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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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Title Of The Poem
1,196 wordsExpressing love for a woman can be done in such a way, that it causes the destruction of her soul. A very thought provoking poem, Rape, written by Adrienne Rich, provides a rich example of a world that is often hidden. Although the poet uses numerous elements, such as imagery, to disguise her true intentions, a good understanding will allow us to see it for what it truly is, a cry for help. The title of the poem doesn t leave much for the reader to uncover. Using Rape as a title shows her direct...
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First Two Stanzas Of Shakespeares Poem
1,365 wordsFear no more By William Shakespeare William Shakespeare utilizes simplistic language to emphasize the themes in Fear no more; however, he exercises complex metaphors to depict the struggles one undergoes during a lifetime and as a result urges the reader to overcome all melancholic sentiments that lead one to oppose a peaceful death. The diction applied in Fear no more efficiently creates emphasis on specific sections of the poem. In addition, the euphonic flow used by Shakespeare illustrates th...
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Last Line Of The Poem
1,412 wordsA Commentary on The Lost Heritage The theme of this poem is given away by the title. The poem represents human heritage, more specifically the heritage of the poet, Heather Buck. I think this poem is her way of expressing her feelings and inhibitions about her painful past and the hardships she endured as a child growing up in a world of adults. "we hang our quiet landscapes tipping and tilting them till we achieve an uneasy marriage... ". These are lines 18, 19 and 20 in stanza three, I believe...
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Its Twenty Eight Six Line Stanzas
1,487 wordsElizabeth Bishop's 'The Moose' is a narrative poem of 168 lines. Its twenty-eight six-line stanzas are not rigidly structured. Lines vary in length from four to eight syllables, but those of five or six syllables predominate. The pattern of stresses is lax enough almost to blur the distinction between verse and prose; the rhythm is that of a low-keyed speaking voice hovering over the descriptive details. The eyewitness account is meticulous and restrained. The poem concerns a bus traveling to Bo...
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Ending Of The Poem
579 wordsFew things in the world today can take you from the ordinary life that you are living this very moment and transport you into unthinkable experiences though thoughts and emotions. In a world dominated by digital television and Dolby surround sound, one minuscule art remains untainted and virtually indistinguishable; that is the art of poetry. The time and effort that goes into the production of a movie or a television show is unequal, I imagine, than to that of writing poetry. Mainstream movie t...
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Last Stanzas The Poem Changes Tone
572 words"Bushed" The entire poem is a metaphor taken literally it can be considered just a short story about a man stranded on a beach. He wakes up early in the morning, awake and very alive, he goes to sleep feeling secure. He learns how to survive by eating porcupine bellies and keeping their quills as a prize for his hunting and survival skills. Taken on the metaphorical level it is all about a man who created a perfect life fore himself, a rainbow as Earle Birney put it. His perfect life was ruined ...
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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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First Stanza
381 wordsThe 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...
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Yeats Use Of The Image Water
852 wordsThe Stolen Child "The Stolen Child", a poem by W.B. Yeats, can be analyzed on several levels. The poem is about a group of faeries that lure a child away from his home "to the waters and the wild" (chorus). On a more primary level the reader can see connections made between the fairy world and freedom as well as a societal return to innocence. On a deeper and second level the reader can infer Yeats' desire to see a unified Ireland of simpler times. The poem uses vivid imagery to establish both l...
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Owen's Concerns And The Devices
1,227 wordsESSAY QUESTION: Wilfred Owen is known as a war poet, yet he does not often deal with the actual war. What are his concerns and what devices does he use to achieve them Discuss in relation to two of Owen's poems that you have studied. It must first be acknowledged that the subject of war is a very broad matter, with scope for much further interpretation than simply the physical action of battle. The writer of the above essay statement suggests that, as Owen is classified a war poet, his writing i...
