In the WWI poems “Suicide in the trenches” by Siegfried Sassoon and “The Leveller” by Robert Graves‚ an important idea that is conveyed in both poems is that war is not beautiful. It is an end to humanity and war itself is destruction. Sassoon uses imagery and emotive words to show us the true horror of war and Graves uses metaphors and similes to highlight the idea that there is no glory in dying and that those back home have been misled about the death of the soldiers. In Siegfried Sassoon’s
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The speaker of the poem declares that unlike other misguided souls who choose a disciplined life‚ he prefers to be a rowdy rebel. The unfortunate choice of comparing himself and others to plants demonstrates the poet’s lack of skill in poetry composition. The poem consists of five uneven verse paragraphs‚ which regarding the subject matter makes a perverse kind of sense. That it is pretending to be a poem at all then balances the sense in the negative. First Verse Paragraph The speaker begins
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The name of her poem was called scorned. The message conveyed bold words feeling Symone’s energy and pain all wrapped together with her beautiful soliloquy of words. The poem depicts of a young girl scorned as a man had taken her innocence but still trapping the audience into her words using metaphors to display a picture she was saying in her poem. Symone paints a picture of how life would be as a child of innocence‚ just how a young girl should live her life with bold words and repetitive
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devices and themes between ‘Hour’ and ‘Sonnet 116’ Both ‘Hour’ and ‘Sonnet 116’ were written 500 years apart‚ yet both of these poems explore the significant characteristics of love and time. Both poems explore that time and love does not match. But in ‘Sonnet 116’ love is the dominant figure from time and in ‘Hour’ time is the dominant figure from love. In the poem‚ ‘Hour’‚ Carol Ann Duffy is talking about how one ‘Hour’ of their day can be spent as if they have all the time in the world. Using
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the American Dream are founded on opportunity for all‚ it has become an inaccessible illusion for most. John Steinbeck’s novella “Of mice and men” explores the fragility of this concept in a more modern context. Whereas Sam Mendez’s film “American Beauty” uses black comedy to highlight the allusive nature of the American dream that has become perverted by an affiant society. Both of these texts expose a reality that reveals the isolation and loneliness experienced from pursuing American dream.
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Anne Bradstreets is an amazing poet of her time. The poem The Flesh and the Spirit is a struggle between two sisters that can never be separated‚ Flesh and Spirit-body and soul‚ ultimately ending in final peace. Their inflamed arguments are about the ideal values of life and what matters to the human race. Flesh is for riches‚ pleasure‚ and the publics eye. She values earthly items and her fulfillment of her wants. Spirit finds satisfaction is God and the thought of Heaven. Their fight ends up in
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Wars inspired many writers to write poems during and after the wars. Some poets fought during World War I and World War II. We can define a war poet as person who participates in war and writes about his experiences. The war poems I read from WWI and WWII are kind of related. In this essay I will do a comparison of two different poems from each world war. "Wirers” is a World War I poem about a soldier that was going to fight at WWI. The soldier had to overcome many obstacles to get to a barbed wire
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describing and explaining it. Emily Dickinson and John Donne both do this in their respective poems. While they have the same topics‚ these two poems have plenty of differences as well. “Because I Could Not Stop for Death” and “Death‚ be not Proud” address the same topics but focus on different aspects of them‚ have drastically different styles‚ and flow very differently. First‚ when read out loud‚ these two poems flow very differently and have different rhythms. Their accents and pauses come in all
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this outlandish generation and their eventual disillusionment with their society. American Beauty‚ the 1999 film directed by Sam Mendes and written by Alan ball‚ uses the setting of contemporary middle-class suburban America to examine the differences between the inner and outer realities of a “typical” American Beauty are obvious in connection between Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby and Mendes’ American Beauty are obvious in the themes‚ plots and the actions of the characters. The values and beliefs
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Elizabeth Bishop and Her Poem "Filling Station" Elizabeth Bishop ’s skill as a poet can be clearly seen in the thought- provoking poem entitled Filling Station. She paints the different language levels of poetry with the skill of an artist-- she seems to have an eye for detail as she contrasts the dark and dim reference of a filling station to a more homey‚ pleasant atmosphere. Bishop aptly arranges her words and expressions through the language devices of voice and metaphor. In Filling
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