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High Oer Vales High Oer Vales And Hills Speaker
345 wordsWordsworth 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
923 wordsShakespeare - 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
497 wordsIn "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
740 wordsIn 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
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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Garden Of Eden Apple Picking
720 wordsIn 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
917 wordsThe 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
1,180 words'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
1,668 wordsAnalyzing 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
656 wordsAnalysis 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 of your ...
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Donne Holy Sonnet
821 wordsAs 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
962 wordsFebruary 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
587 wordsIn 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
524 wordsHowever, 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
3,688 wordsThomas 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
1,252 wordsPaper 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
788 wordsIn 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
700 wordsIn 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. Frost defin...
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World Of Fantasy Branch To Branch Speaker
1,244 wordsReality 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
1,627 wordsUpon 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 read, and when the po...
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