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Outward Appearance Rhyme Scheme
447 wordsBoth Sides Now - by Joni Mitchell. This is a poem about a girl who has once had good experiences with love but now sees men and love as things that just get in the way. The last lines in the second and third stanzas explain this: "But clouds got in my way. " and "I really don't know clouds at all. " She is comparing clouds and men. My initial reaction to this poem is that it is not particularly easy to understand but after you think about for a while you can figure out what it means. This poem i...
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Matthew Arnold Dover Beach
867 wordsBefore we can discuss Matthew Arnold's "Dover Beach, " a brief biography of the poet will help us understand the poem and the mood he is in while writing it. The reader should know that Matthew Arnold married Fanny Lucy Wightman at Dover, despite her father's disapproval. Wightman's father was vocal in his objections to the marriage, insisting in 1850 that the two should end their romance and cancel their wedding plans (Furr). Thus, Arnold penned "Dover Beach" in 1851, drawing from his own exper...
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Poem Blake Chimney Sweep People
400 wordsIn this poem, Blake is trying to dispel the myth of grandeur and glory associated with London and to show the 'real' people of London and how they felt. London was seen and portrayed as a powerful and wonderful city where the wealthy lived and socialized. However, Blake knew that London was really a dirty, depressing and poverty-stricken city filled with slums and the homeless and chronically sick. To reveal the truth, Blake combines description of people and places with the thoughts and emotion...
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Don Juan As Byron Introspective
1,189 wordsThe works of George Gordon, Lord Byron have long been controversial, nearly as controversial as his lifestyle. Gordon Byron was born with a clubfoot and his sensitivity to it haunted his life and his works. Despite being a very handsome child, a fragile self-esteem made Byron extremely sensitive to criticism, of himself or of his poetry and he tended to make enemies rather quickly. The young Byron was often unhappy and lonely any many of his works seem to be a sort of introspective therapy. Thro...
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Wilfred Owen Second Stanza
714 wordsFutility by Wilfred Owen Wilfred Owen is arguably one of the most famous poets of World War One. In his well known sonnet futility he uses powerful techniques such as personification, metaphors and par-rhyme reinforced with powerful imagery to demonstrate the harshness of war. This can also be seen through the tone which changes from hope in the first verse to a profound despair in the second verse. This then causes Owen to question the pointlessness of war. In contrast to his other poems which ...
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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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Mystery Here We Stand Stout As A Horse Person
555 wordsStout as a horse, affectionate, haughty, electrical, I and this mystery here we stand. This small quote is the most personally descriptive and unique in the free verse poem Song of Myself. It described every human aspect of our human lives and personalities. The stanza is a perfect representative of my thoughts, my attitude, and my traits. Stout as a horse can mean any number of feelings. To me, it represents the strong-souled person. Almost everyone that I call my close friend I call them stout...
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Lyric Poetry And Narrative
744 wordsLyric poetry and narrative poetry Poetry appeared in prehistoric times when people started to pass down their oral history in poetic language and song. Poetry is a kind of literature which combines the sound and meaning of language for creation of ideas and feelings. The sound and the rhythm of the poetry attract many people. For example, children enjoy hearing pleasing rhymes and strong rhythms of nursery rhymes. Early peoples used poetry with accompanying music in songs, prayers, and magic spe...
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Walks In Beauty Admiration And Awe Skylark
779 wordsI Stand in Awe. Love can mean different things according to circumstances, the objects of affection, and the person experiencing the feeling. Correspondingly, many things can characterize love as well. Yet, one of the most common syndromes is admiration, in other words, awe. Two poets George Gordon and Percy Bysshe Shelly describe such reverence in their poems She Walks in Beauty and To a Skylark. In both of these poems the characters experience this felling. One experiences it towards a woman, ...
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Keats Autumn Thy
317 wordsThe third glimpse at Keats craftsmanship comes through his mastership at yet another poetic form: the ode. In his poem Ode to Autumn, Keats praises the season overlooked by most people: Autumn. In the first stanza, the reader gets a vivid picture of the landscape by Keats focusing mainly on visual imagery: Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun; Conspiring with him how to load and bless With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run; To bend with app...
