Analysis of a Poem When You are Old‚ by William Butler Yeats‚ represents and elderly woman reminiscing of her younger days. A past lover whispers to her as she looks through a photo album. Basically‚ Yeats is showing that as the woman gets older‚ she is alone‚ but she does not have to be lonely. She will always have her memories for companionship. "When you are old and grey and full of sleep‚ and nodding by the fire" (l.1-2) depicts the woman in her age‚ needing to nap more frequently
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Poem at 39 and Piano Poem at 39 is about a woman describing the relationship with her father. She first talks about how she misses him but the poet portrays a subtle sense of dislike and resentment. She says he was tired when she was born ‘How I miss my father I wish he had not been so tired when I was born. This makes her feel like she is not wanted as she has so many other siblings. A child that age would feel very bad if her father did not give it their love and attention and as they get older
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describe the setting of the poem? (the weather‚ atmosphere) 2. What effect does Porphyria have on the atmosphere in the cottage? 3. Why can’t Porphyria give herself to the narrator completely? 4. What does the narrator realise and how does this make him feel? 5. What does the narrator do and why? 6. What happens at the end of the poem? (Think about the lover’s frame of mind?) An Investigation into Porphyria’s Murder Remember: • This poem is a dramatic monologue. •
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Jordan Friedman Mrs. Kashmer English Period: 4 5-29-13 Writing to Compare Literary Works The following poems set a great example of imagery. The poet’s use of imagery adds to the meaning of each poem. Imagery describes a poem’s true meaning with the five senses. The images of blackberries help me understand the poet’s ideas within the words because of its vivid details. The visual images in line two have a clear picture of blackberry bushes filled with berries. Each adjective is like berry after
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Analysis of Pat Mora ’s "La Migra" Pat Mora ’s "La Migra" is a poem presenting two speakers‚ one female and one male‚ who are playing the game "La Migra" which means "border patrol agents". Mora creates a snapshot of the dangers of living near the Mexican border through the narrators ’ "game". The poem is written with childish language‚ but includes ambiguity of whether the players are children approaching a disturbingly mature theme or whether they ’re adults trying to minimize the stress of
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MAHATMA GANDHI vs. GENGHIS KHAN E.K ABSTRACT Leader is someone who has the ability to influence people on certain way. In order to become a leader‚ person has to have some skills or abilities. Through the history there many leaders with different characters‚ attributes‚ knowledge and skills. All of them had one common thing: they had ability to influence. Some leaders were better than the others‚ some left positive marks‚ some left negative ones and some left both of them. In this paper
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Glonmore” and “A Vision” Both poems were written during the same period‚ during the twentieth century. Simon Hermitage presents a vision as a contrast between with a real life‚ a polluted world and a dream of an unrealistic giving a vision to the readers of a perfect world which cannot be realistic. In the same similarities‚ “The Blackbird of Glanmore”‚ Seamus Heany wants to share with us hiss sadness after his brother’ s death . Although Armitage’s line to introduce his poem‚ he uses oxymoron “The future
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Poem Reflection Poems‚ they are interesting‚ attractive and most of the people enjoy them too. We had a poem contest in our school between grades. So‚ our contest between grades 8 went well and I had fun doing it. Something’s went well and something’s didn’t go that well‚ but overall it was a fun thing to do. I learned a lot of things by this poem competition. My role was to make posters. In the beginning I really liked my role because it was something I wanted to do and something that I was interesting
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Mongol domination of China lasted from 1211 until 1368. Mongol clans existed in Mongolia for a long time before‚ but Genghis Khan was the first to have the idea to take over other nations. Khan was allied with the Mongols and when he was poisoned by a rival clan his son allied with the Mongols. In 1206 he unified the Mongols into a single confederation. His son was Genghis Khan‚ who put the Mongols on the map as a force to be reckoned with. He created an army with no tribal affiliations and he chose
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The poem‚ Sonnet 11 is a lamentation song of unreciprocated love by Lady Mary Wroth. She was an English Poet of the Renaissance. She lived between 1587-1651/3 and was from a distinguished literary family and was one of the first women to be recognised as a literary talent. Her life was not an ideal one. Her husband died but she did find love with her cousin‚ Earl William Herbert. It wasn’t easy for her though‚ as Herbert was also one of the favourites of Queen Elizabeth and she moved him around
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