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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people we don’t share the same views with‚ we feel even more secluded. This theme is present in both “The Cherry Orchard” by Antonin Chekov and “St. Lucy’s School for Girls Raised by Wolves” by Karen Russell. In the works‚ main characters Madame Ranevsky and wolf-girl Mirabella are forced to adapt to a change they don’t want to undergo. Madame Ranevsky‚ who lived her life on a cherry orchard‚ is being asked to sell her home and to move on to a new life‚ one more urban and less extravagant. Mirabella
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there is some true events behind this poem. It was based off of a French women‚ Marie-Madeleine-Marguérite d’aubray marquise de Brihvillers. She had killed her father and two brothers‚ and after her failed attempt of trying to kill her husband‚ she was caught and later on beheaded. Robert Browning waste no time jumping into the conflict of the poem. The persona feels betrayed by a man she used to be in love
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------------------------------------------------- Throughout most of Japan’s history poetry played a large part in the process of death. A jisei is a death poem‚ a poem that any person on their deathbed was encouraged to write. While if you were a samurai‚ according to the bushido code of honor‚ if you wanted to die with honor and not at the hands of your enemy‚ if you had dishonored yourself or fellow samurai‚ or if your master had died you would commit the ritual of seppuku. Seppuku is a ceremony
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The Great Big Book of Poems Table Of Contents So Excited………………………………..........1 Reason………………………………................2 The Room………………………………...........3 My Cat………………………………................4 I Love You………………………………..........5 Just A Kiss………………………………..........6 I Wish……………………………….................7 Moment Of Freedom…………………………..8 Nothing But The Best………………………….9 The Monster………………………………......10 The End………………………………
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To analyze a poem stylistically‚ we can analyze the poetic device‚ which is usually deviation and foregrounding‚ that the poet used in the poem. The term foregrounding refers to an effect brought about in the reader by linguistic or other forms of deviation in the literary text (Leech‚ 1985).In poem‚ devices of foregrounding and deviation are always used to draw reader’s attention and impress the readers. In the aspect of deviation and foregrounding‚ there are some perspectives on the nature of poetic
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war poetry is the transformation that war brings about in a person. Many poems reveal boys going into war and becoming young men after the experience. Another dominant theme in war poems is about the forgotten soldiers who lost their lives and weren’t remembered. Many poems have been written about war and the feelings evoked by war. Even though a lot of war poetry was written before World War 1‚ the defining war poems were written during or about World War 1. Possibly the main reason for this
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masterpieces. William Shakespeare who wrote during the 15th century‚ created many plays‚ lyric poems as well as sonnets. Known as a well respected master of his craft‚ Shakespeare wrote many fine lyrics which can now be found in his plays‚ poems‚ and sonnets. Similarly‚ Thomas Hardy‚ a realist poet in the 19th century‚ is best known for his pessimistic style and tone used in many poems and novels. The poem It Was a Lover and His Lass by Shakespeare and The Ruined Maid by Hardy contain several devices
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www.engishbiz.co.uk 2003 Steve Campsall How to Read a Poem Poems can sometimes be difficult to get to grips with. But remember that the poet has tried hard to say much using few words. Part of the enjoyment of a poem is the work needed to engage with it and find out what the poet is saying. Don’t always expect to be able to ‘translate’ a poem – many poems have ‘meanings’ that are hard to define precisely‚ but which still seem to strike a powerful chord in our consciousness. Remember that
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achieved great things eventually drift away. But what if soon after 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
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