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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Final Stanza
1,685 wordsHenry Ford, the automobile magnate, once stated that the "world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward (Daily Quotations Network). Man has always struggled with uncontrollable aspects of his environment, but his ability to overcome these seemingly indomitable obstacles has earned recognition from numerous classical writers and poets, including Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. One of the real American Poets of yest...
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William Carlos Williams The Imagist
1,589 wordsIt is said that people can create art in their unique way to express themselves. William Carlos Williams tried to capture the direct image of the object and cloud out its surroundings. He attempted to focus the poem on the subject in order to eliminate any irrelevant responses from its surroundings. Through language and imagery, William Carlos Williams uses certain objects in the world that would be poetic no matter how directly they are presented. He accomplishes this using imagism. According t...
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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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Analysis Of Francis A Terrible Beauty
1,409 wordsAnalysis of Francis Devine's A Terrible Beauty When first confronted with the poem, A Terrible Beauty, the reader would presumable not get any understanding out of the title. After reading the poem the reader can get the basic idea and create a clear picture of the setting and the tone from the speaker. The subject was a black man getting beaten by a group of Irish somewhere in Ireland. The reader does not recognize the theme of the poem right away. After recognizing the last two lines: Is this ...
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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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One Perfect Rose By Dorothy Parker
635 words"One Perfect Rose" by Dorothy Parker Dorothy Parker has a special style of writing, and the poem One Perfect Rose" is a perfect introduction to her style. The poem is written in her unmistakably witty, ironic, and at the same time sentimental manner. It should be also noted that this poem was published in her collection Enough Rope, where Dorothy Parker speaks about the threat of losing love and uncovers the hypocrisy of romantic words. Parkers style reminds the reader the slice of life where la...
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Tintern Abbey Blank Verse
879 wordsElizabeth Baker Mr. Cauldron A. P. English-Hr. 1 22 November 1999 Tintern Abbey Wordsworth Practices What He Preaches Though written after? Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, ? Wordsworth? s? Preface to Lyrical Ballads, ? clearly details his writing objectives. In? Tintern Abbey, ? William Wordsworth sought to make poetry understandable to the common reader by simplifying the meanings, organizing his pattern of thoughts in a coherent manner, and using poetical devices sparingly. In ...
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Friend Will Live Elegy Written In A Country Line
1,134 wordsELEGY (WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD) Thomas Gray? s Elegy laments the death of life in general while mourning long gone ancestors and exhibiting the transition made by the speaker, from grief and mourning to acceptance and hope. It was written in 1742 and revised to its published form in 1746, and is one of the three highlights of the elegiac form in English literature, the others being Milton? s? Lycidas? and Tennyson? s In Memoriam. It was first published, anonymously, in 1751, under the ti...
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Due To The Fact Vivid Imagery
625 wordsEpithalamion is an Epithalamion Epithalamion Epithalamion is an interesting mixture of negatives and positives for me. I found parts of it interesting and well written. However, I found other parts that I am less enthusiastic about. Spenser used many different devices in this poem that make it stand out from many other similar poems from the same time period. Epithalamion is a wedding song, traditionally sung on the threshold of the bedchamber. It was usually narrated by a sort of emcee, but Spe...
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First Two Stanzas Shakespeare
1,397 words? Fear no more? By William Shakespeare William Shakespeare utilizes simplistic language to emphasize the themes in? Fear no more; ? however, he exercises complex metaphors to depict the struggles one undergoes during a lifetime and as a result urges the reader to overcome all melancholic sentiments that lead one to oppose a peaceful death. The diction applied in? Fear no more? efficiently creates emphasis on specific sections of the poem. In addition, the euphonic flow used by Shakespeare illust...
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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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Quot Quot Emily Dickinson
6,091 wordsOn 341 (" After Great Pain, A Formal On 341 (" After Great Pain, A Formal Feeling Comes" ) Clean Brooks and Robert Penn Warren [" After great pain, a formal feeling comes" ] is obviously an attempt to communicate to the reader the nature of the experience which comes " after great pain. " The poet is using the imagery for this purpose, and the first line of the poem, which states the subject of the poem, is the only abstract statement in the poem. The pain is o...
