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End Of The Speaker In The Poem
594 wordsEmily Dickinson Many poets often have themes or topics for which most of their poetry falls under. One of the topics that frequent the writhing of Emily Dickinson is death. This is the case with I Felt a Funeral in my Brain, and I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died. In I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died the we receive the image of death by the description in the first stanza, the stillness round my form was like the stillness in the air between the heaves of storm. This stillness, like the stillness in th...
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Speaker And The Whippoorwill
526 wordsWhip-poor-will explanation The poem, "Whip-poor-will" by Donald Hall is written beautifully with a sense of nature and family. Throughout this poem, Hall illustrates these natural occurrences, such as the "sandy ground", "the last light of June", and "a brown bird in the near-night, soaring over shed and woodshed to far dark fields". The bird in this instance is a whippoorwill, defined as a nocturnal nightjar of Eastern North America that uses loud, repetitive calls suggestive of its name. The w...
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Joys And Desires Of Childhood Innocence
316 wordsThe speaker of the poem tells of his visit to the Garden of Love and of the chapel that is now where he used to play as a child. Instead of welcoming him in, the chapel has 'Thou shalt not' of the Ten Commandments written over the door. The speaker sees that this negative morality has destroyed the garden as well, transforming the 'sweet flowers' to graves and tombstones. The emotionless ritual of the priests 'walking their rounds' threatens to choke out the speaker's life itself. The secret to ...
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Poem Desert Places The Speaker
1,136 wordsAnalysis of Frost's 'Desert Places' and 'Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening " Robert Frost takes our imaginations to a journey through wintertime with his two poems 'Desert Places' and 'Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening'. Frost comes from a New England background and these two poems reflect the beautiful scenery that is present in that part of the country. Even though these poems both have winter settings they contain very different tones. One has a feeling of depressing loneliness and the ...
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Porphyria's Lover
1,413 wordsThe Point of View in "Porphyria's Lover"Porphyria's Lover" is an exhilarating love story given from a lunatic's point of view. It is the story of a man who is so obsessed with Porphyria that he decides to keep her for himself. The only way he feels he can keep her, though, is by killing her. Robert Browning's poem depicts the separation of social classes and describes the "triumph" of one man over an unjust society. As is often the case in fiction, the speaker of "Porphyria's Lover" does not giv...
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Very Appropriate Choice Of Title
743 wordsThe Poem that I chose to analyze is Agha Shahid Ali's titled Leaving Your City. This is a very appropriate choice of title because it clarifies and helps you to understand the movement of the poem. We have the writer and another character meeting and spending time together and then they are not together and the title helps us to understand that the writer has left the city of the newly met companion. Also the title is not stated with in the poem and is not a real clich'e title so I believe that ...
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Author In Reference To The Second Line
487 wordsInterpretations of the Turret Poetry in my opinion is a writer describing, life experience, feelings, things he has seen and perhaps things he would like to see or experience. In Randall Jarrell's poem "The Death of the Bull Turret Gunner", there are many ways this poem maybe interpreted. I really did not understand the poem until I read it a few times. This is what I believe the writer is saying: The author begins the poem with the phrase "From my mother's sleep I fell into the State" (1). This...
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Need For A Wall
378 wordsMy short paper is on the poem called "Mending Wall" by Robert Frost. I chose this poem because of the message it gives the reader. "Mending Wall" represents a picture of two people from New England whom is working together to restore a wall that had been damaged in the winter. The two New Englanders are neighbors. One of them, the speaker in the poem, feels that there is no need for a wall to be kept where is not needed. His neighbor just accepts what his father always said to him: "Good fences ...
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Exclamation Point And The Question Mark
606 wordsThe peculiar essence of the poem 'Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister' written by Robert Browning lies in the impression of violent and disordered hatred. This feeling is revealed by the very structure of the work. The poem is framed by bestial growl at first word and closing line. The first onomatopeaic growl opens the soliloquist's confession of malice for Brother Lawrence: 'Gr-r-r -- there go my heart's abhorrence! / Water your damned flowerpots, do!' Another 'Gr-r-r' marks the end of the work....
