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Cwyn Fenrisson
(11/5/2009 4:35:00 PM) |
Though this poem may be about the poet & his adversities it’s hard to ignore the romantic machismo that bleeds through the verses.
The Romantic Movement had a profound influence on art, science, & exploration & much of the success of this very personal poem (apart from being a great poem) is the way it spoke to & reiterated sentiments of this era. Strength, self reliance, determination, adventure (this last element too often overlooked with respect to this poem) were all essential ingredients to imperial Europe and anyone looking to establish themselves in their respective field. This poem reflects the poets ethnosyncrasies as much as his idiosyncrasies.
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Dick Badian
(11/4/2009 1:18:00 PM) |
easely ahigh score from the netherlands
can we have your votes please..W.E. Henley..ten points dix points
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Darkness Falls
(11/2/2009 9:00:00 PM) |
This is in response to Chris Robson. I like the level of thinking you put into your post...yet, having said that I have to say I feel otherwise. Given the context of the poem, I feel that in using the lower case letters for 'whatever gods may be' and using upper case for 'I am' towards the end emphasizes his then-current state of mind that to get through the struggle at hand it was purely self-reliance and inner strength. No disrespect or intent to start any type of argument...just voicing my thought as another rookie to the poetry game
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Papermoon Woods
(10/6/2009 5:02:00 PM) |
That is a VERY good point Chris Robson! I never thought if it that way and I love this poem! I have loved it since reading it in high school.
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Chris Robson
(9/29/2009 1:23:00 PM) |
If that was obvious i do apologize, I'm just getting into this poetry game
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Chris Robson
(9/29/2009 1:14:00 PM) |
At the start of the poem Henley uses lower caseing for 'whatever gods may be' which in that context suggests a possible lack of respect or belief in a higher power. However, I think there is a deeper meaning hidden in the ending... 'I am' is the divine name, so Mr Henley could actually be meaning 'God the master of my fate, God the captain of my soul'.
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c.R.u.S.h_ c/o2011_
(9/1/2009 9:35:00 PM) |
well, i am a junior at booker t. washington senior high in miami, florida and to start off my junior year in my AP english and language class this was the first poem that we read. My teacher Mr.v let us interpret the poem ourselves. as i read it for the first time and found my own perception on the poem i saw i as this man was teling us not to feel pity on him cause he knew that at the end of reading this poem we would feel the pity. i see that this man faced alot in life. i mean he had no arms nor legs he had three types of cancers and he had tuberculosis which was killing him. if you read is bio you see that both his sons died and he had a nut case for a wife. at first i felt that he was directing this poem towards the devil telling him that although he has lived his life in missery and pain that even if he did go to hell the devil would not scare him. he believed that he was going to hell in my opinion cause he never was well in his life so he never thought he would be well in his after life. he just never saw the life. look i saw it like this, this man wasnt looking for the light it seemed that he liked living in the darkness. i felt like he was a grown nman going through a tragic life but at one point in your life something has to go right no matter how small it is. many people are going through worse and dont complain as much as he was in this poem, but at the end i understood him.this man had no arms so how did he write this he didnt his wife did and if you all didnt know he hated her. but although he hated her she wrote this poem for him.why? cause he knew that with her writing this poem she would over read these words and these words would kill her inside.he always blamed her for his kids death cause as his wife he felt it was her job to watch and keep the kids safe so he got back at her.he knew that he would die soon and with leaving this poem behind it would lead his wife into a great depression causing her to hurt herself.well 5 min. after he wrote this poem he died and his wife was put in a crzy home for about 6 years and into the 6th year she comittied suicide beacuse she could never get over the words that her husband wrote. he did exactly what he wanted he killed the women he hated with his words.
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Pink Butterfly ...
(7/6/2009 5:04:00 AM) |
This is the best poem ha had ever made!
All lines were on it's extent emotion! Well, this is actually my second time to read this magnificent poem. I first read this from a literary book, and it absolutely caught my attention! He really expresses a lot of pain and braveness! I salute him for writing this one!
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Sheila Flowers Ritchie
(6/10/2009 12:50:00 AM) |
When I was a freshman in high school, back in the stone age, my English teacher had us learn this poem. I never realized at that time that this poem would come back to haunt me some 40 plus years later. I was able to recite it all but the third verse. But upon seeing it, it all came back to me. I find now how much truth this poem holds. If that teacher was still alive, I would thank her. And let her know that she had made a lasting impression on one of her students.
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