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Very Proud And Self Confident Attitude
704 wordsTwo Different Attitudes, Two Different Worlds In this essay I am going to compare and contrast the speakers and the stories of 'Homage to my Hips'; and 'Her Kind'; . The speakers in this stories have very different attitudes, and approaches in telling their story about the same topic. While talking about the oppression of women, both Lucille Clifton and Anne Sexton take the own stance on the situation. While Clifton expresses her proud and self-confident attitude, Sexton on the other hand speaks...
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Death Throughout The Poem
874 wordsAnalysis of " Stopping by woods on a snowy evening'Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening' is a very well know poem by Robert Frost. The poem appears to be very simple, but it has a hidden meaning to it. The simple words and rhyme scheme of the poem gives it an easy flow, which adds to the calmness of the poem. The rhyme scheme (a aba, bbc b, c cdc, dodd) and the rhythm (iambic tetrameter) give the poem a solid structure. The poem is about the speaker's experience of stopping by the dark woods in ...
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Speaker's Neighbor
1,332 wordsTrue beliefs Robert Frost's 'Minding Wall'; is written natural, yet there are many things beyond the literal world of the poem that can be taken out of context. The poem is about two neighbors and a wall between them and both of them also have different beliefs on why or why not the wall should be there. This paper will describe both the speaker and neighbor's characters, and also give an interpretation and analysis of a few specific lines from Robert Frost's, 'Mending Wall'; poem, Then ending u...
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Money The Speaker
1,178 wordsIn the poem 'To the Snake'; the author Denise Levertov use several writing techniques to portray money and gambling. She uses syntax, sound imagery, color imagery, figurative language, and symbolism to represent money and gambling. Symbolism is used cleverly throughout the poem to depict a number of things that would take numerous readings to see. Throughout the poem the sentences are structured so that every other sentence is indented, with exception to the first two and the last four. In those...
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First Seven Lines Of The Poems
1,043 wordsSharon Olds' poem "Late Poem to My Father" exposes the profound effect that childhood trauma can have on someone, even in adulthood. The speaker of the poem invokes sadness and pity in the reader by reflecting on the traumatic childhood of her father, and establishes a cause and effect relationship between the abuse he endured as a child and the dependence he develops on alcohol as an adult. The idea of emotional retardation caused by childhood experiences is not uncommon, especially in our mode...
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Fourth And Final Stanza The Speaker
1,587 wordsThe Darkness of being "Acquainted with the Night" When reading poetry such as Robert Frost's "Acquainted with the night", one must give special attention to the aspects associated within it, in order to gain a better understanding of the poem's content. More specifically the aspects of tone, voice, language, setting and form, which shape the readers perception and feelings toward the poem. In these aspects Frost adds an unusual dimension to his lyric poem "Acquainted with the night", aspects tha...
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Father And The Speaker
893 wordsA Speaker's Reflections By Jillian Monroe Robert Hayden's poem "Those Winter Sundays" is a reflection the speaker has regarding his father. An analysis of the poem's tone and language reveals the speaker regrets his father did so much for the family and "no one ever thanked him". It is obvious the speaker feels regret for the way he behaved toward his father in the past by examining the phrases in the poem, particularly with the description of the father. The connotations of the language used in...
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Way The Reader Of Browning's Dramatic Monologue
1,466 wordsValencic 1 Trials and hearings take place frequently in our society today. In a trial, it is the job of two lawyers to persuade a jury to see a situation a certain way, regardless if it is the right way, the truthful way, or if it is even the way they themselves see it. It is then the jury's obligation, after listening to both sides of the story, to make a decision based on the evidence presented, and in most cases, the evidence is either not presented in its entirety or overwhelmingly slanted t...
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Poems Deal With Family And The Roots
1,001 wordsK. Thompson Chicano Literature 7 April 2000 The Beauty of Poetry I chose to analyze two poems in this essay. These are the "Ending Poem" and "this is not the place where I was born". Both were chosen from the book Currents from the Dancing River Book. I found these two books to contain similar themes and both seem to be of a modern genre. These poems deal with family and the roots that connect them to the past. Both recognize that they themselves are disassociated with their past although they s...
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2 3 The Tuft Of Flowers 2
642 wordsIt has been said many times that all men have a common bond, or a thread that joins them together. Robert Frost^1's poem ^3 The Tuft of Flowers^2 explores the existence of such a bond, as experienced by the speaker. In the everyday circumstance of performing a common chore, the speaker discovers a sense of brotherhood with another laborer. Frost contrasts a sense of aloneness with a sense of understanding to convey his theme of unity between men. To understand the setting of the poem, one must f...
