Thursday, January 31, 2013

What Should You Write Inside A Wedding Card?

For those people who are not just mere acquaintances of the bride and groom, they may want to express their sentiment in their own words when they are signing the card to give to the wedding pair on such a momentous occasion. What you write all depends upon the type of relationship you have with the happy couple.

An Easy Card to Write

The very reason you are attending a wedding is a happy celebration. You don't have to worry about writing any gaffes about age and you are free to express your joy in sharing their happiness. Beginning a new life together is quite an adventure and it is proper to wish the bride and groom numerous good wishes.

What Should You Write Inside A Wedding Card?

Your Wish for Their Happiness

Adding your own words to a wedding card is always appreciated by the couple and most especially by the bride as they read over their cards together. Some things you may want to wish the two of them are luck, love and happiness; the basic necessities you need to begin a new life together. You may want to wish them a life that is full of sunshine and promise as well as prosperity and joy. You may want to wish the couple a life that is less ordinary that is filled with adventure and laughter. It is always nice to wish them wealth as well as fun too.

A Poem for the Occasion

Poets throughout the ages have been able to say all the things you are feeling, and searching for a few lines from a relevant poem is another way you can wish the best to the bride and groom. There are many poets that are well known for their poems of love, so it shouldn't be too difficult to locate an appropriate verse. If you feel confident enough and think you have the skills, you might even try penning a line or two of poetry yourself.

Say What You Feel

Heartfelt sentiments can be sensed through your words, so saying what you feel is always a good idea. Don't worry if you don't sound "fancy" enough, worry that you are able to get your true feelings across to the couple whose special day of their marriage you are fortunate enough to share with them. After all, the words you write from the heart are the ones most especially felt.

What Should You Write Inside A Wedding Card?
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Wednesday, January 23, 2013

The Study of Poetry

Literary Criticism is, as Matthew Arnold (1822-1888), the Victorian poet and critic points out, a "disinterested endeavor to learn and propagate" the best that is known and thought in the world. And he strove hard to fulfill this aim in his critical writings. Attaching paramount importance to poetry in his essay "The Study of Poetry", he regards the poet as seer. Without poetry, science is incomplete, and much of religion and philosophy would in future be replaced by poetry. Such, in his estimate, are the high destinies of poetry.

Arnold asserts that literature, and especially poetry, is "Criticism of Life". In poetry, this criticism of life must conform to the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty. Truth and seriousness of matter, felicity and perfection of diction and manner, as are exhibited in the best poets, are what constitutes a criticism of life.

Poetry, says Arnold, interprets life in two ways: "Poetry is interpretative by having natural magic in it, and moral profundity". And to achieve this the poet must aim at high and excellent seriousness in all that he writes.This demand has two essential qualities. The first is the choice of excellent actions. The poet must choose those which most powerfully appeal to the great primary human feelings which subsist permanently in the race. The second essential is what Arnold calls the Grand Style - the perfection of form, choice of words, drawing its force directly from the pregnancy of matter which it conveys.

The Study of Poetry

This, then, is Arnold's conception of the nature and mission of true poetry. And by his general principles - the" Touchstone Method" - introduced scientific objectivity to critical evaluation by providing comparison and analysis as the two primary tools for judging individual poets. Thus, Chaucer, Dryden, Pope, and Shelley fall short of the best, because they lack "high seriousness". Even Shakespeare thinks too much of expression and too little of conception. Arnold's ideal poets are Homer and Sophocles in the ancient world, Dante and Milton, and among moderns, Goethe and Wordsworth. Arnold puts Wordsworth in the front rank not for his poetry but for his "criticism of life". It is curious that Byron is placed above Shelley. Arnold's inordinate love of classicism made him blind to the beauty of lyricism, and we cannot accept Arnold's view that Shelley's poetry is less satisfactory than his prose writings.

Arnold's criticism of life is often marred by his naive moralizing, by his inadequate perception of the relation between art and morality, and by his uncritical admiration of what he regarded as the golden sanity of the ancient Greeks. For all his championing of disinterestedness, Arnold was unable to practise disinterestedness in all his essays. In his essay on Shelley particularly, he displayed a lamentable lack of disinterestedness. Shelley's moral views were too much for the Victorian Arnold. In his essay on Keats too Arnold failed to be disinterested. The sentimental letters of Keats to Fanny Brawne were too much for him. But Arnold's insistence on the standards and his concern over the relation between poetry and life make him one of the great modern critics.

The Study of Poetry
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Monday, January 21, 2013

Appreciation of Poetry

A lot of students are expected to write a literary essay based on appreciation of poetry. To make the task enjoyable we need to define poetry. What is poetry? Edmund Clarence Stedman said the following: "Poetry is rhythmical, imaginative language expressing the invention, taste, thought, passion, and insight of the human soul."

Poetry is the creativity of a person's imagination. Like any other literary work, it needs to be understood to be appreciated. The writer writes for a reason. His purpose may be to evoke emotion, inform, define, represent something of the world or life, entertain ... Whatever the case, a poem is unique to its writer. And each poem can be analyzed to be appreciated. Here are some general ideas to help you understand the poem you are reading:

Subject: Try to outline the subject matter of the poem. You need to look at what is being described. It could be a place, an event, a person, a situation or an experience. What does the poet want you to focus on, in the poem or in each stanza? Theme: Once you have identified the subject of the poem, try and figure out what the poet wants to tell you. Look at the following: the poet's message; his purpose; ideas that he is conveying; the title; and the type of poem (i.e. sonnet, ballad, lyrical, reflective, monologue, elegy, narrative, descriptive, a combination of different types). Always remember that feeling and tone work hand-in-hand with the subject and theme. Structure: The form of the poem is very important. By now, you should know what kind of poem you are dealing with: e.g. ballad, epic, ode, sonnet, dramatic monologue, elegy, etc. Discuss your knowledge of the poem's structure in the essay Rhythm: Look at the flow of the poem through the line patterns. Are they regular or irregular? If they are regular, does the metre stay the same throughout the poem? (Metre: pattern of rhythmic beats per line; stressed and unstressed words that make up the rhythm of the poem, indicating pace, e.g. slow or fast.) If there are changes to the metre, analyse where the changes are. Try to find the reason for the change. What effect does this change have on the poem? Rhyme: Does the poem have a set scheme? Has the poet written in free verse, blank verse; does he use pair rhyme, cross rhyme, or broken rhyme? Does he use half rhyme, near rhyme, middle rhyme or end rhyme? Does the poet emphasise words or the message by means of the rhyme scheme? What is the purpose and effect of the rhyme scheme? Pausing and punctuation have an effect on the structure, rhythm and rhyme of a poem. Imagery: There are various ways to paint a picture in the reader's mind through the use of words. Look at the figurative and sound devices used in the poem. Are the images visual, auditory, kinesthetic, tactile, olfactory or gustatory? Diction: The words that are used and the way they are placed can enhance the power of the poet's creativity. Remember inversion, hyperbole, euphemism, irony, sarcasm, rhetorical questions and other poetic techniques that can bring meaning to the poem. When you are writing your essay, you only need to mention imagery, figurative and sound devices, as well as diction; you need not explain why the poet has used the technique or whether it is effective or not. General Impression: Give your opinion of the poem in general and what effect it has had on you. Did you like it or not? Remember to use quotation marks when you are quoting from the poem.

Appreciation of Poetry

As you read and appreciate more poetry, you will discover that the study of poetry is educationally fulfilling. Once you start to understand poems, you will be enriched in so many ways. Poetry enhances character. Keep on trying. Success lies first and foremost in the love for literature, and then it can be found in the understanding and interpretation of texts.

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