recently studied some of your poetry for my leaving certificate english course and I feel greatly changed by what I read. To say the least‚ it made a strong impression on me. It was a memorable experience. I looked into five of your poems with great depth and they were; "A Constable Calls"‚ "The Forge"‚ "The Underground"‚ "The Tollund Man"‚ and of course "The Skunk". These poems inspired a range of emotions in me that I would never have expected to feel while reading poetry. In the poem "A Constable
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received worldwide acclaim. Their success proved‚ as critics like Srinivasa Iyengar pointed out‚ A shot in the arm of modern English Literature has had to come from West Africans like Amos Tutuola‚ Wole Soyinka and Gabriel Okara. (16) The role of poetry‚ in African literature‚ has
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Unseen Poetry (Road 1940 by Sylvia Townsend Warner) a. The poet begins each stanza by ‘she said’ to convey to the reader about the woman’s feelings like in the first stanza ‘Who do I carry‚ she said‚ This child that is no child of mine’ showing her bewilderment as to why she picked up the child. The use of ‘she’ indicates the poem is written in a third person perspective‚ which is striking‚ as the reader knows only the thoughts and feelings of the woman‚ while other characters such as the child
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Poetry Explication The Lamb and The Tyger When Reading William Blake’s poems form the song of innocence and song of experience readers get how both links to each other to create a greater meaning. The Lamb from the song of innocence shows the innocence of god in a person‚ while The Tyger shows the experience of a person. Paired together‚ William Blake’s poem The Lamb and The Tyger uses biblical symbolism and diction to illustrate the perspective of religion both good and bad. The titles of
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Poetry Project Introduction These poems are all written based off of my‚ Miciah’s‚ opinions. I have a distinct perspective on religion‚ therefore I chose to write a poem describing hate and love and how I thing religion is a dumb idea. My poem is titled “Hate and Love”‚ based off of the poem “Fire and Ice” by Robert Frost. In it I concur to what religion claims‚ symbolically saying that religion is wrong and not serious. I used the same exact syllables and rhyme scheme as “Fire and Ice” by Robert
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(five metrical feet) and two tri-meter (three metrical feet) lines per stanza. It is written mainly in iambic pentameter and has a rhyming pattern of aabbcddceee. This gives the poem a songlike quality which is associated with this type of lyric poetry. Each stanza is made up of a single sentence which‚ with the help of the meter‚ forces the first four lines of each verse to be read rapidly. The caesura then slows down the reading‚ causing the reader to reflect more deeply on what has been said
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heritage of past and present poets. One of the most famous World War 1 poets in today’s history‚ Robert Graves‚ describes his poems through his terror and fear of his war experiences. Throughout this lecture today I will be discussing the theme of Poetry and Power portrayed within Graves poems and how his life and writings have influenced poets today. Acknowledgement of context and topic What lead me to the central idea of choosing Graves’ war poems was from the powerful stories of ANZAC day
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immediately has a light-hearted tone due to the positive choice in diction‚ the third word of the entire poem being “wonderful” which strongly backs up the happy mood. The diction remains lighthearted throughout the rest of the poem and almost suffocates the quality of it with an overbearing of cliché similes and sensory words. This also causes a sort of child-like quality to the poem as they are also extremely low-end diction words that even the most illiterate would understand and causes the poem to seem
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Mariah Lindsey AP Literature & Composition Poetry Essay Final Draft December 16‚ 2012 As you begin to pay attention to your own stories and what they say about you‚ you will enter into the exciting process of becoming‚ as you should be‚ the author of your own life‚ the creator of your own possibilities. The theme of William Shakespeare sonnet # 18 “Shall I Compare Thee to a summer’s day” is eternal love. Shakespeare compares his lover to summer‚ the most beautiful season of the year.
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Spread the Word to End the Word There are about 200 million people around the world that has “intellectual disabilities”? That’s three percent of the world’s population! The word ” retardate” once was used to describe a person with a mental disability. Today‚ however‚ it is used in the pejorative form ”retard” or “retarded.” Often unwittingly‚ the word is used to describe behavior that is “hapless‚” “clumsy” and even “hopeless.” It is Important to bring awareness to our society; everyone needs
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