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Every Grain Of Sand
1,456 wordspoem tells a story within its words, even if it is not directly stated. Nearly every word and phrase in a poem, and even its punctuation has a meaning and a message that the author is trying to send across to the reading or listening audience. Not always is it easy to immediately understand what the poet is trying to say, but within the words and punctuation, over time and with analysis, interpretation is possible. Poetry is a group of so many words that a poet carefully chooses to show certain ...
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A Critical Analysis Of William Shakespeare's Sonnet 138
1,521 wordsIn order for a poem to be classified as a sonnet, it must meet certain structural requirements, and Sonnet 138, When my love swears that she is made of truth, is a perfect example. Shakespeare employs the traditional rhyme scheme of the English sonnet, the poem is made up of three quatrains and a rhyming couplet, and iambic pentameter is the predominant meter. However, it would be an error to approach this poem as a traditional Shakespearean love sonnet. It is a love poem in the sense that a rel...
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Comparison Of Poems By Wilfred Owen
1,100 wordsA comparison of poems by Wilfred Owen: 'Dulce et Decorum Est' and 'Anthem for Doomed Youth " When I was searching for two poems to compare, I saw these two poems and wanted to explore them to find out how Wifred Owen uses language in different ways to warn future generations of the horror of war. Wilfred Owen fought in the First World War. He enlisted as most young men were doing, so that they could protect Britain. However, in the trenches he realized how horrific the war was and started to mak...
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Hass's Experimentation With Form In Human Wishes
1,449 words[The following excerpts have been chosen for their relevance to Hass's poems "Russia en 1931" (in section 1 of Human Wishes) and "A Story About the Body" (in section 2 of Human Wishes). These critics respond positively to Hass's experimentation with form in Human Wishes, with one notable exception.] Darcy Aldan (1990) The delicacy and sensibility of Robert Hass, as exemplified in... Human Wishes, is a distinct joy to experience in this time when so many published works deal with violence, aberra...
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Rudyard Kipling's Famous Poem If
761 wordsIF it is true that familiarity breeds contempt, it would explain the contradictions that surround Rudyard Kipling's famous poem If-. On the one hand it is one of the most popular and best-known poems in the English language. On the other this enormous popularity has done it a disservice. For instance, despite appearing in many anthologies of verse, If- is excluded from The New Oxford Book of English Verse. Instead, editor Helen Gardner selects Kipling's Mandalay, Danny Denver, Cities and Thrones...
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First Line Of His Poem
748 wordsGranny's Garbage Theodore Roethke was raised in Michigan, where cities and towns are woven with lakes, streams, and rivers. This atmosphere gave Roethke a "mystical reverence for nature", (McMichael, 1615) and allowed him to take a grotesque image and transform it into natural magnificence. A great example of this is Roethke's poem "Root Cellar". The poem describes a cellar, which most people would consider to be a death-baring, cold place. Instead, Roethke gives the dungeon life and enchantment...
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Raven's Name
785 wordsWriter's Comments: An ysis of the raven Body: the raven description: an ysis of the raven body The Raven Topic: The Raven is about how the author is haunted by his grief of the of his lover, Lenore. Theme: The untimely of a beautiful woman. Sense: I think that the whole poem is about the of a beautiful woman. It seems to me that the raven symbolizes the grief he has for his lost love, Lenore. Once he let the raven in it tormented his soul forever. I think the reason why the raven keeps saying ne...
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Sex Without Love To The Author
887 words'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...
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Persona's Encounter With A Spotted Hawk
876 wordsEnglish-14 / R 16 / Poetry / Ateneo de Manila 21 February 2000 WAITING FOR YOU Of spotted hawks and wild Geese "I stop somewhere waiting for you". Walt Whitman's poem ends with this seemingly undeviating line. The whole poem itself speaks of the persona's encounter with a spotted hawk, through whose statements we find both profound and simple meanings. Profound in the sense that it speaks of situations where one is 'untranslatable. ' Simple in the sense that everyday things like dirt and grass, ...
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Composed Upon Westminster Bridge
1,234 wordsWordsworth: A Comparison Between "composed Upon Westminster Bridge" And The Extract " ' The extract from "The Prelude" is written mainly in the first person singular and in the past tense, reminiscing about a happy winters day when Wordsworth was a child. Wordsworth wrote this poem in 1798, when he was 28 years old, looking back on his childhood which was spent largely among mountains at Hawks head where he was educated. The sonnet "Composed upon Westminster Bridge" is written mainly in the ...
