English 11H Period 4 27 January 2015 Poems by Langston Hughes I Dream a World 1. Main idea of the poem? The main intentions of the poem are presenting a world where blacks are equal to whites. Langston Hughes wants a world that is fair‚ without the discriminations or segregations by society’s norms. 2. Tone? The tone of the poem is filled with hope but also skepticism. The poem rhymes and is very easy to read. The rhymes give off a very light feel throughout the lines. As the poem progresses‚ you fee
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After reading Landscape With The Fall of Icarus by William Carlos Williams and Musee Des Beaux Arts by W.H. Auden‚ a clear idea is present. Both authors seem to minimize the importance of Icarus’s death‚ but with what intent? In both poems‚ self-concern outweighs any intentions to help Icarus. It is clear to me what the authors were trying to express by implying that people simply had their own things to do‚ too used to disaster to even care about anyone besides themselves. In the Landscape
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To Celia is a love poem with a simple four line rhyme scheme (abcbabcb)‚ written in first person. The over all tone of the poem is dreamy‚ optimistic‚ persistent‚ and gullibly innocent. The rhythm is smooth‚ and pensive‚ and seems to fall into an iambic pentameter. The poem gives the reader an intimate sense of this man’s love‚ and obsession for the woman of his desire‚ Celia. I interpreted this poem as having a theme of lost love. I imagined that Celia is his ex-lover‚ he still is in love with her
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Hammad’s poem Break in that it speaks to the Humanities in Ethnic Studies. My central analysis is that Hammad’s gripping poem Break is predominately catered to the aspects of the human portion of this assignment. Furthermore‚ this essay can be viewed as counter-hegemonic. It shows that her stanzas connote a re-enunciation of personality and requires a redistribution of emblematic power. Consequently‚ this is based on this writer’s literary analysis of Hammad’s verses. Therefore‚ this poem exhibits
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I was successful in creating two poems relating to Korean culture. My ideas were creative even though it was similar to the poem about French Revolution. I connected the Korean culture to a major historical event in Korea. “Not Our Home” is a poem from a young Korean boy’s perspective in past tense. It describes how unfair the Japanese were to Koreans and also describes the negative emotions that existed as the Japanese went on ruling Korea. But if you read it on‚ you can see that all the Koreans
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Comparing Literature Poems "HAVISHAM" In the poem "Havisham"‚ Carol Ann Duffy presents the subject of this poem as an old‚ embittered woman with "ropes on the back of her hands"‚ while Browning presents the subject of his poem as a strong and determined but very jealous and embittered young woman. The poem is written in the first person in the form of a dramatic monologue‚ "The Laboratory" by Robert Browning is also written in this form. Miss Havisham is aware of her own stink - because she does
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In Sharon Olds poem‚ "The Race‚” Olds tells her story as she races to the airport and scrambles through the Gates in order to fly home and see her dying father one last time. The poem infuses suspense as she swiftly makes her way through to the airport and to the Gate that was departing in a few moments. Olds’ excessive use of enjambments‚ metaphors‚ and personification demonstrates her sense of persistence all throughout the poem. Moreover‚ she attentively listens to the young man‚ which provides
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new way to look at familiar situations. Judith Beveridge does this in three of poems. “The Domesticity of giraffes”‚ “Fox in a tree stump” and “The Two Brothers”. Through the use of repetition and personification she incorporates her feelings about cruelty towards animals and humans. She uses these techniques in all three of her poems. Poetry shows the reader a new way to look at familiar situations and in her poem “The Domesticity of Giraffes” she uses repetition to show the cruelty towards the
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With an almost identical name‚ the two poems‚ "Mosquitoes" by David Campbell and "Mosquito" by John Updike share the theme on mosquitoes. However‚ both composers had used different language techniques and tone to express their differing opinions on mosquitoes. Whereas Campbell describes mosquitoes as "our babies"‚ Updike displays mosquitoes in a more negative view such as our opponent. In addition to presenting and sharing the same subject‚ the poems also similar in the following ways‚ such as the
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In the poem “Sestina‚” the author‚ Elizabeth Bishop‚ depicts a painful story of a grandmother and a child living with loss. Most readers who have some knowledge of Bishop’s biography would assume that the poem reflects the time in her childhood when she lived in Nova Scotia‚ after her mother had been committed to an asylum (Sanger 47). The story begins in a kitchen on a rainy afternoon in September‚ with both the grandmother and the child having tea and reading the almanac. While the grandmother
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