“They” by Siegfried Sassoon The poem exists out of two stanzas‚ with a rhyme pattern of ababcc dedeff. The tone of the poem appears to be a little sarcastic and mocking. The poem is a direct conversation between a Bishop and boys (soldiers)‚ it can be seen by the use of the double quotations. I assume for the boys to be soldiers as they know the other soldiers by their names. In line 1-6 the Bishop‚ is telling the boys that when the soldiers return from the war‚ they will not be the same
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ESSAI Volume 7 Article 22 4-1-2010 An Explication of a Poem: W. H. Auden ’s "Stop all the clocks‚ cut off the telephone" Scott Hixson College of DuPage Follow this and additional works at: http://dc.cod.edu/essai This Selection is brought to you for free and open access by the College Publications at DigitalCommons@C.O.D.. It has been accepted for inclusion in ESSAI by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@C.O.D.. For more information‚ please contact koteles@cod.edu. Recommended
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Informative Speech Outline Speech 131 Author’s Note: This research is being submitted for Title: Taxes Made Easy! Specific Purpose: To inform my audience about how to use the 1040EZ tax form. Central Idea: Today‚ I hope to make tax season easier for you by demonstrating to you how easy it is to fill out and file the 1040EZ income tax form‚ if you qualify. Introduction Stanton Delaplane once joked about the IRS‚ saying he heard it had suggested a simplified tax form with only
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Love’s Far Reaches Thomas Fuller once said‚ “Absence sharpens love‚ presence strengthens it.” Nothing is more painful than not being able to be with one’s true love and long distance relationships often do not last. This can be caused by many elements that cannot be controlled. In Shakespeare’s 44th sonnet‚ the speaker reveals the obstacles of distance‚ time‚ and his physical self which block him from his lover. The poem begins with the speaker’s fantasy about overcoming the great distance between
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On My First Daughter and On My First Son Ben Jonson’s poems on the death of his children Ben Jonson lived in the English Renaissance period when childhood mortality was very high due to health problems‚ diseases‚ lack of medicines and unhygienic life conditions. He got married to Anne Lewis in the early 1590s. Their first daughter‚ Mary was born in 1593 who died only six months later. Jonson wrote his poem On My First Daughter upon her death. His first son‚ Benjamin‚ born 1596‚ died of the plague
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When I do count the clock that tells the time‚ And see the brave day sunk in hideous night; When I behold the violet past prime‚ And sable curls all silver’d o’er with white; When lofty trees I see barren of leaves Which erst from heat did canopy the herd‚ And summer’s green all girded up in sheaves Borne on the bier with white and bristly beard‚ Then of thy beauty do I question make‚ That thou among the wastes of time must go‚ Since sweets and beauties do themselves forsake
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“Those Winter Sundays‚” by Robert Hayden‚ is a beautiful poem. Hayden’s poem tells a grown man’s perspective of his father. In the poem it is clear that there is distance between them and little communication. But it is discovered at the end of the poem‚ that love is actually present. Although it is only a 14-line poem‚ it packs remarkable power into each line. The very unrythmed poem begins with a very simple line letting you know what tone and mood the poem is set in. The title “Those
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Love Prevails “Idea: Sonnet 61” by Michael Drayton is a fourteen line Petrarchan sonnet that dramatizes the conflicting emotions that arise from an intimate relationship coming to an abrupt end. After analyzing and doing several closer readings‚ I learned that “Idea: Sonnet 61” is actually about the poet’s own conflicting emotions and feelings from a harsh break up. However‚ it was no ordinary and flippant relationship. It was a serious relationship that involved great amounts of passion that
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Pie Glue: The Sanctimonious Institution of Marriage Gregory Corso’s poem "Marriage" is a lucid example of how John Clellon Holmes described the Beat Generation: a display of "moral degeneration." The speaker of the poem is torn between submitting to the non-conformity of the Beats and conforming to society’s strict views about marriage and social structure. The presence of conflicting thoughts- whether or not to get married and looking at the prospects of marriage from two different viewpoints‚
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The Personified Train: Dickinson vs. Whitman Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman are considered to be exceptional influence in American poetry. Both poets possess a different style of writing‚ but many of their poems have similar themes about the environment that surrounds them. Dickinson’s "I Like To See It Lap The Miles" and Whitman’s "To A Locomotive In Winter" revolve around the theme of trains. Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman portray trains to have body parts‚ sounds‚ and movements analogous
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