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High Oer Vales High Oer Vales And Hills Speaker
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Wordsworth begins his extended metaphor in the
third line of the poem, with his speaker saying, I
saw a crowd, / a host, of golden daffodils that
were fluttering and dancing in the breeze. (line
6). The speaker is attributing to these daffodils
human qualities: their forming a crowd, and their
dancing. That the speaker has wandered lonely as a
cloud (1) introduces the speaker as one content to
be apart from other people. The speaker admits
that he enjoys his being apart from other men when
he sp...
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Shakespeare Sonnets Important Theme
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Shakespeare - Sonnet 18 This sonnet is by far one
of the most interesting poems in the book. Of
Shakespeare's sonnets in the text, this is one of
the most moving lyric poems that I have ever read.
There is great use of imagery within the sonnet.
This is not to say that the rest of the poems in
the book were not good, but this to me was the
best, most interesting, and most beautiful of
them. It is mainly due to the simplicity and
loveliness of the poems praise of the beloved
woman that it has gua...
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Third Quatrain The Speaker Love Between The Speaker Age
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In "Sonnet 73 ", the speaker uses a series of
metaphors to characterize what he perceives to be
the nature of his old age. This poem is not simply
a procession of interchangeable metaphors; it is
the story of the speaker slowly coming to grips
with the finality of his age and his impermanence
in time. In the first quatrain, the speaker
contrasts his age is like a "time of year, ": late
autumn, when the "yellow leaves" have almost
completely fallen from the trees and the boughs
"shake against the...
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Emily Dickinson First Line
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In Emily Dickinson's, Because I could not stop for
Death, the speaker personifies death as a polite
and considerate gentleman (which is very ironic
because by many people death is believed to be a
dreadful event) who takes her in a carriage for a
journey toward Eternity (l. 24); however, at the
end of this poem, she finishes her expedition
realizing that she has died many years ago. In the
first stanza, she begins her journey with a
gentleman named Death who takes her along to the
carriage the c...
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Life After Death Stop For Death
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Because I could not stop for Death Because I could
not Stop for Death by Emily Dickinson is a work of
art which speaks of death through a woman's voice.
Death itself is personified as a kind carriage
driver, and shown as if forthcoming and appears to
be in the figurative wisdom of a gentle,
sympathetic man, who is arriving to take the
speaker on her special expedition. This special
journey takes her through various stages of life
all the way to her eternal death. Dickinson's
representation of De...
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Garden Of Eden Apple Picking
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In the poem "After Apple Picking", Robert Frost
uses many symbols to enhance the meaning of the
poem. The apple in the poem could be symbolic of
be said to be the forbidden fruit from the Garden
of Eden. The Garden of Eden was basically the
beginning of everything earthly and heavenly,
therefore repelling death. For you to understand
the poem, you have to realize that for something
to be dead, it must have been alive before. This
may not be the central theme of the poem but
Frost's symbolic use ...
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Family In The Red Convertible And Blues
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The family unit has always been an integral part
of every person's development. Naturally, the
parental figure plays an overwhelming influence in
the maturity of the child, but sibling interaction
can be just as great. Often sibling rivalry, or
alliance, outlines this connection as a person
carves a path into social peer groups. This
articulation of sibling influence can be
understood by examining the short stories "The Red
Convertible" by Louise Erdrich and "Sonny's Blues"
by James Baldwin, bot...
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First Two Stanzas Stanza The Speaker
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'The Indifferent' by John Donne is a relatively
simple love poem in comparison to his other, more
complicated works. In this poem, 'he presents a
lover who regards constancy as a 'vice' and
promiscuity as the path of virtue and good sense'
(Hunt 3). Because of Donne's Christian background,
this poem was obviously meant to be a comical look
at values that were opposite the ones held by
Christians. According to Clay Hunt, '['The
Indifferent'] is probably quite an early poem
because of the simplici...
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Analyzing Emily Dickinson Poems
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Analyzing Emily Dickinson's Poems During her
lifetime, Emily Dickinson was unknown to the
general audience as a poet, and only after her
death the works she has created became popular.
Nowadays Emily Dickinson is recognized as one of
the greatest American poets, and she is especially
famous as a lyric poet. Many of Emily's
biographers call her eccentric and psychologically
unbalanced; she did not have that many friends as
a child and preferred to spend her time alone. As
a recluse Emily Dickinso...
