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Sylvia Pursuit In Relation To Henrik Hedda Gabler
1,223 wordsIn comparing Sylvia Plath's poem Pursuit to Henrik Ibsen's play Hedda Gabler, one can see many similarities between their themes of emotional distress and the destructive tendencies of unstoppable internal demons. Throughout Pursuit, a panther hunts Plath, the panther symbolizing an internal feeling that is literally trapping and killing her. In the same way, Hedda's own emotions and actions have ensnared her, and she feels that her only way of escape is through death. My poem, Finale closely im...
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Walt Whitman This Compost
1,363 wordsWalt Whitman's This Compost Walt Whitman's This Compost, similar to most of his poetry, is written is free verse; therefore, instead of using rhyme and meter to create an underlying rhythm, he creates a rhythm with his gradual flow of thoughts and abundant use of repetition. Also similar to many of Whitman's poems, This Compost emphasizes nature, the physical body, sexuality, and the phenomenon of common, ordinary things. The poem is written in first person and is merely the thought process of t...
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E E Cummings Women And Men
1,582 wordsanyone lived in a pretty how town by e. e. cummings anyone lived in a pretty how town is about how commonplace language and commonplace lives can be intimate and profound. It is a technically innovative poem which designed so that the reader cannot know what is going on from a distant, perfunctory viewpoint. Repetition, strange grammatical usages, and impersonal nouns demand very close reading in effect, an emotional investment from the audience. There is also a sense in which e. e. cummings is ...
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Quot Quot Emily Dickinson
6,493 words280 in Manuscript from The Manuscript Books of Emily Dickinson, Volume I. Ed. R. W. Franklin. Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1981. Copyright? 1981 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College 340 I felt a funeral in my brain MANUSCRI PT: About summer 1862, in Fascicle 16 (H 5 felt a Funeral, in my Brain, And Mourners to and fro Kept treading treading till it seemed That Sense was breaking through And when they all were seated, A Service, like a Drum Kept beating...
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Ode On A Grecian Urn Beauty Is Truth
1,535 wordsOde on a Grecian Urn Summary In the first stanza, the speaker, standing before an ancient Grecian urn, addresses the urn, preoccupied with its depiction of pictures frozen in time. It is the still unrevised bride of quietness, the foster-child of silence and slow time. He also describes the urn as a historian, which can tell a story. He wonders about the figures on the side of the urn, and asks what legend they depict, and where they are from. He looks at a picture that seems to depict a group o...
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Edwin Arlington Robinson Early Twentieth Century
4,254 wordsEllsworth Barnard In Miniver Cheevy, where to Minivers alcohol-eroded mind it is the age and not himself that is out of tune, the terseness of the image is that of a local idiom: He mourned Romance, now on the town, And Art, a vagrant. [. ] There are, however, other poems in which the contribution of form to effect is more obvious; and some analysis of these will throw light on the compositions that are more subtly contrived. In Miniver Cheevy, for instance, the short last line with its feminine...
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Fourth Stanza Green Bay
442 wordsDon t Give In Dylan Thomas s poem Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night, is an urgent plea from Thomas to his dying father, and all men not to give in to death. Thomas uses himself as the speaker to the make the poem more personal. The message of the poem is very inspirational. Throughout the poem, Thomas uses different imagery and language to illustrate the tension between action and inaction. The first stanza helps summarizes the meaning of the poem, urging old men to fight death. In the first...
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