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Quest For Judgement In The Passionate Mans Pilgrimage
1,288 wordsSir Walter Raleigh's turbulent life in the British court showed him just how cruel the world of politics could be. When he was imprisoned in a trial that was called a "mockery of justice" (Williams 143), he became very bitter towards the court of England. His anger and opinions were expressed in his writing, and they helped to mold his literary voice. Presumably penned in 1603 upon his imprisonment and sentence of death, The Passionate Man's Pilgrimage addresses the events that brought him to hi...
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Ode On A Grecian Urn
955 wordsThe Portrayal of Eternal Innocence and the Sufficiency of Beauty in John Keats's "Ode on a Grecian Urn" Imagine the following: a bride dressed in white on her wedding day, savage men chasing after women, the lingering subject of love, or a peaceful, uncorrupted town. What do these topics have in common? Through the use of these topics, John Keats portrays the theme of eternal innocence and the sufficiency of beauty throughout his poem, "Ode on a Grecian Urn. " In the first stanza of the poem whi...
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Road Less Traveled Third Stanza
1,080 words... Frosts commonest subjects is the choice the poet is faced with two roads, two ideas, two possibilities of action. The Road Not Taken deals with the choice between two roads, and with the results of the choice which the poet makes. It raises the evident question of whether it is better to choose a road in which many travel, or to choose the road less traveled and explore it yourself. In The Road Not Taken, the speakers tone and setting help illustrate the struggle a person goes through in the...
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Figures Of Speech Theodore Roethke
945 wordsNothing is more personal than an individuals work of poetry. By reading the poetry of another person, you are able to see what they see and feel what they feel. It is like looking through a window of their soul. Analyzing another persons poetry works can be a difficult task, which requires deep thought and the ability to not only analyze but also understand their emotions and feelings. By examining the different techniques and aspects that were used in Theodore Roethke's I Knew a Woman, I will a...
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Commentary On Life Had Stood A Loaded Gun
516 wordsEmily Dickinson's poem is an allegory, which on the symbolic level, the Gun represents the poet and the Master represents the person or soul mate that was meant to be the poet. The speaker in the poem is clearly the Gun this is clear in the second stanza when the speaker says And every time I speak for Him -- / The Mountains straight reply I stands for the Gun. This is also a personification because the Gun is being attributed human traits. The poem begins My Life had stood Loaded Gun -- This li...
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Line Of The Poem Second Stanza
818 wordsIn "A Divine Image", Blake uses several techniques and literary devices, to transmit his thoughts about social injustice, cruelty and human nature, Rhyme and rhythm are two of the main features in this poem this poem is the rhythm affect the whole mood, tone and meaning of the poem. The poet has chosen different methods to give the poem specific sounds that affect the pace and structure of the rhythm. The structure of the first stanza helps us understand the relationships between the four aspect...
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20 Th Century Rhyme Scheme
1,262 wordsIn this essay I intend to look at two poems: Sparrow by Thom Gunn and Rose by Walter de la Mare. I will analyse each poem in terms of their tone, treatment, subject and verse technique and then compare them to see if there are any significant similarities or differences between them. Both poems are examples of lyric poetry. The main features of lyric poetry are strong emotional feeling and extensive use of imagery. Lyric poetry covers everything from hymns, lullabies, and folk songs to the huge ...
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The Metaphysical Poets Marvell Donne And Herbert
1,522 words... ower of the sun, once more insulting the sun by telling the it that he could destroy the sun merely by closing his eyes, so there's no need for the sun to feel at all 'reverend and strong. ' However, he refuses to do this, as by closing his eyes will block out the sight of his lover. From Line 15 onwards, Donne uses metaphysical conceit - something extremely typical of him, where he draws upon a vast range of knowledge to express his thought. Donne describes their relationship as 'both th' I...
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Innocence And Beauty Ode On A Grecian Urn
1,302 wordsOde on a Grecian Urn Throughout his "Ode on a Grecian Urn", Keats uses innocent, unfulfilled images painted on the urn, to demonstrate the theme of innocence and eternal beauty. In the first stanza the speaker standing before an ancient Grecian urn, addresses the urn, preoccupied with its depiction of pictures frozen in time. This is where Keats first introduces the theme of eternal innocence and beauty with the reference to the "unvarnished bride of quietness" (Keats). Because she has not yet e...
