Favourite Poet

My favourite poet is William Shakespeare.

I choose him as he was a famous poet.

He was intriguing as his poems were romantic, classical and would really "hook" up your heart. In his poems and plays, Shakespeare invented thousands of words, often combining or contorting Latin, French and native roots. His impressive expansion of the English language, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, includes such words as: arch-villain, birthplace, bloodsucking, courtship, dewdrop, downstairs, fanged, heartsore, hunchbacked, leapfrog, misquote, pageantry, radiance, schoolboy, stillborn, watchdog, and zany.

Although he wrote many famous poems and stories, still felt that it would be perfect if his love story was "perfect".

William Shakespeare was born on April 23, 1564, in Stratford-on-Avon. The son of John Shakespeare and Mary Arden, he was probably educated at the King Edward IV Grammar School in Stratford, where he learned Latin and a little Greek and read the Roman dramatists. At eighteen, he married Anne Hathaway, a woman seven or eight years his senior. Together they raised two daughters: Susanna, who was born in 1583, and Judith (whose twin brother died in boyhood), born in 1585.

Three poems of him were:

The Rape of Lucrece (1594)

The Sonnets of Shakespeare (1609)
Venus and Adonis (1593)

Cited from: http://poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/122

The Albatross

Often, to amuse themselves the men of the crew
Lay hold of the albatross, vast birds of the seas-
Who follow, sluggish companions of the voyage,
The ship gliding on the bitter gulfs.

Hardly have they placed them on the planks,
Than these kings of the azure, clumsy and shameful,
Let, piteously, their great wings in white,
Like oars, drag at their sides.

This winged traveler, how he is awkward and weak!
He, lately so handsome, how comic he is and uncomely!
Someone bothers his beak with a short pipe,
Another imitates, limping, the ill thing that flew!

The poet resembles the prince of the clouds
Who is friendly to the tempest and laughs at the bowman;
Banished to ground in the midst of hootings,
His wings, those of a giant, hinder him from walking.

Questions to answer: 1. How are the figurative language used in the poem? Give the specific word(s), explain what type of figurative language it is and why the poet chose to use this figurative language?

The figurative language were used to describe the entire incident from the idle mariners shot down an albertross just to have fun to once a great bird of sky has now became a toy of others. The specific words are companions, kings, traveller, he, his, poet, prince, friendly, laughs and walking. The type of figurative language used is personification.

The poet choose to use this figurative language as the albatross manifests the unsuccessful bridging of two worlds poets' lives frequently contain. Walking and flying can stand for two kinds of consciousness which may collide and call each other names. The albatross contains enough of the farcical, tragical implications of unplanned doubleness.

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