the boy, too young to articulate clearly, is calling out his trade in the streets--sweep, sweep, sweep, sweep but thepoet is telling us that we should weep over his pitiful plight. In lines 7-8 the innocent boy is genuinely trying to comfort his friend and does not recognize, as thepoet does, the ironic discrepancy between the comfort he intends and the lack of comfort he actually offers, for n
John Dryden (9 Aug 1631 – 30 April 1700), nicknamed Town-Bayes, an influential English poet, literary critic, translator, and playwright who dominated the literary life of Restoration England.
Born in the village rectory of Aldwincle, Northamptonshire. The eldest of 14 children of Eramus Dryden and Mary Pickering – an Parliamentary supporting family with Puritan learnings.
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Brief introduction of the poem and thepoet
“Refugee ship” is a poem about thepoet’s identity which is one of the main topic of chicano American potery.
From a young age, she was discouraged from speaking Spanish and only taught English in order to protect her from the racism that pervaded her time. This loss of language and a struggle to find her true identity helped inspire her poet
Who is “ThePoet” ?
“We do not, with sufficient plainness, or and social circumstance. sufficient profoundness, address ourselves to life, not dare we chaunt our times ”
“We have yet had no genius in America, with tyrannous eye, which knew the value of our incomparable materials.”
Preface to Leaves of Grass
PREFACE(1)
The Voice of America
Embracement
-Equality
William Langland is the conjectured author of the 14th-century English dream-vision Piers Plowman.
주요작품 : The Vision of Piers Plowman
Geoffrey Chaucer known as the Father of English literature, is widely considered the greatest English poet of the Middle Ages.
Chaucer is a crucial figure in developing the legitimacy of the vernacular, Middle English, at a time when the dominant