Robert Browning’s poems ’Porphyria’s Lover’ and ’My Last Duchess’ are both about psychotic men who kill their lovers. However‚ the men differ in their motives as Porphyria’s murder could be considered to be done out of love whereas the dukes murder is one of jealousy. This heavily influences our feeling towards the two men‚ as the duke is a bitter misogynist compared to Porphyria’s ‘Tender murderer’. Dramatic monologue by definition is a piece of performed writing that offers great insight into the
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beginning of Joanna Diaz’s poem “On My Father’s Loss of Hearing‚” she has an epigram. An epigram is a brief and memorable statement about the poem. Her epigram states that deaf people are not disabled‚ but only abled differently. In Joanne Diaz’ poem‚ “On My Father’s Loss of Hearing‚” she contradicts her epigram and goes back and forth between depicting her father as abled and disabled. Joanne Diaz states all of the things her father has lost in the second stanza of her poem which contradicts her epigram
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After reading several different poems‚ "The Great Figure" really stood out to me. Although the poem is short in length‚ I feel like it has a story hidden within each word‚ phrase and verse. The poem is about someone seeing the number 5 on a fire truck‚ in the rain‚ as the truck is racing through the city. The image connects the to the poem and also tells the same story as the poem. In the image‚ the number 5 appears three time in three different sizes. The different sizes creates the illusion
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Billy Collins use figurative language and imagery in the poem Flames to express an idea or thought. Billy Collins has used Imagery in Flames to show an idea or a thought he has had. Smokey The Bear is walking in the woods with a gas can and some matches. “Hat cocked at a disturbing angle”(line5). This is imagery because it makes the reader visually see Smokey The Bear. When you see this type of imagery it alters the reader’s perspective of the poem to think something is not correct. Smokey The Bear is
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call “the common dialogue of Americans.” He passed away October 14th‚ 1965. The speaker of this poem is going through an identity crisis. They are dull and don’t see themselves having a personality. They see women in beautiful saris in the beginning of the poem and revel in how exotic and interesting they are or appear to be. Simultaneously they are conscious of their own bland way of life
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Billy Bragg is writing a poem about the young boys and girls of America and at the same time portraying that America is not living up to what it is supposed to. In one way or the other‚ the tone is resentful and so some extent angry that little is known yet a lot of harm is going on around the great America. In the poem‚ Billy Bragg acknowledges that there are several individuals who are in America and staying with the hopes and dreams that they are one day going to have to go down just like the
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The title of the poem is “A Soldier’s Plea.” The title is more than a label because it gives a brief description of the poem. The words in the title‚ such as plea‚ may invoke the reader to feel grief for the soldiers that fought in war. The poem is mainly about the agony of war. In the poem‚ it shows the pain and suffering the soldiers went through along with the mothers‚ whose sons are in battle. Don’t send a mother’s son‚ just to go die in a war; The soldiers’ injury caused the other to look
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but wives know how to hide their suffering well‚ as she expresses in the poem: “A married state affords but little ease: / The best of husbands are so hard to please. / This in the wives’ careful faces you may spell‚ / Though they dissemble their misfortunes well” (1-4). This quote also shows how Philips uses iambic pentameter and rhyming couplets to make the poem more appealing to the reader. According to the poem‚ women are better off being single. As Philips writes: “Turn‚ turn apostate
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Kairos: The poem’s setting begins as the narrator is sitting in his wheelchair in the dark. It says that he was wearing a “Legless‚ sewn short at elbow” (line 2) which allows the reader to see that he has lost his legs. Then the setting moves in to the past as his memories become of topic. In his memories he remembers how it was to dance with girls and have a good time. Then at the end of the second stanza we move back into the present as the narrator reminds us that now the girls want nothing to
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day are gathered bird and bee; | | And oft at nights the garden overflows | | With one sweet song that seems to have no close‚ | 10 | Sung darkling from our tree‚ while men repose. | | | | When first my casement is wide open thrown | | At dawn‚ my eyes delighted on it rest; | | Sometimes‚ and most in winter‚—on its crest | | A gray baboon sits statue-like alone | 15 | Watching the sunrise; while on lower boughs | | His puny offspring leap about
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