Ramatou Traore ENH 211- Miller October 13‚ 2014 Importance Of Fruits The two poems I’ve decided to write on is This is just to say by William Carlos Williams and Meditation on a Grapefruit by Craig Arnold. The first poem This Is just to say By William Carlos is unique and different in a way because the poet writes the poem as if it were a note left by a husband for his wife. Being when you write a note for your significant other to see ‚ you’ll assume that is it’s the first thing that they see
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Iambic Pentameter in My Last Duchess The poem I am choosing is Robert Brownings “My Last Duchess”. This is an amazing 56 line poem where Browning uses prosody to connect to how he feels emotionally. The poem is a dramatic monologue where he reveals his love situation and much more. The Duke’s desire for control control is made evident by the structure of the poem. He uses the iambic pentameter to show his control over the monologue. The poem consists of 28 rhymed couplets of iambic pentameter
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Nettles by Vernon Scannell The poem ‘Nettles’ by Vernon Scannell revolves around a father’s perspective on an accident involving his son‚ through which the poet explores a father-son relationship‚ wherein the father tries to protect his son from the various difficulties in life. However‚ despite his efforts to shield his son from these problems‚ they will be a constant threat in life. The boy here is a metaphor for the army‚ with the nettles being an extended metaphor of recurring war. The combined
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Diction Sentence Examples Diction of classical figuration. This helps to improve diction‚ organize what they want to say and focus on the main points of interest. Poetic diction describes the range of language used in poems. The decision to use an archaic diction might thus be thought a central part of spenser’s particularly protestant poetics. The decision to use an archaic diction might thus be thought a central part of spenser’s particularly protestant poetics. The choir had very good diction
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Journey of Life to Heaven “Uphill” by Christina Rossetti is about the journey of life‚ or death‚ to heaven. The poem is an exchange of a series of brief and succinct questions and answers between two speakers: an inquiring traveler who asks many questions about the journey of life or death in which she is heading to (heaven)‚ and an ex-traveler or guide who has taken that path before answering with a assured‚ and perfectly calm tone. In the poem‚ the poet uses difference devices such as quatrain
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Not Waving But Drowning (Poetry Analysis) In the poem by Stevie Smith‚ Not Waving But Drowning there are a number of elements that are intriguing and to the reader. The poem is mostly spoken from a narrative point of view‚ but it may infer a first person perspective because it centers on a man who is apparently misunderstood by those around him‚ including the speaker that recalls the tragic scene. The poem paints a conflicting image of a man that has fallen to the sea because despite his
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Her first collection of poetry was published in 1890 by two acquaintances pf hers‚ Thomas Higginson and Mabel Todd‚ they both edited the content and the released it to the public. After this release‚ a complete‚ and unaltered collection of Dickinson’s poetry became available for the first time when scholar Thomas Johnson published The Poems of Emily Dickinson in 1955. In her writing Dickinson crafted a different type of persona for the first person. The speakers in her poetry‚ are sharp-sighted observers
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IMAGINATION IN ROMANTIC POETRY A large part of those extracts on Romantic imagination - which are contained in the fascicule on pages D64 and D65 – are strictly related to an ancient theory about Art and Reality’s imitation‚ the Theory of Forms concieved by a Classical Greek philosopher‚ mathematician Plato - in Greek: Πλάτων‚ Plátōn‚ "broad"; from 424/423 BC to 348/347 BC. The Theory of Forms - in Greek: ἰδέαι - typically refers to the belief expressed by Socrates in some of Plato’s dialogues
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Brayden Lantz February 1‚ 2015 Mrs. Blackey--Period 7 Poetry Analysis Revision: "Buffet Etiquette" The speaker of "Buffet Etiquette" by Hieu Minh Nguyen is troubled because of his lack of his Vietnamese ethnicity due to the "melting pot" of American culture. As a child‚ the speaker was heavily influenced by his native culture‚ but‚ over the years the he has become more integrated with U.S. culture‚ which has thus caused him to lose identity of himself‚ and even become a stereotype for Asian Americans
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2013 Study Unit: THL8234 (Advance Theory of Poetry) Assignment Number: 02 Part 1: Textual Analysis of Poetry Question 1: Sketching a Thatcher with metaphors It is certainly true that one of the distinguishing features of poetic texts is the use of figurative or non-literal language – this essay highlights the fact that metaphors do contribute to the understanding of a poem. Ted Hughes’ poem‚ Sketching a Thatcher‚ is loaded with vivid imagery and ample metaphorical
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