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Similarity The Duke And The Man Share
680 wordsNicholas hola English 1156/3/05 West Comparing speakers: My last duchess and porphyria's lover The great poet Robert Browning, who created the poems My Last Duchess and Porphyria's lover, had an interesting taste for speakers of his poems. He seems to be fond of violent, sexual and eccentric people to narrate his intriguing poems. In his poem Porphyira's Lover, a dramatic monologue, a man in a cottage talks of a woman who brings cheer to his house when she appears out of the storm outside. When ...
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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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Speakers In Frost And Hughes Poems
952 wordsSpirit of Poet One requires ingenuity to write beyond his or her typical interest or knowledge base, and a strong sense of self-understanding and confidence to express any type of specialized or emotional sentiment. Poets are fearless warriors, composing into translation for others what is otherwise only understood in their own hearts. Robert Frost, Langston Hughes, and John Milton go deeper into their art over the course of their lifetimes, reflecting a spirit of inquiry into their work. In "Th...
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Speaker From Denotative Meaning To Connotative Meaning
751 wordsCritical 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 ...
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Last Lines Of The Stanza The Speaker
1,084 wordsJohn Donne an English poet and clergyman was one of the greatest metaphysical poets. His poetry was marked by conceits and lush imagery. The Flea is an excellent example of how he was able to establish a parallel between two very different things. In this poem, the speaker tries to seduce a young woman by comparing the consequences of their lovemaking with those of an insignificant fleabite. He uses the flea as an argument to illustrate that the physical relationship he desires is not in itself ...
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Speaker And His Lady
1,515 wordsTo his Coy Mistress 1 Had we but world enough, and time, 2 This coyness, lady, were no crime. 3 We would sit down and think which way 4 To walk, and pass our long love's day; 5 Thou by the Indian Ganges's ide 6 Shouldst rubies find; I by the tide 7 Of Humber would complain. I would 8 Love you ten years before the Flood; 9 And you should, if you please, refuse 10 Till the conversion of the Jews. 11 My vegetable love should grow 12 Vaster than empires, and more slow. 13 An hundred years should go ...
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Poem The Speaker
886 wordsLife is to Short The gift of life is a precious and wonderful experience. Often times, life is just too short and we leave the world without accomplishing many of our goals. People should strive to accomplish as much as they can in their lives. Life should not be viewed as a struggle to survive but rather a time to pursue many opportunities. In the poem "To His Coy Mistress" by Andrew Marvell, the speaker is seen as trying to convince a woman to have sex with him. She tells him she is a virgin a...
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Lines Seven And Eight The Speaker
658 wordsExplication of sonnet 30 William Shakespeare's thirtieth sonnet is one of his more somber and nostalgic poems. Full of melancholy language and legal terms, this sonnet explores the author's discontent with life as the he surveys his past life and all the sorrows it has brought him (Ox quarry). The poem follows the form of an English sonnet with 3 quatrains and a couplet, and has a rhyme scheme A BAB C DCD EFE F GG. In the initial quatrain, the poem establishes its two major ideas. First Shakespe...
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Donne's The Flea John
1,666 wordsdont have one Starting in the late 16th Century and lasting throughout the 17th Century, was a form of poetry that has come to be known as Metaphysical. Though not a poetic movement in the sense of having a manifesto (as did the Romantics), these poets explored similar themes such as love and religion, approaching them in a practical yet transcendent manner. One of the greatest of these was John Donne (1572-1631). his poetry is largely concerned with the enigmatic relationship between a person's...
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Speaker's Mistress Eyes
487 wordsAnalysis of Sonnet 130 Of William Shakespeare's one hundred fifty-four sonnets, his one hundred thirtieth is one of the most intriguing to examine. In Sonnet 130, the speaker describes the woman that he loves in extremely unflattering terms but claims that he truly loves her, which lends credibility to his claim because even though he does not find her attractive, he still declares his love for her. The sentences of Sonnet 130 are written in iambic pentameter, with ten syllables and a pattern of...
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First Line Of Stanza Four
943 wordsIn Emily Dickinson?'s? Because I could not stop for Death? (448), the speaker of the poem is a woman who relates about a situation after her death. The speaker personifies death as a polite and considerate gentleman who takes her in a carriage for a romantic journey; however, at the end of this poem, she finishes her expedition realizing that she has died many years ago. The poem contains six quatrains, and does not follow any consistent rhyme scheme. Every line starts with a strong beat and end...
