To start off‚ I took piano in High School for three years and my teacher drilled in music theory into my skull. I believe this helped my compose a melody for this poem. As I was reading this poem‚ my first impression was‚ "How am I supposed to make a melody out of this?". However‚ upon reading this poem‚ I got a feel of what this poem means. This poem is about a Blue Heron‚ a bird‚ that is looking is looking for food in November. As I was reading the poem‚ I decided to focus on the first half of
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After the lecture by Tara Bergin‚ I had different interpretations about many of her poems. The poems that truly caught my eye were “At the Garage‚” “Talking to Anne-Marie after the American Election‚” and “This is Yarrow.” Before the lecture‚ I had already read the poems and thought I understood what her poetry was about but after her explaining my comprehension had changed. When I first read “At the Garage‚” I automatically knew that the poem was about an attraction that the girl had towards the
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“Sonnet CXXX” is a spoof of the typical love sonnets written by Shakespeare’s contemporaries. It ridicules the senseless depictions that poets gave their lovers whereas in comparison the speaker in “Sonnet CXXX‚” illustrates his mistress with honest comments. These remarks declare her “true” character and show the speaker’s absolute and total adoration for her because of it. As the poem opens‚ in the first quatrain‚ we are introduced to the narrator’s‚ “I”‚ “mistress.” This term however‚ is not
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When reading Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s "Sonnet 32" I noticed that this was her only sonnet of the four in Sonnets From the Portuguese that wasn’t written directly for another person. It seems as if she was writing this sonnet in a diary for herself. This makes me believe that during the time of writing this sonnet the speaker‚ or Elizabeth Barrett Browning‚ had some internal conflict over the relationship she was in at the time and was confiding in her own secrecy to try to work out her controversial
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Shanee Thompson Professor Black ENG-243 June 8th‚ 2018 The Art of Elegies “I watch these lines grow and the art of poetry harden me // into sorrow as measured as this‚ to draw the veiled figure / of Mamma entering the standard elegiac” (Walcott ll. 48-50). An elegy is a poem that reflects on the death of a loved person or object. Just like mourning many elegies start based on memories or a recollection of thought‚ shared with the deceased. Then the speaker usually
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“A Poison Tree” by William Blake‚ “The Flea” by John Donne‚ and “ A Noiseless Patient Spider” by Walt Whitman‚ all three very differing poems‚ yet all have one major common connection. They use nature as a comparing factor for their outstanding themes. William uses the metaphor of an apple tree to capture his theme of unspoken anger‚ John uses a flea as a metaphor for love and sex‚ and Walt depicts the soul through the use of imagery of a spider spitting its web. The use of nature in a comparison
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Page 434 Question 5 Also describe effect of line endings. Read the first stanza aloud‚ paying attention to end-stopping lines and the run-on line. What is the subject of the sentence that beings on line four? "I" is the subject of the sentence that beings on line four. What is the effect of this? The way the poet positions line endings in his poem slows the "tempo" of the poem. This causes the audience to understand that the narrator is remembering his childhood memories and desperately wants
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My poem is titled “Pairs of Mandarin Ducks”. It utilizes structure‚ point of view and diction from both books to show the way the girls’ lives are interwoven. The title is a reference to Snow flower and the secret Fan. On many occasions Lily and Snow Flower referred to themselves as a pair of “mandarin ducks mated for life” () and since both their characters mirror those of Mariam and Laila‚ I changed the pair to pairs to incorporate all four of them. I used an ambiguous point of view‚ to emphasize
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The poem Red Wheelbarrow talking about how everyone needs someone in their life to depends on. From reading this I believe the interpretations from reading the first stanza and that is the writer was saying everyone needs the help of someone in order to make it‚ no one can’t do it alone. We all need someone to help us and we reach out for help. The second stanza‚ a red wheel barrow interpret that you have to struggle and hold you own weight to get ahead and we have to carry all the dirt that is
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Gerard Hopkins wrote God’s Grandeur in 1877 right around the time he was ordained as a priest. The poem deals with his feelings about God’s presence and power in the world. He could not understand how the people inhabiting the earth could refuse or be distracted from God. This confusion was due to the greatness of God’s power and overall existence that‚ to Hopkins‚ seemed impossible and sinful to ignore. However‚ as the poem progresses Hopkins expresses hope in the world and God’s everlasting presence
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