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A Kite Is A Victim
1,327 wordsThe Poem titled "A Kite is a victim" written by Leonard Cohen contains multiple tropes. Through my own analysis I propose that the author's central focus concerns life. Cohen discusses the relationships and accomplishes that we make throughout our lifetimes. In my opinion, the kite is a metaphor for the essence of life and living. Each of the four stanzas in the poem begins with a trope. In every case the tenor is the kite. These tropes will be analyzed with regard to the central theme of the po...
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Raleghs Poem Nature
1,254 wordsThe poems of Sir Walter Ralegh often deal with the issue of death and mortality. In some cases he directly deals with the issue, and others he uses vast metaphors in order to convey his message. For the most part, Ralegh takes a very bleak position on the issues of death and aging, but in some cases he takes a more optimistic view. Ralegh is said to have been a man who was a historian, soldier, courtier, philosopher, explorer, and of course a poet. The fact that he spent the last years of his li...
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Elongated Description Of The Mom The Line
730 wordsDudley Randall -- Ballad of Birmingham (1966) Response The Ballad of Birmingham resembles a traditional ballad in that it tells a story in a song-like manner. The didactic tone seeks to teach us something; in this case it's the theme of needless destruction. There are many devices the author uses to create such a tone and to tell such a story. First of all, the most visible element of importance is the irony. A kid dying in a church where his mom told him to go to be safe is very ironic and it c...
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Coleridge's Mind
1,640 wordsA single inanimate object, The Eolian Harp, sends Coleridge flitting in, out, over and through introspection. The trajectory of the poem may be plotted as follows: terrestrial observations, fixation upon single terrestrial item (i.e. the harp), exulting single item into transcendence, an astral purview of the terrestrial via the item, reassessment of mind frame, guilt and denunciation of transcendent thought, and finally, remorse and dismissal of all preceding drivel (as to adequately and respec...
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Few Lines In Frost's Poem
1,150 wordsThe Depths of Hurt in Home Burial Home Burial is a long narrative poem told in Robert Frost's conversational, very free blank verse. This means that the general structure of the lines is unrhymed iambic pentameter - the same meter that much of Shakespeare's work is written in - which classically consists of five pairs of alternately stressed syllables, with the stress on the second syllable of each pair; a pure example would be the second line of this poem, BeFORE / she SAW / him, SHE / was STAR...
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Two Lines In The Poem
614 wordsMelissa Doherty Professor Gregory EN-102 noon class November 2000 The Ties that Bind Fear, anxiety, and shame, these are just a few of the emotions instilled upon the innocent children and mother in Suzanne E. Berger's poem titled "The Meal". These emotions have been brought forth from an abusive and domineering father with an insatiable need for perfection. My personal interpretations of the underlying messages found throughout the poem have led me to draw the above conclusions. There are only ...
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Eliot And Yeats
1,117 wordsWilliam Butler Yeats and Thomas Stearns Eliot both have written very powerful poetry that has changed the face of literature for future generations. Yeats' "The Second Coming" and Eliot's "The Hollow Men" are permeated with the feeling of despair. This despair reflects the feelings of the age in which the poets lived. In these poems, there is a pervasive sense of futility, a sense that mankind will never recover. Through the use of tone, visual imagery, and religious images, W.B. Yeats and T.S. ...
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Girl's Garden
799 wordsNatalie Boyle Dr. Nge nge English 150 September 29, 2003 The Elements of "A Girl's Garden" In "A Girl's Garden" by Robert Frost, the theme expressed is the unique pleasure of a rural childhood, as well as the girl's youthful exuberance about the garden she grew. The speaker is a neighbor of the girl, who is now an adult woman living in town. The speaker tells the story, attempting to convey the importance of the garden to the adult woman because of the joy she still takes in reminiscing about he...
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Speaker And His Lady
1,515 wordsTo his Coy Mistress 1 Had we but world enough, and time, 2 This coyness, lady, were no crime. 3 We would sit down and think which way 4 To walk, and pass our long love's day; 5 Thou by the Indian Ganges's ide 6 Shouldst rubies find; I by the tide 7 Of Humber would complain. I would 8 Love you ten years before the Flood; 9 And you should, if you please, refuse 10 Till the conversion of the Jews. 11 My vegetable love should grow 12 Vaster than empires, and more slow. 13 An hundred years should go ...
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My Interpretation Of Hughes Poem
1,131 wordsA Slave's Soul Runs Deep The poem ' The Negro Speaks of Rivers' by Langston Hughes is about a man with a vast knowledge and understanding of rivers. The first two sentences of the poem are similar, as in both Hughes states, ' I've known rivers'. From this the reader gathers that this man has been around rivers and probably lived around rivers. He talks about different experiences he has had on four different rivers. For example he says, ' I bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were young' and this...
