CONTENTS Introduction: How to use these Notes The poems: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Sujata Bhatt‚ A Different History Gerard Manley Hopkins‚ Pied Beauty Allen Curnow‚ Continuum Edwin Muir‚ Horses Judith Wright‚ Hunting Snake Ted Hughes‚ Pike Christina Rossetti‚ A Birthday Dante Gabriel Rossetti‚ The Woodspurge Kevin Halligan‚ The Cockroach Margaret Atwood‚ The City Planners Boey Kim Cheng‚ The Planners Norman MacCaig‚ Summer Farm Elizabeth Brewster‚ Where I Come From 1 14 William Wordsworth
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William Blake Poem William Blake‚ the worlds famous English poet (1757- 1827). He never limited himself to a title where you would say he’s poet of only romance or drama but whatever went wept through his soul he would engrave it in words. Joy and sorrow are opposite each other yet Blake develops poems from each aspect. The two poems I will be talking about are Infant Joy and Infant Sorrow. Infant Joy seems as if it’s a poem about an Infant named Joy. It is very perky
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one of the first forms of english literature. The poem we read was told by Anglo Saxons. Beowulf is a Hero that seeks the adrenaline of fight evil monsters. Beowulf the movie and Beowulf the poem have different themes‚ but they similarities inside of the themes.In the Beowulf movie and poem‚ there are similarities and differences in behavior of women‚ theme‚ and Beowulf and his behavior. The first example of similarities and differences in the poem and the movie is Beowulf and his behavior. Some similarities
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Rebekah Frost LAL 153: Online Summer 2015 Unit 14: Poetry Analysis Assignment Poetry Analysis Essay Due: 7-20-15 “Having a Mind to Change the World” By Howard Nemerov The poem is about daylight saving time. Daylight Saving Time (DST) is an age-old practice where people would advance time by one hour to extend daylight time into the night. In effect‚ they would sacrifice sunrise time‚ also by one hour. People in the regions affected would adjust their clocks around the start of spring. They would
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created the brilliant poem‚ “The Tides.” This specific poem is the story of watching the tides change. Most of Bryant’s works are nature-oriented and take advantage of multiple literary terms. “The Tides” has a significant meaning‚ several romantic elements‚ and uses many literary devices. The general interpretation of “The Tides” is about what occurs when the tides change. Bryant uses great description in characterizing the violent seas at high tide. Norbert Krapf analyzed this poem and described the
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novel ender unknowingly wiped out the bugger race and promised to give the hive queen life again. When Ender leaves‚ he is leaving not only his home‚ but all the memories he has built here along with his loving sister Valentine. Analyzation: In this poem I tried to portray the sadness Ender was feeling to leave his life but also the sense of duty he felt to the hive queen. I used Stanza break to highlight those feelings separately. I used imagery in describing Trondheim so that the reader could get
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Laura Tong 8A Poem Appreciation Essay‚ Growing Up by Michelle Williams Growing up by Michelle Williams is a poem about the hard years of teenage life. Her poems covers the types of both physical and emotional pain teenagers have to go through. I personally enjoyed this poem because it describes many problems that I am going through as a teenager and that makes me feel like the poet understands me well. Pain is a constant theme in the poem. Williams used effective
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in these two poems “Stopping by woods on a Snowy Evening ” and “Loveliest of Trees” describe man’s attraction to the beauty of the nature outside. Robert Frost and A.E. Houseman each use different types of sentence structure‚ imagery‚ and diction to depict the environment and feelings of the narrators in their poems. Written by Frost‚ “Stopping by the woods on a Snowy Evening‚” tells of the travels of a man who stops briefly to watch the snow; however‚ there is much more to this poem than a literal
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“This is poem that has been composed by Kevin Halligan. The poem ‘The Cockroach’ is a sonnet written by Kevin Halligan. It is written in the iambic pentameter as there are ten syllables in each line and as it mostly follows the pattern of the syllables being unstressed and then stressed. For example the line “I (unstressed) watched (stressed) a (unstressed) giant (stressed-unstressed) cockroach (stressed-unstressed) start (stressed) to (unstressed) pace (stressed). The poem includes a few literary
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Criticism To: Professor Salirick Andres ELP 473: Literary Criticism By: John David S. Tamondong AB41FA2 S.Y: 2014 – 2015 This Formalist Criticism focuses on the poem entitled‚ The Rhodora. This will cover the overall structure‚ tone‚ and analysis of the meaning of the poem. The Rhodora is an embodiment of the many fascinating flowers that proves that all the qualities of beauty are found in the universe waiting to be recognized and admired. This representation
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