Megan Jerlin College Writing 2 Assignment 1 April 6th‚ 2013 Poem Explication – “For The Union Dead” The first stanza speaks of an old aquarium‚ one that has obviously been abandoned and left to the elements. The second stanza speaks of lost memories‚ perhaps fond ones‚ of the author and the old aquarium when it was still open. The third stanza speaks of lost time and of time marching onto a new (and more often than not‚ not exactly better) tomorrow‚ with new things going up where old things
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Explication on "Lying Awake" When reading Snodgrass’s "Lying Awake" I felt completely lost. After reading the first two stanzas it seems as if Snodgrass is talking about someone feeling pressured to do something that they may not want to do or go forward with. In the first stanza he describes the moth as being "squirmed up‚ sniper style‚ between/The Rusty edges of the screen;" This might indicate the moth being someone that is involved in law enforcement or someone who can’t seem to leave a controlling
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Dialogical Odes by John Keats: Mythologically Revisited Somayyeh Hashemi Department of English‚ Tabriz Branch‚ Islamic Azad University‚ Tabriz‚ Iran Bahram Kazemian Department of English‚ Tabriz Branch‚ Islamic Azad University‚ Tabriz‚ Iran Abstract—This paper‚ using Mikhail Bakhtin’s theory of dialogism tries to investigate the indications of dialogic voice in Odes by John Keats. Indeed this study goes through the dialogic reading of ‘Ode to a Nightingale’‚ ‘Ode on a Grecian Urn’‚ ‘Ode to Psyche’
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W.S. Merwin immediately sets a tone for “Losing a Language” in the title‚ hinting at the lament-like characteristic of the poem. In fact‚ the title is not supposed to be a metaphor or even contain a hidden meaning that the reader must deduce by reading on. The poem is exactly what the title suggests: language and words‚ and thus communication‚ has been lost. Merwin creates a nostalgic and sad tone to emphasize the loss and quickly establishes the direction of the poem using simple diction. He carries
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Robert Frost starts the poem‚ “The Road Not Taken” by painting a picture in the readers minds that there are two roads that veer off into two different places. Frost realizes that he is only able to travel down one of the roads at a time. But what Frost doesn’t realize is that once he starts down one path‚ he may not be able to return back to go down the other path as well. Robert Frost’s‚ “The Road Not Taken” teaches a lesson about decisions and how one “small” decision can impact an individual’s
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When one searches for the best poem on the internet‚ the first poem that comes up on google is “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost. This poem is about the idea of decision making and deciding which path is the right path to take in life. Robert Frost wrote this poem in the first person which raises the question‚ whether the speaker is the poet himself or a character was created for this poem. The poem has four stanzas and each stanza has five verses. Each verse contains four stressed syllables
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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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‘To Autumn’ Analysis ‘To Autumn’ is a caricature of the Autumnal season written by John Keats around 1820. Keat’s direct address‚ and thus his personification of Autumn is evident through the use of the direct determiner ‘To’ which resembles the conventional opening sequence of a letter. From the personification of Autumn‚ we can denote that ‘she’ is the intended audience‚ and that we are merely onlookers to Keat’s celebration. The purpose of the piece is to eulogize the season‚ exploring most
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JT 1 JT Nancy Tuff Composition 2 – LM1 May 3‚ 2013 An Explication of “Spellbound” by Emily Brontë Have you ever found yourself knowing that you were in a predicament but had been incapable of finding the strength to leave it behind? The poem “Spellbound” by Emily Brontë relates to the idea of being unable to force oneself from a damaging situation. This can be seen through a careful examination of the poem’s title and its three stanzas. The
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Sydnee Hosler Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Explication In Cormack and Brickey’s article “Constituting the Violence of Criminalized Women‚” they reveal the underlying terms “victim‚” “mad‚” and “bad” to be associated with violent women‚ in this case seen as otherwise “troubled” individuals. This diagnosis does not support the complexity and traumatic experiences in which these women have faced that make them seem more “crazy” than men‚ as most women are seen if they
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