Hip Shooter - When I first read this poem it made me think of travelling‚ maybe in life. The cold and harsh world‚ though beautiful‚ is hard to live in. The horse is the character’s only companion. The ending though‚ seemed as if the character was waiting for sleep‚ and would keep traveling in the cold and dark until they reached a place to sleep. This could also mean sleep as a final resting place‚ as death. The character will continue to travel a cold‚ dark and harsh path of life with his only
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_________ Poets try to use a concentrated blend of sound and imagery to create an emotional response and to try to get us‚ the reader‚ to sense a particular thing. In this poem “Ozymandias” by Shelley Percy Bysshe‚ there are different types of sound devices. The poet uses alliteration multiple times throughout the poem. “Cold command” and “boundless and bare” are examples of alliteration because the beginning letter of each word is the same. Alliteration helps the poet to make their meaning
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Langston Hughes purpose of these sets of poems was to outline the current condition for African Americans at that time‚ and also to display his desires and present the ideal conditions for African Americans. Below are several of his poems that has symbology and reflects and demonstrates his desires and ideals. In my opinion‚ Dream Variations demonstrates Hughes desire for African Americans to be able to enjoy the pleasures of life as white people did. When he says “to whirl and to dance till the
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perspectives that have long been marginalised; in particular‚ refugees and immigrants Shire’s remarkable interpretations in her poems have consequently captivated thousands on the Internet and social media. In the poem ‘Home’ Shire intends to distinctly disclose the struggles and the agonizing battles that refugees experience through their journey for a new start‚ what makes Shire’s poems so mesmerizing is she is honest with her words and she is not afraid to not filter out any harsh imagery in order for her
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A poet relates to the world by constructing their identity through their performance in public spaces. At Outspoken Live‚ poet Lisa Luxx performed ‘He Sounds Just Like Me’‚ a moving poem about her being adopted by a British family and her longing for the “absent root” in which she came from Syria. The audiences’ mood changes when Luxx says “[Syria]…is followed by silence”. This eerily captures the atmosphere in the venue. The silent audience shows their awareness of the conflict in Syria‚ brought
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Background: On a hot and humid day‚ my course at Columbia University toured Harlem through the route described in Langston Hughes’s‚ Theme for English B. In his poem‚ Hughes describes his walk from City College of New York to his home in Harlem. When we walked down the steps from City College to Harlem‚ just as Hughes did‚ I realized Hughes’s prevalent battle; he came from an underprivileged background to attend a university where he was the only African American student in his class. Going down
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The people in any army face hardships‚ and the poem “Danny Dever” shows just another one that the British soldiers had to go through. The hanging of Danny Deever not only scares‚ intimidates‚ and disturbs the soldiers‚ but also makes the Colour-Sergeant have to question himself on what the army is doing and whether it is right. The poem shows the questioning of what is ethical and watching the loss of someone you know. The Colour-Sergeant is a higher up of the British army‚ so he knows that the
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the aeroplane he stares impassively where he earns his living and they do not care. War Photographer is an anti- war poem. The poet Carol Ann Duffy was friendly with a photographer Don McCullin‚ who published photos of war. The present poem is based on the conversation that she had with this photographer. She seems to empathize with the photographer and not the readers. The poem basically is about the feelings of a photographer as he develops the photographs of war. In the opening line itself a
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The message of the poem‚ “Sadie and Maud”‚ is that the success and happiness is not determined by a structured path‚ but the one we create. In the poem it says “Maud went to college/Sadie stayed home/Sadie scraped life/With a fine-tooth comb/She didn’t leave a tangle in” (Lines 1-4). This is saying that Maud went to college and Sadie did not go to college. It is also significant because it compares Sadie with a fine-tooth comb because fine-tooth combs take everything in and does not leave a tangles
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affair. This abruptness is supported by the following line because the phrase “a slap in the face” can be used to imply the element of surprise. The lake in Mirror ‘has drowned a young girl and replaced her with a middle-aged woman. Throughout the poem the mirror/lake appears as quite a sadistic character who takes delight in the girl’s sadness. This text informs us that her youth is passing and age is gaining on her; the word ‘young’ puts particular emphasis on this fact. The drowning could suggest
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