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Humor And Irony Emily Dickinson
1,405 wordsFaith Is Not All Its Cracked Up to Be. While much of Emily Dickinson's poetry has been described as sad or morose, the poet did use humor and irony in many of her poems. This essay will address the humor or irony found in five of Dickinson's poems: "Faith is a Fine Invention (185), I'm Nobody! Who are you? , A Service of Song and Success Is Counted Sweetest. The attempt will be made to show how Dickinson used humor or irony for the dual purposes of comic relief and to stress an idea or conclusio...
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Sylvia Plath Poem Daddy
1,551 wordssylvia Plath, author of the confessional poem "Daddy, " uses many stylistic devices in the poem to develop a negative attitude towards men, namely her adulterous husband and absent father. "Daddy" uses metaphor, diction, allusion, irony, and imagery to produce a tone of hatred and digest at her relationships with both men. In lines 71 - 80, Plath's imagery brings closure to both the poem and any desire for the continuity of either relationship. Plath uses the image of a vampire to represent her ...
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Yeats Long Legged Fly
564 wordsIn his poem Long Legged Fly, William Butler Yeats, examines the notion of human genius, and its many aspects. The apparent theme that Yeats attempts to show is that peacefulness is required in order for one to utilize their genius ability. The title itself, Long Legged Fly, has a symbolic meaning. It is a metaphor for a tranquil and clear state of mind, which is a key ingredient to enhance genius. The people who posses this ability have a power that extends above and beyond the ordinary. They ap...
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Kill And Eat Mother And Child
2,041 wordsSylvia Plath: Consider how the poems dealing with Mother and Child convey a startling variety of responses Although each of the poems in question (You " re, Morning Song, By Candlelight, Nick and the Candlestick and Mary's Song) focuses on the relationship between mother and child, the emotions dealt with in each poem vary quite incredibly. Each poem appears differently on the page: You " re and By Candlelight are written in nine-line stanzas, the two poems having two and four respectively, whil...
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Stop For Death Emily Dickinson
881 wordsIn Emily Dickinson's Because I could not stop for Death (448), the speaker of the poem is a woman who relates about a situation after her death. The speaker personifies death as a polite and considerate gentleman who takes her in a carriage for a romantic journey; however, at the end of this poem, she finishes her expedition realizing that she has died many years ago. The poem contains six quatrains, and does not follow any consistent rhyme scheme. Every line starts with a strong beat and ends u...
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Extended Metaphor First Time
1,338 wordsblockquote>A poet is that which the Greeks called a maker: his Art an art of imitation, of failing: expressing the life of man in fit measure, numbers, and harmony, according to Aristotle A poet writes things like the Truth. 1. The metaphorical marvel that is Craig Raines A Martian Sends a Postcard Home specific purpose is to compel us through the virginal eyes of another, to look at everyday, inanimate objects in a new perspective. Raine attempts this by disguising the dramatic mo...
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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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Description And Analysis Of Oratorio Art Song
915 wordsThis article will give a description of what an Oratorio and Art-Song are. It will also inform you on the stylistic characteristics, a summary on the historical background and a brief outline on the composers who helped develop and excelled in these styles of fantastic vocal music. Oratorio is based upon a substantial story of a religious or spiritual character. It is written for solo voices, chorus and orchestra and is often performed in churches or concert halls. Oratorio resembles an opera bu...
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Darkness And Shadows Conviction And Passion Moth
1,189 wordsAlthough it is virtually impossible to determine the exact intended meaning behind Johann Wolfgang von Goethe words in Selige Sehnsucht, published in 1806, attempting to interpret them provides an avenue for critical thinking as well as opens up a vast number of possibilities for interpretation, a number only as finite as the number of readers and their dispositions as they read this poem. Like many classic poems, Goethe's Selige Sehnsucht is rich with symbolism and imagery, both of which contri...
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Analysis Of Anne Sexton Poem Her Kind
1,717 wordsAnne Sexton was a poet and a woman, but most importantly, she was an outcast. Subjected to nervous breakdowns and admitted to a neuropsychiatry hospital, Sexton must have been all too familiar with the staring eyes and the judging minds of the public. Just being a woman in today's world often can be enough to degrade a person in the public's eye, let alone being labeled as a crazy woman. But Anne Sexton did not let society remain unchallenged in its views. She voiced a different opinion of women...
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To An Athlete Dying Young
1,658 wordsJohn S. Ward Dr. Larry Brunner A. E. Housman's 'To an Athlete Dying Young, ' also known as Lyric XIX in A Shropshire Lad, holds as its main theme the premature death of a young athlete as told from the point of view of a friend serving as pall bearer. The poem reveals the concept that those dying at the peak of their glory or youth are really quite lucky. The first few readings of 'To an Athlete Dying Young' provides the reader with an understanding of Housman's view of death. Additional reading...
