Starts with 'I love a sunburnt country ', which is the exact wording of the second stanza in the original poem by Dorothea Mackellar. This particular stanza (from the original) is the most oem by Oscar Krahnvohl like environmental issues, humanity issues, cultural issues and politicwell-known, and by Oscar starting with this particular line, he exposes the brilliance of the previous poem, but the next few lines start as a parody from the influence of the previous poem.…
The goldenrod (Solidago Canadensis) is a native plant found throughout most of North America and parts of Central America. One interesting characteristic of the goldenrod plant is its ability to form a hollow pod, or gall, around its stem. The first time I saw the gall, I assumed it held inside it seeds for reproduction. My hypothesis was proved wrong however, as after I cut open the gall no seeds were present inside. Instead, a goldenrod gall fly (Eurosta Solidaginis) was perched within the gall.…
Percy Grainger is a composer and a pianist from Victoria, Australia. Percy Grainger actually changed his name which was originally His father was an architect from London. His mother was the daughter of hotelkeepers from Adelaide, South Australia. When Percy Grainger was eleven, his parents separated and his father returned to London. Grainger’s mother saw his musical talent, and took him to Europe in 1895 to study at Dr. Hoch's conservatory in Frankfurt. At the conservatory, he showed his talent as a musical experimenter, by using irregular and meters. Grainger met and was influenced by Edvard Grieg. Grieg was intrigued by Norwegian folk songs, and Grainger developed a passion for folk songs. Grainger moved to the United States at the beginning of World War 1. In 1917, he joined into a United…
The Erkling, a creature that is commonly found in the Black Forest in Germany, rated by the Ministry of Magic as a XXXX creature, can grow up to around three feet tall. They have a very pointed face, typically with a very long nose, used to shoot darts at the victims that it comes across, and a bunch of spines covering its arms, big yellow eyes, sharp teeth and skin in a brown and green shade. One can usually discover one of these grossly creatures by hearing the high-pitched cackling that it uses as its main weapons for snatching up children as they are too innocent to realize what the noise is and get too curious. An even more evil species, the Bavarian Erkling, will not take the child away before it attacks like the Germanic Erkling. Fortunately the older someone gets, the easier it becomes to ignore the…
In George Bilgere’s 2006 poem, Once Again I Forget to Read an Important Novel, he describes a day in the park with a novel left unread. Bilgere personifies the book, uses imagery, and breaks up the same idea over multiple lines — all with the intent of entertaining his readers.…
The poem ‘About his Person’ is a poem about a man who commits suicide. We are not given exactly how or why straightforwardly but we are given the items he had on him when he did it. It’s through the items we get to understand why he did it. Armitage makes this poem moving through doing that and also using other techniques.…
Lottery style poker. Poker requires plan. Lottery. No plan. Just scratch. No strategy only rhythm: Scratch card, have hope, lose, lose hope, curse odds, repeat, survive.…
Emphasis for the treatment for lepers either had good or bad outcomes depending on the situations. Just like the man in Manuel Philes’ poem who survived was restored by divine intervention, even though he reached the most advanced stage of the disease. Such cases show the historic presence of what is to be a miraculous healing during the Byzantine period. Although bad outcomes like involving Basil of Caesarea and Francis of Assisi with kissing lepers.…
Through reading excerpts from Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke and Black Swan Green by David Mitchell, Rilke’s counsel to the young poet applies greatly to the main character in David Mitchell’s story, Jason Taylor. Both of the works are to poets from someone who is giving advice, however, Jason Taylor does not seek advice, while the young poet does. The advice given to the poets is similar and helpful to their cause.…
In this piece, Alan Seeger uses diction, repetition, personification and rhyme scheme to relate to the reader that, death is not something to be feared, although it is inevitable and unpredictable. This gives a sense that Seeger sees death to be calmly be accepted and maybe likely. The poem is spoken by a soldier who knows that he or she may face death all around, and wishes they could avoid conflict but instead be safe in comfort. Death is personified in this piece with the use of the term rendezvous; like a meeting with someone you may know. As well as death, spring is personified, giving a stark contrast between the unexpected end of life, and the expected time of growth in the world. (“When Spring comes back with rustling shade… I have…
gave Norway its own identity and that made him a hero to the people of…
Dulce et Decorum est by Wilfred Owen and Homecoming by Bruce Dawe are about the disaster of war, yet they speak of different wars with different mindsets of the soldiers. In the following essay I discuss the history behind the poems, the poetic devices that Owen and Dawe used. Each poem addresses their own truths about war.…
I The boy on the horse is not the man for me, His boyish frame and pre-pubescent face repulses me, His egotism is reflected by the shine of his armour, What gives him the right to rescue me? My idea of a hero is a full-grown man, His rippling muscles and unkempt physique is what I imagine to see.…
Kairos: The poem’s setting begins as the narrator is sitting in his wheelchair in the dark. It says that he was wearing a “Legless, sewn short at elbow” (line 2) which allows the reader to see that he has lost his legs. Then the setting moves in to the past as his memories become of topic. In his memories he remembers how it was to dance with girls and have a good time. Then at the end of the second stanza we move back into the present as the narrator reminds us that now the girls want nothing to do with him and look at him like a “queer disease”. Then, at the beginning of the third stanza we flash back into his memories as the narrator explains how handsome, energetic, and full of life he was before going into the war. He then flashes back on his days of playing football and when he was hurt he was celebrated as a hero. Then towards the end of the third stanza, he explains…
The Classic of Poetry is a collection of old Chinese literature that has been rewritten and renamed into the Book of Songs/Odes. (“Norton Anthology of World Literature” 812) This collection of poems seemed to become popular around the beginning of Confucianism. Confucianism is the concept of centering one’s life or work on authority figures, family, and friends. The expression of Confucianism is best seen in the work of Tu Fu.…