The great German Lieder use the versatility of a piano and beauty of a poem to set an intimate mood for its audience. Scenes the poem paint are the crux of the lied. Supernatural elements injected into the verses bring the power of the unknown; that is what makes Schubert’s "Erlkönig" stirring. The German poem by Goethe opens with a father clutching his feverish child‚ riding through a windy night. But the child sees a forest spirit‚ the Erlking‚ beckoning him to death. His father tries to placate
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Animal spirits are said to be able to change into human form. He continues the poem by:Here he is implying that within him is an animal‚ and this animal is Coyote. The animal and Ortiz are one in the same‚ which makes Coyote and Ortiz one in the same as well. The closeness of the two described here shows Ortiz’s familiarity with
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may backfire and hurt us. It’s a fear that comes naturally because we all know that we are too trivial to gain control over the world. In the poem “The Story”‚ Karen Conelly examined the confrontation between insignificance and vastness and conveyed the idea that human’s deepest fear is the fear of being consumed by things he does voluntarily. The poem is highly metaphorical and symbolic. The story‚ on the surface‚ really is about swimming in the ocean alone. However‚ as we readers examine further
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death Onomatopoeia “BOOM” This is an onomatopoeia because it imitates the sound of a gunshot. This helps the poem become more lively and interesting by this use of onomatopoeia as you can hear the gunshot which correlates with death. Furthermore‚ this bluntly states the theme which is that drugs kill people and helps the theme become more impactful. This also helps set the mood of the poem which would be frightful as when you hear the “BOOM” you will imagine a gun shot. Allusion Explicit “Drugs
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readers. The stories in the New Testament and the Poem of the Cid each had a particular impact on the audience in the time period for which they were written due to the writing style of the authors. Each work provides a written history of a topic important to the readers many years after the events occurred: Matthew and the author of Acts recorded the story of Jesus and his early ministry as it would impact the First century C.E; and the long-sung Poem of the Cid was recorded to act as a model or example
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Many writers on their venture to becoming great‚ are faced with roadblocks. I too feel those stresses. When sitting down to begin a story‚ novel‚ or poem we all strive to be different. But as Baldwin explains‚ "there is no original thought‚ because we all humans think and feel has been thought and felt so many times before‚ by so many generations." This in itself makes starting writing a very daunting task. Not to mention the sea of fellow authors you are competing with for limited shelf space. A
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standing Is this the exact same spot where He last saw her? Everywhere feels like a cemetery to me now In the library‚ while I was checking out my books I wondered how many couples decided that Holding onto unresolved arguments was not Love after all‚ but just A milder version of Torture‚ while they ripped pages out of the
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How the poets explore the concept of loss in “Mid-Term Break” and “Mother any Distance” In this essay‚ the concept of loss will be discussed in the poems “Mother‚ Any Distance” by Simon Armitage and “Mid-Term Break”; which is an autobiographical poem by Seamus Heaney based in Northern Ireland which looks at denial and regret felt in loss whereas “Mother‚ Any Distance” explores the loss in the relationship of a family. The metaphorical use of “counting bells knelling classes to
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Cord 5. “eight dancers dressed as swans.” – Mary Cornish Numbers 6. “Always wants a hug and never gets enough”- Ronald Koertge Sidekicks 7. “whose perfume swayed in the air‚ turning the modest flowers scarlet and loose.” –Peter Meinke Love Poem 8. “Their whisper rises from beneath the stones to fuse into a single… light.” – Yves Bonnefoy Passer-By‚ These are Words… 9. “He wanted to go inside them and live.” Naomi Shihab Nye Rain 10. “But listen harder‚ use your imagination…”
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K. Kelen in The Gods Ash Their Cigarettes and W. H. Auden in Funeral Blues both portray the idea that reality is harsh and it can take a great loss to realise this. Kelen explores the experience of losing a loved one through the emotions held at a funeral. While Auden’s Funeral Blues similarly explores the harshness of reality through the loss of a loved one by describing the grief of losing one so dear. Kelen formulates hyperbole to exaggerate the effect death takes on all‚ such as when writing
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