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    Poetry Reading Log

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    Dana B. Rhodes Thomas Lovell LIT115-1N1 26 February 2013 Poetry Reading Log * “The Secretary Chant” by Marge Piercy was written in 1973. I felt the author was describing how this woman was so engulfed in her work that she felt like she was nothing but a machine‚ something whose sole purpose was to work and produce. The sentences are very mechanical and choppy and I felt that it helped to emphasize the point of her feeling of being a piece of office equipment. She took the tools of her trade

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    metaphor‚ the one analyzed here‚ the ‘conceit’ owns its singularity to its main basis as an extended kind of metaphor‚ consisting on comparing two elements that otherwise would not have been considered any similar. Usually many conceits prevail in poetry and are used in other cases. What conceits do is mixing and transforming ideas and images in non-expected ways. In the case of the poem ‘Hope’ the conceit works as the central theme of the poem‚ consisting on a complex comparison between an abstract

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    Poetry: Poem Analysis

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    submit to the class. Throughout all of the reading‚ many of the works inspired me in different ways‚ whether it was short story plot ideas or word usage in the poems. While crafting my work for the final portfolio‚ I reviewed many of the poems from our poetry packet in an effort to find inspiration and to create new interesting images. I took the most inspiration for my formal poem‚ which I found most difficult to write. One of the poems that was most useful to me was Jilly Dybka’s “Memphis‚ 1976.” Dybka’s

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    an English (or Shakespearean) sonnet with three quatrains and an ending couplet. What "celebration" seems to be made in the three quatrains? How is this celebration deflated in the ending couplet? "From the preface to The Book of American Negro Poetry" (pages 964-966) According to Johnson‚ what are the contributions that can be made by Negro poets? Do you think that Johnson’s statement "the richest contribution that the Negro poet can make to the American literature of the future will be fusion

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    “The Cyclist” poetry commentary “The Cyclist” is a poem by Louis MacNeice which romanticizes the fleeting joys of childhood. These joys are emphasised through imagery of summer – be it activities‚ food‚ the beach‚ a bicycle ride‚ various techniques such as juxtaposition and enjambment are used to evoke fond memories from the reader. MacNeice’s poem is set in the southwest of England‚ on a hill with a chalk horse carved into it. It is during the height of summer‚ when the grasshoppers are buzzing

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    unborn children. More importantly‚ this is a more nontraditional poem‚ varying in form‚ theme‚ tone‚ and style. One of the reasons why this poem is so modern is because of its difference in rhyme scheme from more traditional poems. More traditional poetry does not place a lot of emphasis on rhyming and often the diction is much more complex. "The Mother" consists of three large stanzas containing consecutively rhyming lines and the diction is relatively low. As far as how the poem appears on the

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    Use of Nature in Poetry

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    Poetry Poets use many ways when they want to communicate something using poems. Poems are used as a means of passing ideas‚ information and expression of feelings. This has made the poets to use the natural things and images that people can relate with so that they can make these poems understandable. The most common forms of writing that are used by the poets are the figurative language for example imagery and metaphors. In addition‚ the poets use the natural landscape in their attempt to

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    Poetry – Elizabeth Bishop

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    [2013] Poetry – Elizabeth Bishop Aoife O’Driscoll www.aoifesnotes.com Elizabeth Bishop – Brief Biography Elizabeth Bishop was born in Massachusetts in 1911. Her father died when she was a baby‚ and his death caused Bishop’s mother to have a mental breakdown. When Bishop was five her mother was permanently institutionalised and was never reunited with her daughter. Bishop’s maternal grandparents took care of her and she spent her early childhood with them on their farm in Nova Scotia. Bishop

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    Poetry Style Analyzes

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    poetry style analyses Have you ever wondered how singers make their songs or how the songwriters write the songs? Well I have and I’m going to tell you the literary devices that the singer Wale uses that all other poets singers and songwriters use. Wale uses metaphor‚ imagery‚ and rhyme in his songs to almost make them come alive in your mind. The first literary device that i will be going over is Metaphor ( a metaphor is someone say one is something that they are not) Wale uses metaphor in Lotus

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    Wwi Era Poetry

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    ones make it back? The outcome for most on the front lines was not very good. Between horrible trench conditions‚ weather‚ battles that dragged on for months and injuries so devastatingly traumatic‚ the odds of the enlisted coming home were bleak. Poetry seemed to reflect all this negative‚ sad overcast of the world. In “The Soldier”‚ Brooke writes about an Englishman dying abroad‚ thus making that part of the earth‚ forever England. “If I should die‚ think only this of me: That there’s some corner

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