poetry to tell tales of intense adventures and heroic feats. Epics ordinarily involve a living memory in which the extraordinary doings of the extraordinary men and women are related.
Poe is a very complex writer who loves to experiment and the poem "The Raven" is a valid proof of Poe's understanding of symbols in universal literature and his wish to explore and have control upon words and rhythm. The repetition of the word 'nevermore' comes to amplify the elegy that mourns the loss of the beloved Lenore. The effects the long vowels produce are shivering the readers' heart. Lord Byron himself experimented the play upon sounds in his poems before. Raven is the metamorphosis of a tragic love, a favourite symbol of death in many pieces of literature from ancient times. The visual contrast of a white bust like a ghost to the dark black raven in a "bleak" December, like in Dickens's "Bleak House", reinforce the tone of mourning a dear person.
In point of rhyme composition, the poem is fully based on Elisabeth Barretts' sophisticated rhythm and rhyme of "Lady's Geraldine Courtship" poem. The rhyme scheme is ABCBBB. The heavy use of alliteration, "doubting dreamy dreams..." plays huge role in the musicality of this beautiful narrative poem of 18 stanzas in which every B line rhymes with the obsessive "nevermore".
Adrianne is the protagonist, a mermaid chooses her as the bride of the prince of the sea but Adrianne doesn't want to hold because she doesn't want to abandon her family because she knows that they will not survive without her. I really ....... love this book ...... oh and is by Sheila A. Nielson.
The poem Testimonial by Rita Dove expressed the overwhelming
joy that life can bring to one person. She had expressed how she sees the little
things that many had failed to notice. Dove accepts what life can offer her and
she accepts it with an open-heart
