merchant’s minds Form: - Ballad‚ has a clear chorus - Popular form in Irish Culture - One of Yeats’ most sarcastic poems‚ he chooses this form in order to mock - ABAB Rhyme Scheme‚ simple structure and strong rhyme carry political messages better. John O’Leary - died in 1907 - Founder of Young Republic Brotherhood - Yeats was influenced by him- revolution could be born of art Stanza 1: - Against the apathy of business owners in Dublin A direct retaliation to the general strike He is disgusted
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| | our Casuarina Tree is a poem published in 1881 by Toru Dutt‚ an Indian poet. Its a perfect example of craftsmanship.In this poemToru Dutt celebrates the majesty of the Casuarina Tree and remembers her happy childhood days spent under it and revives her memories with her beloved siblings. ------------------------------------------------- Summary The poem begins with the description of the tree. The poet says that the creeper has wound itself round the rugged trunk of the Casuarina Tree‚ like
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Interpretation of poems Dulce et decorum est are the first words of a Latin saying taken from an ode by Horace). The words were widely understood and often quoted at the start of the First World War. They mean "It is sweet and right." The full saying ends the poem: Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori - it is sweet and right to die for your country. In other words‚ it is a wonderful and great honour to fight and die for your country. The opening of the poem suggests Owen pities the state to
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can’t breathe. No‚ they whisper. You own nothing. You were a visitor‚ time after time climbing the hill‚ planting the flag‚ proclaiming. We never belonged to you. You never found us. It was always the other way round. Source: Selected Poems: 1976 - 1986 A Moment in Chess The moment when‚ after many hours of planned strategies and crafted tactics‚ your Queen stands in the centre of the square‚ board‚ battlefield‚ palace‚ kingdom‚ life knowing at last how you got there‚ and say
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their peak of glory they die. Would the memory of them and their glory live on longer? In the lryic poem "To an Athlete Dying Young" by A.E. Houseman the narrator shows how dying young and at the peak of your glory is better then living to be forgotten. The setting of the poem is in a town and cemetery in nineteenth-century England during the funeral and burial of a young athlete‚ a runner. The first stanza explains the victory of a boy winning a race in his town. Neighbors and admires of the athlete
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A Kitchen Poem Now the land shawls itself in gloom. The mountain puts enchantment on. I sit in this plain-spoken room‚ and soon the cares of day are gone: crows‚ starlings‚ eelworm‚ codlin moth‚ all nature’s murderous hosts are sweeping from thought upon night’s tide like froth. Now tired with light my son is sleeping. Too great with child to sit at ease beside the window stands my wife dreaming herself away from these four walls to scintillating life‚ where brats and all thier
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The poem “Mothers” by Nikki Giovanni is about two states of mind. An adult dealing with the ups and downs of everyday life and a concerned child. This is shown by the use of opposite words. “Dark-light” and “pleasantries and unpleasantries.” Being a child‚ Nikki was trying to make sense of what was happening around her. She sees her mother sitting in a chair in a dark room upset her. Nikki is apparently a frightened child. The wetting of the bed confirms her fear. She wrote about and absent father
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will be the next one laying in the grave‚ he is fearing death. In the poem‚ “Aubade‚” Philip Larkin take the reader into his pathless journey‚ letting his audience know what he does and what will happen. He accomplished this through the use of imagery‚ poetic devices‚ and organization of the poem. Throughout this poem‚ the narrator uses imagery by describing his fear of death and the unexpected of death. In the first stanza‚ lines 1-2‚ “I work all day‚ and get half drunk at night‚ waking at four
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different backgrounds and different times with one common goal‚ equality for all. The Abraham Lincoln’s "Gettysburg Address" and Martin Luther King’s "I Have a Dream" both address the oppression of the African-Americans in their cultures. Though one hundred years and three wars divide the two documents‚ they draw astonishing parallels in they purposes and their techniques. The battle of Gettysburg was the turning point of the bloody war between the states in favor of the north. The battle over
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the country is in need of unification. After the Battle of Gettysburg‚ during the Civil War‚ many Union and Confederate soldiers lost their lives and while the Union soldiers were buried right there on their home soil‚ the Confederate soldiers were brought back to the South. Four months after the battle‚ President Abraham Lincoln delivered his famous Gettysburg Address to honor those who had lost their lives. Lincoln began the Gettysburg Address by reminiscing of the signing of the Declaration of
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