Analysis of the poem‚ “Still I Rise” Maya Angelou’s poem‚ “Still I Rise” may contain different meanings depending on the reader who interprets it. It is a poem that talks about keeping one’s head up no matter how hard the situation they come from and not being affected by the problems on the side. Maya Angelou was part of a generation wherein the black race was still seen as “inferior”. During that time‚ the “truth” is usually kept hidden favoring the more superior groups of people. Hence‚ the
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Faith Miramontes English 350 MW 7:00-8:15am Essay #3 Final Draft 13 October 2014Communicating through Diction The English language is a complex system that includes different manners of speech to communicate in the three phrases of life: infant‚ adolescent‚ and adult. These three phases can be further divided into other categories of expression; Baby-Talk is used in the infant stage‚ Valleyspeak for the teenager‚ and some adults use Military Linguistics. The difference is to communicate
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Hurston uses elevated diction as well as manipulation of viewpoint to enrich the audience with her childhood experience. In the beginning of her essay the author starts off with a very detailed description of her house as she details the exact number of trees. By doing this the author is able to provide the author with a rather vivid description of her childhood home. She furthermore emphasizes the importance of the flowers as she states how expensive they are in New York in comparison to her small hometown
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Explore the way writers present strong feelings to interest the reader. In the poem The Laboratory‚ written in 17th century by Robert Browning‚ there are many references to strong emotions that are felt. Robert Browning wrote this poem as a dramatic monologue. The main feelings throughout the poem are pain‚ jealousy‚ anger‚ hatred and loneliness. These themes are in each of the text‚ the Laboratory and Macbeth. Although both texts are written in different forms of literature - Shakespeare’s "Macbeth”
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independent of your own reading and study of the poems. (NATE & W.B.S) NOTES ON PRESCRIBED POEMS FOR CSEC LITERATURE Preamble: Please be mindful of the fact that poetry makes up a third of this syllabus and that for the Paper II (the essay-writing paper) students are required to demonstrate their understanding of how the poets’ techniques are used to convey and shape meaning (including the tone and mood) in the respective poems. For every poem on the list you should be able to describe the
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In Act 2‚ Scene 2 of the play A Raisin in the Sun‚ Hansberry uses powerful diction and specific details to show Walter’s dream of being a wealthy businessman. Walter is constantly thinking about his version of a perfect life and considering all of the possible opportunities. He has always dreamed of coming home “after a day of conferences and secretaries getting things wrong the way they do… ‘cause an executive’s life is hell [...] And I’ll pull the car up on the driveway… just a plain black Chrysler
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Louis MacNiece’s poem‚ The Cyclist‚ is split into three stanzas‚ each of which has its own ideas/themes. The poem speaks of a cyclist biking on a hot summer’s day and it looks at the characteristics of a typical summer’s day. The poet looks at the theme of freedom as well as the swiftness and short-lived joy of youth. The cyclist is depicted as cycling quickly and freely. The opening word‚ freewheeling‚ highlights the theme of freedom and speed which recurs throughout the poem. The phrase “unpassing
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Teds Hughes and mark doty poems are written in animals point of view ‚ Showing each unique animal character and their point of view about this world from their perspective. The poet uses literary devices in their poems using tones‚ personification ‚ and visual imagery to evoke the reader’s emotions and to make the poems more comprehensible. In this two poems the poets made a unique quality of personifying the hawk and the dog because they cannot articulate their thoughts and emotions into
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Born Yesterday | Point | Example | Effect | F | 2 stanzas of irregular length * First stanza talks about positive wishes made by the rest of society which are wished for every child * Second stanza echoes the structure of a sonnet (14 lines long and ends with a rhyming couplet) | In the first stanza‚ the poet talks about wishes of ‘being beautiful’ and ‘of innocence and love’ made by the rest of society‚ whilst the second stanza he wishes for her to be ‘ordinary’ and ‘dull’. | By presenting
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Three of her more popular poems‚ “I’m Nobody! Who are you?‚” “Heart‚ we will forget him!‚” and “I Felt a Funeral in My Brain‚” all speak to Dickinson’s strengths as an innovative and gifted poet by portraying those qualities for which her poetry is so well-known. Living a mostly hermetic life for many years‚ Dickinson shut herself away from the world‚ maintaining social contact only with close friends and relatives through letters. This loneliness resonates in her poem “I’m Nobody! Who are you?
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