Beauty Poems‚ like stories and novels‚ often have themes and ideas that are expressed. In the two poems I read‚ de los Santos’ “Perfect Dress” and Hoagland’s “Beauty”‚ it is apparent that great thought was put into themes of beauty and into the ideas and opinions behind it. Through analyzation of these two poems I will collectively share the opinions and uncover perhaps previously unrealized perspectives that perhaps is not originally apparent In “Perfect Dress” the tone is immediately set with
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Both Takashi’s poem‚ ‘The Blade of Grass in a Dreamless Field’‚ and SadokoKuriha’s poem‚ ‘When We Say Hiroshima’ were written during a terrible time in the human race’s history‚ the bombing of Hiroshima. The Blade of Grass in a Dreamless Field is a poem written in English where as When We Say Hiroshima is a poem written in Japanese and then was translated to English. The blade of grass in a dreamless field is a very personal poem in which Takashi reflects upon his experiences of the Hiroshima bombing
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The Poems analysed are: The City Planners‚ Margaret Atwood and The Planners‚ Boey Kim Cheng. These are taken from the IGCSE Cambridge Poetry Anthology‚ but may be interesting for unseen poetry too. Question Set How do these poets use language and structure to get across their theme? I wrote this in about half an hour. Both poems are very similar‚ and have the same topic - City Planning - as shown in their titles. Structurally‚ they are different though‚ and the tone differs in places. I’ve
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known for his honest and accessible writing. Kooser’s poem “A Spiral Notebook” was published in 2004‚ in the book Good Poems for Hard Times‚ depicting a spiral notebook as something that represents more than its appearance. Through the use of imagery‚ diction‚ and structure‚ Ted Kooser reveals the reality of a spiral notebook to be a canvas of possibilities and goes deeper to portray the increasing complexities in life as we age. This poem opens with an extreme and vivid simile‚ “The bright wire
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www.engishbiz.co.uk 2003 Steve Campsall How to Read a Poem Poems can sometimes be difficult to get to grips with. But remember that the poet has tried hard to say much using few words. Part of the enjoyment of a poem is the work needed to engage with it and find out what the poet is saying. Don’t always expect to be able to ‘translate’ a poem – many poems have ‘meanings’ that are hard to define precisely‚ but which still seem to strike a powerful chord in our consciousness. Remember that
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revising the poem‚ Do Over‚ I aimed to be clearer and fix some of the disconnection between the stanzas. I made the decision to join the previous stanza 3 and 4 together because the previous line break acts as a transition that separates and disconnects the stanzas. By joining them together there is a better narration and connection on what is going on and I like it better this way now. I also modified some phrasing to be more clear on the allusion to a hour glass in the third stanza. New words such
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Longfellow‚ he uses a central metaphor to juxtapose loss and grief to friendship. In his first two stanzas‚ he utters about how he shoots off an arrow and soon after he loses it‚ and how he is not confident where it is going‚ and he misplaces it and he is sad‚ but he does not know what to do. He is perplexed‚ and he does not know figuratively where to look for it. But thereupon in the second stanza he talks about how he sang a song and it was lost‚ and he was said‚ but he says "For who has sight
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Comparative Commentary on “Salome” and “Medusa” Both “Salome” and “Medusa” are poems written by a poet called Carol Ann Duffy‚ which have similarities and differences based on various aspects of poem analysis. To begin with the poem “Salome” has a slightly different audience than the poem “Medusa”. The audience in “Salome” is unconfident and oppressed women who do not believe in their power and what they can do‚ men who underestimate women and people who discriminate others based on their sex
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belong To Mr. Nobody. SYNOPSIS: The poem is about a person‚Mr. Nobody‚ who does notexist‚ but who is created bythe persona to take theblame for all kinds of mistakes and irresponsiblebehaviour that happens inthe persona’s house. The persona is probably introuble for doing thingswrong and is blaming Mr.Nobody so that he or she willnot be scolded or punished. MEANING OF THE POEM STANZA 1 :- The funny little man mentioned in the poem is a little boy‚ perhaps three to five years old
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ANALYSIS Firstly the word ’hap ’ means ’that which happens by chance. ’ The poem is a sonnet‚ although it is presented as three stanzas in that the traditional octave is split into two stanzas each of four lines and the sestet is a stanza on its own. The rhyme scheme is every other line rhymes. The poem reflects an atheist’s philosophy of life and is told from the point of view of a young man. The major themes in the poem are faith‚ and suffering. The speaker is experiencing a crisis of faith as
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