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Outward Appearance Rhyme Scheme
447 words
Both Sides Now - by Joni Mitchell. This is a poem
about a girl who has once had good experiences
with love but now sees men and love as things that
just get in the way. The last lines in the second
and third stanzas explain this: "But clouds got in
my way. " and "I really don't know clouds at all.
" She is comparing clouds and men. My initial
reaction to this poem is that it is not
particularly easy to understand but after you
think about for a while you can figure out what it
means. This poem i...
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Matthew Arnold Dover Beach
867 words
Before we can discuss Matthew Arnold's "Dover
Beach, " a brief biography of the poet will help
us understand the poem and the mood he is in while
writing it. The reader should know that Matthew
Arnold married Fanny Lucy Wightman at Dover,
despite her father's disapproval. Wightman's
father was vocal in his objections to the
marriage, insisting in 1850 that the two should
end their romance and cancel their wedding plans
(Furr). Thus, Arnold penned "Dover Beach" in 1851,
drawing from his own exper...
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Poem Blake Chimney Sweep People
400 words
In this poem, Blake is trying to dispel the myth
of grandeur and glory associated with London and
to show the 'real' people of London and how they
felt. London was seen and portrayed as a powerful
and wonderful city where the wealthy lived and
socialized. However, Blake knew that London was
really a dirty, depressing and poverty-stricken
city filled with slums and the homeless and
chronically sick. To reveal the truth, Blake
combines description of people and places with the
thoughts and emotion...
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Don Juan As Byron Introspective
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The works of George Gordon, Lord Byron have long
been controversial, nearly as controversial as his
lifestyle. Gordon Byron was born with a clubfoot
and his sensitivity to it haunted his life and his
works. Despite being a very handsome child, a
fragile self-esteem made Byron extremely sensitive
to criticism, of himself or of his poetry and he
tended to make enemies rather quickly. The young
Byron was often unhappy and lonely any many of his
works seem to be a sort of introspective therapy.
Thro...
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Wilfred Owen Second Stanza
714 words
Futility by Wilfred Owen Wilfred Owen is arguably
one of the most famous poets of World War One. In
his well known sonnet futility he uses powerful
techniques such as personification, metaphors and
par-rhyme reinforced with powerful imagery to
demonstrate the harshness of war. This can also be
seen through the tone which changes from hope in
the first verse to a profound despair in the
second verse. This then causes Owen to question
the pointlessness of war. In contrast to his other
poems which ...
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Sylvia Plath Ive Killed
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Sylvia Plath uses her poem, Daddy, to express
intense emotions towards her fathers life and
death and her disastrous relationship with her
husband. The speaker in this poem is Sylvia Plath
who has lost her father at age ten, at a time when
she still adored him unconditionally. Then she
gradually realizes the oppressing dominance of her
father, and compares him to a Nazi, a devil, and a
vampire. Later, the conflict of this relationship
continues with her husband which led to a short
and painful m...
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Mystery Here We Stand Stout As A Horse Person
555 words
Stout as a horse, affectionate, haughty,
electrical, I and this mystery here we stand. This
small quote is the most personally descriptive and
unique in the free verse poem Song of Myself. It
described every human aspect of our human lives
and personalities. The stanza is a perfect
representative of my thoughts, my attitude, and my
traits. Stout as a horse can mean any number of
feelings. To me, it represents the strong-souled
person. Almost everyone that I call my close
friend I call them stout...
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Lyric Poetry And Narrative
744 words
Lyric poetry and narrative poetry Poetry appeared
in prehistoric times when people started to pass
down their oral history in poetic language and
song. Poetry is a kind of literature which
combines the sound and meaning of language for
creation of ideas and feelings. The sound and the
rhythm of the poetry attract many people. For
example, children enjoy hearing pleasing rhymes
and strong rhythms of nursery rhymes. Early
peoples used poetry with accompanying music in
songs, prayers, and magic spe...
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Walks In Beauty Admiration And Awe Skylark
779 words
I Stand in Awe. Love can mean different things
according to circumstances, the objects of
affection, and the person experiencing the
feeling. Correspondingly, many things can
characterize love as well. Yet, one of the most
common syndromes is admiration, in other words,
awe. Two poets George Gordon and Percy Bysshe
Shelly describe such reverence in their poems She
Walks in Beauty and To a Skylark. In both of these
poems the characters experience this felling. One
experiences it towards a woman, ...
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Keats Autumn Thy
317 words
The third glimpse at Keats craftsmanship comes
through his mastership at yet another poetic form:
the ode. In his poem Ode to Autumn, Keats praises
the season overlooked by most people: Autumn. In
the first stanza, the reader gets a vivid picture
of the landscape by Keats focusing mainly on
visual imagery: Season of mists and mellow
fruitfulness, Close bosom-friend of the maturing
sun; Conspiring with him how to load and bless
With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves
run; To bend with app...
