wants to remember them. Page 439 Question 4 – the first one. Think of all the ways Dickinson extends the metaphor. How is hope’s song endless? How does it keep you warm? By using a large amount of em dashes and alternating between iambic pentameter and iambic tetrameter‚ Emily Dickinson is able to make
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where Yeats creates a sense of immediacy and looming threat: ‘turning and turning in the widening gyre’‚ ‘moving its slow thighs’. In addition‚ Yeats emphasises the poem’s feeling of motion through his use of metre. It is written largely in iambic pentameter‚ which gives the poem an almost pulsating rhythm‚ echoing perhaps the ‘great wings beating’‚ or even the
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onto its own life‚ her life‚ and his life. This is a direct metaphor to the creation of a new being‚ meaning that with their bloods mixing inside of the flea‚ they have a “flea baby.” John Donne uses rhyming couplets throughout his poem in his iambic pentameter. The narrator does indeed get lucky with the woman. Even though the storyteller uses a flea to persuade the lady‚ during the time that the piece was composed‚ people were not squeamish when it came to tiny bugs. Back then‚ it was more than likely
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Rubaiyat meaning a stanza composed of four lines. This kind of form has a rhyme scheme of AABA and each line is accentualsyllabic (usually tetrameters and pentameters). The AABA rhyme scheme is interesting because the third line of each stanza doesn’t rhyme with the other lines in that same stanza but sets up the rhymes for the next stanza’s first‚ second‚ and fourth lines. For example‚ “here” on line 3 doesn’t rhyme with “know”‚ “though”‚ “snow”‚ but rhymes with the second stanza’s “queer”‚ “near”‚ and “year”
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Adi Davis 12/10/12 AP Lit Mr. Campbell “I Can’t Believe I Read this in Middle English: The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer. Perhaps the first dark comedy?” Throughout The Canterbury Tales‚ Chaucer seems to question the popularity of courtly love in his own culture‚ and to highlight the contradictions between courtly love and Christianity‚ and social casts and convention. Courtly love is the notion that true love only exists outside of
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Frost deals with the ideas of depression‚ shame and even contemplation of suicide. Everyone can relate to the feelings of isolation as most go through a period of such feelings themselves‚ to a particular extent. This poem is written in strict iambic pentameter‚ with the fourteen lines of a traditional sonnet. The following poetic techniques are used: symbolism and repetition The literal connotation of the first line is meaningless. Everyone is familiar with the night and everyone knows what the word
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THE SENTRY (January 1917) The Sentry’ is a poem which grows directly out of an isolated incident in the trenches. It is wholly characteristic of Owen in that it focuses on the fate of one private soldier‚ the eponymous ‘sentry’ who is blinded and maimed by a ‘whizz-bang’. It is an extremely moving poem‚ for the focus is not only on the sentry’s pitiful reaction to his injuries‚ but also on Owen’s own haunted recollection of them. The situation for the poem is ‘an old Boche dug-out’ which a party
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“The Hand That Signed the Paper” consists of four stanzas that harshly mock the cold and unfriendliness present of politics and conflict. In my opinion this poem is about war‚ revealing the speakers disgust for political leaders overall. The poet makes audience feel as though the hand that signed the paper is worthless or despicable. These overpowering figures with in the poem seem to be important and arrogant for putting themselves in a powerful‚ life or death situation. The first stanza is notifying
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Compare the ways in which Blake and Larkin present the theme of corruption in their poems. William Blake and Phillip Larkin are very different poets; they have different techniques to convey their ideas but both skilfully are able to establish a connection with the audience through these different means. The two poets‚ despite being separated in time successfully convey even to a modern day reader the theme of corruption in their poems‚ concentrating on Blake’s “London” and “The Chimney Sweep” and
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Title: An overview of “Sonnet 130” Author(s): Joanne Woolway Source: Poetry for Students. Detroit: Gale. From Literature Resource Center. Document Type: Critical essay [Joanne Woolway is a freelance writer who recently earned her Ph.D. from Oriel College‚ Oxford‚ England. In the following essay‚ Woolway analyzes how‚ in “Sonnet 130‚” Shakespeare “succeeds...in turning traditional poetic conventions around.” She also takes a close look at the ways Shakespeare’s versification—his skill patterning
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