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  • Frost's Poem The Road Not Taken
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    Robert Frost When I was in English 251, my professor told us that Frost's poem The Road Not Taken was frequently misunderstood. The only foreknowledge of the poem that I had was that one of my companions on my mission loved it, and he would recite it quite often. Then in class we had the opportunity to memorize a Frost poem. So, I chose The Road Not Taken. I found it very interesting to hear the mistake that Olivia made in class when she said that it was called the Road Less Traveled. It was the...
  • Instant's Act By Emily Dickinson Crumbling
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    Analysis of 'Crumbling is not an instant's Act " by Emily Dickinson 'Crumbling is not an instant's Act' is a lyric by Emily Dickinson. It tells how crumbling does not happen instantaneously; it is a gradual process occurring slowly and cumulatively over time. The structure of this poem is complex and it tied directly into the figurative meaning. This poem consists of three quatrains written in i amic meter but with no set number of feet per line. Also, the second and fourth lines of each quatrai...
  • Durkheim's Ideas About Religion
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    To more fully understand Stevens' poem 'The Idea of Order at Key West,' one can look at the ideas of the poem in context of social-philosophical thought. Emile Durkheim's theories on religion closely parallel those of Stevens. Both men believe that there is no supreme greater being, or God, that gives things order and meaning. But both men also believe that humans need to read order and meaning into the world to understand it, even if the meaning humans imply is false because there is no God. Si...
  • First Stanza
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    The metaphors that Conrad Hilberry stated in his poem "The Frying Pan", expressed some of the feelings that some women encounter throughout their life. In this poem I believe that Hilberry related this poem to a female that was in a relationship with a very controlling guy. In the first stanza it says "I am another long-necked girl with the same face". , a girl that has the same face makes me think of a girl that has no expressions, and hardly ever shows emotion, and this could be because she wa...
  • Boys Dog
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    The Gift In 'The Gift' by Louise Glock, the little boy is calling oggi e, oggi e, a this front door. This could mean several things, first we would have to look at clues. The poem states that the mother is praying to GOD. One could infer that the boys dog died and he is calling without reward to his lost friend. Therefore the most logical response would be that the boy was in fact calling for his dead dog. In the opening paragraph I stated what I thought the main idea for the poem was. But that ...
  • Ball Turret Gunner
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    Washed Out Randall Jackson Jarrell was born on May 6, 1914 in Nashville, Tennessee. He was the first child to Campbell and Owen Jarrell. He attended Hume-Fogg High School in Nashville and later graduated. He then attended Vanderbilt University through the generosity of his uncle Howell Campbell. His teacher, John Crowe Ransom, considered him "the best by far of the young writers in his workshop". Jarrell later went on to teach at some well know colleges and universities. He also went into the ar...
  • In Valentine And Stealing
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    'Valentine' and 'Stealing', By Carol-Ann Duffy FOR IDEAS ONLY, DO NOT COPY In 'Valentine' and 'Stealing', Carol-Ann Duffy uses an extended metaphor which helps the reader relate to what the poet is trying to get across, and to understand what the feelings are of the narrator. Both poems also focus on the thoughts and emotions of the 'speaker', both are structured as conversational pieces, meaning you could just use it to talk to someone, and could imagine the reactions of the person they " re ta...
  • Poem By Isaac Watts
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    Does Poetry Matter To me poetry does not matter. I do not like poetry because a poem is just a passage that contains a hidden meaning and I can never figure out what a poem is about. If poetry was not around then authors would just come out and say what they wanted to say. Their thoughts would not get confused and people would not miss the meaning that the author is trying to get across. Poetry is just an art form like painting, music, sculpting, and writing. You could take away any art form and...
  • Speakers Of Ai's Poems
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    Ai Ai comments: Ai is the only name by which I wish, and indeed, should be known. Since I am the child of a scandalous affair my mother had with a Japanese man she met at a streetcar stop, and I was forced to live a lie for so many years, while my mother concealed my natural father's identity from me, I feel that I should not have to be identified with a man, who was only my stepfather, for all eternity. My writing of dramatic monologues was a happy accident, because I took so much to heart the ...
