Summary of Poems

Poem 1

Title : Dream

Author : Lenore Marshall

Publisher : Norton and Company Inc.

City : America

Year : 1969

Page : 109

This poem tells about special place of writer. The writer shadows at the way station and get on the ship. It is ever visited by him before. He can feel the beautiful night on the ship. He wades through the sea. And he feels that he never does it again. His opinion, the sea is his life. He really loves sea. But he thinks that it is the last and he is never been there again. He will miss the lighthouse turn dark house, quiet turn quay. He will remember the way station.

Poem 2

Title : To the Sun

Author : Lenore Marshall

This poem stories about the blind boy’s life. He said that darkness was his friend. Wherever he goes, the darkness will accompany him. He is helped by stick for walking. He tries to understand all of his condition. He lives alone. Nobody hear and nobody help. He has lost his sense of the way. He often trips. But he always struggles for his life. He never feels blind but he just loose direction. He thinks darkness is just like light and nobody can look into the sun. He can see the sun with his heart and feeling. He can not see but it is not big trouble for him. He can walk on his life like another people that can see with their eyes.

Poem 3

Title : Mexican Night

Author : Lenore Marshall

This poem tells about the condition of Mexican at night. The author sees a lot of beautiful things at night. Stars real and abstract spread to horizon less arc. And all is visible. The author thinks beautiful night is wonder. The stars growing and decorate the dark sky. Sky and earthling merge to be one wonder. And all of it is real. Some people do not feel that night is nice. Maybe they do not enjoy nice night with see sky earthling. They will pass the night with themselves way. Unlike the author. He can see all, the reaches of bright forever and he can stretch his mind as far as the eye gaze.

Poem 4

Title : Memory in winter

Author : Lenore Marshall

This poem stories about the author’s memory in winter. He passes the winter with his friends happily. The joy assails his heart. The author misses the memory in winter. Cry, laugh, happy and many others, all of them are just memory. While airy memory steals without a sign. He can see footprints of deer in snow. And all of his memory in winter will be saved in his mind. Because it is valuable thing. The author will always remember it. Sweet still and forever will stop the heart again.

Foundation of Literature

Reflections

Title : Romeo and Juliet

Author : William Shakespeare

Year : 1599

Summary :

It tells about love story between Romeo and Juliet. The story begins with a large fight between the Capulets and the Montagues. Capulets and Montagues are big families in Verona, Italy. Romeo comes from the Capulet family. In a moment, Romeo goes to the party. And then he looks a beautiful girl there. Her name is Juliet. And Romeo falls in love to her. He is disappointed when he finds out that Juliet is a Capulet. But it does not change his love to Juliet. Romeo decides to marry with her. But their family does not agree it. Finally, Romeo and Juliet are secretly married. Friar Lawrence is Romeo’s friend. He helps their celebration of a wedding. Montagues family will marry Juliet with another man. Then Juliet consults with Friar Lawrence. He advices her to agree to the marriage but on the morning of the wedding she will drink a potion that he prepares for her. The potion will make it look like Juliet is dead and she will be put into the Capulet burial vault. Then, the Friar will send Romeo to rescue her. Before the Friar can tell Romeo of the hoax, Romeo hears from someone else that his beloved Juliet is dead. Overcome with grief, Romeo buys a poison and goes to Juliet's tomb to die beside his wife. Then Juliet awakens and sees her husband dead. And Friar Lawrence story to her, what has happened. Juliet is very sad. And she kills herself with Romeo’s dagger. Their families are hurt very much by the death of their children. And they agree to never fight again.

Comment :

The story is very wonderful. Their love must be sacrificed, because of their family that fighting each other. The characters in this story are very strong with the setting in Italy. It describes the kingdom life that full of competition. Their love is examined by the condition of their family. But they still preserve it. The story makes us thinking that the fighting is not good for all people. In fact, it just will injure for all people. And finally, their true love makes their family agree to never fight again.

Experience :

Romeo and Juliet is one of love story that very wonderful. When I read this story, I remember with the same story like Romeo and Juliet. For example, Cleopatra and Antonius. But there are the difference story with Romeo and Juliet. Cleopatra and Antonius are suicide. Antonius is suicide because he can not reach his purpose to preserve his kingdom. And Cleopatra follows his husband. She lets the snake to bite herself.