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Line 6 Line 4
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Analysis of A. E. Housman s To an Athlete Dying
Young Dying young is considered by most to be one
of the most tragic of fates. The specter of things
undone and a life unlived haunts the funeral and
colors the grief to an even darker shade. Most
people desire to live to a ripe old age and would
be shocked to have a premature death viewed in a
positive light. Yet, this is exactly the driving
force behind A. E. Housman s To an Athlete Dying
Young. In the poem, dying young and at the height
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Donne Holy Sonnet
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As a young poet, John Donne often utilized
metaphors of spiritual bond in many of his Songs
and Sonnets in order to explain fleshly love. Once
he renounced Catholicism and converted to the
Anglican faith (circa 1597), Donne donned a more
devotional style of verse, such as in his Holy
Sonnets (circa 1609 - 1610), finding parallels to
divine love in the carnal union. In many ways,
however, his love poems and his religious poems
are quite similar, for they both address his
personae? s deep-seated f...
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First Two Lines Negro Speaks Of Rivers
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February Langston Hughes Bryan Snyder February 19,
2001 Prof. Castro English 220 Langston Hughes The
writing style of Langston Hughes is best described
as reflective of the lyric style and format of the
blues, a musical genre that became popular in
America at approximately the same time as his
poetry. The lyrics of a stereotypical blues song
start with a line. This line is immediately
repeated almost verbatim. The final line of a
blues stanza then concludes the emphasized thought
of the first tw...
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Die Quot God
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In Anne Bradstreet? s poem, " To Her Father
with Some Verses" , the speaker expresses to
the reader the feeling of never being able to
repay her " Father" , God, for the gift
of life He has offered to her. The feeling of
never being able to repay her " Father"
is shown through the use of repeated symbolism and
the " Father" is represented as God
through the use of diction. 9; In the poem the
speaker refers to her " Father" , this
" Father...
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Concept Of Love Porphyrias Lover
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However, the speaker is aware of her passionate
attempt to conceal her pride and vanity. Her
beauty, pride, and conceit prevent Porphyria from
completely loving the speaker. The unnamed speaker
realizes that Porphyria cannot make a true
commitment to a serious relationship of love. He
is overcome by his passion and desire to be her
only lover. As the couple embraces one another,
the speaker is unable to restrain overwhelming
desire to make Porphyria his only lover. He has
terrible thoughts about...
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William Carlos Williams Quot Quot
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Thomas R. Whitaker " Portrait of a Lady,
" which is really another paradoxical
self-portrait, amusingly renders the descending
movements of that fiber of swift attention with
which Kora in Hell was primarily concerned The
descent, of course, is not merely visual. The poem
moves, through interior dialogue, from an easy
formalized tribute toward a more disturbing
contact. The witty and sentimental style of
Watteau or of Fragonard (whose " The
Swing" does leave a slipper hanging...
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Make Good Neighbors Stanza The Speaker
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Paper on Poetry Mending Wall, by Robert Frost
(1874 - 1963), is a poem which asks the question,
Do fences make good neighbors? Frost feels they do
not; a wall isolates the people who built the
wall, keeping them from their experiences with
each other. Frost nonetheless excites the reader s
curiosity to discover what that something might
be. As well, the rhythmical impulse of the poem
has been set in motion. In the opening line
something refers to a third entity. In the next
couple of lines the s...
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Autumn Darker Even Than Winter Darker Even Than Winter Woman
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In Linda Pastans poem Ethics, the speaker recounts
a moral dilemma that her teacher would ask every
fall, which has been haunting her for a long time.
The question was if there were a fire in a museum
/ which would you save, a Rembrandt painting / or
an old woman who hadnt many / years left anyhow?
and the speaker tells us through the theme that
ethics and moral values can be only learned from
the reflection which comes through experience and
maturity. In this poem, imagery, diction, and
figures...
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Decisions He Makes Decisions He Makes The Language Poem
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In Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening Robert
Frost demonstrates a dedicated persons commitment
to life. Despite the hardships and troubles that
life carries, the speaker in this poem comes to
the realization that he must continue living his
life. He makes an important decision that is
brought on in a question, which is triggered by
the beauty of his surroundings. He decides that he
wants to complete the life that he started because
of the many obligations he is responsible for.
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World Of Fantasy Branch To Branch Speaker
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Reality vs. Fantasy Birches by Robert Frost is a
nostalgic poem filled with fond memories and
fantasies, yet at the same time the speaker
reveals his longing to escape. Frost sets up a
conversation with himself using dialogue between
his sensible, knowing self and his fantasizing,
nostalgic self. At first the poem seems to be just
an account for all of the birches leaning with
none standing straight. Frost would like to think
that a child at play bent the trees, probably to
escape the truth that...
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E E Cummings Poem
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Upon looking at e. e. cummings? s poem, ? in
Just-? , perhaps, two features immediately become
apparent: the use of white space between some
words and lines, and the multiple use of a single
word supporting an entire line. To a lesser
degree, the poem? s visual also features the boys?
and girls? names joined together as though they
were each one, and the capitalization of the? m?
in? balloon Man? towards the poem? s end. All
these features contribute to how the poem will be
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