Countee Cullen and Langston Hughes are two of the most recognized African American poets of the Harlem Renaissance. Countee Cullen’s "Yet Do I Marvel" and Langston Hughes’ "I‚ Too" are comparable poems in that their similar themes are representational of the authors’ personal tribulations of racial inequality. By comparing these two poems‚ we get a glimpse of the reality of the injustices of racism during the 1920’s by two prominent Black poets. Cullen and Hughes were born within a year of each
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Angela Wigger Rosebrough English Comp II October 5‚ 2012 Explication Essay “Uphill” written by Christina Rossetti‚ this poem is explaining life as a journey and life’s unavoidable death. This poem tells the reader that no matter what we face in life there is going to be hard times that we must endure. Life’s road will never be easy and no matter how we choose to live our life‚ death is the ultimate price we must pay. We must try to live life the best we know how so that in the end we will
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“triumph‚” but rather an inglorious and atrocious scene to be at one with. Additionally‚ Owen employs the kennings “Bent double‚” “knock kneed” and “blood shod” to vividly evoke the genuine hardships and misery of trench warfare‚ coupled with a consistent ABAB rhyme scheme to concentrate the woes of warfare in a spondaic stanza which is broken by many caesuras. Interestingly‚ Owen also implies an imminent death for the soldiers in his cohort through the symbolism of the “distant rest” towards which the men
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suggests closure‚ and is a very precise way of describing the end of the narrator’s life. This sense of closure is also demonstrated in the structure of the poem‚ which is self-contained in its alternate rhyming quatrains. It has a rhyming pattern of abab‚ which means that the poem is soft and pleasing to hear‚ reflects the quietness of nature and goes along with the idea of the man being gentle and ’tremulous’. It is also pleasing to the eye as each stanza loosely mirrors the previous one. However
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Theodore Roethke’s poem‚” My Papa’s Waltz” is one that can be interpreted in two ways. For some they say that the boy is enjoying the dance with his father‚ others say he does not. Neither interpretation can be definitively correct because that decision is solely up to the reader. It is up to that individual reader to weigh every aspect of the story and come to their own conclusion on what it all meant. The stance for this essay will be that‚ “My Papa’s Waltz” has a negative connotation because
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poem is angry‚ and ironic; in fact‚ the title of the poem itself is ironic. The title of the poem would be translated as “sweet and fitting it is‚” yet the entire poem describes how bitter it is to die for one’s country. The poem’s rhyme scheme is “ABAB” and it gives the
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A Tree‚ A Rock‚ A Cloud AND Homage to the San Francisco YMCA A tree‚ a rock‚ a cloud by Carson McCullers‚ and Homage to the San Francisco YMCA by Richard Brautigan both deal with the universal theme of love and loneliness in new and interesting ways. A Tree‚ A Rock‚ A Cloud deals with love and loneliness interchangeably. It shows an old man recounting his days of many years ago. He speaks of how he was lonely and that whilst he could appreciate things‚ he was still always left with an empty and
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clearly‚ cleverly using repetition as an aid to convey this desire across in the reader’s mind. The repetition of the line; "I think about you being in love"‚ also created a very strong rhythm‚ and a heavy rhyme scheme. The rhyme scheme is still an ABAB structure‚ but it is
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There are two similarities in content between the two poems by Robert Frost. First of all‚ the two poems are describing farm work on the surface‚ but then reveal that Frost has to fulfill responsibilities in poetic creation and his writing career. In ‘Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening”‚ the wood (L13) is portrayed as a dark and deep attraction to draw the speaker away from its promises and responsibilities in real life. Resting too long in the wood in the darkest evening of the year (L8) is
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Chimney Sweeper [Innocence] utilizes an AABB rhyme scheme‚ making it seem like a nursery-rhyme style poem which points to a childish nature; this is appropriate for the poem because it is from the perspective of a child. Chimney Sweeper‚ however‚ has an ABAB rhyme scheme which is associated with more mature poetry- The Songs of Experience engages with a higher level of knowledge of the world‚ many of them explore themes from the angle of a wiser human being than The Songs of Innocence. The Chimney
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