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Rhyme Scheme Poetic Devices
1,242 wordsSurely you stay my certain own, you stay My you. All honest, lofty as a cloud. Surely I could come now and find you high, As mine as you ever were; should not be awed. Surely your word would pop as insolent As always: Why, of course I love you, dear. Your gaze, surely, unglazed as I could want. Your touches, that never were careful, what they were. Surely But I am very off from that. From surely. From indeed. From the decent arrow That was my clean naivete and my faith. This morning men deliver ...
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Gwendolyn Brooks Black Man
1,250 words... rity and doubt. She is telling her lover that this is how their love was Surely But I am very off from that. This opening line is very powerful in its meaning. It is as if she was going to write another line about how sure their love is, but then she stops. Their relationship is no longer so sure. In fact, what she is saying in the octave has a very detached meaning. Surely she could go to find him, but she doesnt, surely he stays certain, but is he certain? Is their love still certain? The ...
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Rhyme Pattern Figurative Language
1,174 wordsWhen I consider how my light is spent Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide, And that one talent which is death to hide Lodged with me useless, though my soul more bent To serve therewith my Maker, and the present My true account, lest he returning chide; "Doth God exact day-labor, light denied?" I fondly ask; but Patience to prevent That murmur, soon replies, "God doth not need Either man's work or his own gifts; who best Bear his mild yoke, they serve him best. His state Is kingly. Tho...
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William Wordsworth Young Woman
1,405 wordsWordsworth and Modern works William Wordsworth's The world is too much with us illustrates that with changing times, there is a coinciding shift in beliefs that is simply imperative to justify a persons place in this world. It is a work that is abundant with Wordsworth's common themes of Nature and alienation, but takes an unexpected turn on the view of how religion should be truly used. Wordsworth is a highly acclaimed master of poetry whose works were admired by generations of people, and this...
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Barrett Browning Elizabeth Barrett
816 wordsThe Life and Times of Elizabeth Barrett Browning During the early nineteenth century, feminists were first coming out into the political forefront. Among them, Elizabeth Barrett Browning emerged as one the greatest woman writers of all time. She wrote of social reform, for the rights of lower classes and women, and for the cause of Italian freedom (Chew 1403). While many aspects and circumstances of life affected her work, she was also able to effect society in many ways. Elizabeth Barrett was b...
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Gwendolyn Brooks Rhyme Scheme
2,531 wordslove note I: surely Surely you stay my certain own, you stay My you. All honest, lofty as a cloud. Surely I could come now and find you high, As mine as you ever were; should not be awed. Surely your word would pop as insolent As always: ? Why, of course I love you, dear. ? Your gaze, surely, unglazed as I could want. Your touches, that never were careful, what they were. Surely? But I am very off from that. From surely. From indeed. From the decent arrow That was my clean naivete and my faith. ...
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Mine Own Loves Fear Of Trust Line
519 wordsThis sonnet demonstrates Shakespeare's great ability of playing with words. According to him a person is tongue-tied when he has either too much or too little to say. He illustrates his idea by giving an example of an unperfect actor who forgets his lines on stage and more curiously, some fierce thing whose heart is weakened by the weight of his own strength. This use of paradox adds intensity to the sonnet and lays the foundation for the following quatrain. The first quatrain is like the silenc...
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Edwin Arlington Robinson Irving Howe
770 wordsEllsworth Barnard This harmony and proportion are found most often, in Robinsons view, in lives that are otherwise undistinguished. The admonition in The Clerks reveals a permanent attitude, although in later life he would probably not have stated it so directly: And you that ache so much to be sublime, And you that feed yourselves with your descent, What comes of all your visions and your fears? Poets and kings are but the clerks of Time. from Edwin Arlington Robinson: A Critical Study. Copyrig...
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2 000 Years Fall Of Troy
1,492 wordsW. B. Yeats and Leda and the Swan Given the odd tales brought to us by Greek mythology, one could very well imagine the stories having been unearthed from some antique tabloid magazine. In the case of Leda, subject of W. B. Yeats poem Leda and the Swan, the banner headline may have run as follows: WOMAN IMPREGNATED BY SWAN, FOUR CHILDREN HATCH FROM EGGS. Kind of brings new meaning to the phrase love nest, doesnt it? All joking aside, the myth of Leda and the swan features Zeus (most powerful amo...
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