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The Meaning Beyond
Art is defined as being a skill applied to painting, music, and poetry. The words that are written describing art have a purpose and a meaning but, through the words of Jarrell, Williams, and Auden words mean much more than a description. These poems show how words are more than mere descriptions, they are symbols. Randall Jarrell is analyzed as “The one living poet who has written good poems that ordinary readers like without any trouble and understand without any trouble...”, this is evident in Jarrell’s “The Knight, Death, and the Devil,” he describes an engraving by Albrecht Durer.(Jarrell, 14) He clearly describes and uses objects in the engraving to symbolize a much deeper meaning. Death holds up an hourglass that Jarrell describes as being “Crossed cones of time.” These descriptions serve to be a warning to the knight. They warn that death is always around to scare us, misguide us, and to remind us that time is always running down, flowing until life empties out of our bodies. Also, Jarrell tells of a beast with horns on all sides of his boar-snouted head, which lingers behind the knight without any notice. Jarrell says this beast to be the devil, it symbolizes that the devil is ugly and shoddy. His presence behind the knight shows that the devil is always behind us like a scavenger waiting for his turn to feast. The knight portrays mankind by being the only human in the art work. The knight, with armor and riding atop a steady horse shows that people should go through life with confidence and good self esteem because bad obstacles are just waiting to happen. Jarrell uses these objects to show how humans have great strength to rid evil. “The Dance” by William CarlosWilliams is a poem that combines visual imagery with words. Peter Schmidt said, “Williams greatest poems...are highly ambivalent toward the way Americans were being urged to spend their leisure time.(Schmidt, 137) In “The Dance” th... Please login to view comments from other users.
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