to evoke. b) I think the subject matter is a bird in a bare tree‚ at dusk. (98) Question 2 a) Techniques used in this poem are: • Alliteration “bare branch” (Line 1) • Assonance “rook roosts” (Line 2) “autumn dusk” (Line 3) • “Kigo” – a word stating or suggesting a season “autumn” (Line 3) b) The alliteration of “b” creates a cold‚ lonely sound. The assonance of “roo” and “u” evokes the cry of a bird‚ deepening the melancholic and sad effect. The
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“Thou art more lovely and more temperate.” The interpretation of the second line is that this person is lovelier and milder than a summer’s day. The author in this instance uses repetition of the consonant sound ‘m’ a technique called the alliteration. Alliteration means the repetition of initial stressed consonant sounds in a series of words within a phrase or a line of a verse to give it a certain feeling. If the second line is read aloud‚ it sounds soft and mellow. It is because of the consonant
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Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words. Good morning Ms Linton and students‚ today I will be informing you on why you must choose these two poems for the poetry speaking contest. The poems I have chosen are ‘The Man from Ironbark’‚ by Banjo Patterson as well as ‘He Started the Cycling Craze’ by myself. Narratives help the readers enjoy and understand poetry as it is a way the poets can connect to their readers by using storylines that may relate to them
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ten lines of the poem Heaney uses vivid imagery to describe the setting and its sights‚ smell and sounds. The phrase ’flax-dam festered’ in the opening line combines assonance and alliteration‚ and begins to create the atmosphere of decay. ’Heavy headed’ at the end of the second line again uses assonance and alliteration in one phrase to describe the flax that had rotted. The heaviness is emphasised further in the third line‚ where the flax is ’weighted down by huge sods’. The idea that hot weather
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A Farewell to False Love By: Sir Walter Raleigh A Farewell to False Love by Sir Walter Raleigh is the best poem in the world. Raleigh writes his experience with love as terrible and unbearable; it was written in 1588 in an era where poets would typically write about the wonders of love‚ or write to a love. In Raleigh’s poem he contradicts this idea by writing a poem that states explicitly that love seems to be a lovely thing on the outside‚ but once you experience it‚ it is like a “poisoned
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iambic pentameter‚ to create a steady rhythm that is familiar to many readers. He uses substitution feet to deviate from the regular meter and emphasize the parts of the poem he feels are important. For example‚ he uses a spondaic foot to make the alliteration "glad grace" stand out. To maintain his steady rhythm he also uses phyrric feet to rapidly flow through small words and prepositions. The second part of the line‚ "...and of their shadows deep;" uses one of these feet to keep ’of ’ from being
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Dad The poem that I’ll be analyzing in this commentary is called ’Dad’ by Elaine Feinstein. This poem is an emotional and lyrical poem in which the author is reflecting and recalling upon the memories of her deceased father. The main tones that are portrayed in this poem are sorrow‚ lovingness and mournfulness‚ and one way in which this is portrayed is through the methodology in which the poem is read‚ which is in a slow rhythmic speech and enjambment since it is a free verse poem. The author’s
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timely movement‚ or stanza‚ of the day to night shift‚ Kenyon emphasizes her overall message through the use of concrete images and other poetic means. The first stanza embodies both alliteration and symbolism. The repetitive “l” sound in the opening phrase “Let the light of late afternoon…” is an example of alliteration. This can also be seen with the “a” sound throughout the second stanza. By repeating these sounds‚ Kenyon is putting emphasis on the forthcoming peace being brought by the still night
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Priscilla and the Wimps by Richard Peck 1. Identify the setting of the story. Element of Setting Example from the story… 2. Does the story use first or third person narration? Explain why you think so. 1st Person Narration 3rd Person Narration Explain: 3. What is the affect of having a narrator who is not a main character? Support your answer in a well-structured paragraph with
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Wilfred Owen’s Exposure : Brains aching‚ dying‚ eyes becoming ice‚ all this sounds like a nightmare. In Wilfred Owen’s "Exposure‚" the speaker talks about the nightmares of not war but the cruelty of nature. In Exposure‚ Owen describes the fury of nature and how soldiers in the war die not only because of war. Exposure to the severe cold is killing everyone. The speaker starts off by saying‚ "Our brains ache." The negative nature of this statement gives one a clue as to the negative themes in
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