Out of a bad situation‚ you can learn and grow. In all three poems‚ The Seafarer‚ The Wanderer‚ and The Wife’s Lament the main character was exiled causing great pain and sorrow. Through this pain and sorrow they saw some beauty in the situation. In The Seafarer the character is on his ship hopelessly lost at sea. He suffers from loneliness‚ sadness and pain from being lost at sea. In the poem he says “How the sea took me‚ swept me back And forth in sorrow and fear and pain.” ( The Seafarer
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Analysis of Aubade He is lonely and depress with the world. He drinks every single‚ work to support himself and stay up all night rethinking about his useless life. He is dark outside and cold from the inside‚ no one can see him. He is afraid of what might happen if he takes another step into life. He begin to describe his emotional feelings on paper‚ thinking about the time that he will be the next one laying in the grave‚ he is fearing death. In the poem‚ “Aubade‚” Philip Larkin take the reader
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Unleash Your Emotions What are emotions? In simple words‚ they are feelings triggerred by certain ’happenings’ in life. Emotions make us different from the average ’zombie’ - it makes us human. Jokes apart‚ everyday we go through a myriad of emotions ranging from the subtlest to the most obvious and these emotion however good or bad make us who we are. We think we go through hundreds of emotions‚ little do we realise that these are just teeny tiny variations of the basic 9 emotions. They
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In Maxine Kumin’s poem “Woodchucks”‚ the reader is led into a short tale of a woman whom is dealing with a family of woodchucks that are eating away at her garden. While this poem appears to be a simple tale following this woman’s methods to exterminating the pests‚ it rather is a poem that uses its speaker to stealthily showcase the potential that humans have for monstrous actions. The speaker‚ while appearing to be a sensible person turned deranged by the joyous feel of power and success‚ is a
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It’s the Style That Counts Among the vast variety of poems that exist‚ only a few stand out. The same is true about poets‚ in that readers may sometimes identify a poem to its poet. The measure of a poet’s consistency in his poems is measured by how easily identifiable his or her poems are to the reader. An effective poet will develop a unique style and slowly build upon that. In history many poets have placed their mark and enveloped a unique style of their own. A poet’s style involves not only
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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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A Kitchen Poem Now the land shawls itself in gloom. The mountain puts enchantment on. I sit in this plain-spoken room‚ and soon the cares of day are gone: crows‚ starlings‚ eelworm‚ codlin moth‚ all nature’s murderous hosts are sweeping from thought upon night’s tide like froth. Now tired with light my son is sleeping. Too great with child to sit at ease beside the window stands my wife dreaming herself away from these four walls to scintillating life‚ where brats and all thier
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In Sharon Olds poem‚ "The Race‚” Olds tells her story as she races to the airport and scrambles through the Gates in order to fly home and see her dying father one last time. The poem infuses suspense as she swiftly makes her way through to the airport and to the Gate that was departing in a few moments. Olds’ excessive use of enjambments‚ metaphors‚ and personification demonstrates her sense of persistence all throughout the poem. Moreover‚ she attentively listens to the young man‚ which provides
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Zachary Moore Professor Jo Scott-Coe Images of Women in Literature 16‚ March 2012 Poem of Sappho Then I said to the elegant ladies: “How you will remember when you are old the glorious things we did in our youth! We did many pure and beautiful things. Now that you are leaving the city love’s sharp pain encircles my heart.” The poem above is one of the many poems of the famous Greek poet Sappho. Although many of Sappho’s writings were publicly burned in the cities of Rome and Constantinople
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Metaphysical Poets John Donne and Andrew Marvell were considered metaphysical poets based on their use of conceit and wit in depicting similar situations through different metaphors. They would use original analogies to create fitting and insightful comparisons‚ usually to persuade. John Donne and Andrew Marvell have been called metaphysical poets. This is a‚” name given to a group of English lyric poets of the 17th century” (Metaphysical poets)” The term metaphysical poets came to be used almost
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