The Washington DC metro is the main source of transportation for thousands of people in DC‚ Maryland and Virginia. Many of those people rely on the metro for getting to and from work. With all of the new construction Metro had announced that the hours would be cut. It used to be open until two o’clock in the morning‚ but now it closes at midnight. Also‚ the spokesman for metro just said last week that even after the construction is finished they might be sticking with these hours. This is something
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The use of Personification and Metaphor in ‘Mirror’ In the Poem ‘Mirror’ by Sylvia Plath‚ there is a continuing theme of change. In the beginning the changes are simple‚ like the acts of day turning to night‚ but at the end we see the life changes of a woman in particular. Through the use of metaphor and personification in the poem‚ Plath creates images of water‚ reflections‚ and colors as having human characteristics to emphasize the strong theme of change throughout the poem. From the beginning
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The poem that we are going to analyze in this paper is section XI from the poem In Memoriam‚ which was written in 1850 by Alfred Tennyson. In Memoriam is a long poem with 131 sections with a varying length. Besides this‚ it also has a prologue and an epilogue‚ a happy marriage song on the occasion of the wedding of Tennyson’s sister Cecilia. It was written after the death of Arthur Henry Hallam‚ a friend of Tennyson’s and it deals with many intellectual issues of the Victorian Age‚ since the
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‘In Flanders Fields’ – John McCrae Canada is one of the few countries in the world to have a poem printed on their currency. The font is so small that you need a magnifying glass to read it‚ but the poem is there on the ten dollar bill‚ written in both English and French. It is the first verse of John McCrae’s ‘In Flanders Fields’ – a poem written during the First World War. John McCrae‚ the author of the poem‚ was inspired to write the poem on May 3‚ in 1915‚ after the death of his friend and
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Introduction In this paper‚ different perspectives of the nature of poetic language will be illustrated by using a stylistic analysis of a poem‚ „Sonnet 55‟‚ written by William Shakespeare (see Appendix for full poem). In the stylistic analysis‚ the use of sound and rhythm to convey complement meaning by Shakespeare will be in focus here. Poetic function in poem Poetic language is a type of language that commonly found in poetry1. According to Jakobson (1960)‚ formalists believe poetic
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SONNET 18 William Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18 is one of one hundred fifty four poems of fourteen lines written in Iambic Pentameter. These sonnets exclusively employ the rhyme scheme‚ which has come to be called the Shakespearean Sonnet. The sonnets are composed of an octet and sestet and typically progress through three quatrains to a concluding couplet. It also contains figurative language and different poetic devices used to create unique effects in his sonnets. Shakespeare’s sonnets consist of words
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The poem‚ Carpet Weavers‚Morocco by Carol Rumens is written in four stanzas each comprising three lines. There is no noticeable rhyme scheme. Vocabulary and sentence structure are relatively straightforward with every line except the final two end stopped. Themes of Social injustice/poverty‚ Childhood and Work run through this poem. There is an emphasis on colour in the first stanza. The bright colours of their dresses are contrasted with the black of their braids. Braids is interesting as it highlights
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Lee English 220 Topic #1 23 March 2014 Essay Two Shakespeare commonly used pressing issues of his day‚ or limitations imposed on people during the Elizabethan era as an underlying theme in his play. In Much Ado About Nothing we see two very different tempered couples falling in love‚ and Shakespeare uses the limitation of chastity to prove honor in the play. Sexual fidelity and innocence for woman was almost more important than beauty in Shakespeare’s time‚ and this is reflected in his plays
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ENC 1102 “ Those Winter Sundays” by Robert Hayden is a poem about how the author is recalling how his father would wake up early on Sunday‚ a day which is usually a rest day by many people‚ to build a fire for him‚ so that he could get out of bed in to a warm house. However‚ he fails to appreciate his father’s love. This poem captures the sense of father and son relationship‚ and it also is a letter from Hayden to his father (Gallagher 245). It is sad because the son does not talk to his father
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The Stolen Child "The Stolen Child"‚ a poem by W.B. Yeats‚ can be analyzed on several levels. The poem is about a group of faeries that lure a child away from his home "to the waters and the wild"(chorus). On a more primary level the reader can see connections made between the faery world and freedom as well as a societal return to innocence. On a deeper and second level the reader can infer Yeats’ desire to see a unified Ireland of simpler times. The poem uses vivid imagery to establish
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