Introduction to Poetry Appreciation. TAQ 2: My Last Duchess by Robert Browning is based upon Duke Alfonso II of Ferrara’s marriage to Lucrezia de’ Medici and her death at his hands. Although it has never been proven that the Duke orchestrated her death‚ she did die suspiciously at the young age of seventeen after only a year of being married to the Duke. At first glance the reader only sees this story but upon reading the poem in more depth and looking at what the form and language devices tell
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Wolfgang von Goethe published in 1808. It consists of three preliminary sections and twenty-five scenes. The rhyme scheme is known as “Knüttelvers” and was popular during the Renaissance. It consists of four accented syllables in every line and an AABB or ABAB rhyming pattern. The main theme throughout the book is man’s life on earth and the constant striving for knowledge and power. In her translation‚ Swanwick clearly employs Nida’s (1969) ‘Dynamic Equivalence’ approach. Nida describes this as the
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“tenderly‚” “pure‚” and “perfect” to describe both the rose and it’s sender. The words directly influence the reader’s initial reaction to the poem‚ as does the way in which she writes the poem. The stanza has four lines with every other line rhyming (ABAB format). It is short and sweet with a melodic quality in it’s reading. This musical quality definitely helps to lull the reader into the belief that the poem’s intention is to come across as a romantic recollection. However‚ in reading the poem through
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As Leon Battista Alberti once said‚ “Painting is possessed of divine powered‚ for not only does it make the absent present‚ but also makes the dead almost alive”. This seems to summarize the central theme of William Butler Yeats’ poem‚ “Sailing to Byzantium” that through human imagination‚ nature and its raw materials are transformed into something that will withstand the test of time. Through the use of Yeats’ clusters of images‚ paradoxes‚ and syntax‚ this theme of endurance over time is emphasized
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theme help reader develop a greater appreciation both the pleasures and pains of life. Both poets’ writing is around the same time. However they have totally different views of the same city. “London” “London” has four quartrains‚ with very regular ABAB rhyming schemes. The repetition is also evident in the language. Words such as ‘charter’d’‚ ‘mark’ and ‘every’ are repeated in the poem and create a sense of urgency. Wordsworth’s poem is a sonnet‚ fourteen lines‚ written in regular metre of Iambic
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and of a regular and repeated number of syllables (first stanza:8‚ 6‚ 8‚ 6; second: 7‚ 6‚ 7‚ 6; third: 8‚ 6‚ 8‚ 6; fourth: 7‚ 6‚ 7‚ 6). This‚ in conjunction with the fact that there are syntactical parallelism‚ lots of repetitions and cross rhyme (abab) insert the structural regularity to this poem. With this regularity corresponds the construction‚ which includes the division of the stanzas. The first and third are divided vertically‚ with the word “than”: on the left side they have
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time and how the greed of men was affecting and destroying the natural world. This creates an air of irony; as humans try improving their lives they deprive wildlife of theirs. The poem is arranged in quatrains with alternating rhyming couplets (ABAB). This creates a childlike quality to the poem like a nursery rhyme which compliments how it is written through the eyes of an infant. This reflects how everything is new to the baby and it watches and learns from everything around it. The four quatrains
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the poem using a first person narrative‚ mixed with a simple monosyllabic dialogue “Although I can see him still”‚ in order to emphasise the simplistic nature of the fisherman‚ and Yeats adds to this effect by using a very regular rhyming pattern (ABAB)‚ and enjambment of the line in order to add a harmony and fluidity to the poem. As you carry on Yeats describes a lot of rural and naturalistic imagery “the freckled man”…grey Connemara clothes” emphasising the typical old simple‚ and hard working
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Sailing Off to Death Kirston Barrett Crossing the Bar Sunset and evening star‚ And one clear call for me! And may there be no moaning of the bar‚ When I put out to sea‚ 4 But such a tide as moving seems asleep‚ Too full for sound and foam‚ When that which drew from out the boundless deep Turns again home.
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Alek Haugen Advanced Placement English 12 Dr. Werner 05 March 2012 The Unknown Citizen By W. H. Auden Several conflicts are dramatized in The Unknown Citizen‚ the most prominent being: conformity of the middle class‚ government manipulation‚ and the loss of individualism to the standards of an average citizen. The speaker of this poem is non-traditional as the poem is‚ in fact‚ an inscription on a “marble monument erected by the State.” The inscription is dedicated to a “JS/07 M 378”—presumably
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