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Very First Word In The Poem
1,871 wordsMid-term Break C.E. The poem I am evaluating in this essay is titled Mid-term break and was written by Seamus Heaney. The poem is about the laying out to rest of a four year old told from his older brothers perspective. I will be dealing with and trying to explain the use of words, images and techniques and their effects on the poem. Starting off with the title. There is a dramatic irony to it that is noticed when read through a couple of times. It relates to the Childs position in that his life...
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True In The Original Matthew
1,330 wordsA man stands on the cliffs of Dover, looking out at the ocean. He is self-absorbed and experiencing feelings of dejection. This man goes on for stanzas uttering thoughts to himself, at least that is what one could surmise from the indifferent tone. Then, when the reader is convinced that the man is simply philosophizing out loud to himself, the man addresses for the first time another party. That party is a woman, one that he refers to as "love". Funny, she is almost not visible for the entire p...
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Rexroth's Love Poems
1,400 wordsBradford Morrow Rexroth's art works by a technique of self-effacement. His diction and line appear to be effortless, organic, inevitable, without seam. The lack of ostentation he ascribes to his pietistic background finds as its formal companion this straightforward prosody. Still, to dissect and describe how his line, ostensibly so simple on the surface, actually works would be as difficult to do as explain Williams' variable foot: and Rexroth's was surely a less self-consciously developed art....
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Mongoloid Child Handling Shells On The Beach
745 wordsDiction, Theme and Imagery in Richard Snyders Intro To Poetry "A Mongoloid Child Handling Shells on the Beach" When you first read Richard Snyders narrative poem, "A Mongoloid Child Handling Shells on the Beach", it may be perceived that the poem is indeed about a child, happily gathering shells upon the shore. However, if we closely consider the diction and connotations that Sender uses, we can speculate that the meaning of the poem depicts a deeper and darker theme. The title itself gives us a...
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Tone Of The Poem
677 wordsFrost's poem is melancholy and nostalgic in tone and soothing, almost hypnotic, in rhythm. Peaceful and serene in the natural scene it describes, it seems to sway between restful repose and death. Sleep and death, and a seeming longing for both, are evoked by the images of night, long travel, winter and isolation. The simple, formulaic phrasing and rhythm of the poem belie something hidden, beneath and in the past, which is more complex. Frost, differently from Hayden's free verse, uses the form...
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Owen's Poems
3,515 wordsWilfred Owen Poems Analysis 20th Century War Poems Analysis I think that your production of a new book "Anthology for a Warred Youth", the content it should include is of three sections. The three sections should consist of "Sending Men of to War,"Horror within War" and "After effects of War". The five poems you should include are "The Send-off,"The Going of the Battery", "Joining the Colours", "Dulce Est Decorum Et" and "Disabled". The first poem "The Send-off" is written by Wilfred Owen. The p...
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Brooks's Poem
1,430 wordsThe poem "We Real Cool" by Gwendolyn Brooks is a stream of the thoughts of poor inner city African-Americans who have adopted a hoodlum lifestyle. Though many can have different interpretations of this poem, it is fair to look at the life and career or the works and influences of Gwendolyn Brooks. The life and art of the black American poet, Gwendolyn Brooks, began on June 7, 1917 when she was born in Topeka, Kansas. She was the first child of Keziah Corine Wins and David Anderson Brooks. When s...
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Jarrell's Poem
1,770 wordsTwo Poets: One Crusade War -- the word is a fascinating study in connotation. On the one hand, it recalls bright images of chivalry, honor, glory, patriotism, and unfailing devotion to duty. On the other hand, it recalls black images of tyranny, destruction, mutilation, senseless loss of innocent life, and broken dreams. Just as easily as heroes win undying fame during wartime, others suffer wounds from which they never recover. 'The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner,' by Randall Jarrell, and 'Dul...
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One Other Form Of Poetry
2,337 wordsCould I be an artist? I always thought I had some flare for the arts. I've always been considered a creative person. I decided to put my creativity to a different use, however. I opted for a career in helping others get the most out of their careers. Tonight will be my testimony to helping the real artists get recognized. Tonight is Gallery Night. The weather station did not indicate anything about rain this evening. So, of course, I did not prepare for such a downpour. My lack of preparation ha...
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Richard Cory
979 wordsIn a society generally shaped by its commercialism, many people will fall into the unfortunate trap of trying to exceed someone elses standards. The catalyst for this maddening condition exists all around us: in car commercials, on bumper stickers (He who dies with the most toys wins! ), in stores peddling expensive passing fashions, and on billboards flaunting houses of ridiculous size and cost. Children are conditioned to covet a brass ring that is impossible to attain, and will either spend a...
