an English (or Shakespearean) sonnet with three quatrains and an ending couplet. What "celebration" seems to be made in the three quatrains? How is this celebration deflated in the ending couplet? "From the preface to The Book of American Negro Poetry" (pages 964-966) According to Johnson‚ what are the contributions that can be made by Negro poets? Do you think that Johnson’s statement "the richest contribution that the Negro poet can make to the American literature of the future will be fusion
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Text Response: War Poetry Dulce et Decorum est by Wilfred Owen and Homecoming by Bruce Dawe are about the disaster of war‚ yet they speak of different wars with different mindsets of the soldiers. In the following essay I discuss the history behind the poems‚ the poetic devices that Owen and Dawe used. Each poem addresses their own truths about war. The first poem is from WW1 where ignorance was common‚ so common that boys of only 17 years were signing up for “the adventure of a life time”. The “adventure”
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with a story that echoes a lesson‚ how money controls and defines your lifestyle. He also has a way with his voice to empower your soul and lift your spirits. What I noticed about this particular artist was that his songs are the perfect blend of poetry and music. It makes you want to dance‚ as well as sing along. the first few lyrics of the song are "From the morning to the evening; Complaints from the tenants; Got the walls kickin ’ like they 6 months pregnant; Drinkin ’ Alizé with our cereal for
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“Because I Could Not Stop for Death” Poetry uses many different literary elements to express ideas and themes. Emily Dickinson’s‚ “Because I Could Not Stop for Death” captures the feelings of one whom is accepting death with open arms‚ while reminiscing on her journey through life. Dickinson’s life‚ as well as historical context plays a large role in influencing “Because I Could Not Stop for Death.” Throughout her life she became increasingly isolated‚ as well as facing many circumstances surrounded
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unborn children. More importantly‚ this is a more nontraditional poem‚ varying in form‚ theme‚ tone‚ and style. One of the reasons why this poem is so modern is because of its difference in rhyme scheme from more traditional poems. More traditional poetry does not place a lot of emphasis on rhyming and often the diction is much more complex. "The Mother" consists of three large stanzas containing consecutively rhyming lines and the diction is relatively low. As far as how the poem appears on the
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Dana B. Rhodes Thomas Lovell LIT115-1N1 26 February 2013 Poetry Reading Log * “The Secretary Chant” by Marge Piercy was written in 1973. I felt the author was describing how this woman was so engulfed in her work that she felt like she was nothing but a machine‚ something whose sole purpose was to work and produce. The sentences are very mechanical and choppy and I felt that it helped to emphasize the point of her feeling of being a piece of office equipment. She took the tools of her trade
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The history of English poetry stretches from the middle of the 7th century to the present day. Over this period‚ English poets have written some of the most enduring poems in Western culture‚ and the language and its poetry have spread around the globe. Consequently‚ the term English poetry is unavoidably ambiguous. It can mean poetry written in England‚ or poetry written in the English language. The earliest surviving poetry was likely transmitted orally and then written down in versions that do
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metaphor‚ the one analyzed here‚ the ‘conceit’ owns its singularity to its main basis as an extended kind of metaphor‚ consisting on comparing two elements that otherwise would not have been considered any similar. Usually many conceits prevail in poetry and are used in other cases. What conceits do is mixing and transforming ideas and images in non-expected ways. In the case of the poem ‘Hope’ the conceit works as the central theme of the poem‚ consisting on a complex comparison between an abstract
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submit to the class. Throughout all of the reading‚ many of the works inspired me in different ways‚ whether it was short story plot ideas or word usage in the poems. While crafting my work for the final portfolio‚ I reviewed many of the poems from our poetry packet in an effort to find inspiration and to create new interesting images. I took the most inspiration for my formal poem‚ which I found most difficult to write. One of the poems that was most useful to me was Jilly Dybka’s “Memphis‚ 1976.” Dybka’s
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Poetry Poets use many ways when they want to communicate something using poems. Poems are used as a means of passing ideas‚ information and expression of feelings. This has made the poets to use the natural things and images that people can relate with so that they can make these poems understandable. The most common forms of writing that are used by the poets are the figurative language for example imagery and metaphors. In addition‚ the poets use the natural landscape in their attempt to
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