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Fall Of Man Second Stanza
1,741 wordsThe poem 'Easter Wings' by George Herbert is a poem full of deep imagery not only in its words but also in the visual structure of the stanzas. In Herbert's poem why does he use a shape poem? Because he wanted this poem to have many different levels and meanings. Herbert also used huge amounts of mental imagery so that the reader can find new truths and meanings each time he or she reads it. The poem tells of the poets desire to fly with Christ as a result of Jesus's artifice, death and resurrec...
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Rudyard Kipling First Stanza
714 wordsIf by Rudyard Kipling Rudyard Kiplings works ar characterized allusions to x otic culture and ancient links and characters. Yt it is his commentary on th natur of th certain unchanging, universal, traits of humans that h is paid for. His brilliant insight on man is bst sn in his pom If. Rudyard Kipling talks about this when h says If you can walk with kings and kp th common touch Through xamination of this pom som observations wr record, and thy ar as follows. Th pom is david by stanzas in sts o...
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Important To Note Political Satire
2,475 wordsMichael Yu Chinese Literature 471 Professor Rolston 10. 16. 00 Ancient Chinese Poems: The Shijing and The Chuci Two of the most important collections of poems in the long history of Chinese literature are the Shijing (Book of Odes) and the Chuci (Songs of Chu). The Shijing is the oldest collection of Chinese poetry; it dates from the 10 th through 7 th centuries B. C. , during the Zhou Dynasty, and Northern Chinese feudal nobility are thought to have authored most of the works. The poetry of the...
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Year Old Girl Reader Feels
1,053 wordsWriters use diction and tone to express their work in the form of which they wish their reader to understand it. Tone is the author s attitude toward the reader or the people, places or events in a work as exposed by the author s style. Diction is a writer s choice of words, phrases, sentence structures, and figurative language, which combined with tone help to create meaning. In Audre Lorde s Hanging Fire, Lorde used informal diction with a serious tone to illustrate the frustrations of a fourt...
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Third Person Point First Person Point
1,667 wordsLots Wife, Akhmatova's Version Compared To Szymborskas Lots Wife, Akhmatova's Version Compared To Szymborska's Version Lot s Wife depicts the fate of a woman following her husband Lot on his departure of their native town Sodom. Sodom was a town that God destroyed, yet he granted Lot and his wife permission to flee the town before this occurrence. Wislawa Szymborska and Anna Akhmatova offer different versions and perspectives on the same story. Each of the authors use different elements of poetr...
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Robert Frost Broken Windows
1,887 wordsFrank Lentricchia I am claiming Frost as a central moderna's central as Wallace Stevens, though few would be ready to grant that marchand " The Need of Being Versed in Country Things" as a centrally modern poem; one of his subtlest treatments of the problem of personal salvation through the redemptive act of imagination. The poem opens with the evocation of a familiar symbol and with an attempt by the speaker to suppress a pervasive funereal attitude toward his circumstance: The house ...
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Life In Death Rime Of The Ancient Mariner
2,780 wordsSummary Three young men are walking together to a wedding, when one of them is detained by a grizzled old sailor. The young Wedding-Guest angrily demands that the Mariner let go of him, and the Mariner obeys. But the young man is transfixed by the ancient Mariners glittering eye and can do nothing but sit on a stone and listen to his strange tale. The Mariner says that he sailed on a ship out of his native harbor below the kirk, below the hill, / Below the lighthouse toward into a sunny and chee...
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Lover Duke
1,831 wordsMike Sobieraj English 203 Roger Gilbert The Lover and the Duke The creation of a plausible character within literature is one of the most difficult challenges to a writer, and development to a level at which the reader identifies with them can take a long time. However, through the masterful use of poetic devices and language Browning is able to create two living and breathing characters in sixty or less lines. When one examines these works one has to that they are quite the achievements for the...
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First Two Stanzas Man And Nature
1,219 wordsRobert Frost: Poem Analysis Gregory GeismarDISCUSS FROST? S TREATMENT OF NATURE IN ANY THREE POEMS YOU HAVE STUDIED REFER TO MAN? S ATTITUDE TO NATURE IS FROST? S ATTITUDE TRADTIONAL OR MODERN? EXPLORE THE POET? S USE OF LANGUAGE POEMS: TWO LOOK AT TWO TREE AT MY WINDOW IN HARDWOOD GROVES If one looks at man? s attitude to nature in the three poems then there are many similarities and differences. In? Two Look at Two? one gets the feeling that nature is unhappy and angry at man and the destructi...
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