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Censored Ing Second Stanza
1,280 wordsThis Be the Verse by Philip Larkin They censored you up, your mum and dad. They may not mean to, but they do. They fill you with the faults they had And add some extra, just for you. But they were censored ed up in their turn By fools in old-style hats and coats, Who half the time were sloppy-stern And half at one another's throats. It deepens like a coastal shelf. And don't have any kids yourself. Lately, I have read a good deal of poems by Philip Larkin, and one unifying factor that I have not...
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'the Arrival Of The Beebox' Arrival Of The Beebox' Speaker
906 wordsIn a number of her poems, Sylvia Plath expresses a concern with the need to be in control. The speaker is often invested with power and is placed beside the underlying fear of being over ridden by the 'other'. In order to maintain an author ative position, she confronts with the 'enemy' and ponders on the unknown, leaving readers inexplicably drawn by the experiences described. Yet Plath's other preoccupations are contrary to the investiture of power in the poetic voice, where the main subject i...
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Emily Dickinson Poetry In Relation To Society
1,175 wordster> Q: Poetry texts are powerful indicators of society's values. Discuss with reference to two or more poems. Emily Dickinson's poetry powerfully indicates values of society of the time. It does this through its conciseness, its simplicity and its control. Indications of society's values are seen in many of Dickinson's poems, but they are especially noticeable in It was not Death, and Because I could not stop for Death. In Dickinson's poem It was not Death, she demonstrates how restri...
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Life After Death Stop For Death
1,049 wordsBecause 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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Sexual Intercourse Third Stanza
1,343 wordsJohn Donne's poems are similar in their content love, sex, and religion and dissimilar in the feelings they express. These subjects reflect the different stages of his life: the lust of his youth, the love of his married middle age, and the piety of the latter part of his life. The Flea presents the youthful restless feeling of lust with a true respect for women through the metaphysical conceit of the flea as a church in the rhythm of the sexual act. The speaker in The Flea is a restless, would-...
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Kubla Khan Pleasure Dome
1,118 wordsIn the poem Kubla Khan by Samuel Coleridge, language is used to convey images from Coleridge's imagination. This is done with the use of vocabulary, imagery, structure, use of contrasts, rhythm and sound devices such as alliteration and assonance. By conveying his imagination by using language, the vocabulary used by Coleridge is of great importance. The five lines of the poem Kubla Khan sound like a chant or incantation, and help suggest mystery and supernatural themes of the poem. Another impo...
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E E Cummings Four Lines
950 wordsPoetry is a fascinating entity. It is impossible for one to accurately define poetry; its forms and styles are multitudinous in nature, and its essence is often as original and individualistic as the manner in which it is written. Two prime examples of poetry, its eccentricity, and its aesthetic value are Sonnet CXLVII by William Shakespeare, and anyone lived in a pretty how town by e. e. cummings. Sonnet CXLVII is an astounding example of the metrical and structured form of poetry, whereas anyo...
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Poem Progresses Rhyme Speaker
382 words(a / n ) - I understand this essay should be under poetry, yet I can not seem to get the computer to understand that my essay is more than one paragraph! ! ! ... help! ! ? ? ! ! ? ? ! ! ? ? please! ! Numerous facts are found in the course of analyzing Dogs Death by John Updike. Important information about the poem and the author can be discovered by closely examining key details. For example, where the narrator refers to certain characters as the children and states, my wife, it is revealed that...
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Critical Analysis Of One Art Poem
717 wordsThe art of losing isnt 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 the poems opening and closing lines. Th...
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Sylvia Plath Ive Killed
1,027 wordsSylvia 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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Toad Poem Unnatural
307 wordsThe structure of the poem adds much to the meaning Robert Wilbur was trying to convey. The theme of The Death of a Toad is the disruption of the natural cycle of life. Wilbur wrote this poem that structurally makes this point, as well. The use of feminine rhymes makes the rhyme scheme unnatural. For example, the word caught does not rhyme exactly with got. Also, there are only three stanzas, making the balance of the poem unnatural as well. The formation of the stanzas (with some lines indented,...