Restoration

Title : Paradise Lost

Author : John Milton

Year : 1667

Characters : Satan, Adam, Eve, and the son of Adam and Eve.

Summary :

It tells about the create of human in the earth at that time. Satan is an ambitious and conceit. He is introduced in Hell after a failed rebellion to take control of Heaven from God. Satan’s desire to rebel against his creator stems from his unwillingness to accept the fact that he is a created being and that he is not self sufficient, which roots in turn from his extreme narcissism. Adam is the first human in Eden create by God. He is the more intellectual of the two, with Eve being more rooted in experience. Eve is the second human created, taken from one of Adam’s ribs and formed into a female form of Adam. Adam and Eve have a mutually dependant relationship. Positively, she is the model of a good subject and wife. Eve is so beautiful. Her beauty not only obsesses Adam, but also herself. The God instruct Adam and Eve not to eat the fruit on the tree. But Satan deceives Adam and Eve. Satan is sly. Finally Adam and Eve eat that fruit. And God gives punishment to Adam and Eve. Because they have run against the instruction of God. From the Heaven, they are sent to the earth. And Satan is very happy, because he can deceive them. They really regret for that sin. And they hope their son is not like them. Hopefully, their son will save the human race and always does what the instruction of God. In my experience, this story is different with the true story. There are a lot of deviations in this story. For example, The God has a father. Of course, it is not true. God does not have father or mother. So, we have to read the story carefully. Do not trust the story that does not have the fact or the true sources.

Ranaissance Era

Christhoper Marlowe

Title : Dido, Queen of Carthage

Author : Christhoper Marlowe

Year : 1594

Characters :

§ Dido - Queen of Carthage

§ Aeneas - a Trojan hero and the son of King Priam and the goddess Venus

§ Ascanius - guillermo

§ Iarbas - King of Gaetulia who is love Dido

§ Achates - friend of Aeneas

Summary

Dido, Queen of Carthage is a short play written by Christhopher Marlowe, with possible contributions by Thomas Nashe. It was first published in 1594 by the bookseller Thomas Woodcock. The story of the play focuses on the classical figure of Dido, the Queen of Carthage. It tells an intense dramatic tale of Dido and her fanatical love for Aeneas (induced by Cupid), Aeneas' betrayal of her and her eventual suicide on his departure for Italy. Aeneas is a Trojan hero and the son of King Priam and the goddess Venus. He is a handsome man. Many girls love him. But he just loves Dido. Beside that, there is a man who loves Dido, too. He is Iarbas, the king of Gaetulia. Aeneas competes with Gaetulia to get Dido’s love. Dido choices Aeneas because she really loves him. And Gaetulia does not get her love. He has broken heart. Whereas, Aeneas and Dido live in happiness.

Reinassance era

POETRY

Dover Beach

By Matthew Arnold

The sea is calm to-night,

The tide is full, the moon lies fair

Upon the straits; -- on the French coast the light

Gleams and is gone; the cliffs of England stand,

Glimmering and vast, out in the tranquil bay.

Come to the window, sweet is the night-air!

Only, from the long line of spray

Where the sea meets the moon-blanched land,

Listen! You hear the grating roar

Of pebbles which the waves draw back, and fling,

At their return, up the high strand,

Begin, and cease, and then again begin,

With tremulous cadence slow, and bring

The eternal note of sadness in.

Sophocles long ago

Heard it on the Aegean, and it brought

Into his mind the turbid ebb and flow

Of human misery; we

Find also in the sound a thought,

Hearing it by this distant northern sea.

The sea of faith

Was once, too, at the full, and round earth's shore

Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furled.

But now I only hear

Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar,

Retreating, to the breath

Of the night-wind, down the vast edges drear

And naked shingles of the world.

Ah, love, let us be true

To one another! For the world which seems

To lie before us like a land of dreams,

So various, so beautiful, so new,

Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light,

Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain;

And we are here as on a darkling plain

Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,

Where ignorant armies clash by night.

