England when the war was over. ‘But wars are never over and I have yet to go to England…’.The first promise ever made to him was broken as his father died‚ and he was sent to live with his mother‚ who lived with her new husband. For the poet‚ the happy times were over. At the station‚ no one even came to pick him‚ and he roamed about‚ looking for his mother. When he finally saw her‚ he was given the excuse that she thought the train was late. His parents were social animals‚ regularly
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Homework – Compare how poets explore language in ‘Unrelated Incidents’ and one other poem. The language employed in poems ‘Unrelated Incidents’ and ‘Half-Caste’ effectively portrays the discrimination both poets receive. The writers’ use of language shows how they feel and how they deal with the discrimination. Both poems show positive diction. ‘Unrelated Incident ‘ is written as third person‚ making it feel we are being directly spoken to and half-caste is written in first person so the reader
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expresses the love that poet has for his lover or son. The poem follows the conventional English sonnet format with a rhyme scheme of abab‚ cdcd‚ efef‚ gg. The poem contains three quatrains and one couplet. How does the poet’s image of alchemy contribute to love and the motif of gold coinage and valuation? The poet begins by talking about his experiences of many beautiful sun rises. The sun could be looked at in two different ways. The “sun” in the poem suggests that the poet is talking about his lover
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form‚ rhyme scheme‚ or meter. The poet used a free verse in this poem to keep it in a casual mood. The poem is not about some great moment that would need fancy meters and rhyme schemes to express the occasion. It is a casual moment between a girl and a boy expressed in a casual way. The boy in the poem is telling the reader outright‚ because the poet wrote it the way someone would talk. The poem is a simple record of something that happened that day. So the poet wrote it in a simple free verse way
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by boey kim cheng. He was born in Singapore and is now teaching creative writing in an Australian university. This poem is about how Singapore was planned and built because of the insatiable desire toward perfection of the people. In this poem the poet uses various literary tools like alliterative phrase‚ oxymoron‚ irony and many others. There are also various kinds of tones in this poem. The main tones are lament and accusatory. In the line “They plan‚ They build‚ All spaces are gridded.” In the
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the poem itself. The situation is set by the title‚ and this makes all that follows clear as far as its meaning is concerned. The poet creates a dramatic situation through the eyes of one participant‚ and while nothing really happens beyond two people observing one another‚ the poem says much about urban life‚ racial relations‚ and accompanying fears. The poet attempts to lay bare the similarities and differences between the life of a Caucasian person and that of an African American person
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John Milton‚ wrote the “Temptation of Eve” were both writing about things that could not be explored by living people. Dante’s main character‚ the poet‚ is also his alter ego‚ so it is a first person perspective of him. Milton’s main character‚ Eve‚ is from the bible from the story of Adam and Eve and in the Garden of Eden. The plot of the inferno is The Poet goes on a journey through hell with assistance from the spirit Virgil‚ and the plot of the “Temptation of Eve” is Satan tempts Eve to east the
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How do the poets feel about the past? I am writing an essay comparing how the poets who wrote: piano‚ once upon a time and poem thirty-nine feel about the past. In Piano the poet listens to a woman play a piano which reminds him of his past‚ the lines ’ Taking me back down the vista of years‚ till I see A child sitting under the piano’ show that he can remember being a small child – small enough to be under a piano and the addition of the line ‘ of a mother who smiles as she sings’ informs
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Impersonal Theory of Poetry is that ’the poet‚ the man‚ and the poet‚ the artist are two different entities’. The poet has no ’personality’ of his own. He submerges his own personality‚ his own feelings and experiences into the personality and feelings of the subject of his poetry. The experiences or impressions which are obviously autobiographical may be of great interest to the writer himself‚ but not to his readers. The more perfect the poet‚ the more completely separate in him will
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in which the poets perform their work. The poets are judged by people of the audience. The host‚ who was pregnant‚ selected the judges who were instructed to give a numerical score (the score being 0 – 10). The score was based on the poets’ content and performance. I was a little hesitant when the host asked me to be a judge. Since this was the first time‚ I was scared that I wasn’t going to be a fair judge. The host explained to me the basic rules for the contest and how the poets are selected
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