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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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Statement From Ulysses The Reader
722 wordsUlysses, The Winter of a King By: dave The Winter of a King In the poem Ulysses by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, the readers are shown a great king in the later years of his life. The reader finds Ulysses reflecting on the glorious days of his youth and planning that by some means he will obtain those glorious times again. He refuses to accept a future of growing old and ruling his kingdom. Ulysses will not let the rest of his life pass him by just sitting still on his throne, doing the mundane job of ...
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Parker's Three Poems In The Text
678 wordsDorothy Parker, an accomplished American poet, exposes the darker side of human behavior through her epigrammatic style of poetry. She believed that a writer must say what he feels and sees. She specialized in the hard truths, particularly about death, in both life and love. Some major motifs present in Parker's work include loneliness, lack of communication between men and women, disintegration of relationships, human frailties, and the affectations and hypocrisies of a patriarchal society. Par...
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Soldier In Rosenberg's Poem His Cries
1,206 wordsCompare and Contrast: 'Dead Man's Dump' by Rosenberg and 'dulce et Decorum est " by Owen In the poems 'Dead Man's Dump' by Isaac Rosenberg and 'Dulce et Decorumest' by Wilfred Owen the main concern of these poets is to relay the theme of death. They want to let the reader feel the action, to see it with there own eyes. Both stories portray realistic imagery in many ways. The conflict that the dying soldier goes through in Rosenberg's poem and the struggle that the soldier has lunging for his mas...
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Poetic Rhythm And Sense Devices
880 words"Because I Could Not Stop For Death:" Under the Microscope Emily Dickinson's poem "Because I Could Not Stop For Death", is an interesting composition of the English language which commands respect and critical examination. This literary work deals with mortality and retrospect of one's life. It begins with the speaker's recollection of the day she died, now viewed from the level of eternity. She is looking back on how things used to be, almost with a sense of completion, as if her life has come ...
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Kenyon's The Blue Bowl Poem Analysis
1,344 wordsKenyon's criticism of burial and the mourning process and the manner in which it fails to provide a sense of closure for those who have lost a loved one is the main underlying theme in The Blue Bowl. Through her vivid description of both the natural setting and the grief-stricken emotional overtone surrounding the burial of a family's house pet and the events that follow in the time after the cat is put to rest, Kenyon is able to invoke an emotional response from the reader that mirrors that of ...
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Imagery In Lone Bather From The Imagery
1,664 wordsPoetry is used to send a variety of messages, either through its imagery, meaning, or by the poetic devices used. Each and every poem has something special and unique to offer to the reader, as long as the reader looks deep enough to find it. 'Lone Bather'; written by A.M. Klein, and 'The Swimmer'; by Irving Layton both offer such messages to the reader. At first glance, these messages seem surprising similar, but after further examination they are in fact strikingly different. The similarities ...
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Name As Part Of Her Heritage
502 wordsIn Alice Walker's story "Everyday Use", symbolism, allegory, and myth stand out when thinking about the characters, setting, and conflict in the story. The conflict is between the mother and her two daughters (Maggie and Dee). There is also the conflict between the family's heritage (symbolized by the quilt, bench, and butter chum) and their different ways of life. Dee chose a new African name, moved to the city, and adopted a new way of life while Maggie and her mother have stay behind. The qui...
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Poem About Blackberries
1,016 wordsOnce the reader can passes up the surface meaning of the poem Blackberry-Picking, by Seamus Heaney, past the emotional switch from sheer joy to utter disappointment, past the childhood memories, the underlying meaning can be quite disturbing. Hidden deep within the happy-go-lucky rifts of childhood is a disturbing tale of greed and murder. Seamus Heaney, through clever diction, ghastly imagery, misguided metaphors and abruptly changing forms, ingeniously tells the tale that is understood and rar...
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Symbols In Dickinson's Poem
951 wordsPoetry April 25, 1999 To Die or Not To Die Suicide was not a widely discussed topic in the 1800's although, it commonly appeared as a theme in many literary works of that time. The action of killing one's self is not a classified psychological disorder, but there are many disorders where suicide is the end result. This is why suicide is a commonplace subject within the psychological field in present day society. The poem 'I Started Early- Took My Dog,' by Emily Dickinson, can be interpreted as m...
