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    Auden Analysis

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    “The Unknown Citizen” Analysis W. H. Auden’s “The Unknown Citizen” is a dark satire about what can possibly happen if political and bureaucratic principles corrode the creative and revolutionary spirit of the individual. The poem was also titled after “tombs of the unknown soldiers”‚ tombs that were used to represent soldiers who were impossible to identify since the end of World War I. Auden wrote the poem shortly after becoming a citizen of the United States. He came to

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    Song/Poem Analysis

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    Daddy? When you think of the term “daddy” what thoughts come to mind? For most it is an affectionate or familiar term‚ but not for all. In his poem‚ “My Papa’s Waltz”‚ Theodore Roethke depicts an altercation between a father and son. In contrast to the poem‚ Holly Dunn emphasizes love and tenderness between a father and child in the song “Daddy’s hands.” Each writer is showing the important role a father plays in a child’s life from very different points of view. Both pieces have a very different

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    What is Auden trying to achieve in writing this poem? First of all‚ Auden is asking to meditate on the relationship between the past‚ the present and the future. The poem refers to the past as "History is the operator" People should not be limited by the past and it should help them to make the future -> inspiration from the past (first part of the poem). "Tomorrow the enlarging of consciousness by diet and breathing" (plus all the lines on "Tomorrow") indicate hope that humanity will draw from

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    Songs as Poems

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    Songs as Poems It ’s My Life Bon Jovi This ain ’t a song for the brokenhearted No silent prayer for the faith departed And I ain ’t gonna be just a face in the crowd You ’re gonna hear my voice when I shout it out loud [Chorus] It ’s my life It ’s now or never I ain ’t gonna live forever I just wanna live while I ’m alive (It ’s my life) My heart is like an open highway Like Frankie said‚ "I did it my way" I just wanna live while I ’m alive ’Cause it ’s my life This is for the ones who

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    Redemption Song Poem

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    question Bob Marley’s “Redemption Song” is a political poem that needs to be understood contextually for its full meaning to be revealed. Write a 5 paragraph essay (introduction‚ 3 paragraphs in the body of the essay and a conclusion) in which you discuss the following: 1. The relevance of the history of slavery to understanding this poem. Your answer should include a discussion of the images and repetition that Marley uses to make this point. 2. The poem says: “Emancipate yourselves from

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    Poem and Song Evaluation

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    edition of the continuing and enthralling series of The Beat Goes On. Tonight we are looking at the relevance of poetry and song in the 21st century in relation to the theme and the era in which the literature was written. Now I know that some listeners are currently sliding their hand down towards the dial to shuffle the station but please stay and listen to the riveting analysis of two famous pieces of literature from two different moments in history. This program looks at the attitudes and perspectives

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    Cathy Song 3 Poem Analysis

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    Kaitlin Duffy Professor Warnke 7/30/13 Paper 2-Poetry Cathy Song is a 60 year old woman who resides in Honolulu HI with her husband and 3 children. Along with being a wife‚ mother‚ and daughter‚ Song is a developed poet as well. Although Song does not particularly like being classified as an Asian-American poet‚ her ethnicity largely influences her poetry as well as her family life. Concerning her ethnicity‚ Song states “I am just a poet who just happens to be Asian-American.” Ethnic background

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    W.H. Auden

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    Auden was born 21 February 1907‚ in York‚ the son of a physician. At first interested in science‚ he soon turned to poetry. In 1925 he entered Christ Church College‚ University of Oxford‚ where he became the centre of a group of literary intellectuals that included Stephen Spender‚ Christopher Isherwood‚ C. Day Lewis‚ And Louis MacNeice. After graduation he was schoolmaster in Scotland and England for five years. In London‚ in the early 1930s‚ Auden belonged to a circle of promising young poets

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    Poem Vs. Song

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    Song Vs. Poem Words have much meaning‚ people have known this for generations. Throughout those generations people have found many different ways of getting these words with meaning spread out. The two ways of giving people this information will be discussed throughout this essay to show the differences and similarities between a song and a poem. The reason to compare the two are to see how the message is delivered to the audience and what the message is in the song and poem. The song that will be

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    Auden - Summary

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    Each line of this poem represents Auden’s ideas of a great memorial for W B Yeats which is supported by the intentionally placed words‚ punctuations and innuendos. In the first few line of stanza stanza one Auden starts off by recreating what the present condition was like at the time of his death to create a gloomier atmosphere to get the readers attention. He does this in most of his poem‚ creating an atmosphere to get the readers attention such as now the leaves are falling fast. “Now the leaves

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