March 29, 2025
In reference to my read of The Things I Love by Scottie McKenzie Frazier, I got a sneak-peek into the poet and suffragette of the early 20th century. Reading her poetry, I learned a more transparent concept of what I call some bright lines that demarcate among Realist flavor, Impressionist flavor and Futurist flavor of anthology.
Realist flavor relates to things as they are
Impressionist flavor alludes how the things seem to present themselves to the poet
Futurist flavor portrays not how the things are nor how they seem to the poet, but how the poet envisions the things in their dream, thought processes, realization and inculcation.
April 26, 2025
Williams Wordsworth (April 7, 1770 - April 23, 1850) was a pioneer British poet, with unique and exceptional forte in Romanticism. Reading the poetry "To the Daisy" gives me a sensation of profound appreciation for nature, the poet's love for nature and his connecting [to the nature] flair. I have also found that "To the Daisy" is composed of several paragraphs, with each paragraph consisting of eight rows. The first to third row flow in rhyme as do fifth to seventh row, while the fourth and eighth rows do rhyme together. Take the first paragraph of the poetry:
In youth from rock to rock I went,
From hill to hill, in discontent
Of pleasure high and turbulent,
Most pleas’d when most uneasy;
But now my own delights I make,
My thirst at every rill can slake,
And gladly Nature’s love partake
Of thee, sweet Daisy!
The poem is connecting the poet's emotion, appreciation and love with a very unique proclivity towards nature's abundance and beauty.
