Tag: Poetry Slam Fridays
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Poetry Slam Friday: The Odes of John Keats, Ode to Melancholy
I should stop saying it’s Friday when it’s not. Just as school heats up and people get depressed over the abmysal state of their college applications, scholarships, social life and let’s not forget get—A Levels, Keats drops this ode on us. Ode to Melancholy gave me chills. And at this rate, I think it’s my…
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Poetry Slam Friday: The Odes of John Keats, Ode to Psyche
Hey guys. Been a while hasn’t it since a post like this. Between school, extra-curricular and applications (to US no less), keeping up with even one post per month has been hard. However, I recently joined the A* Challenge along with a hundred other blogs, and I stand by my decision to go for those…
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Characteristics of John Keats’ Poetry
And now, I present to you, the Jesus Christ of Romantic Poetry. *Trumpets* *Doves and eagles* *Awesomeness overload*. John Keats was born on 31 October, 1795 and died just 25 years later of complications due to tuberculosis on 23 February, 1821. He is largely known for his influence in Romantic poetry and, in a word,…
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Poetry Slam Fridays: Sonnet 31
Hello all! Miss me? This week we begin our sequence of Sonnets from everyone in Songs of Ourselves. This week, we’re visiting the obsessive, the loving, the smothering Sir Philip Sidney! Yes, I’m talking about the author of Astrophel and Stella. Fortunately, we are not reviewing the ahem, creepy songs and sonnets of Astrophel. No, we’re swirling in…
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Poetry Slam Fridays: The Sonnets’ Bonnet
Hey guys! Sorry I missed last week’s bonanza. School’s just started up and I was getting back on my feet. Any who, I’ve decided that next week I’ll start up on the many numbered sonnets we have to learn. Then I asked, what the hell is a sonnet? And with so many kinds of…
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