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Hundred Years Ago One Hundred Years
1,473 wordsImmortal Poetry An Essay Study of Poetry andA Poets Ability to For seeThe Future The world is changing and evolving at an astounding rate. Within the last one hundred years, the Western community has seen advances in technology and medicine that has improved the lifestyles and longevity of almost every individual. Within the last two hundred years, we have seen two World Wars, and countless disputes over false borders created by colonialists, slavery, and every horrid form of human suffering ima...
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Child Neglect Didnt Give
535 wordsDaddy didnt give affection and the boy was something that Mommy wouldnt wear. Child abuse is something that can be considerably harmful on a child and among these forms of child abuse comes the issue of child neglect, child neglect can cause children to become socially challenged, angry and even abusive themselves. The song Jeremy by Pearl Jam talks about this form of abuse and tells a story of child neglect and its affects on a boy named Jeremy and his experience with neglect. King Jeremy the w...
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Donne John Donne
835 words? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? John Donne? s poem, ? The Legacy? , displays the conflicting themes of love and death. He uses imagery and there associations to convey many of his personal thoughts and feelings, as well as, creating a theme. John Donne? s intentions of writing this poem was to leave a legacy for his love, though he realizes that you cannot achieve this without giving all of your heart. ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? One of the major themes in the poems is death associated with death imager...
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Garden Of Eden Traditional Role
1,690 wordsIn reference to Judith Wrights poetry as being of a unique and distinctive style, in particular Wright is well known for her use of two subjects, that being the Australian aspect where in her work she commonly relates to the old traditional style of Australias history and the harsh landscape that is well known as an Australian trait. Three examples of this distinctive style of writing is Remittance Man, South of my Days and Legend. The other of Wrights favoured topics is the Womens view or the f...
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Randall Jarrell Vile Imaginings Life
1,124 wordsNext Day by Randall Jarrell I think, generally, people wish they were somewhere or someone else, no matter where they are or how objectively good their situations are. They? re not really complaining; consciously they know things are going relatively well for them, but there is always that nostalgia for more romantic times past, or that nagging what if in the back of the mind. These feelings, which more or less everyone has more or less all of the time, are what Randall Jarrell? s poem Next Day ...
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Quot Quot Quot Black
2,165 wordsShe On " Wintering" Margaret Dickie She is able, in " Wintering, " to accept also the activities of women who " have got rid of the men, / The blunt, clumsy stumblers, the boors. " Knitting, tending the cradle, harboring life in her body-bulb, she will survive. The bee sequence tells of the search for a female identity in a world without men, without stings, without knives. It is " the room I have never been in, " where the " black" is bunched &q...
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Role Of Women Role In Society
1,029 wordsIt s a Woman s World Our way of life So when the king s head has hardly changed (30) gored its basket since a wheel first grim harvest whetted a knife. we were greeting breadLine (5) Well, maybe flame or getting the recipe burns more greedily for a good soup and wheels are steadier (35) to appetite but we re the same our gossip. who milestone And it s still the same: (10) our lives By night our windows with oversights moth our children living by the lights (40) to the flame of the loaf left of h...
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Life Speaker Woods
374 wordsIn Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, we have a man who stops in the woods to watch the snow fall. The speaker finds these woods to escape from the everyday stresses of life. My own interpretation is that the man finds himself at a critical crossroad in his life and he flees to these woods to reflect on his life. The woods that Frost illustrates are a representation of heaven. Although the man is turning to God for guidance, he is neither in nor near a church. Even still, he believes his loca...
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Road Less Traveled Frosts Poems
1,223 wordsRobert Frost, perhaps the greatest American poet of the twentieth century, has brought himself great recognition. Many critics have tried to find a faulty side to his writing, but they have had a difficult time because his writing romanticizes the rural simplicity that he loved while probing into the mysteries of the universe (Estep 2). Three areas of criticism covered are: a speakers decision in choosing, a poem broken down into three sections, and Frosts use of metaphors and style in his writi...
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Woods On A Snowy Evening Stopping By The Woods
574 wordsRobert Robert Frost ROBERT FROST Robert Frost is an amazing poet that many admire today. He is an inspiration to many poets today. His themes and ideas are wonderful and are valued by many. His themes are plentiful however a main one used is the theme of nature. Frost uses nature to express his views as well as to make his poetry interesting and easy to imagine in your mind through the detail he supplies. First, in the poem? Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening? there is a lot of nature expr...
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