responses from the responder. His poems ’Meatworks’ and ’Flames and Dangling Wire’‚ both social commentaries‚ exemplify techniques he calls upon in order to reproduce the personas feelings‚ emotions and thoughts through powerful images. Assonance and alliteration are employed by Gray to increase the memorability of an image‚ leaving it lingering in the responders mind. He uses these techniques to ensure lengthened visualisation of specific images‚ portraying the grotesque and repulsive nature of his subjects
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to construct the meaning of the expression. The poet highlights sadness when he speaks the “sad song sung by a woman. It is not a song but the dirges sung by the women who are wailing the deaths of their children. The poet also makes use of alliteration “sing my sad song sing for me” to emphasise the dirges and wailing of the parents. The poet truly brings out the emotion of sadness and hopelessness in this sentence. The poet also uses a lot of metaphor in his poem. He writes “strummed
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Philip Larkin- “Here” analysis Nick Webb The poem "Here" by Philip Larkin is a descriptive poem on Larkin’s travel from the countryside to the city of Hull‚ where Larkin lived for the last thirty years of his life. The descriptive words used to describe the motion of his journey "swerving" (which is repeated throughout the 1st stanza to represent movement) and “harsh-named halt" suggest a train journey in
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Kappeler October 7th‚ 2013 Traditional and Intellectual Methods of Digging To break away from a tradition is often a means of upholding it. This is the case in “Digging‚” a poem written by Irish poet and playwright Seamus Heaney. Through alliteration that subtly alters tone‚ changes in tense that gently signify a change from real time to memory‚ imagery that appeals to all the senses‚ a free form that allows for the manipulation of stanzas‚ and the tying together of ideas through repetition
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to him. Browning incorporates alliteration at the end of each line in this poem‚ as he passed through “the long black land” and saw the moon “large and low‚” creating the image of the environment which the man passes through. The use of the word “long” describes his lengthy trip on land‚ while the moon lying “large and low” in the sky tells of the time of his travel‚ the moon is low because he is traveling late into the night. Browning employs the ensuing alliteration serves the purpose of describing
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butterflies give up and cant drink anymore‚ this just encourages her to drink even more and win against them as if it was a competition. 4. ‘Till Seraphs swings their snowy Hats – And Saints – to windows run’ Repetition of the letter ‘s’ which is Alliteration and emphasizes it to the reader‚making it more interesting and funny. The metaphor for the snowy Hats is to the halo’s the angel’s are wearing‚ and she tells us that the highest of angels are swinging their hats‚ a very funny image because we know
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Furthermore these components help to clarify the theme of the poem that has to do with survival of the fittest and nature’s brutality. At the beginning of the poem‚ the poet expresses admiration for the pike. This is evident by the use of the alliteration “perfect pike in all parts‚” as well as when Hughes says that pikes are “stunned by their own grandeur.” The poet specifies the fish’s pattern by describing it as “green tigering the gold‚” and he created the word “tigering‚” in order to make the
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is evident when following her putting "Phenomenally" she writes "Phenomenal woman‚ That’s me" In the first line of the poem‚ the poet writes "Pretty women wonder where my secret lies" in order to foreshadow the rest of the poem. She uses alliteration in order to draw attention to the main idea of the poem. This helps emphasize essentially that although the "pretty women" has everything that should make her happy in the eyes of society‚ she seeks the aid of the average "happy" women. The three
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stubbornness‚ inflexibility‚ laziness‚ and possessiveness. After casting my Mayan astrological chart‚ I was given the Jaguar‚ the symbol of sensitivity‚ intelligence‚ spirituality‚ religion‚ and psychic. According to Mayan definition‚ the Jaguar symbol represents individuals who are tight-lipped and aggressive‚ but not confrontational. According to Mayan beliefs‚ individuals born on Jaguar day
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The Tide Rises‚ the tide falls. The tide rises‚ the tide falls‚ The twilight darkens‚ the curlew calls; Along the sea-sands damp and brown The traveler hastens toward the town‚ And the tide rises‚ the tide falls. Darkness settles on roofs and walls‚ But the sea‚ the sea in darkness calls; The little waves‚ with their soft‚ white hands Efface the footprints in the sands‚ And the tide rises‚ the tide falls. The morning breaks; the steeds in their stalls Stamp and neigh‚ as the hostler calls; The day
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