1) In stanza one‚ Maya says three things about the mastodons and the dinosaurs. The first thing she talks about was the mastodons being long departed. By saying this she is implying that they are extinct. The second thing she states was that the dinosaurs left behind dry tokens of their sojourn. By this she means that the creatures before us‚ the dinosaurs and mastodons left us very little information about their journey through life on earth. The last thing she says about them was that they were
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USE OF FOREGROUNDING IN THE POEM TITLED “GOING” The author of the poem “Going” had a specific message that he intended to set across to his readers. To do this‚ the author used a number of stylistic elements that include foregrounding‚ imagery‚ symbolism‚ diction‚ synthetic parallelism and structure among others. This essay intends to give a brief stylistic analysis of the poem and describe how these devices have affected the meaning of the poem. Basically the poem “Going” according to the essay
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he shared with the sans-culottes. His poem "London" is a rare example of a violent‚ revolutionary indictment of both the Establishment and the Industrial revolution. This poem is an indictment and a battle cry. Not only does it present images of human suffering observed on a stroll around London‚ but it also suggests a certain vision of humanity as Blake defended it‚ for example in his Songs of Innocence a few years before (1789). The analysis of the poem will revolve around two aspects. First
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The Temple‚ is very short‚ clear‚ concise‚ and gets to the point. Different from John Donne‚ Herbert structures his poetry around biblical metaphors and his struggle to define his relationship with God. Herbert places himself in church through many poems that are styled in an architectural form‚ however his emphasis is always on the soul’s inner construction. Rather than voice his fears about being saved by God or sinning as Donne had‚ Herbert faces his fearful behavior by focusing on his relationship
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Four Poems by Derek Mahon INTRODUCTION Derek Mahon belongs to the same generation of Northern Ireland poets as Seamus Heaney. But‚ whereas many of Heaney’s poems are rooted firmly in the rural landscape of Ulster where he grew up‚ Mahon’s poems reflect his childhood spent in Belfast. His familiar places were the streets of the city‚ the Harland and Wolff shipyard where his g-andfather and father worked‚ and the flax-spinning factory where his mother worked. Later on‚ Mahon would come to study
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POEMS Practice 1 IN THE MIDST OF HARDSHIP 1. Why were their clothes ‘soaky’? 2. Write down the line in the poem which reveals that this incident took place in a village? 3. What does the phrase “bloated carcasses” refer to? 4. In your opinion‚ what kind of attitude do the last two lines imply? Explain. Practice 2: IN THE MIDST OF HARDSHIP (stanzas 1 and 2) 1. Write down the line which shows that they have been out for long hours? 2. The theme may not be exactly about hardship as implied
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Despite Alarcón’s poem "Mexican is Not a Noun" being of a few words‚ it’s meaning is extremely powerful‚ especially for the Mexican American people group. “Mexican Americans‚ the largest and fastest growing Latina/o subgroup in the United States (U.S. Census Bureau‚ 2011)‚ share unique demographic‚ historical‚ sociopolitical‚ and immigration experiences (Villegas-Gold & Hyung‚ 2014).” Alarcón uses stanzas to connect his ideas from the smallest impact to the largest punch regarding them. "Not only
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Background of the poem: Emily Bronte spends last days of her life at home. She didn’t have any outdoor activities. Her life was full of miseries and gloomy incidents. There is not any light of hope and couragment in her life. She was fed up with her life. She wrote this poem in those days when she was bound at home. This poem is the true representative of her disappointed feelings. She wanted to sleep but sleep brings no rest to her. She wanted to sleep eternally
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Edgar Allan Poe’s poem “The Bells” was first published. Poe was famous for his short stories and poems‚ which were typically read in darker tones. He was consistently losing family to illness and time‚ and was‚ as a result‚ a very morbid and depressed man. The inspiration for “The Bells” is thought to be from the ringing Poe heard every day coming from the Fordham University bell tower‚ since he resided in the same area as the university and would often visit the campus. This poem Poe uses the bells
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things so frequently in the poem. Death eventually conquers over life otherwise‚ life is a voyage of death. The bells ring jubilantly. But‚ even as they run‚ death prowls in the night. The Bells is alienated into four portions. Each part is consequently lengthier than the previous share. I believe the Poet did this to catch the attention of the audience to the Different stanza. The first verse is only fourteen lines. The next stanza is twenty-one lines. The third stanza is third-four lines‚ and the
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