Explication of "The Man He Killed" In "The Man He Killed‚" Thomas Hardy demonstrates a sense of disgust for war‚ by comparing two men‚ who could have grown up together‚ and are now fighting against each other for someone else’s cause. The speaker‚ a young man who has served his country and killed an opposing soldier‚ relates to the man he has killed. This is a closed form style poem with dark undertones of the senselessness of war. In the first stanza‚ the young man describes meeting the
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Bri Doane Ms. Stewart English II-III 30 January 2012 Explication of “The Snow Man” Wallace Stevens was a poet born on October 7‚ 1879 in Reading‚ Pennsylvania. He was always interested in writing growing up and wrote many poems later on in his life. He has written popular poems throughout his life. One of his more well-known poems is “The Snow Man”. It was first published in 1921 and is still a popular poem to this day. The poem is a very controversial one; it is open to many different
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An explication of “I‚ Too” by Langston Hughes An analysis of Langston Hughes’ poem “I‚ Too” in the book The Norton Introduction to Literature (1021)‚ shows that the author used distinct word choice and imagery to write a timeless poem about ignorance and bigotry that can be applied to any group of oppressed people‚ while at the same time he conveyed a strong sense of hope that at some future time‚ all will be welcome at the table. The opening line of “I‚ Too‚” “I‚ too sing America” (1) speaks
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1.Home ’s the place we head for in our sleep. 2. Boxcars stumbling north in dreams 3. don ’t wait for us. We catch them on the run. 4. The rails‚ old lacerations that we love‚ 5. shoot parallel across the face and break 6. just under Turtle Mountains. Riding scars 7. you can ’t get lost. Home is the place they cross. 8. The lame guard strikes a match and makes the dark 9. less tolerant. We watch through cracks in boards 10. as the land starts rolling‚ rolling till it hurts 11. to be here
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Explication of “Piers Plowman” by William Langland ENG/306 April 9‚ 2012 Shannon Loerch Explication of “Piers Plowman” by William Langland In the 14th century William Langland penned a poem entitled “Piers Plowman”. He used 111 lines of metered rhythm to illustrate a man’s quest for a stereotypical Christian life. Classified as a dramatic poem the manner in which the author describes this quest invokes an imaginative fever in the mind of the reader. The language used requires
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creates a full picture of a life changed forever by war. In the first stanza‚ the tone is lighter‚ describing a scene where two boys are running through towns. The boys race‚ the faster one being described as a "wild rabbit". This stanza feels dream like‚ the organization of thought is loose‚ and word choice seems almost erratic‚ almost unrehearsed. The first stanza ends with a twist. The faster boy is killed by a mine and his friend‚ just seconds behind‚ witnesses the whole thing. The second
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Text Explication and Facets of Poetic Genre Sonnet 60 by William Shakespeare Professor C. Soldan Poetry is “the art of rhythmical composition‚ written or spoken‚ for exciting pleasure by beautiful‚ imaginative‚ or elevated thoughts”. This paper will focus on poet William Shakespeare (1564-1616) who was famous in the Renaissance Period prior to the year 1750. Shakespeare was found to have 154 written sonnets‚ which dealt with themes such as the time‚ love‚ beauty and mortality. However‚ a personal
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A Mother’s Work ENG/125 March 6‚ 2013 A Mother’s Work A liquid takes the form of the container into which it is poured. Similarly‚ an artist chooses a medium for painting or sculpture‚ and a poet chooses a form. This aesthetic should complement the artist’s overall theme. In the case of “Woman’s Work” by Julia Alvarez‚ the chosen form is a villanelle. This form is very restrictive and repetitive‚ often used to express some sort of obsessiveness. Alvarez slightly modifies the traditional
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research focus from media-centered effects on people to the ways people use media to meet their needs. Some scholars even believe that the most prominent of the recent advances in media theory today has come from research in the U&G approach. In this explication paper‚ we firstly introduced the theory by looking at its historical development and key components‚ then further discussed of the importance of this theory and its implications for further development in mass communication research. Development
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was why it whispered and did not speak. D extra s. / emphasis It was no dream of the gift of idle hours‚ E emphasis Or easy gold at the hand of fay or elf: C emphasis Anything more than the truth would have seemed too weak D To the earnest love that laid the swale in rows‚ F Not without feeble-pointed spikes of flowers E (Pale orchises)‚ and scared a bright green snake. G The fact is the sweetest dream that labor knows. F emphasis My long scythe whispered and left the hay
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