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  • Stanza Strikes
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    Critical Analysis of Jungle Night The speaker of the poem is a civilian observer, probably a local. There is a sense of tension and fear in the speaker's tone. The speaker uses an observatory tone in the poem, a combination between 1st and 3rd person. The author shows us that the speaker is an observer when he says 'They are not there... /You finger the trigger of your Bren. ' (ll. 8&10) You can clearly see that the author creates tension when he says 'Half-fearing, half-desiring the sudden hell...
  • Poem The Seafarer And Kennedy The Wanderer
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    An elegy is a poem that reflects upon death. It is a very good way for people to release stress. It makes others think. An elegy to some people, is very depressing to read. Most of the time it tells the truth about a side of a persons life, that no one knows about. An elegy could be a real breath taker, if taken the right way. There are many well known elegy authors. One of them is Thomas Gray. Gray wrote the elegy 'Written in a Country Churchyard. ' ; In Gray's poem, he compares the life of a h...
  • Real Challenge And Profundity Of Larkin Poems
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    Exploring Identity and Time in Here, An Arundel Tomb and The Whitsun Weddings Larkin has been criticized over the years for the moroseness of his poems, the blackened description of everyday life that some people say lacks depth, however, unlike many other poets, Larkin does not always write the truth or the depth of his feelings. In many there is a voice, trying to convince its author of something that is usually quite evident or exploring itself but revealing only the surface. Why he is trying...
  • Red Wheelbarrow The Author
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    So much depends upon the red wheelbarrow, Glazed with rain-water Beside the white chickens. Poetry is art. It is written not for enjoyment or entertainment of the author or reader. It is written because the writer thinks it needs to be. Poetry is a written expression of complex human emotion, a way to sort things out and give your feelings physical form. Poetry is also intended to reach other people. To give them your message. To tell them what you think and feel, your ideology. You could just t...
  • End Of The Poem The Author
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    There are very few people in the world who are willing to go against the popular trends and do what they feel in their hearts is correct. But Yevgeny Yevtushenko is one of those people. In his poem Babi Yar, he tells the story of the modern persecution of the Jews, focusing on atrocities like those of the massacre at Babi Yar and the pogroms at Belostok, and also the general anti-Semitism that killed men like Dreyfus and pervades the entire Russian people. The poem uses many literary devices, su...
  • Lower Class
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    In the Romantic period, many authors make references to different social concerns. This enabled the authors to hint towards different concerns in their writing, but not come directly out and state their concerns. Three great examples of authors like this include: William Blake, Robert Burns, and Anna Laetitia Barbauld. Each of these authors had unique concerns that they were able to get across in their own way. Blake wrote two poems with entitled "Chimney Sweeper". One version was found in his '...
  • Sex Without Love To The Author
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    'Those Winter Sundays' by Robert Hayden is a poem about a how the author is recalling how his father would wake up early on Sundays, a day which is usually a reserved as a day of rest by many, to fix a fire for his family. The mood of this poem is a bit sad. It portrays a father, who deeply cares for his family but doesn't seem to show it by emotions, words, or touching. It also describes a home that isn't very warm in feelings as well as the title' Those Winter Sundays' The author describes the...
  • Struggle Of The Daughter
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    While I have yet to experience the thrills of fatherhood, I would be astounded to learn that the author was not a father himself. When reading this poem, I actually felt the compassion, and love, for which the author was feeling towards his daughter. In my opinion, there are actually two stories being told within this poem. The first simply being a narrative of what the author is experiencing at a certain moment of time, and the second is that of an underlying theme of love and pride that a fath...
  • Most Powerful Images Throughout The Poem
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    A Poem and a Loaded Gun The post civil war era was wrought with sexism and backwards thinking. Emily Dickinson was born in 1830, wrote 1800 poems in her lifetime. She has become known for unfolding the social boundaries surrounding women in this time period. Most of her life was shrouded in seclusion and mystery. In the realm of poetry, authors are creative with their usage of literary techniques in order to illustrate their point of view to the reader. Emily Dickinson is especially known for he...
  • Gray's Poem
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    Pastoralism in 18th Century Poetry The pastoral is a poetic genre popularized in the 18th century that idealizes the peaceful and simple countryside lifestyle. Pastoral poems are ordinarily written about those who live close to nature, namely shepherds and farmers. These poems about rustic tranquillity often relate a life in which humans lived contentedly off the earth. The pastoral poem often looks to nature and the simple life as a retreat from the complications of a society in which humans ha...
  • Comparison The Wanderer And The Seafarer
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    Throughout the history of British Literature, there have always been the themes of loneliness, torment or exile. Many times authors speak from their experiences and at times those experiences have to do with misery and discomfort with their lifestyles. In the Renaissance age, times were not always happy and people chose to pass on stories generation to generation to reveal their feelings and experiences. Poems made a great impact in easing the pain. In the poems, 'The Seafarer' and 'The Wanderer...
  • Mariner's Experience Of Guilt And Punishment
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    Part 1 (a) The Rime of the Ancyent Mariner is a poem directly inspired by the events occurring in its author's own life. Its fundamental message is powerfully conveyed across time and culture, and its textually "aesthetic dimensions" invites readers of all backgrounds to consider its literary quality. Adopting an author-centred approach to Samuel Taylor Coleridge's, The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere, reveals powerful influences in the life of the author which he sought to expound to a wider and s...
  • Writer Of The Poem
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    A Glimpse into Sorrow The countries of Eastern Europe have long endured chaos and destruction. Many of the countries in that area were devastated by war. Poland, an excellent example, rests between Germany and Russia. During World War II both those countries invaded Poland, leaving many of its cities in ruins. In modern times the Soviet Union has shattered. However, this liberation has come recently. Except for written materials produced in this decade, most works have been influenced by a life ...
  • Relationship In The Poem
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    Judith Minty, Marge Piercy, and Judith Viorst are all authors of poems about women in romantic relationships and, how the women are depicted in these relationships. These authors seem to depict women through their works as dependent, weak and helpless beings. Minty and Piercy tend to use metaphors along with imagery and personification, in order to convey the emotion of the women characters. In contrast Viorst uses Anaphora and has a different way of describing the couple in her poem. Granted th...
  • Pg 962 This Poem
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    Peter Piper: pg. 883 I felt that the Author expressed how Run D. m. c. came up from nothing. He now has everything that can be dreamed of. It took a lot of courage to do their thing and pave the way. In the poem Dr. Seuss and Mother Goose were the master's of rhymes and fairy tales. Which in turn states that Run D. m. c was a head of their game. "Cuz he's the adult entertainer Child educator. Resume: pg. 933 I think that the author was trying to open our eyes to the dangers of this world. And th...
  • Authors Ideal
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    The world is far from being the perfect place often described in books, movies, and sometimes even poems, no matter where you find yourself life is basically all the same. To conquer this dark truth people are often forced to avoid the truth just in order to survive. Within the context of the poem "The Fisherman", W.B. Yeats finds himself in a society at which he finds inequitable sociably. Thus the author is compelled to react with the use of poetry in describing his ideal "The Fisherman". He d...

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