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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Final Stanza
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Figurative Language Vietnam War
1,291 wordsAnalysis of Imagery in "Loving from Vietnam to Zimbabwe" After reading Janice Mirikitani's poem "Loving from Vietnam to Zimbabwe" there is a profound amount of imagery used by Mirikitani that explains a reality of sex, love, and war. Mirikitani uses an interesting and unique format in the way she has written her poem. The "I" that Mirikitani uses is not referring to herself but rather another woman who is Vietnamese, or many women whom are Vietnamese. She has essentially divided her poem into tw...
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Little Red Cap Poem
1,805 wordsIn Little Red Cap discuss the use of imagery, syntax and structure. Plan: Introduction to the collection of poems Similarities and differences between this poem and original fairytale Imagery how has Duffy used the words used to create pictures in the readers head? Syntax word order. Why has she written sentences the way she has? Emphasis on a particular word. Structure length of stanzas Little Red Cap is written by Carol Ann Duffy found in a collection of poems called The worlds wife, where she...
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First World War Wilfred Owen
1,698 wordsThe two poems I am comparing are "Joining The Colours" by Katherine Tynan and "The Send Off" by Wilfred Owen. " Joining The Colours" is about a regiment of soldiers leaving Dublin in August 1914 to go to France to fight. This was at the beginning of the First World War and all the soldiers were happy because it was an opportunity for them to show their girlfriends and their families that they were brave. "The Send Off" is about a regiment of young soldiers who are departing later in the war. Thi...
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Dulce Et Decorum Est Second And Third
1,934 words... and the blood that comes gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs, The final section of the stanza refers to the younger generation whose fathers and grandfathers had fought in the war. When these children ask for some old war stories then they must not be glorified thus hiding the true horror of war, purely to satisfy their need for some desperate glory. They must be told with truth and the understanding that there can be no glory in war, only immeasurable pain and loss. The three poems ment...
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Dinner Party Modern World
707 wordsBruce Dawes Enter Without So Much as Knocking is a poem that is critical of consumerism in the modern world. The poem itself is a story of one mans life, from birth until being buried and is a satirical look at modern society and its materialism. The poem starts with the line Memento, homo, qui, pulvis es, et in pulver em reverter is. This is a quite from Genesis and in english means man is made of dust and unto dust he shall return. This is the central idea of the poem; no matter how many mater...
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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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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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Mother And Father Red Meat
870 wordsDismembered dolls and burning felines are not scenes one would usually associate with a child's playroom, that is, not unless having read the poem "Scenes from the Playroom" by R. S. Gwynn. This poem tells the story of a day in the life of an affluent family, but is the reader getting the whole story, or as the title suggests, just a "scene?" The poem opens with a scene one would expect to see in a playroom: "Lucy with her family of dolls" (Line 1). The author conveys nothing out of the ordinary...
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Death And Rebirth Bible Dictionary
1,193 wordsIn the book of Ephesians in the Bible, Paul describes the rebirth of the world upon Christs death, emphasizing the Ephesians new life (2: 4 - 5). This theme of death and rebirth is present in the poem Journey of the Magi, which, I will argue, is structurally and internally divided into three stages; corresponding to the sacrament of penance: contrition (guilt), confession and satisfaction. To understand this poem, one has to understand the impact that Christ had on the world. At the time of his ...
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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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Stanza Is Describing Stanza Is About The Family Storm
440 wordsExplanation of the poem from Snowbound The main theme of Snowbound is that no-matter what happens, family will be there to help and comfort. This theme is demonstrated widely throughout the poem and even more so in the last stanza of this excerpt. Another, less prominent, theme of Snowbound is the meaning and involvement of God in the lives of people. The first stanza describes the moment before the storm. ? A chill no coat, however stout, Of homespun stuff could quite shut out, ? This stanza be...
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Final Stanza
1,493 wordsHenry Wadsworth Longfellow Born into a prominent family on February 27, 1807, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow grew up in the bustling town of Portland, Maine. His parents Stephen and Zilpah Longfellow provided a strong, but refined, Puritan background, while encouraging Henry to excel in academics (Wagenknecht 2). Longfellow s education began early, when he was enrolled in an old-fashioned dame school at the age of three (Wagenknecht 4). His schooling continued in 1815 with his entrance into the Port...
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Day After Day Human Nature
1,044 wordsHuman Nature in Maxine Kumin s Woodchucks Maxine s Kumin s Woodchucks is a literal description a sort of woodchuck hunt in her garden. Through further examination of her words, one can sense her suggestions about human nature. With her use of tone, the reader can observe a change in her demeanor from stanza to stanza. In the poem, the author is pestered by woodchucks that are eating and destroying her garden. At first, she attempts to kill them by purchasing cyanide gas. This attempt fails and t...
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Emily Dickinson Fly Buzz
5,517 wordsGerhard Friedrich This poem seems to present two major problems to the interpreter. First, what is the significance of the buzzing fly in relation to the dying person, and second, what is the meaning of the double use of " see" in the last line? An analysis of the context helps to clear up these apparent obscurities, and a close parallel found in another Dickinson poem reinforces such interpretation. In an atmosphere of outward quiet and inner calm, the dying person collectedly proceed...
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Emily Dickinson Poetry Quot Dickinson
4,482 wordsYVOR WINTERS The problem of judging [Emily Dickinson's] better poems is much of the time a subtle one. Her meter, at its worst that is, most of the time a kind of stiff sing-song; her diction, at its worst, is a kind of poetic nursery jargon; and there is a remarkable continuity of manner, of a kind nearly indescribable, between her worst and her best poems. [" I like to see it lap the Miles" ] will illustrate the defects in perfection... / 283 / The poem is abominable; and the quality...
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Quot Quot Marianne Moore
5,306 wordsPamela White Has " No Swan So Fine" asserts that there is no live swan, " no swan, / with swart blind look askance / and gondolier ing legs, so fine" as the china one among its finely sculptured and polished flowers in the Louis XV candelabrum. The last half-line of the poem reads, simply and abruptly, " The king is dead. " A way of life that went along with the kings life is also dead. The swan is alive only insofar as art is, but dead in its extravagant finality o...
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Death And Rebirth Oxford Dictionary
1,284 wordsT. S. Eliot s Journey of the Magi This Christmas poem is about the Epiphany and was created the very year of Eliot s conversion to Christianity (Fleisner, 66). Therefore the theme of religion is an important one if we are to analyse the poem correctly. In the book of Ephesians in the Bible, Paul describes the rebirth of the world upon Christ s death, emphasising the Ephesians new life (2: 4 - 5). This theme of death and rebirth is present in the poem Journey of the Magi, which, I will argue, is ...
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Quot Quot Poetry Quot
2,618 wordsThroughout the 20 th century, Robert Bly has provided a wealth of poetry on a wide variety of topics. Alongside his themes, Robert Bly has also developed different stylistic methods to convey those thoughts. Such themes vary to this day, dealing with issues that have personally affected him, and also those of society in general. His poetry is a time-line pondering solitude, the Vietnam War, nature, frustration and relationships among all sorts, conveyed not only in conventional stanzas, but in a...
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Vietnam War Close Relationship
2,524 wordsThroughout the 20 th century, Robert Bly has provided a wealth of poetry on a wide variety of topics. Alongside his themes, Robert Bly has also developed different stylistic methods to convey those thoughts. Such themes vary to this day, dealing with issues that have personally affected him, and also those of society in general. His poetry is a time-line pondering solitude, the Vietnam War, nature, frustration and relationships among all sorts, conveyed not only in conventional stanzas, but in a...
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