Mountain Lion is a poem that depicts the death of an inhabitant of the Lobo valley‚ a lion that is trapped mercilessly by two hunters‚ who are confronted by the poet as they leave the valley. The poet describes the lion’s face using contrasting but very emotive descriptions such as beautiful dead eyes’‚ and fine round-fashioned head‚ with two dead ears’ putting emphasis on the word dead by repeating it twice in the same stanza. In the first stanza‚ the poet describes the natural beauty of the Lobo
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Comparison of two love poems ‘How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.’ is a poem written in the 19th century by a poet named Elizabeth Barret Brown. Assuming that this love sonnet was written from the poets point of view this poem is about how a lady loves her lover. The title suggests that this poet will list how she loves a certain person and in how many different ways and the poem does exactly that‚ Elizabeth also compares her love to things that it is not possible to live without. The language
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The Study of Poetry‚ which appeared in 1888 as the first entry of his Essays in Criticism‚ Second Series‚ presents Matthew Arnold’s case for the importance of poetry. According to Arnold‚ poetry is the criticism of life‚ “and the criticism of life will be of power in proportion as the poetry conveying it is excellent rather than inferior” (237). Arnold argues that the purpose of poetry is to interpret life‚ to explain meanings beyond our comprehension: “more and more mankind will discover that we
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In Gerard Manley Hopkins ’ "Spring and Fall‚" the speaker of the poem describes the changing phases of an individual ’s understanding about loss and death from a childhood to maturity. Throughout the poem‚ the child ’s innocence is gradually lost over time as her weeping for the dying leaves turns into weeping for her own mortality. As if putting on a play for his readers‚ the poet incorporates visual images as well as aural effects into his poem. In "Spring and Fall"‚ Hopkins uses rhythm‚ word choice
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* “A Jellyfish” – Marianne Moore * * How do punctuation and rhythm reinforce meaning in Moore’s “A Jellyfish”? * * Marianne Moore’s “A Jellyfish”‚ displays how punctuation and rhythm can reinforce the overall meaning. The poem contains multiple messages and is deeply symbolic. The literal message is visualizing the jellyfish’s fluid movements through water. Also‚ its qualities can relate to the “[fluctuations]” (Moore 2) a person can endure in a lifetime. The rhythm of the poem
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“Explain how the poem “not my best side” portrayal of its characters‚ leads to archetypes being gone against.” This poem is inter-textual in a sense that it is based on the painting “St. George and the Dragon”. It takes a humorous role in portraying each of the characters found in the painting and goes against theirs common archetypes of a dragon‚ princess and knight. This poem is a parody on the archetypes that the characters of the painting should have‚ it goes against them completely in a humorous
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Key words • Offensive – a military operation which aggressively attacks in order to gain territory or achieve a specific aim. • Apocalyptic – relating to the end of the world‚ particularly in a religious sense What is the poem about? This is the only poem we’re studying which looks directly at the fighting in the war. The first three stanzas show us the soldiers relaxing before the battle and appreciating the nature around them‚ before the fighting begins in stanza 4. The men who
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Dixon’s poem Plenty shows the relationship between a mother and her five daughters which‚ on a wider horizon could be taken as a relationship between adults and children. The poet starts by telling us that they used to run ’riot’ and this was more than the mother could cope with. We are not told whether the behaviour was meant to annoy the mother or it was just a normal prank played and enjoyed by children. The situation in stanza is not a pleasant one as the poet gives us a grim picture of the situation
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I believe that the poem "Mirror" is all about identity‚ how the image of the mirror is a reflection of Plath herself‚ searching for herself and reflecting her inner turmoil. The first stanza gives human qualities to the mirror‚ making it a prime example of personification. The mirror "mediates" and "reflects." The mirror is used to personify how young people only look at the superficial qualities of themselves as well as others. With the shift in stanzas‚ the lake becomes a metaphor. As people age
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Hopkins’s unique literary style Gerard Manley Hopkins‚ a Victorian poet‚ still makes many literary critics think his work through over and over again‚ mainly because of his unique use of language. Susan Chambers is in her essay “Gerard Manley Hopkins and the Kinesthetics of Conviction” concerned with “the need for regular renewal”‚ which Hopkins considered highly important (32). Neither Hopkins nor Chambers were absolutely sure what makes us respond differently to familiar things after a period
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