Sappho: Poems In her work “Let’s Not Pretend‚” Sappho juxtaposes opposite ends of the spectrum of being‚ using life and death‚ black and white‚ mortality and immortality‚ old-age and youth‚ but not in a nostalgic theme. She cites her current old age‚ and seems to be relatively acceptant of the fact that life is indeed waning‚ and that she‚ unlike so many who she has seen‚ will not simply be stuck in the quest for eternal beauty. She writes “No‚ no one can cure it; keep beauty from going/And I
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To what extent does Lochhead’s choice of language in “Rapunzstiltskin” further the plight of feminism? Berten’s (2001) suggestion that “female writers… [are] regularly found to have succumbed to the lure of stereotypical representations” is certainly apocryphal when applied to Liz Lochhead’s “Rapunzstiltskin”‚ which promulgates “our maiden’s” autonomy and‚ indeed‚ her independence. Certainly‚ Lochhead’s use of the noun – “maiden” – is employed to connote archaic suggestions of an unmarried woman
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Lucy poems Lucy poems are the 5 different poems written by WW between 1798 and 1801. They belong to the second edition of ‘’Lyrical Ballads’’‚ which is a collection of both Wordsworth’s and Coleridge’s poems. Lucy poems are lyrical ballads‚ they are written in verse and they all tell a story as briefly as possible. Wordsworth wrote them in the simple language of common people and he often used dramatic changes of states and ironic inversions which are also present in the traditional ballad.
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What Saves Us and The Way of Tet by Bruce Weigl are two poems that find the small pockets of beauty in war amidst all of its’ ugliness and elaborates on that beauty with Weigl’s powerful and eye opening writing techniques. Weigl writes with painstaking care and every syllable‚ adjective‚ and break is surgically placed here and there to evoke specific emotions from the reader. Bruce Weigl approach to writing is captivating and pure. In the first poem What Saves Us Weigl writes about a young man who
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Colorado where he founded the Aspen Writers’ Conference and edited the Aspen Anthology. His poems have appeared in many periodicals‚ including Ontario Review‚ Massachusetts Review‚ Crazyhorse‚ and Southern Poetry Review. Kurt has also edited several anthologies (published by Milkweed Editions.) Currently‚ he lives with his wife‚ Laure-Anne Bosselaar‚ in Cambridge‚ Massachusetts. PERSONIFICATION Within this poem‚ there is plethora of personification to convey a certain statement about constellations
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independent of your own reading and study of the poems. (NATE & W.B.S) NOTES ON PRESCRIBED POEMS FOR CSEC LITERATURE Preamble: Please be mindful of the fact that poetry makes up a third of this syllabus and that for the Paper II (the essay-writing paper) students are required to demonstrate their understanding of how the poets’ techniques are used to convey and shape meaning (including the tone and mood) in the respective poems. For every poem on the list you should be able to describe the
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Work without hope analysis Work without hope was written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The poem is mainly about how spring is starting up and all the animals are moving around and the speaker seems to still be stuck in his depression. The first half of the stanza includes a personification In the first half of the poem‚ the speaker identifies that the bees‚ slugs‚ and birds are coming out of hibernation. The speaker seems depressed as spring is starting up and all the animals are moving around
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Patrick Primeaux Dr. David Pulling English 1002 March 13‚ 2013 Describing Linda Pastan’s “Pass/Fail” This poem was written in a style using free verse. This means that there is no rhyming repetition and it sounds pretty much like a speech given by a person. The author of this poem‚ Linda Pastan‚ wrote this poem in 1975 to give the reader what she experienced through images. In this case‚ the images portray the worries of taking an exam and how to study. An (image) is a way to express to the
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women the world would not function. In the poem “Africa”‚ the speaker personifies the country as a woman who has gone through tribulations of getting her country stripped by white men enslaving her sons and daughters. Through it all she regains her strength. What she went through helped her to become a stronger woman‚ and stronger country. The speakers uses vivid imagery‚ metaphors‚ personification and gives human emotions to the continent. The entire poem is a extended metaphor to describe Africa
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The poem we are analyzing is called "To Autumn" by a poet named John Keats. The poem is an Ode to autumn. It’s a very serious‚ thoughtful poem that praises the season autumn. From the language and words Keats uses‚ we can tell this poem was written some time ago in the early 18th century. The poem is dedicated to autumn and is an expression of joy and harvest. We can tell this poem is an ode because of the way he praises autumn ’Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness.’ The first stanza is mainly
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