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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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Sir Lancelot Descriptive Language
1,352 wordsIn any piece of lyrical poetry, authors must masterfully use the language of the poem to covey the intended meaning. In order to ensure the meaning is not lost, it is imperative that the author incorporates various aspects of the narrative to escalate the poem past its face value. Alfred Tennyson's poem The Lady of Shallot is no exception to the rule. From lines like blue unclouded weather and the gemmy bridle glitter free, one can draw that descriptive language is Tennyson's tool to revealing t...
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Dulce Et Decorum Est Froth Corrupted
1,653 wordsDulce et Decorum Est is one of the most powerful poems ever expressed. The tone of voice and imagery created in your mind, the tension you feel when you read through it, they all make you feel as if you are actually in the poem. The tone of the poem seems to be very antagonistic and bitter. Knock kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge. Is an example of aggressive tone and bitterness. It gives you an idea about the soldiers going barmy on the mud they have to trudge through. Irritate...
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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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Final Stanza Dover Beach
823 wordsSea is life Dover Beach is a very mood-evoking poem. We are first met with an admiration for the sea and different emotions that draws to the observer. However, as the poem progresses we are gradually introduced to a large metaphor for love and like the sea are able to evoke many moods, and different emotions, whether prosperous or decayed. The poet describes the emotions with extreme passion and perhaps with slight hysteria. We are given as sense of loss by this turmoil, which becomes clearer i...
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Percy Bysshe Literary Devices
1,349 wordsExplanation of To a Skylark by Percy Bysshe Shelly Percy Bysshe Shelly was born in Sussex in 1792 with scoliosis. He was sent to prestigious schools, first Eton and later Oxford, but he never could settle into the role of a student. Shelly was expelled because of a pamphlet he wrote entitled The Necessity of Atheism. This led to trouble between him and his father, so instead of going home, Shelly went to London. Shelly spent the last few years of his life in Pisa, Italy, where he became great fr...
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Quot Quot Poem Quot
8,487 wordsRobert Pinsky In Elizabeth Bishops bizarre, sly, deceptively plainspoken late poem " Crusoe in England, " the famous solitary looks back on his life near its end, recalling his isolation and rescue in ways deeper and more unsettling than Defoe could have dreamed. After painting the hallucinatory, vivid island, with hissing volcanoes and hissing giant turtles an unforgettable terrain Bishops Crusoe muses on the dried-out, wan relics of a life. From The New Republic (197 Joanne Feet Dieh...
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Marianne Moore Miss Moore
4,483 wordsMaurice J. Osullivan, Jr. The Irish-American response to its Irish heritage has long been an intense, and at times bellicose, pride in Irelands capacity not only to endure but to impose significant aspects of its highly sophisticated culture on Americas eclectic society, mixed, paradoxically, with a quiet bewilderment at the unwillingness of the Irish to accept the kinds of pragmatic compromises that have characterized American history. Complicating most attempts at defining the ambivalence in t...
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Adrienne Rich Third Stanza
1,439 wordsPhantasia for Elvira Shatayev Love, fear, jealousy, courage and death all have a major role in Adrienne Rich's Phantasia for Elvira Shatayev. Adrienne Rich takes us inside Shatayev's head and depicts her joys and feeling of triumph along with her lingering undertones of jealousy. The use of the journals helps to relate the comradery and love within the team but also serves to paint a picture of an ungrateful Shatayev. Throughout this poem there are repeated declarations of love and friendship fo...
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Muriel Rukeyser Poem Quot
8,423 wordsRuth Stone: Voice From Society's Margins, By Ruth Stone: Voice From Society's Margins, By Mary Ann Wehler Mary Ann Wehler Ruth Stone was forty-four when she published her first book, In an Iridescent Time, in 1959. In fact, Norman Friedman states in his essay, " The Poetry of Ruth Stone" (46) that Stone had mastered the elegant formal conventions of that era. Soon after, Harvey Gross deems in his article, " On the Poetry of Ruth Stone, " that Stone was versed in " balanc...
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Quot And Quot Ten Thousand
728 wordsRed Rose is a poem written by Robert Burns, during 1796, the year of his death. The poem consists of four stanzas; each one four lines long. The first stanza has an exact rhyme at the end of the second and fourth lines June and tune. The repetition of " O, my love" in the first stanza conjures up the idea that his love is different from other men. His woman is so special to him that she reminds him of a red, red rose, not just a " plain" red rose. He uses two different simile...
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