Response to Literature Poem Analysis Writing Guidelines Subject: Poem Form: Analysis Purpose: To explore meaning Audience: Instructor Sample Poem Read the poem below and think about its content‚ theme‚ organization‚ and use of poetic techniques. Then read student writer Stefano Giagregorio’s analysis. I AM THE PEOPLE‚ THE MOB By Carl Sandburg I AM the people--the mob--the crowd--the mass. Do you know that all the great work of the world is done through me? I am the workingman‚
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Inside the pages of the Greek poet Aristophanes’ Clouds‚ the reader will find a drastically different portrayal of the philosopher Socrates than one would inside the pages of the Republic. In the play‚ Socrates is completely unaware of his surroundings‚ and is able to justify purposely making just actions stronger than just actions. The main character‚ Strepsiades‚ initially seeks the help of Socrates because he knows Socrates will provide him with the skills to avoid paying back his debts to the
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the mark a person can leave on the world the poem “Dusting” was written. In its simplest form a signature is the easiest way for someone to expresses who they are and to leave their mark. In the poem this is the focus of the little girl who “each morning wrote [her] name on the dusty cabinet” and every other available surface in her house as her her mother to erased them all everyday (line 1-2‚DUSTING). In order to emphasises every action in this poem‚ to hyten the importance of the simple signature
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7) In G. J. Finch’s (n.d) "Wordsworth‚ Keats and language of sense" he decodes the role played by the ’senses’ on their poetry. In the first half he discusses Wordsworth’s utilization of sight and hearing. The latter was of the opinion that ’senses...are interpreters of private language we share with Nature’. Furthermore Finch claims that the poet attempted to "seek meaning" via the "world of sight" as for him Nature offered pearls of wisdom that could be found by those that looked for it. This perspective
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With the thousands of poems depicting the game of baseball and its remarkable players‚ coming across a poem seeking thorough cross sectioning of the crowd is unusual‚ and rarely encountered. William Carlos Williams has created a poem which portrays the crowd as a quasi-organized mob bent on either cheering for their team‚ or in turn‚ booing them. The reason why Williams does this is because he is portraying‚ in a sense‚ simplicity versus chaos with simplicity being the game of baseball itself and
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William Shakespeare’s Macbeth is a tragic play. Gradually throughout the play’s sequence‚ Macbeth’s actions become increasingly more wicked and evil. The real focus is how and why Macbeth changed so drastically. The three witches predictions or prophesies had a traumatic effect on him that slowly began his steep downfall. In the beginning of the play‚ Macbeth was the trust-worthy Thane of Glamis. He was respected from high ranking people for his military achievements. "For brave Macbeth - Well
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understandings of a journey. This can be clearly seen in the three films Beneath Clouds‚ Finding Nemo and (related text) where the journey is undertaken in many ways. The opening scene of Beneath Clouds begins with sombre‚ uplifting music mirrored with a panning shot of the ethereal clouds. We are then introduced to Lena’s story as the camera zooms down to mundane earth‚ which juxtaposes with the previous shot of the clouds‚ highlighting the unwelcoming and harsh landscape. A truck passes through introducing
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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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Favorite poem: A Love Poem for Lonely Prime Numbers by Harry Baker Favorite websites: vice.com‚ buzzfeed.com Favorite song: They can’t take that away from me by Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong Favorite musical: Wicked Favorite Artist: Lucia Hartini Lucia Hartini’s paintings are largely influenced by her own personal struggle and beliefs. She is an Indonesian artist whose work addresses her status as a woman and a Catholic in a predominantly Muslim community. She was a victim of domestic violence
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William Wordsworth (1770-1850) and William Blake (1757-1827) were both romantic poets. Romanticism was an artistic and intellectual movement that originated in the late 18th Century. Blake and Wordsworth tended to write about the same things such as nature‚ people and structures‚ such as cities like London. Emotions also played a big part in romantic poems. Often poets would be inspired by a simple view and would write a masterpiece about it. For example‚ Wordsworth lived in the Lake District for
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