Poetic Perfection in Juan Ramón Jiménez: Analysis of Two Poems
Juan Ramón Jiménez – The Name of the Name
Subject
The subject is a topic of Juan Ramón Jiménez: the pursuit of poetic perfection. In the poem, Jiménez claims to have found that perfection.
Metrics
Free verse poem that is dominated by lines of high art.
Questions
1. Indicates what type of literary device we can see in the phrase “God created and recreated and recreated by grace and effortless”
We can see the appeal of the polysyndeton, i.e., the repetition of conjunctions to give force to the expression
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Brobdingnag
Gulliver’s Journey: From Power to Powerlessness
- As in part I, Gulliver departs from and returns to reality.
- Now a pygmy in a land of giants, Gulliver moves from a position of power to powerlessness.
- Gulliver is initially perceived by the farm laborers as a dangerous animal: at first, the farmer’s wife reacts to Gulliver as if he were a toad or spider.
- Gulliver’s animality had begun in Lilliput with his monstrous defecation.
- For the first time, we see that his identity is questioned. His animality
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Theme
The theme of this rhyme is the poet’s lack of knowledge of his destination. This ignorance causes him a lack of understanding of his own personality.
Structure
We can divide the rhyme into two parts:
- First Part: Evoked Plane – The first four verses form the first part, whose function would be the introduction and development. In this part, the poetic voice lists various natural elements to compare himself to.
- Second Part: Real
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The Lamb – William Blake
Voice: The entire poem is in the third person because the narrator is a “child” who is talking to a lamb.
Mood: It’s a happy mood.
Summary: The child in the poem is talking to a lamb, which is the reincarnation of God. He’s asking questions about its creator. They are rhetorical questions because he already knows the answers (its creator is God).
Topic: Pantheism, which is the existence of an identity between God and His creatures.
Parts: We can divide the poem into two
Read MoreGustavo Adolfo Bécquer’s Rhyme II: An In-Depth Analysis
Introduction
The proposed text for commentary is Rhyme II by the poet Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, from Seville. Within the series that often groups Bécquer’s poems, Rhyme II belongs to the first, in which the poet reflects on poetry. This series ranges from Rhyme I to XI. Bécquer’s work is in the post-romantic current, which is characterized by simplicity, melancholy, and other observable traits in the themes and vocabulary.
Theme
The theme of this rhyme is the poet’s lack of knowledge of his destination.
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Frequently Asked Questions on *Leaves of Grass*
- What is Paumanok?
- Paumanok is the Native American term for Long Island.
- In “Starting from Paumanok,” what does Whitman say he will make poems from?
- All of the above (material things, his body, his morality).
- Toward the end of “Song of Myself,” what sound does Whitman say he will make?
- A barbaric yawp.
- What does an important section of “Song of Myself” describe?
- Twenty-nine bathers.
- What is the major symbol Whitman