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Ode On A Grecian Urn Beauty Is Truth
1,535 wordsOde on a Grecian Urn Summary In the first stanza, the speaker, standing before an ancient Grecian urn, addresses the urn, preoccupied with its depiction of pictures frozen in time. It is the still unrevised bride of quietness, the foster-child of silence and slow time. He also describes the urn as a historian, which can tell a story. He wonders about the figures on the side of the urn, and asks what legend they depict, and where they are from. He looks at a picture that seems to depict a group o...
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Quot Quot Langston Hughes
4,989 wordsOnwuchekwa Jemie " Christ is a nigger" in two senses: in the historical sense as a brown-skinned Jew like other Jews of his day, with a brown-skinned mother both later adopted into the white West and given a lily-white heavenly father; and in the symbolic sense of Jesus as an alien presence, preaching an exacting spirituality, a foreign religion as it were, much as the black man, with his different color and culture, is an alien presence in the South. Each is a scapegoat sacrificed for...
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Quot Quot Filling Station
2,171 wordsMutlu Kong Blazing (1987) [In " The Map] [t]his disjunction or questionable relation exists within language itself: does Bishop start by questioning the color differences on the map, or do alliteration and rhyme call " shallows" forth from " shadows" to generate the questions? In " Filling Station, " Bishop exploits this process whereby words of similar sounds but different meanings trigger metaphysical speculation. The " dirty" family filling station...
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Quot Quot Wells Fargo
4,332 wordsRobert H. Abel Ishmael Reeds poem " I Am a Cowboy in the Boat of Ra" turns on a series of elaborate puns and allusions that all reinforce the central idea that the old (black) god Ra is about to reclaim his throne and his power over men. In addition, Reeds marriage of " popular culture" imagery with figures from Egyptian mythology produces an offspring with some startling independent features. Ra, the sun god and creator of men, was variously portrayed as a baby who grew olde...
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Edwin Arlington Robinson Early Twentieth Century
4,254 wordsEllsworth Barnard In Miniver Cheevy, where to Minivers alcohol-eroded mind it is the age and not himself that is out of tune, the terseness of the image is that of a local idiom: He mourned Romance, now on the town, And Art, a vagrant. [. ] There are, however, other poems in which the contribution of form to effect is more obvious; and some analysis of these will throw light on the compositions that are more subtly contrived. In Miniver Cheevy, for instance, the short last line with its feminine...
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William Carlos Williams Quot Quot
6,249 wordsEXPLANATION: " The Red Wheelbarrow" Line The opening lines set the tone for the rest of the poem. Since the poem is composed of one sentence broken up at various intervals, it is truthful to say that " so much depends upon" each line of the poem. This is so because the form of the poem is also its meaning. This may seem confusing, but by the end of the poem the image of the wheelbarrow is seen as the actual poem, as in a painting when one sees an image of an apple, the apple ...
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Quot Quot Song Quot
4,685 wordsMark Scroggins " To my wash-stand" begins with a close physical examination of the poets bathroom sink, in which the poet acknowledges that the " song / of water" he hears " is a song / entirely in my head, " and he moves from there into an imaginative re-creation of the morning ablutions of the poor, carefully attentive to what they have and to what they do not have The " flow of water" from the stands two faucets " occasions invertible counterpoints...
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First Two Stanzas Acquainted With The Night
1,542 wordsThe Darkness of being Acquainted with the Night When reading poetry such as Robert Frosts Acquainted with the night, one must give special attention to the aspects associated within it, in order to gain a better understanding of the poems content. More specifically the aspects of tone, voice, language, setting and form, which shape the readers perception and feelings toward the poem. In these aspects Frost adds an unusual dimension to his lyric poem Acquainted with the night, aspects that convey...
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