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Young Man And The Wise Man
1,055 wordsEveryone has their own appreciation of a poem, various from time to time and from place to place. However, their appreciation would be increasingly better when they find themselves similar, in some respects, to the I-speaker. The poem is considered as good one if the readers can recognized the true value of its theme as well as its figurative language through it the writer's message is carried. Fortunately, "When I was one-and-twenty" of A. E Housman is constituted by such factors. It is hard fo...
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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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Title Of Hayden's Poem
535 wordsThere are particular poems that seem to catch peoples eye, but while we read the poem we drop our attention. It is very difficult to evaluate these types of poems. Robert Hayden's, Those Winter Sundays, is the complete opposite of the type of poem that was just described. The title is quite bland, and the title is one of the first parts of a selection that seem to catch the eye. As children, perhaps the only thing that made a difference to us in books were illustrations. As we get more mature we...
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Braha 3 Robert Herrick
668 wordsRobert Herrick was born in Cheapside, London in 1591. Robert was the seventh child of Nicholas Herrick. Nicholas Herrick, his father was a prosperous goldsmith who made a will two days before he jumped off the fourth floor window of his house. Robert had to grow up without his father but he had some helps with from his six siblings. Robert Herrick had a huge family. The Herrick family had their hands on everything so Robert really could have decided on almost what ever he wants. In 1607 he was a...
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Poem The Poetry Lesson
1,626 wordsIn the poem "The Poetry Lesson" by Don Maclennan an ironic mood emerges. The poem is about an English poetry lecturer. He expresses his views and feelings on his lessons, how he might have impacted on the lives, altered the views and the challenges he has given his students. He states what he expects from his students. It is interesting to note that Don Maclennan is in fact a South African English poetry lecturer. I thus assume that this poem is a reflection on how he views himself and his stude...
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My 48 Pontiac
352 wordsThe poems "Pontiac" and "My '48 Pontiac" contained a numerous amount of fascinating parallels between each other. Each Poem involves a man who uses their Pontiac as a source, were they could reflect upon their issues. Alone with their car they could feel free to criticize. Unable to come to terms that some things change, these men find it hard to let go of what is close to them. In "Pontiac" the man decides to remain with his Pontiac, and ponder about the past rather than to face his wife. He is...
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05 Creation Of Kubla Kahn
343 wordsSamuel Taylor Coleridge's poem "Kubla Kahn" is an example of imaginative poetry due to an opium addiction. This poem creates its own kingdom and paradise while Coleridge expresses his ideas of Heaven and Hell through his own drug induced thoughts and opinions. Coleridge paints the picture of a kingdom, Xanadu, and the surrounding scenery is described with a heavenly, dreamlike vividness that can only result from smoking a little too much opium. This kingdom has a "pleasure dome" that was created...
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Poem About A Black Man
684 wordsThe poem consists of three stanzas and it is formed on quatrains. In the first stanza the black man talks about the fear that he would not have a good harvest because the wind or birds could take the seed away. Actually the action of "planting" is metaphorical and means that this black man has fears for the future, which seems disappointing to him. That is he "plants" his labor for a better future. In the second stanza the man says that even though he had enough seeds planted in rows from Canada...
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Richard Cory
832 wordsIn "Richard Cory", Edwin Arlington Robinson uses irony, simplicity, and perfect rhyme to depict the theme of the poem. The rhyme in "Richard Cory" is almost song-like, and it continues throughout the whole poem. The theme of the poem is that appearances are deceiving. The poem is about a man who everyone thinks is a "gentleman from sole to crown", who then commits suicide. Irony is used in the poem very skillfully to show that appearances may be deceiving. When reading the poem, you get caught u...
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Wright's Australian Poems
1,733 wordsIn reference to Judith Wright's poetry as being of a unique and distinctive style, in particular Wright is well known for her use of two subjects, that being the 'Australian aspect' where in her work she commonly relates to the old traditional style of Australia's history and the harsh landscape that is well known as an Australian trait. Three examples of this distinctive style of writing is 'Remittance Man', 'South of my Days' and 'Legend'. The other of Wright's favoured topics is the 'Womens v...