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Image Owen
836 wordsIn a poem titled "Dulce et Decorum Est", life in the trenches is graphically detailed to paint a vivid picture of World War I fighting techniques for the reader. Many others wrote about the injustices and cruelties of war at this time, but only one, Wilfred Owen, did so in such a permanent and meaningful way. Owen is known as one of the most infamous WWI poets, and has undoubtedly had more impact on the public conscience of the tragedy of war than any other writer of his generation. WWI introduc...
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Wind In Yoko's Life
950 wordsThomas Gunn delivers a poem that delves deep into a dog's mind capturing the unsophisticated boredom, anticipation, anxiety, and curiosity that all dogs must feel while locked up and restricted to a domestic life. Yoko begins with a visual and concrete image of a dog named Yoko awaiting the arrival of his master while lounging in a wardrobe. Without being able to release his stored energy, he occasionally lumbers across the room and drinks from the toilet bowl. His thirst to leave his dwelling i...
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Next Three Lines
966 wordsThere is no single event that evokes more emotion than a war. It has the power to bring together a nation or tear at its very fabric. It has the power to give a nation its standing, as easily as it can take it away. It has the power to move men to acts they thought themselves uncap able of. It gives its participants a view of the world some will never understand. War is an inevitable result of a world diversified in its beliefs. However it is the view of the solider that is often ignored, the la...
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Poetry Of The Great War An Anthology
1,506 wordsDavid Becker An analysis of a First World War poetry anthology '... I'd live with scarlet Majors at the Base And speed glum heroes up the line to death... And when the war is done and youth stone dead, I'd toddle safely home and die - in bed. ' (Sassoon, Base Details: 2-3/9-10) Gardner states in his introductory note that '... those who wish to ponder on tactics and strategy, or to know How It Happened, must turn to other volumes. This account has nothing to do with that: it is traced on the emo...
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Structure Of The Poem As A Journey
2,130 words'A cold coming we had of it, Just the worst time of the year For the journey, and such a long journey: The ways deep and the weather sharp, The very dead of winter. ' And the camels galled, sore-footed, refractory, Lying down in the melting snow. There were times we regretted The summer palaces on slopes, the terraces, And the silken girls bringing sherbet. Then the camel men cursing and grumbling And running away, and wanting their liquor and women, And the night-fires going out, and the lack o...
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Heart Of His Lover
733 wordsThe speaker in Mathew Arnold's poem "Dover Beach" seems to be searching for the meaning of life. The evening is perfect for lovers, yet he is heavy hearted. Perhaps if he looks deeply into the heart of his lover instead of his own troubled heart, he might find for what it is he is searching. He speaks to his lover in the cabin of their boat out in the straits between Dover England, and the coast of France. It is on a beautiful moonlit night and a full tide that he summons his lover to the window...
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O'hara S Movie Poems
4,460 wordsFrank O'Hara: His Movie Poems and the Effects They Have On Society and Pop Culture In a world where people are judged not just by what they say but how they say it, American poet Francis (Frank) Russell O'Hara has been judged many times over the past fifty years. He has been ridiculed by such literary greats Jack Kerouac, who once said, "you " re ruining American Poetry, O'Hara" (Lehman 336), to critics like Marjorie Perloff (who wrote a biography of O'Hara in 1977 titled Frank O'Hara: Poet Amon...
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Homecoming By Bruce Dawe
1,045 words"Homecoming" by Bruce Dawe describes the homecoming of dead Australian Soldiers from the Vietnamese War, (lines 2-3). The poem has its poet expressing his opinions on man's response to wars, their longing need to have them brought home and the brutality and futility of wars upon the human race as a whole. Basically, "Homecoming" is a lamentation or a song for the souls lost in wars. I chose this poem because it portrays the themes of Death, Loneliness, Sorrow and the outcome of wars. On a person...
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Mirror Lake
1,190 wordsAnalysis Of "Mirror' In Analysis Of "Mirror' Essay, Research Paper In the first line of the poem, the mirror says it is? silver and exact.? This can be interpreted many ways. Obviously it is describing what it looks like, but it is saying more than that. The color silver is reflective, and a mirror of course reflects what it sees. Exact, in this case could mean square, but it could also mean a lot more than that. A mirror shows you exactly what it sees; an image is reflected in the silver exactl...
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Verse Tennyson Glories In The Soldiers Bravery
1,633 wordsAttitudes to war and how they Developed Wilfred Owen and Alfred Lord Tennyson both wrote well known poetry about war. Their poems were written in different centuries and they clearly illustrate the changing attitude to war These three poems are all describing the ups and downs of war. The one author saying how war is such a great thing and how brave the soldiers were. The other author saying how terrible war is, illustrating the death and injuries. In Tennyson's poem, because it was written earl...