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Theme Of The Poem
557 wordsThe subject of W.H. Auden Unknown Citizen not only has to do with one particular mans life, but could apply to the life of just about anyone. The theme of the poem is that the man being discussed in this section, is an all round normal guy. Many of his attributes resemble the typical person. W.H. Auden enriches this poem not only by having an implicit theme but through the use of such elements of poetry such as, rhyme, speaker, setting, and situation. This poem was written in the mid 1900's. Thi...
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Beginning In The Second Stanza The Speaker
1,350 wordsPrayer for Tradition In the poem "A Song for Simeon", T.S. Eliot uses ambiguity and religious allusion to convey decay and death of the old order to make room for modernity. Examining the imagery in the poem and the tone used allows for a better idea of what the speaker's attitude is toward these changes, and perhaps a hint of how the author himself feels. The view the speaker takes toward the changes he believes are to come is one of fear. He feels threatened by the thought of the way of life h...
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Memories Of Nature
644 wordsWordsworth's "Tinter n Abbey" begins with the common poetical convention of vivid imagery. Noticeably, the poem is written in unrhymed verse. The words, although unrhymed, create their own beauty, in that they paint magical and mystical landscapes in the reader's consciousness. The poem then goes on to detail the fact that the scene has remained unchanged for the past five years, describing the landscape as rich and serene. There is a comfort, not only to the speaker, but also to the reader, in ...
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Different Questions To The Urn
1,218 wordsAnalytical Essay In the poem "Ode on a Grecian Urn" by John Keats, the speaker struggles with the trials and tribulations of life compared to immortality. He then speaks to the Grecian Urn in attempt to engage with the static immobility of the sculpture. He questions the urn, but gets no response from it. The speaker ultimately has to decide the answers to his own questions, leaving the poem with a higher level of understanding about life. This was a poem from the Romantic Period and that made i...
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Literal Progression Of A Storm Warnings Poem
501 wordsIn the poem "Storm Warnings" the use of organization and choice of detail help to reveal both the literal and figurative meanings of the title. The first stanza reveals much about an actual storm. Using the true events of a rising strom as details, the reader is first introduced to the literal "storm warnings": "The glass... falling,"winds walking overhead" and "gray unrest". Yet, the personification of the weather and use of words, such as "unrest", adds a new element to the plot. Somehow the s...
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Of Frost's Earliest Poems
694 wordsRobert Lee Frost was born in San Francisco on March 26, 1874. After the death of his father in 1885, his family moved back to New England, the original family home. Frost briefly attended Dartmouth and Harvard colleges but did not earn a degree. In the early 1890's, he worked in New England as a farmer, an editor, and a schoolteacher, engrossing the materials that were to form the themes of many of his most famous poems. In 1912, he moved briefly to England where his poetry was well-received and...
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Point In The Poem Our Speaker
1,237 wordsIn After Apple-Picking After Apple-Picking In the poem "After Apple-Picking', Robert Frost has cleverly disguised many symbols and allusions to enhance the meaning of the poem. One must understand the parallel to understand the central theme of the poem. The apple mentioned in the poem could be connected to the forbidden fruit from the Garden of Eden. It essentially is the beginning of everything earthly and heavenly, therefore repelling death. To understand the complete meaning of Frost's poem ...
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Sleep
212 wordsThe speaker uses the word "sleep's ix times in the poem. This repetition, along with additional words that connote sleeping or resting, comes to suggest the presence of death. The speaker has endured a long hard life, and his routine activity, no matter how fulfilling it must have been at first and throughout, has agonized him and brought exhaustion to his soul. Even the "rumbling of the loads and unloads of apples' disturbs his senses. The poem implies that rest, sleep, or death is necessary fo...
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Stopping By Woods Analysis Of Robert
756 wordsAnalysis Of Robert Frost's "Stopping By Woods Analysis Of Robert Frost's "Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening' Robert Frost's "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening' is by far one of my favorite works of modern poetry. The pensive, unhurried mood of the poem is reflected with a calm rich imagery that creates a vivid mental picture. The simple words and rhyme scheme of the poem give it an easy flow, which adds to the tranquility of the piece. Every aspect of the poem builds off the others to put ...
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Sonnet 130 Sonnet 130 This Shakespeare Sonnet
355 wordsThis Sonnet 130 Sonnet 130 This Shakespeare sonnet talks about the contrasts of the speaker's lover and the beauties of the world. Unfortunately the lover is never on the winning side. The speaker tells us his lover's physical appearance, or lack thereof. His lover's eyes are? nothing like the sun.? As for her lips, ? coral is far more red than? hers. Unlike the white snow, her breasts are dun-colored. Her hair was not smooth; it was like? black wires grow on her head.? In the second quatrain th...