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White Man's Burden
589 wordsPublished in McClure's Magazine in February of 1899, Rudyard Kipling's poem, "The White Man's Burden", appeared at a critical moment in the debate about imperialism within the United States. The Philippine-American War began on February 4 and two days later the U.S. Senate ratified the Treaty of Paris that officially ended the Spanish-American War, ceded Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines to the United States, and placed Cuba under U.S. control. Although Kipling's poem mixed refrain to empir...
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Title Waiting For Icarus
674 wordsIn the poem Waiting for Icarus by Muriel Rukeyser, a woman tells the story of her relationship with a man. She loved him and trusted him but discovers that he betrayed her. The setting of the poem is on a beach where this woman has been waiting all day for this man to arrive. While she is waiting, she reminisces about the promises he made to her and about how he confided his dreams and ambitions to her. These promises and confidences made her feel close and special to him. He tells her of his pl...
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Millay's Poems
787 wordsEdna St. Vincent Millay defied the times in which a woman was to operate, in her life style, and in her poems, "Renascence", "My candle burns at both ends", and "I forgot in Camelot, the man I loved in Rome". She was one of the best known poets of the 1900's. Her poems were said to be delicate but outspoken (World book 1968). While in school in addition to being an exceptional student her teachers also considered her to be a particularly bad student, because teachers would give lectures and she ...
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Perch Above The Man's Chamber Door
1,184 wordsThe Raven Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven is a fabulous poem that is looked at by numerous students each year. This poem is a dark poem that has a sad tone to it. A man is nearly napping (l. 3) in his chamber when he hears a knock on his door. Instantly he believes it possibly could be his dead wife, which somehow came back from the dead. However, when he opens the door he only sees is Darkness (l. 24). Then a tapping (l. 32) at his window draws him over to it. When he opens the window a stately rav...
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Chauvinistic Point Of View
438 wordsMan-Sized Job was written by Sharlot Hall (1870-1943). It is a poem that defines a womans work from a mans point of view. Poems like this were uncommon in the late 1800's early 1900's, especially if women wrote them. The two aspects of this poem that I would like to analyze are the vocabulary used and the male chauvinistic point-of-view. If it werent for these two exaggerated aspects, the poem would not have as strong of a meaning. The vocabulary used in this poem is far form proper. It is an ex...
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Lost Of Their Lovers
274 wordsThe poem "Remembrance" and the character Heathcliff from the novel Wuthering Heights have a lot in common. The poem "Remembrance" deals with a man who has just lost his lover that he has loved since his youth. In the novel Wuthering Heights, Heathcliff loves Catherine since they first met and also has a youth love. As they grow older Catherine leaves to be with Edgar and than dies after giving birth. Heathcliff is saddened by this and becomes depressed. In "Remembrance" the man loses his lover b...
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Cousin Kate
556 wordsThe Comparison In both poems the female's suffer because of the seduction in "The Seduction" she is seduced by a man when she is drunk an he takes advantage of her. In "Cousin Kate" she is seduced by a Lord because she is tempted by his money. The blame is not put on the man in question in either of the poems. In "The Seduction" she blame's herself by what had happend an other would look at her in disgust when no one blame's the man in question. In "Cousin Kate" the Lord is not blamed for what h...
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Beginning Of The Heaney Poem
1,109 wordsHow do the poets Heaney and Frost explore the elements of choice? The two poems 'The Road Not Taken' by Robert Frost and 'An Advancement of Learning' by Seamus Heaney both look at choice and show the differences between them. Both poets are trying to convey that in life, there are lots of decisions to make and our choices may influence a whole other sequence of events in out lives. At the beginning of both of the poems, the men are faced with dilemmas about which way to walk. At the beginning of...
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