miXing AnD mATcHinG By: William Meyer SECTION A • Poetic Devices Glossary Poetic Devices Glossary Irony: a difficult term to define can refer to a manner of expression or a quality in the thing perceived. In both cases‚ irony involves the perception of discrepancy‚ usually between apparent and real significance. It is an indirect way of communicating an attitude. Irony can vary in tone‚ from humorous to bitter. Example- Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge:
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Zachary Moore Professor Jo Scott-Coe Images of Women in Literature 16‚ March 2012 Poem of Sappho Then I said to the elegant ladies: “How you will remember when you are old the glorious things we did in our youth! We did many pure and beautiful things. Now that you are leaving the city love’s sharp pain encircles my heart.” The poem above is one of the many poems of the famous Greek poet Sappho. Although many of Sappho’s writings were publicly burned in the cities of Rome and Constantinople
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“Comparing Poems & Short Story’s” Comparing short stories with poems can be an interesting way to learn literature. Things to look for are similarities in themes‚ the events that take place‚ the meaning of the poetry‚ and similar emotions or outcomes from what was read. The three pieces of literary work that will be discussed and compared are Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour”‚ Sherman Alexie’s “Grief Calls us to the Things of This World”‚ and Alfred Lord Tennyson “In Memoriam”. The point
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The theme of Poem 508 Im ceded Ive stopped being Theirs- is the exploration of the narrators growth from childhood to adulthood‚ through the development of spiritual consciousness. The reader is immediately made aware that the narrator has undergone a dramatic change. With the use of the word ceded‚ there is the sense that something has been given away. It is usually territory that is the object of this verb and so its unusual application to a person captures the readers attention. Furthermore
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Exposure to War Wilfred Owen is a complex poet. His wartime poems have proven to be influential to those seeking to view conflict from an insider’s perspective. Unfortunately that perspective is anything but pleasant. In his poem Exposure‚ he explains the horror of war and the effects on those involved. In order to properly dissect the meaning of Owens poem‚ one must refer the ideals of New Criticism. By analyzing the word usage‚ imagery‚ figures of speech and those connotations (Bressler
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“The Road not Taken” is an analogy discussing about a person who made an important‚ but irreversible decision of life in the past. The poem symbolizes how that person (the speaker) chose the risky decision that has a large impact in that person’s life. In fact‚ later the person feel uncertain if the decision was right. The “yellow wood” depicts the condition of carefulness and privacy. The decision that the speaker made particularly talks about a long-term private life decision. The speaker uses
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says mom is first‚ he says mom second‚ he says mom third and finally on the fourth time he says dad. Moms are so important that god says they come first three times before father’s. In the poem I chose “Mothers Are A Special Gift” it compares mothers to gifts from god and I for one wholeheartedly agree. This poem incorporates so many different techniques in four stanzas‚ that made the experience of reading it all the more enjoyable. In “Mothers Are A Special Gift‚” it uses both simple and complex vocabulary
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as the author desires. Both Edson’s W;t‚ and the poems of Donne reflect this idea of intricate textual differences‚ despite shared themes. The difference in ideas regarding the themes stems from the differing contexts‚ or cultures that the texts are based in; these cultures being literary‚ and scientific. While Donne’s poems are written from a literary culture‚ the bulk of W;t is set in a scientific culture. These opposing cultures
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Anders Carlson-Wee explores how ethics is merely a byproduct of societal rules and displays that idea with a children’s game‚ giving cause to morality. To begin‚ “Dynamite” uses a game to represent how society influences our ethics. At the start of the poem‚ the speaker lays out the rules of their game and how “[anything] you throw. is dynamite” (6‚ 7). Their game has structure and rules similar to how society‚ purposefully or inadvertently‚ has guidelines for its members. It is through these rules that
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With the poems of Siegfried Sassoon we are moving from the conventional way of writing in the approach of the issue of war‚ in what sense??? First of all his approach is an anti- war approach ‚ he is not encouraging young people to join the war ‚ he speaking of war as being a cause of death. Because he is less conventional; he is less traditional ‚ he is writing poems labeled until now as anti war poems ‚ we find the division of his sentences‚ rhyme in words‚ the division of the poem into 2 stanzas
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