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Parts In The Stanza The Reader
780 words"Those Winter Sundays" In Robert Hayden's "Those Winter Sundays" a grown person, most likely a man, recounts the winter Sundays of his childhood. He remembers the early morning events that took place and how much the events portrayed his father's love for him. The man realizes that as a child he failed to appreciate the hard work his father did in order to provide him with some basic necessities and some small additional perks at times. The theme of the poem is sad, and lonely. Assuming that the...
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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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Lines In The Poem
1,648 wordsanyone lived in a pretty how town by e. e. cummings 'anyone lived in a pretty how town' is about how commonplace language and commonplace lives can be intimate and profound. It is a technically innovative poem which designed so that the reader cannot know what is going on from a 'distant', perfunctory viewpoint. Repetition, strange grammatical usages, and impersonal nouns demand very close reading - in effect, an emotional investment from the audience. There is also a sense in which e. e. cummin...
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Tone Of The Poem
616 wordsThe tone of a Mountain Graveyard and the diction of Robert Morgan An almost barren area left contained within a palace of ever-growing, watchful giants. Lying alone visited seldom, becoming a mystery, a cell, or even a shrine to those who know of its existence. Feelings abound hidden in the secluded section of the forest. They range from love to hate, desire to abandonment, sorrow to joy all caused by what dwells there no, but what is no longer here. Here, being with us the living, for the groun...
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Shel Silversteins Adult Works
1,584 wordsFew writers of the twentieth century have made nearly the same impact on the literary society than Sheldon Allan Silverstein. His writing encompasses a broad range of styles, from adult to childrens, comical to unusual. One of his most common styles was that of fantasy: actions and events that cannot logically happen. This style was evident in his works, the Loser, Thumb Face, Warning, Squishy Touch, and Skin Stealer. Through the description of these absurd circumstances, Silverstein was able to...
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Student's Suicide Note
660 wordsREADER RESPONSE "SUICIDE NOTE" BY JANICE MIRIKITANI Janice Mirikatani is the poet Laureate of San Francisco and a very accomplished poet. As well as being a poet Mirikatani is also a choreographer, an administrator, and a community activist. Most of her poetry deals with the after shock of World War II, and other violent and traumatic events. Her poems are meant to shock the reader, but with a specific purpose. One such poem is "Suicide Note" written in 1987. This poem was written about a female...
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0 E N And The Singular Form
1,384 wordsLiterary fuzziness is one of the characteristics of literature. It leads to what is called in Reception Theory! ^0 indeterminacies! +/- and! ^0 gaps! +/- in literary works. According to Reception Theory, a literary work is full of! ^0 indeterminacies! +/- or! ^0 gaps! +/-, depending for their effect on the reader!'s interpretation. Thus a kind of interaction between the writer and the reader is achieved. Moreover, since each individual reader, during the process of reading, resorts to imaginatio...
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Mutabaruka And His Poem
820 wordsThe winter season has finally come. You have been waiting all year for the frigid temperatures of December so you can take a vacation and relax in a warmer climate. It is heaven just picturing it in your mind: sandy beaches, tropical drinks, and the sound of the ocean in the background. All of your colleagues will be jealous of your suntan when you return, and when you do, you must become disillusioned because your vacation is now over, and you have to live your life the way you left it before h...
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Analysis Of Weapon's Training By Bruce Dawe
1,253 words"Weapons Training" by Bruce Dawe, is an 'anti-war' poem, a dramatic monologue in which an instructor is teaching new recruits about their weapons in preparation for the Vietnam War. His voice is aggressive and demanding, the tone of the instructor is disciplined and hard on his students. The poem has a negative tone to it because it is about men being trained in the use of devices that will kill other men. The reader senses the atmosphere of a training area, and knows that the soldiers will most...
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Initial Paragraph Lures The Reader
688 wordsAndrew Marvell?'s? To His Coy Mistress? is in my opinion an excellent poem about a subject matter we can all understand and most of us can relate to: a love just beyond reach. This is the primary reason I believe it is most suited to be in a college textbook. One of the hardest things to accomplish in a poem written for uninterested college students is making it understandable and enjoyable by the audience, but this poem does it very well. In doing so, however, it also includes several important...
