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E E Cummings Dream Vision
1,570 wordsUpon looking at e. e. cummings 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 poems 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 poems end. All these features contribute to how the poem will be read, and when the poem is read, the s...
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Quot Quot Dead Quot
7,733 wordsEdward Hirsch Tates most important single poem, " Ode to the Confederate Dead, " is a kind of Southern analogue to The Waste Land. As opposed to Ransom, who thought The Waste Land " seemed to bring to a head all the specifically modern errors, " Tate defended the way Eliot's poem embraced " the entire range of consciousness" and impersonally dramatized the tragic situation of those who live in modern times. Tates " Ode" treats that situation in specificall...
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Frederick Douglass Man Quot
1,382 wordsJoanne V. Gabbin In the poignant statements of " Old Lem, " he captures the bitter resentment of a man grown weary of mob violence. [ With stark simplicity devoid of false sentimentality, Lem tells the story of his buddy, " Six foot of man/Muscled up perfect/Game to the heart, " who defied the traditions of caste and " spoke out of turn at the commissary... " For his " insolence" he is murdered. Much of the power of the poem emanates from the complex and f...
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Quot Quot Poem Quot
7,301 wordsMutlu Kong Blazing " One Art" not only effects such poetic reversals but exposes them as affected. Bishops choice of a villanelle, a traditional form of repetition that promises to make " art" out of " losing, " seems to support the opening assertion, but the negatives cast doubt on the project at the outset: The art of losing isnt hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster. Yet the title tells us that the ar...
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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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