SUMMARY

This poetry tells about the scenery of the beach. Matthew Arnold tells the condition of the beach in the night. The beautiful moon lights the earth and decorates the sea. The cold air touches our body in the night. We can hear the grating roar, the beautiful sound of the night. The darkness of night is a nice peace and night-wind makes a wonderful sky. And the beach is a nice place for human to quite their mind.

Renaissance Literature

THE POEMS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

William Shakespeare is referred to as a Literary Genius and much of this praise is due to the wonderful words of his short sonnet poems and his extended poems as detailed on this page. He is the most widely read author in the whole of the Western World - his poems and quotes from poems are familiar to everyone. And yet when we think about Shakespeare we immediately we think of his famous plays and not his less famous poems. During the Bard's lifetime dramatists were not considered 'serious' authors with 'serious' talent - but it was highly fashionable to write poems. Plays were for entertainment poems were for the elite! There was not even such a thing as a custom built theatre until 1576! Actors were common folk. Poets of the era such as Christopher Marlowe, Sir Philip Sydney, Sir Walter Raleigh were of the nobility and there poems are still enjoyed today. These poets had credibility and so did their poetry. William Shakespeare came from Yeoman stock - he lacked credibility - his poems would have helped with this problem! The Bard did not give permission for one of his plays or his sonnets to be published. He was, however, happy to have his poems published. William Shake-spear has been attributed with the following poems:

THE PHOENIX AND THE TURTLE
A POEM BY
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

The Phoenix and the Turtle
Let the bird of loudest lay
On the sole Arabian tree
Herald sad and trumpet be
To whose sound chaste wings obey
But thou shrieking harbinger
Foul procurers of the fiend
Augur of the fever's end
To this troop come thou not near

From this session interdict
Every fowl of tyrant wing
Save the eagle, feathered king
Keep the obsequy so strict

Let the priest in surplice white
That defunctive music can
Be the death-divining swan
Lest the requiem lack his right

And thou, treble-dated crow
That thy sable gender make’s
With the breath thou give’s and take’s
'Mongst our mourners shalt thou go

Here the anthem doth commence
Love and constancy is dead
Phoenix and the turtle fled
In a mutual flame from hence

So they loved, as love in twain
Had the essence but in one
Two distinct, division none
Number there in love was slain

Hearts remote, yet not asunder
Distance, and no space was seen
'Twixt the turtle and his queen
But in them it were a wonder

So between them love did shine
That the turtle saw his right
Flaming in the phoenix' sight
Either was the other's mine

Property was thus appalled
That the self was not the same
Single nature's double name
Neither two nor one was called

Reason, in itself confounded
Saw division grow together
To themselves yet either neither
Simple were so well compounded

That it cried, 'How true a twain
See meth this concordant one!
Love hath reason, reason none
If what parts can so remain

Whereupon it made this threne
To the phoenix and the dove
Co-Supremes and stars of love
As chorus to their tragic scene

SUMMARY

The Phoenix and the Turtle Poem

William made this poem in 1601. This poem storied about the Poetical Essays appended to Robert Chester's Love's Martyr: or Rosalind's Complaint. It was attributed to William, and many scholars have accepted the poem as genuine. The date of composition of the poem is unknown, but this poem must be a more mature work. William used his good imagination to make this poem. The words are very wonderful.

YOU NOT ALONE, WHEN YOU ARE STILL ALONE
A POEM BY
MICHAEL DRAYTON

O God, from you that I could private be!
Since you one were, I never since was one
Since you in me, my self since out of me
Transported from my self into your being
Though either distant, present yet to either
Senseless with too much joy, each other seeing
And only absent when we are together
Give me my self and take your self again
Devise some means but how I may forsake you
So much is mine that doth with you remain
That, taking what is mine, with me I take you
You do bewitch me. O, that I could fly
From my self you, or from your own self!

SUMMARY

You Not Alone, When You Are Still Alone

Drayton made a simple poem. But it was filled by wonderful meaning. This poem storied about everyone whom loneliness. God is always beside us, everywhere and every time. Although, we do not have a friend, but we still have one God, most Gracious, and most Merciful. God gives a beautiful life for us. And Drayton expresses it in poem. He writes this poem with his experience.