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Poems Of Specific Importance The Riddles
2,202 wordsB) The riddle we can guess We speedily despise - Not anything is stale so long as yesterday's surprise -How important is the idea of riddling in Emily Dickinson's poetry? Cover a range of poems in your answer, and discuss at least four of them in close detail. During the late nineteenth century, Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) featured as one of the few female poets in the largely male-dominated sphere of American literature. Although she authored 1800 poems, only seven were published during her lif...
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Reader To The Feelings Of The Speaker
1,134 wordsSharpio's 'Auto Wreck': The Theme of Death Few subjects can be discussed with more insightfulness and curiosity than death. The unpredictability and grimness of it are conveyed well in Karl Shapiro's poem, 'Auto Wreck'. The poem starts with a description of an ambulance rushing to the scene of a crash, and hurriedly gathering up the victims and rushing them away. The aftermath of the police investigation that follows leaves the crowd gathered around the scene to explore privately and individuall...
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First And The Last Line
1,323 wordsA une passant e, taken from Baudelaire's major work Les Fleurs du Mal appeared in 1857. In Baudelaire's work, symbolist poetry found its origins. Although his poems at that time were found to be decadent, the symbolist movement was the main literary stream until well into the 1890's. The symbolist stream was founded in the late 19th century in France. This literary stream encouraged writers to express their ideas, feelings, and values by means of symbols or suggestions rather than by direct stat...
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Every Stanza In The Poem
1,513 words2/13/97 The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam presents an interesting challenge to any reader trying to sort through its heavy symbolism and not-so-obvious theme. Not only does the poem provide us with a compelling surface story, but a second look at the text can reveal a rich collection of seperate meanings hidden in the poem's objective descriptions and sprawling narrative-which in the space of a few pages includes such disparate characters as the Moon, God, the Snake (and his traditional Christian nei...
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Persona Of The Poem
1,058 wordsThrough the use of dark and fiery images and diction that suggests both infernal and divine entities, Maurya Simon effectively links the presence of ravens with the presence of an otherworldly presence. She posits the ravens as secret emissaries between God and man, implying that the birds can sense something that humans cannot. In this way, the ravens are capable of experiencing the presence more deeply and more closely than the persona of the poem feels she can. Addressing the presence of God ...
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Autumn Season
1,421 words'To Autumn' is a lyrical poem, which propounds the writer's feelings and thoughts on a particularly beautiful day. The poet and the narrator appear to be one and the same and he appears to be the sole spectator of the luscious scenery. Whilst in the first stanza the poem does not speak directly to any one person, but simply describes the scenery, the second stanza seems to be addressing the autumn season itself, 'Who hath not seen thee oft amid thy store?' In the last stanza the poem seems to be...
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Very Wide Use Of Words
1,838 wordsThe Going This poem by Thomas Hardy is a monologue that is written to his first wife Emma reproaching her for having left so suddenly. Even though this poem is written for his wife if a few specifications are removed it would seem that the poem could be written about anybody who had died. This poem goes through the whole process of mourning from realising that she is gone forever (stanza 1), denial like the references to haunting (stanza 2), regret for not having spent more time together (Stanza...
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Second Stanza Heaney
1,617 wordsSeamus Heaney The Early purges and mid-term break Compare and contrast Seamus Haney's poems, 'The early purges' and 'mid-term break', commenting on any similarities between them. What lesson do the children in each poem learn? Seamus Heaney was born on the 13th April 1939 in a small town in Ireland. He was the eldest of nine children and was part of a catholic family. His family owned a farm and that was their business, but Heaney didn't follow that. He decided to follow his dream and become an ...
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Angelou's Guilt
304 wordsAngelou's poem My Guilt addresses racism and the apathetic reactions of African Americans. Rhythm and tone are key elements in conveying the mournful message of a person who has identified their sins, and wishes to repent. In the first stanza, I believe that Angelou is trying to give the idea that over the past few centuries, blacks have grown deaf and blind to the injustices being done against them. The lines "My guilt is "slavery's chains", to long / the clang of iron falls down the years" sug...