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Hundred Years Ago One Hundred Years
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Immortal Poetry An Essay Study of Poetry andA
Poets Ability to For seeThe Future The world is
changing and evolving at an astounding rate.
Within the last one hundred years, the Western
community has seen advances in technology and
medicine that has improved the lifestyles and
longevity of almost every individual. Within the
last two hundred years, we have seen two World
Wars, and countless disputes over false borders
created by colonialists, slavery, and every horrid
form of human suffering ima...
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Child Neglect Didnt Give
535 words
Daddy didnt give affection and the boy was
something that Mommy wouldnt wear. Child abuse is
something that can be considerably harmful on a
child and among these forms of child abuse comes
the issue of child neglect, child neglect can
cause children to become socially challenged,
angry and even abusive themselves. The song Jeremy
by Pearl Jam talks about this form of abuse and
tells a story of child neglect and its affects on
a boy named Jeremy and his experience with
neglect. King Jeremy the w...
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Donne John Donne
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? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? John Donne? s
poem, ? The Legacy? , displays the conflicting
themes of love and death. He uses imagery and
there associations to convey many of his personal
thoughts and feelings, as well as, creating a
theme. John Donne? s intentions of writing this
poem was to leave a legacy for his love, though he
realizes that you cannot achieve this without
giving all of your heart. ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? One of
the major themes in the poems is death associated
with death imager...
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Garden Of Eden Traditional Role
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In reference to Judith Wrights poetry as being of
a unique and distinctive style, in particular
Wright is well known for her use of two subjects,
that being the Australian aspect where in her work
she commonly relates to the old traditional style
of Australias history and the harsh landscape that
is well known as an Australian trait. Three
examples of this distinctive style of writing is
Remittance Man, South of my Days and Legend. The
other of Wrights favoured topics is the Womens
view or the f...
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Randall Jarrell Vile Imaginings Life
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Next Day by Randall Jarrell I think, generally,
people wish they were somewhere or someone else,
no matter where they are or how objectively good
their situations are. They? re not really
complaining; consciously they know things are
going relatively well for them, but there is
always that nostalgia for more romantic times
past, or that nagging what if in the back of the
mind. These feelings, which more or less everyone
has more or less all of the time, are what Randall
Jarrell? s poem Next Day ...
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Quot Quot Quot Black
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She On " Wintering" Margaret Dickie She
is able, in " Wintering, " to accept
also the activities of women who " have got
rid of the men, / The blunt, clumsy stumblers, the
boors. " Knitting, tending the cradle,
harboring life in her body-bulb, she will survive.
The bee sequence tells of the search for a female
identity in a world without men, without stings,
without knives. It is " the room I have never
been in, " where the " black" is
bunched &q...
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Role Of Women Role In Society
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It s a Woman s World Our way of life So when the
king s head has hardly changed (30) gored its
basket since a wheel first grim harvest whetted a
knife. we were greeting breadLine (5) Well, maybe
flame or getting the recipe burns more greedily
for a good soup and wheels are steadier (35) to
appetite but we re the same our gossip. who
milestone And it s still the same: (10) our lives
By night our windows with oversights moth our
children living by the lights (40) to the flame of
the loaf left of h...
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Life Speaker Woods
374 words
In Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, we have a
man who stops in the woods to watch the snow fall.
The speaker finds these woods to escape from the
everyday stresses of life. My own interpretation
is that the man finds himself at a critical
crossroad in his life and he flees to these woods
to reflect on his life. The woods that Frost
illustrates are a representation of heaven.
Although the man is turning to God for guidance,
he is neither in nor near a church. Even still, he
believes his loca...
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Road Less Traveled Frosts Poems
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Robert Frost, perhaps the greatest American poet
of the twentieth century, has brought himself
great recognition. Many critics have tried to find
a faulty side to his writing, but they have had a
difficult time because his writing romanticizes
the rural simplicity that he loved while probing
into the mysteries of the universe (Estep 2).
Three areas of criticism covered are: a speakers
decision in choosing, a poem broken down into
three sections, and Frosts use of metaphors and
style in his writi...
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Woods On A Snowy Evening Stopping By The Woods
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Robert Robert Frost ROBERT FROST Robert Frost is
an amazing poet that many admire today. He is an
inspiration to many poets today. His themes and
ideas are wonderful and are valued by many. His
themes are plentiful however a main one used is
the theme of nature. Frost uses nature to express
his views as well as to make his poetry
interesting and easy to imagine in your mind
through the detail he supplies. First, in the
poem? Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening?
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