reasons‚ ‘The shadow of the poplar fell Upon her bed‚ across her brow’ line 55 and 56. The metaphor of the tree is supposed to be the husband in the distance‚ the shadow increases the yearning and longing for him to satisfy her needs‚ also the use of enjambment
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spill into the next stanza‚ thus detracting from their free-standing integrity. These stanzas are not syntactically self-containing and therefore the end-couplet value is undercut. If we examine the end of the eighth stanza we see that there is enjambment into the ninth stanza. In one long yellow string I wound‚ Three times her little throat around‚ And strangled her. (Browning‚ Porphyria ’s Lover"‚ Lines 39-41) This does detract from the couplet though it emphasizes the tone
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------------------------------------------------- Shooting Stars By Carol Ann Duffy ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- “Shooting Stars” is a horrific and moving poem written by Carol Ann Duffy. She adopts the persona of a female Jew speaking out from beyond the grave about her terrifying ordeal before she died in the Holocaust. A powerful impression is left on the reader after reading Duffy’s dramatic monologue and visual descriptions
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lines forces the reader to slow down as to not read it incorrectly‚ miss a letter‚ or skim over the deep message in general. Perhaps Cummings wanted the reader to bask in the overwhelming sense of loneliness that the poem creates. Cummings also uses enjambment to create imagery within the poem. The phrase‚ “a leaf falls”(1-6) has an incredibly shattered syntax‚ and the reader’s eyes move across the poem as if they are watching a literal leaf fall from a tree. This adds to the message of the poem by invoking
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with eight syllables and end with six‚ but the rest has inconsistent syllables. The poem has a loose iambic pattern with a metrical pattern of 465543. The following example shows iambic tetrameter: “A toad the power mower caught.” The poet uses enjambment as shown in stanza one: Chewed and clipped of a leg‚ with a hobbling hop has got To the garden verge‚ and sanctuaried him Under the cineraria leaves‚ in the shade Of the ashen heartshaped leaves‚ in a dim‚ The commas in the middle of the
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repetition with ‘you were’ suggests that the parent’s duty is done and the child is ready to move on in life without the need for her mum to help her any more. But we know the mother has been successful in helping her daughter because of the use of enjambment to show she is continuously caring and the metaphor ‘water to me’ shows she was a vital part of life because water is required to survive. Nettles however shows a new experience for the father as words linked with learning are present throughout
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Look again at the poem First Frost. Write an essay analysing the poem in as much detail as possible. First Frost is a short‚ free verse poem about a young girl who has been hurt for the first time or ……has gone through her heartbreak/virginity/sexual assault... Throughout the poem Voznesenski tells us that there will be many more events during our lifetime. He uses language and figurative devices to evoke imagery‚ such as personification and metaphors. The poet carefully chose adjectives and
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up to the reader. He uses repetition to develop rhythm‚ repeating the first two lines at the beginning of each stanza: “there’s a bluebird in my heart that/wants to get out.” As I said before the bluebird is a symbol for the good soul. There is enjambment through out the poem. There is alliteration in too tough and say stay. Also there is internal rhyme in say and stay. In the second stanza there is an imagery and uses the bluebird as a simple metaphor for his fears and weaknesses that he never
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the persona “walks strathfield’s paths and streets” and “played chasings up and down” for “eight years.” This represents repetitive life and the perception that belonging is a result of being part of a group and/or inclusion. Peter Skrzynecki uses enjambment and listing to not only list the highlights of his schooling life‚ but also as a clever technique to compress time into a meaningless period. This furthermore reinforces the notion not belonging due to the lack of connection and dissociation to
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what he wants. By reaching towards the hatch‚ he is moving away from something‚ linking to the context‚ it could be suggested that he is moving away from his mother which can prove the loss in his relationship with his mother as he grows up. Enjambment in stanza two allows the readers to foresee an image in their head in relation to the poem. The lines are stretched out within the stanza like a tape measure spread out in the house and the staircases. Not only does Armitage use this visual technique
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