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Frustration and Despair in Walter Raleigh’s PoetryA Study in some Selected Poems | ||
| Journal of Research Diyala humanity | ||
| Article 1, Volume 0, Issue 41, 2017, Pages 284-303 | ||
| Authors | ||
| ; Fadhil Hassan; Yasir Allawi Abid | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Sir Walter Raleigh (1554-1618) was an English soldier, courtier, discoverer, scholar, historian and poet in the same time. He was a very cultured person, and a close friend of the Queen Elizabeth I who knighted him in 1585. Raleigh had unstable life because he was accused of treason. He, as a result for that, was arrested and sent to prison many times. During the thirteen years of imprisonment he turned into writing, he wrote different books including history and poetry. These events affected him and influenced his poetry which was not in harmony with his age. He wrote fine poems that brought him a rank among good poets. Most of his poetry was self-centered which was tinged with frustration, despair, melancholy and to certain extent of skepticism. These became recurrent themes in almost all his poems. The present paper aims at studying some of those poems and analyzing theme to see the main reasons behind this frustration and despair. The selected poems are “The Lie”, “Farewell to the Court”, “Like to a Hermit”, and “What is Our Life?” These poems are characterized by sad, melancholic and woeful tone which expresses the bitterness of the poet’s soul. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Sir Walter Raleigh; was an English soldier | ||
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