which‚ while on the same theme‚ relate starkly different messages. “The Dead-Beat” (Poem A) is about a situation whereby a major war is happening and the persona is at lost‚ not knowing what to do – just shooting his weapons around (hoping to kill his enemies) before he himself died whereas “Killers” (Poem B) talks about the position whereby the persona is witnessing the war instead of being in one. ‘Sixteen million men’ risked their lives to be in a war‚ either to kill or to be killed. The tone for
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as it determines the manner in which the content of the poem is presented. Poets will often use an identified persona to express views which they themselves might disagree with in a negative light‚ such as in My Last Duchess by Robert Browning. Unidentified personas are often used by poets as well; perhaps to give a more universal application to their poems. Conversely identified personas may understandably be used for the opposite effect of giving the poem a personal and intimate appeal. Although
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Eleanor Roosevelt once said "A woman is like a teabag you can’t tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water." The persona in Robert Brownings‚ "the laboratory" took this quote to a new extreme. Here is yet another eye grabbing dramatic monologue by Robert Browning where a jealous women takes revenge to the next level. Shockingly‚ there is some true events behind this poem. It was based off of a French women‚ Marie-Madeleine-Marguérite d’aubray marquise de Brihvillers. She had killed her
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second stanza says‚ “Does my sassiness upset you? Why are you beset with gloom? ‘Cause I walk like I’ve got oil wells/Pumping in my living room.” The persona means that they can intimidate the white people with their brimming confidence‚ and that nothing can hurt them. It allows them to overcome the obstacles of the past and move forwards. The persona then says‚ “Just like moons and like suns‚ with the certainty of tides… Still I’ll rise.” Because of the perspective it is in‚ the poem is more understandable
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overcome alienation in his search for belonging. The poem Feliks Skrzynecki explores the persona witnessing his fathers triumph to belong. The picture book The Lost Thing by Shaun Tan explores the things initial failure to belong‚ which is then overcome. St Patricks College explores the personas failure to belong into the school society. The imagery “our lady watched/ with outstretched arms” gives the persona hope that he will belong in this school. This gives an early sense of triumph in his
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feeling of uncertainty in regard to Death and its imminence. The persona is waiting in constant fear for Death’s arrival‚ as he is clearly not ready for Death to find him. Collins uses personification in the first stanza when he writes the following: Is Death… reaching for a widow in Cincinnati or breathing down the neck of a lost hiker in British Columbia? (1-4) Death is able to move about from place to place‚ and the persona wonders how far Death is from his own house. Death is given the
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relationship. The metaphor of the sky and the wildlife of it describes the love the persona is in. “ Sometimes the sky’s too bright‚” shows how sometimes love can be too intense and too glaring as described by “ bright”. Also‚ “ or has too many clouds or birds” illustrates the obstructions in the sky‚ blocking the view where birds and clouds are the metaphors of the different obstacles and blurring a relationship can have. The persona is using these metaphors to paint a visual image of how a relationship is
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Josephine Hong 031 Term Paper June 6‚ 2011 Two Generations Apart Throughout time‚ literature has always been used as an outlet for debate and discussion of structural flaws. Thus‚ the poets of the Romantic period sought to change society’s neoclassic state of mind by breaking away from reliance on reasoning and instead encouraging individualism‚ using imagination and emotion as inspiration. Initially‚ Romantic poetry became the antithesis of classical poety as the poets soley challenged the
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A Near-Death Experience Breeds RebirthHow close have you come to dying? What value do you place on your own life? Mary Oliver poses these very deep and thought-provoking questions to the reader in her short poem‚ Alligator Poem.In the poem‚ the persona has an experience in which she comes very close to death: an alligator walks by her as she drank some water out of a river while sitting on a riverbank. Oliver describes it in this way: I didn ’t understand/I drank up to the very moment it came/crashing
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In the play Medea‚ by Euripides‚ many techniques are incorporated to augment the compelling persona of the protagonist‚ Medea. She has an overpowering presence‚ which is fashioned through the use of imagery‚ offstage action and language. Dramatic suspense‚ employment of the chorus and Deus Ex Machina also serve to enhance the intense persona assumed by Medea. <br> <br>Medea is frequently associated with images of violence and rage. "She’s wild. Hate’s in her blood. /She feeds her rage Stormclouds
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