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    Wilfred Owen Poems MINERS (Page 75) There had been a terrible accident at a place called Podmore Hall Colliery (1918). 140 miners and pit-boys died Owen wrote in a letter that he thought this poem had ‘sour’ taste. He also said that if the poem were to have a subtitle it would be: ‘How the future will forget the dead in war.’ This would be its epigraph Soldiers and miners are similar in that they both risk their lives General strike in 1926 because miners didn’t get paid enough for the job

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    _________ Poets try to use a concentrated blend of sound and imagery to create an emotional response and to try to get us‚ the reader‚ to sense a particular thing. In this poem “Ozymandias” by Shelley Percy Bysshe‚ there are different types of sound devices. The poet uses alliteration multiple times throughout the poem. “Cold command” and “boundless and bare” are examples of alliteration because the beginning letter of each word is the same. Alliteration helps the poet to make their meaning

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    another goal that needs to be accomplished-- things that fuel our determination and strengthen our resolve. The two poems‚ “Speech to the Young: Speech to the Progress Toward” by Gwendolyn Brooks and “Mother to Son” by Langston Hughes are good examples of how poetry‚ too‚ can speak to a reader’s heart and mind and fuel their determination. “Speech to the Young Speech to the Progress

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    Hip Shooter - When I first read this poem it made me think of travelling‚ maybe in life. The cold and harsh world‚ though beautiful‚ is hard to live in. The horse is the character’s only companion. The ending though‚ seemed as if the character was waiting for sleep‚ and would keep traveling in the cold and dark until they reached a place to sleep. This could also mean sleep as a final resting place‚ as death. The character will continue to travel a cold‚ dark and harsh path of life with his only

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    government makes each individual merely a number unless they do not conform to society’s norms. The monument of the "unknown citizen" is erected not to honor the memory of a man‚ but to show how he is the perfect example of a good citizen (Auden). In this poem‚ the citizen is just an average person who never stands out among the rest of the population. For example‚ "Yet he wasn’t a scab or odd in his views‚" (Auden 9) illustrates how he holds the same opinions as the majority. Scabs were workers who would

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    When we hear about death we imagine something scary‚ such as The Grim Reaper. In our minds The Grim Reaper is a tall‚ dark figure who’s wasting no time on bringing you along with him. However in the poem I’m going to talk about in this paper views death in a different perspective. In Emily Dickinson’s poem‚ Because I Could Not Stop for Death‚ the speaker describes death as a gentleman‚ and how he took her on a nonstop journey. Besides death being talked about as a person‚ the speaker also goes through

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    Langston Hughes purpose of these sets of poems was to outline the current condition for African Americans at that time‚ and also to display his desires and present the ideal conditions for African Americans. Below are several of his poems that has symbology and reflects and demonstrates his desires and ideals. In my opinion‚ Dream Variations demonstrates Hughes desire for African Americans to be able to enjoy the pleasures of life as white people did. When he says “to whirl and to dance till the

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    Analysis Of William Blake’s Poems Infant Joy Notes This simple poem is two stanzas of six lines each. The two stanzas each follow an ABCDDC rhyme scheme‚ a contrast to most of Blake’s other poetic patterns. The rhyming words are always framed by the repetition of "thee" at the end of the fourth and sixth lines‚ drawing the reader’s attention to the parent‚ who speaks‚ and his or her concern with the baby. The infant’s words‚ or those imagined by the parent to be spoken by the infant‚ are set

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    From the beginning of the poem you can see the cottage maiden was in love with the Lord she calls him ‘a great Lord’ and asks herself ‘Why did a great Lord find me out to fill my heart with care?’ She’s admitting he filled her heart with care‚ but by asking why‚ she’s saying he hurt her. She also says ‘O cousin Kate my love was true.’  Here she’s expressing her sadness and the feeling of betrayal she has for her cousin she also says ‘If you stood where I stand‚ I would have spat into his face‚ and

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    In this essay I will be investigating and exploring the way the writers in the three poems use conflict to convey a message to the readers. All three poems deal with conflict in different ways. ‘Bayonet charge’ is about a soldiers experience in a violent battle. ‘Half caste’ is about racism and John Agard talks about how half caste is an offensive term to use on mixed people. Lastly‚ the poem ‘Catrin’ shows us it’s a relationship between a daughter and the mother and how they deal with conflict.

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