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Bright Star John Keats
485 wordsThe Romantic Age was a time of great literary expansion and it provided writers a chance to truly speak from their soul to all readers. During the Romantic Age, there were many writers, but few who deserve recognition. Of these writers, there were Keats and Wordsworth. Both alike, yet different in many ways. This is shown in Wordsworth's " It is a Beauteous Evening, Calm and Free, " and the poems of John Keats. William Wordsworth found that the best way to express his feelings through sonnet is ...
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Father Roethke Roethke's
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Poetic Devices True Meaning
943 wordsExplication: Ballad of Birmingham In the poem Ballad of Birmingham, by Dudley Randall, many different things can be analyzed. The difference in the two translations; one being a literal translation, telling the true meaning of the poem, and the other being a thematic translation, which tells the authors theme and symbolism used in his / her work. Another thing that all poets have in common is the usage of poetic devices; such as similes, metaphors, and personification. Before translations and de...
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Absolutely White Person Poem In Plaster Plath
1,111 wordsSudheer Sreenath Sanjay Here Period 5 5 / 19 / 99 In Plaster In Plaster was a poem written by Sylvia Plath on March 18, 1961. The poem was written while Plath was in St. Pancras hospital in England, immediately following an appendectomy. Her journals, as well as the letters she wrote to her mother, vividly describe the events surrounding the composition of this poem. Interestingly, Plath also wrote another one of her famous poems, Tulips, on the same day. The events in Plath's personal life surr...
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Quot Daddy Quot Lines 71 80 Plath
594 wordsPlath? s poem " Daddy" describes her feelings of oppression from her childhood and conjures the struggle many women face in a male-dominated society. The conflict of this poem is male authority versus the right of a female to control her own life and be free of male domination. Plath? s conflicts begin with her father and continue into the relationship between her and her husband. This conflict is examined in lines 71 - 80 of " Daddy" in which Plath compares the damage her fa...
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Emily Dickinson Poetic Devices
486 wordsTess Purnell T. Arnold ENG- 157 W Explication # 3 8 - 11 - 00 It Sifts from Leaden Sieves: Explication In the poem It Sifts from Leaden Sieves, by Emily Dickinson, many different things can be analyzed. The difference in the two translations; one being a literal translation, telling the true meaning of the poem, and the other being thematic translation, which tells the authors theme and symbolism used in his / her work. Another thing that all poets have in common is the usage of poetic devices; ...
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Richard Cory Lower Class
792 wordsThe Cost of Fame and Fortune on Celebrity Figures JENNIFER ANISTON AND BRAD PITT WED PICTURES HERE! Madonna s a MAMA again! TOM AND NICOLE SPLIT WHY? These are just three examples of headlines I have seen across the supermarket tabloids over the past year. In reality, we know that two more people tied the knot, another mom-to-be gave birth, and one more couple unfortunately divorced. But come on! This is Jennifer and Brad (the two most beautiful people on earth), Madonna (enough said), and Tom a...
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Quot And Quot Nineteenth Century
910 wordsBy Rhonda Pettit Recent editions of Introduction to Poetry textbooks have included " One Perfect Rose" in their discussions of voice, rhythm, and symbol, suggesting that contemporary anthologists and scholars are finally appreciating the art of Parkers " accessible" poetry. " One Perfect Rose" is one of many poems by Parker worthy of this appreciation. The three quatrains of this 1923 poem employ a variation of the " bait-and-switch" strategy, highly appro...
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Gawain And The Green Knight Sir Gawain And The Green
656 wordsSir Gawain and the Green Knight In the medieval time period literature was considered a form of entertainment. The most popular type of literature as entertainment was poetry. Poetry is a way in which language is used. Language has two uses, which are to please and to teach. A poet uses language to shape it to make a form of fiction. In the poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight the unknown author uses language to create a fabulous piece of work. The story is well told but more importantly well cr...
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