Valentine: Poetry Essay The poem “Valentine” written by the present poet laureate in UK‚ Carol Ann Duffy‚ subverts the idealized and universal idea of love and projects the dual nature of its essence. She rejects the gifts conventionally associated with Valentine’s Day‚ such as ‘red-rose’‚ ‘satin cloth’‚ ‘cute card’‚ ‘kissogram’ and brings a Copernican revolution with the option of “Onion” as a gift which acts as an extended metaphor throughout the poem. Insofar as the techniques are
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Literary works have certain meanings displayed throughout their entirety. A single literary work however can be interpreted in a variety of ways. Petrarch whose poetry was about the idealistic approach to love‚ caused for several Renaissance writers to revisit them and translate them to represent different meanings. Basically‚ Sir Thomas Wyatt in his poem "The Long Love That in My Thought Doth Harbour" and Henry Howard‚ Earl of Surrey in his poem "Love That Doth Reign and Live Within My Thought‚"
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Music‚ Poetry‚ Passion… Gamal Kennedy Writer Album: Love? Artiste: Jennifer Lopez Label: Island Def Jam Music Group Genre: POP/ Dance Release Date: May 3‚ 2011 About the Album: For many fans of Jennifer Lopez‚ Love? has been a long time coming. This being the seventh studio album may be her most personal to date‚ encompassing inspiration from the birth of her twins and her own experiences with love. The highlighted theme throughout the album courses the examination‚ questioning and
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an English (or Shakespearean) sonnet with three quatrains and an ending couplet. What "celebration" seems to be made in the three quatrains? How is this celebration deflated in the ending couplet? "From the preface to The Book of American Negro Poetry" (pages 964-966) According to Johnson‚ what are the contributions that can be made by Negro poets? Do you think that Johnson’s statement "the richest contribution that the Negro poet can make to the American literature of the future will be fusion
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Text Response: War Poetry Dulce et Decorum est by Wilfred Owen and Homecoming by Bruce Dawe are about the disaster of war‚ yet they speak of different wars with different mindsets of the soldiers. In the following essay I discuss the history behind the poems‚ the poetic devices that Owen and Dawe used. Each poem addresses their own truths about war. The first poem is from WW1 where ignorance was common‚ so common that boys of only 17 years were signing up for “the adventure of a life time”. The “adventure”
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with a story that echoes a lesson‚ how money controls and defines your lifestyle. He also has a way with his voice to empower your soul and lift your spirits. What I noticed about this particular artist was that his songs are the perfect blend of poetry and music. It makes you want to dance‚ as well as sing along. the first few lyrics of the song are "From the morning to the evening; Complaints from the tenants; Got the walls kickin ’ like they 6 months pregnant; Drinkin ’ Alizé with our cereal for
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“Because I Could Not Stop for Death” Poetry uses many different literary elements to express ideas and themes. Emily Dickinson’s‚ “Because I Could Not Stop for Death” captures the feelings of one whom is accepting death with open arms‚ while reminiscing on her journey through life. Dickinson’s life‚ as well as historical context plays a large role in influencing “Because I Could Not Stop for Death.” Throughout her life she became increasingly isolated‚ as well as facing many circumstances surrounded
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unborn children. More importantly‚ this is a more nontraditional poem‚ varying in form‚ theme‚ tone‚ and style. One of the reasons why this poem is so modern is because of its difference in rhyme scheme from more traditional poems. More traditional poetry does not place a lot of emphasis on rhyming and often the diction is much more complex. "The Mother" consists of three large stanzas containing consecutively rhyming lines and the diction is relatively low. As far as how the poem appears on the
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Dana B. Rhodes Thomas Lovell LIT115-1N1 26 February 2013 Poetry Reading Log * “The Secretary Chant” by Marge Piercy was written in 1973. I felt the author was describing how this woman was so engulfed in her work that she felt like she was nothing but a machine‚ something whose sole purpose was to work and produce. The sentences are very mechanical and choppy and I felt that it helped to emphasize the point of her feeling of being a piece of office equipment. She took the tools of her trade
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metaphor‚ the one analyzed here‚ the ‘conceit’ owns its singularity to its main basis as an extended kind of metaphor‚ consisting on comparing two elements that otherwise would not have been considered any similar. Usually many conceits prevail in poetry and are used in other cases. What conceits do is mixing and transforming ideas and images in non-expected ways. In the case of the poem ‘Hope’ the conceit works as the central theme of the poem‚ consisting on a complex comparison between an abstract
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