  • Poems As Kubla Khan
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    Kubla Khan If a man could pass thro' Paradise in a Dream, & have a flower presented to him as a pledge that his Soul had really been there, & found that flower in his hand when he awoke - Aye! and what then (CN, 4287) Kubla Khan is a fascinating and exasperating poem written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (. Almost everyone who has read it, has been charmed by its magic. It must surely be true that no poem of comparable length in English or any other language has been the subject of so much critical...
  • Speaker From Denotative Meaning To Connotative Meaning
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    Critical Analysis of "One Art" Poem "The art of losing isn't hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster" (lines 1-3). In order to understand the meaning of the poem "One Art", its opening lines provide the foundation for the whole. Due to the fact that so many things intent to be lost it should not seem disastrous when they are actually lost, yet somehow it still is a disaster. The paradox of this statement is evident by a combination of ...
  • Meaning Of The Poem
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    Aaron Allison English Composition II Mr. Todd Suk any 21 May 2003 Basic Elements Can Have Advanced Effects On Interpretation A poem is only appreciated as well as it is interpreted. Poets apply and use different elements to affect the interpretations of a particular poem. In "Mirror" and "To A Daughter Leaving Home", the poets of each of these poems use the elements of imagery, tone, and symbolism to mold the way their reader decodes the message of their poems. Imagery is a widely used literary ...
  • Reader Of A Poem
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    The poem " Introduction to Poetry" by Billy Collins encompasses numerous ideas behind the art of analyzing poetry. Billy suggests that the reader of a poem should not necessarily search for a "cut and dry" answer regarding the meaning and significance of the poem, but he or she should simply enjoy it; marvel at its beauty, structure, ambiance, cadence, metaphorical language, word usage, etc. The author encourages people to lose themselves in his poem, but while doing so not fighting their way ba...
  • Love Poem
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    Compare and Contrast "Sonnet XV " (Shakespeare) with "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" (Donne) in terms of meaning, tone and style. Conclude by saying which you prefer and why. John Donne's "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning", and Shakespeare's "Sonnet XV " depict love in extremely different ways. John Donne explores the power of the connection between his, and his lover's souls, whereas Shakespeare focuses mainly on the beauty of his lover. Donne was a metaphysical poet who used his intelli...
  • Metaphysical Poets Tm
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    The passionate, involved, intellectually wide-ranging poems of this period have delighted, puzzled and alienated readers, both in their own times and later. One contemporary commentator observed wryly that those who could work out the meaning were considered intellectuals themselves: 'We are thought wits, when 'tis understood. TM In the next century Samuel Johnson coined the term 'metaphysical poets TM to represent the combination of physicality, philosophy and ingenuity which characterise the p...
  • Meaning Of Ozymandias In The Poem
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    1. William Shakespeare "The Marriage of True Minds" Simple love sonnet: What one characteristic must true love have? What can cause love to change? What does the final couplet mean? Answer: One characteristic must be true love should have is an impediment. Love can be change when one starts having too much expectation or starts comparing with other things. The last couplet means that love is not for only outer looks of a person it is more than that. Love is something from heart to heart. "Rememb...
  • Python At Delphi When Apollo
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    Table of Apollo 2 Apollo Table of Contents 1. Title Page 2. Table of Content 3. Apollo Report 4. Apollo Report 5. Story of apollo 6. Temple of Apollo (Did yma, Turkey) 7. Palazzo C orsini (Florence, Italy) 8. Ruins at Delphi (Delphi, Greece) Son of: Zeus and Leto, Brother of Artemis. Birth: on Delos. Delos nis a island in Greece, in the southern Aegean sea. It is the smallest of the Cyclades group having an area of about 1 sq. mile. It is now uninhabited, but in ancient times was famous as a shr...

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