The poem begins with a speaker speaking about witnessing a situation in Chile where a woman‚ her husband and their five years old son arrested and tortured. The speaker pointed out the horror of the family being tortured at the hand of the prison guard. And the most horrible part of this tragedy was that the guard tortured and forced them to witness each other’s torture and yet the guard tortured them as they like. In this poem the poet used imagery to enable the reader understood the agony the
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Class Professor Date Use of the Word “Darkness” in “Gretel in Darkness” “Gretel in Darkness‚” a poem by Louise Gluck is an example of a poem revisiting a renowned fable‚ but it gives its readers a new perspective by crediting the important things that happened in the tale. Throughout the four stanzas in this poem‚ it appears that it doesnt have a clear rhyme scheme. Louise Gluck‚ urges the readers of this poem to try to think about fairytales a different way. Therefore‚ she allows the readers to find
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“The Red Hat” Rachel Hadas’ poem "The Red Hat" is told from the viewpoint of the parents of a young boy who begins to walk to school by himself. The poem reveals the actions and emotions of the parents who struggle with allowing their son to become more independent. However‚ this poem is not simply a story of a boy starting to walk to school on his own. The underlying theme is about a boy leaving the protection and safety of his parents to enter the world by himself. In the middle of the first stanza
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In “Strange Fruit” Abel Meeropol protests and raises awareness of the treatment of African Americans in South USA. The song describes the scene of lynching of Black American’s and their resemblance to a fruit hanging from a tree. We also studied the poem “took the children away” by Archie Roach which similarly portrayed a great understanding of the horrific treatment of black people. Roach sings about his personal story of the stolen generation in 1969. Two techniques that were used by both composers
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The poem is told from the point of view of a wise mother talking to her son about how to get through the hard times in life. This woman compares life to a set of stairs. The first few lines of the poem states‚ “Well‚ son‚ I’ll tell you: Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair.” The purpose of these lines is to let people know that life will never be as easy as it is made out to be. Sometimes you need to have thicker skin to get through the worst times in life. One line in the poem states‚ “Don’t
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In the poems‚ "Identity" by Julio Noboa and "the lesson of the moth" by Don Marquis‚ the authors have different and similar approaches to the development of the universal theme‚ beauty. In the poem "the lesson of the moth"‚ the theme is "live life the way it brings out your inner beauty." The author stated that "we get bored with the routine and crave beauty and excitement fire is beautiful" In other words‚ everyone should bring out their true passion‚ which develops the theme of the poem. The author
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Throughout this semester I’ve read a lot of poems and short stories. Some were very graphic in a sense that while reading them I felt like I was within the poem or short stories and some even helped me to understand different point of views including my own life. For example‚ “Suicide Note” written by Janice Mirikitani helped me to understand more of another’s personal life and what they’re going through. As for my own life‚ “Dusting” written by Julia Alvarez helped me to better understand what I’m
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What do the speakers of Frost’s poems reveal about themselves through the stories they tell? About Repeated items (theme‚ diction) Tone (through diction) Words (genre‚ metaphor‚ simile‚ imagery‚ etc.) Alliteration (sound created) Rhyme (end rhyme- group ideas‚ internal rhyme- strengthen idea + emphasizes‚ masculine rhyme- rhyming syllables are stressed and feminine rhyme- rhyming syllables are unstressed) Rhythm Structure Prosody- technical aspects of a poem i.e. rhyme scheme‚ rhythmic pattern
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The second poem I revised also had a change to the title‚ but the change was minor. The formerly named “Dilemma at 12:30” is now “Dilemma at Noon”. The title was changed to simplify and clarify the time of day it refers to. For this poem‚ I decided to use tercets (and couplets‚ in a way) to give the poem a quirky meter which made it more fun and entertaining to read. The first two lines of every stanza were focused on external observations‚ and the last line of every stanza was an italicized‚ internal
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Through the use of personal pronouns in the final stanza such as ‘my neighbor‚ my land‚ we can’t face the newspapers‚’ Clarke is able to change the viewpoint and make the final line more direct and engaging. This allows the poem to become more personal towards us. The poem portrays many techniques to make us feel empathetic towards the innocent children associated and reveal the gratuitous violence depicted in the human
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