The Meaning Beyond

Term Paper Title	The Meaning Beyond
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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� this poem shows
how Williams tells the nature of people having fun in their leisure time.  But
words that Williams writes about Breughel�s great picture expand further than
the kermess being held.  The dancers go round and around, feeling the energy
and good nature of the music being played by such instruments as bagpipes, a
bugle, and fiddles.  The peasants drink from their round glasses and fill their
bellies with joyful drink.  Their round hips and bellies help ...

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