in both pieces. Cleary uses a poem to make reading his piece more entertaining; however‚ Aesop uses a short story format to make his piece more serious. Aesop was a little more serious in developing the theme because he didn’t make it entertaining or use entertaining details‚ he plainly stated it at the end of his story. On the other hand‚ Cleary used comparison and described the theme. A metaphor was used to show it with the words‚ “While he chuckled to think how that dim-witted
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The Structure of a Pantoum Poem The pantoum is a form of poetry of Malaysian origin from the 15th century which was modified by the French in the 19th century. The modern pantoum is written in an unlimited number of quatrains (stanzas of four lines) with a strict repeating pattern - the second and fourth lines of each quatrain are repeated as the 1st and 3rd lines of the next quatrain. The pattern continues until the final quatrain when the 1st line of the poem becomes the last line and the 3rd
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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 are: Juxtaposition and emotive language both of which have helped me understand
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Robert Frost uses an effective figurative language‚ imagery‚ symbols‚ and diction to express the lonely‚ depressed feelings of the speaker in “Acquainted with the Night.” The overall combination leads to the implication of someone who is alone‚ depressed‚ and isolated. Frost uses a traditional English 14-lined sonnet‚ written with an iambic pentameter along with one noticeable metaphor and the personification of the objects in the night. The metaphor in the poem is noticed when the speaker describes
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Kimberly Mack 01 June 2013 Analysis of a Poem What does it take for a man to find his self-worth and what happens when he achieves it? Self-worth is defined as the sense of one’s own value or worth as a person. The “Fisherman” written by Kurt Brown is a direct metaphor of life and all the successes and failures that may come about. Browns story of a fisherman is a true testament of a man spending his days searching for a greater sense of self-worth. As the poem begins‚ Brown sets the tone
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Poem and Summary Paper: The Elements of Poetry Tenisha Tyler ENG/340 Due: July 23‚ 2012 Erich Sysak The Elements of Poetry There are many different‚ distinctive elements that make up a poem. However many or few can be used as necessary at any specific time by a writer. These parts of a poem consist of imagery‚ metaphors‚ rhyme‚ and structure. A few of these can be seen in Lewis Carroll’s‚ “Jabberwocky”‚ Craig Raine’s‚ “A Martian Sends a Postcard Home”‚ and R. S. Gwynn’s‚ “Shakespearean
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cemetery Caskets open and All the corpses are staring at Me Everywhere I went after that I asked myself how many hearts were broken here How many people have broken all ties How many tears have fallen Right where I’m standing Is this the exact same spot where He last saw her? Everywhere feels like a cemetery to me now In the library‚ while I was checking out my books I wondered how many couples decided that Holding onto unresolved arguments was not Love after all‚ but just A milder
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significant black poet of the twentieth century. Except for a few examples‚ all his poems are about social injustice in America. The somber tone of his writing often reflected his mood. Race relations were present in almost his whole career‚ following him from his first poem to his last. The poem "Doorknobs" was written in 1961 after his subpoena to appear before Senator McCarthy for subversive activities. Although many other poems by Hughes deal with prejudice‚ race‚ or politics‚ "Doorknobs" deals with life
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Sappho: Poems In her work “Let’s Not Pretend‚” Sappho juxtaposes opposite ends of the spectrum of being‚ using life and death‚ black and white‚ mortality and immortality‚ old-age and youth‚ but not in a nostalgic theme. She cites her current old age‚ and seems to be relatively acceptant of the fact that life is indeed waning‚ and that she‚ unlike so many who she has seen‚ will not simply be stuck in the quest for eternal beauty. She writes “No‚ no one can cure it; keep beauty from going/And I
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