Keats’s Sensuousness

Keats’s Sensuousness

The term ‘sensuous’ usually refers to the enjoyment and delights borrowed from the senses. Sensuousness is that quality which is derived from five senses- sight, hearing, touch, smell and taste. It is a way of perception through five senses. A sensuous poet uses those word pictures that help the reader to understand the sights and sounds expressed or suggested in a poem .John Keats is best known for his use of such images that appeal to human senses. For this reason, he is often called a sensuous poet.

“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” By: T. S. Eliot. Poetry 4th-Year English department

 

 “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” 

By: T. S. Eliot.

 

          The Original title of this poem is “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and Other Observations” published in 1915. The present poem as such is just a part of several other poems in the same volume whose title I have mentioned above. T. S. Eliot, a poet, philosopher, thinker, dramatist and critic, was a very salient name throughout the 20^th century and is still today.

Poetry 4th-Year English department - An Overview Reconsidering “The Listeners”, “Musee Des Beaux Art”, “The Unknown Citizen”, “Sailing to Byzantium” and “The Second Coming”

 An Overview

Reconsidering “The Listeners”, “Musee Des Beaux Art”, “The Unknown Citizen”, “Sailing to Byzantium” and “The Second Coming”

 

          Here I intend to present an overview of the poems you have already studied; namely they are: “The Listeners”, “Musee Des Beaux Art”, “The Unknown Citizen”, “Sailing to Byzantium” and “The Second Coming”.

Poem The Unknown Citizen By W. H. Auden - Poetry 4th-Year English department

 " The Unknown Citizen"    

By  W. H. Auden

 

           " The Unknown Citizen" is one of Auden's most famous poems; it is taught almost all over the world in colleges interested in Humanities. The phrase " Unknown Soldier" is often used by governments to commemorate those soldiers who die in battle and whose identities are not known for the rest of the army.

Poetry 4th-Year English department - The Second Coming by W. B. Yeats

 

The Second Coming  by W. B. Yeats

 

           " The Second Coming" is one of Yeats' most mystical and least understandable poems. It belongs to the  symbolic and visionary phase of the poet's artistic development. Most of the imageries used in this poem are drawn on his highly mystical and obscure book,

Sailing To Byzantium by W. B. Yeats - Poetry 4th-Year English department

 Sailing To Byzantium  by W. B. Yeats

 

           W. B. Yeats is an Irish poet. He passed through three phases in his artistic development as a poet. In his early career, he starts as a very delicate romantic poet who travels through imagination to unknown mysterious worlds of courtly love and romance. His soul then was strongly connected to Maud Gonne,

"The Listeners" By Walter De la Mare - Poetry 4th-Year English department

 "The Listeners" By Walter De la Mare.

          If you go back to your First Year university memories you will find out that you met the character of the " traveler" in your book entitled Prose and Poetry Appreciation. In Ozymandias, the poet also introduces the character of the traveler as a common icon of life experiences obtained through free movement: in classical times it was the character of the " wanderer" , the hermit and the sophist wanderer 

Poetry 4th-Year English department - Musee des Beaux Arts

Musee des Beaux Arts

          " Musee des Beaux Arts "  by W. H. Auden is one of the most interesting poems written in the 20^th century. The poem builds up an imaginary scenery belonging to a modern place , a museum. The poem is divided into four stanzas, each one of them constitutes a vivid visual picture that readers can imagine or even draw on a paper. I think the best way to understand this poem is by imagining or drawing the pictures it provides in each stanza. The ruling or unifying idea of all the pictures is Man's suffering in this life.

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Syllabus of first course of fourth year poetry:

1- Symbolism / the symbolist movement

W.B. Yeats " Sailing to Byzantium''

'' The Second Coming''

2- The Imagist movement

T.S. Eliot '' The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock''

3- The Georgian School

Walter de la Mare '' The Listeners''

4- The Socialist School

W.H. Auden ''The Unknown Citizen''

Poetry : The Second Coming by W. B. Yeats

Introduction to The Second coming

    Wollman shows that Yeats has a vision, a moment of insight into the future. It arises from a mood of doubt and despair, inspired by the anarchy of the world, the increase of bloodshed, and the growth of disbelief. He sees the present era as dying; the first two

Poetry : Sailing to Byzantuim by W. B. Yeats 1865- 1939

Life of Yeats and his features

Yeats is considered as one of the most important poets in twentieth- century poetry. As a modern poet, he can be full romantic. As an Irish man, he had a great love for Ireland. Yeats 's poetry has some poetic qualities and techniques which make him different from the other

Poetry : Symbolism / the symbolist movement

Syllabus of first course of fourth year poetry:

1- Symbolism / the symbolist movement

W.B. Yeats " Sailing to Byzantium''

'' The Second Coming''

2- The Imagist movement

T.S. Eliot '' The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock''

3- The Georgian School

Walter de la Mare '' The Listeners''

4- The Socialist School

W.H. Auden ''The Unknown Citizen''