Amy Lowell once said, "Poetry and history are textbooks to the heart of man". Lowell is trying to say in this quote that the words a person uses to describe something or someone is coming from their heart. You can tell the personality of a person by the words they use. Poetry is something that can be interpreted in many different ways. History is based upon events that happened in the past, which may be heroic or emotional. Many people enjoy history enough to compare it to poetry. There are a few readings that can be compared to this quote. In William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar the true heart of a man is revealed. Through Caesar's words and action his heart was revealed.Caesar ...view middle of the document...
351)Caesar wanted to be around people that made him look good. He needed help more than anyone else at that time. Caesar wanted to be considered as high class. He never wanted to really take on responsibility because he knew that there are people that are more fit for the job. There is nothing he can do to make everyone love him. He gets killed because did not make everyone satisfied. An example of this is:"I can as well be hanged as tell the manner of it: it was mere foolery; I did not mark it. I saw Mark Antony offer him a crown yet 'twas not a crown neither. 'Twas one of these coronets-and, as I told you he put it by once, but for all that to my thinking he would fain have had it. Then he offered it to him again, then he put it by again by to my thinking, he was very loath to lay fingers off it. And then he offered it the third time. He put it the third time by..." (Pg. 355)Characterization and conflict are two literary techniques that can be used to describe the comparison Caesar to the quote "Poetry and History are Textbooks to The Heart of Man" -Amy Lowell....
