rose. “Ars Poetica” has many lines that use imagery‚ one of which compares words to the flight of birds‚ “a poem should be wordless as the flight of birds” (MacLeish 7). Both writers did an impeccable job using imagery to enhance the readers understanding and use descriptive words to make the poem more beautiful and interesting sounding. “Ars Poetica” and “Sonnet 130” are similar in the way that they both have a similar theme of simplicity and adoration. “Ars Poetica”
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instigating a change. It is a gateway to new opportunities if the individual decides to take the initiative. The poet uses repetition of the phrase "go and open the door" as the opening line of each stanza to create a emphatic tone that implores the reader to take a chance‚ to leave their comfort zone and take on the outside world. The italic word "maybe" shows the uncertainty and unpredictability of the consequences after the person had gone and opened the door. "A tree‚ or a wood‚ a garden‚ or a magic
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Cepler Youth’s Perspective The poem “Where the Sidewalk Ends” by Shel Silverstein contains a deeper meaning than what shows on the surface. This poem tells a story about a better place that only the children know; a place different from all the hate and darkness shown in modern life. Shel Silverstein is mostly known for his touching children’s book‚ The Giving Tree‚ and poetry. In the poem “Where the Sidewalk Ends
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“Poetry is the art of rhythmical composition‚ written or spoken‚” according to the staff of Dictionay.com (1). Another individual might argue that poetry‚ is indeed the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings (Wordsworth 1). One demands simple things of a poem; a poem must have a meaning‚ a logical message to society‚ an intellectual impact or an emotional impact‚ and lastly‚ some sort of rhyme scheme. While it is easy to say that the typical place for a poem‚ to be heard or seen‚ is in an English
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Overall‚ Sonnet 116 is in The Cannon because it is a well-written‚ influential poem that Shakespeare created to formally declare the definition of love. While I am particularly partial to poems‚ Frankenstein is an exceptional example of a novel that demonstrates what was important during the time it was written. Frankenstein follows the story of an eccentric scientist‚ Victor Frankenstein‚ who creates a destructive‚ vindictive being that destroys everything Victor cares about. Mary Shelley‚ throughout
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deaf man who was very close to him/her‚ and ‘The River God’ presents a lonely God who is abused by people and resorts to murdering women to keep himself company. Both characters are lonely and the portrayal of this loneliness causes you – the reader - to feel sympathetic towards them. The ‘River God’ is lonely because he is only used by others‚ no one stays to be with him‚ they leave – ‘and I like the people who bathe in me . . . or will she go away?’ suggesting that he enjoys their company but
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‘Sonnets for Helene’. The poem is three quatrains in length‚ has an ABBA rhyming scheme and is written in iambic pentameter. Through clever use of punctuation‚ and the repeated use of “and”‚ Yeats manipulates the pace of the poem and encourages the reader to slow down. The subsequent effect‚ therefore‚ lends itself to the slower pace of life that accompanies old age. ‘When You Are Old’ is narrated by an anonymous man‚ who is expressing his deep and undying love for a woman who has‚ thus far‚ rejected
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In Seamus Heaney’s oem‚ “Blackberry-Picking”‚ Heaney utilizes diction‚ alliteration‚a nd rhyme in order to express his discontent in how fleeting life’s beauty can truly be. Heaney wishes to present this ideas to us as the reader through very callous diction. Every so strongly does the poet juxtapose the “summer’s blood” (7) in his poem to the succulent blackberries‚ admiring the fruit for its life-giving goodness and necessity in life. Had Heaney chosen weaker diction‚ one reading this poem would
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Marquetta Brown Eng 241 J. Zeff Formalist Criticism The poem ‘Waiting oat the curb: Lynwood California‚ 1967 written by Deborah Escobedo is about a young girl named Debbie in Lynwood‚ California who is waiting on a friend at the curb. When first examining the title of the poem‚ I think of waiting on the curb as a sign of prostitution or hitchhiking. They way I imagine the scene of the poem is; a hot summer day in an urban area in Lynwood‚ California. I imagine Debbie’s
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This poem represents the poet‚ Thomas Hardy as the persona and his grief over his wife’s death using imagery and emotive language. The poem is set at the moment in time after the persona’s partner’s death‚ where the persona is at her grave. The poem reflects on the persona’s guilt of mistreating his late wife while she was alive and his yearning to be with her now ‘Would I lay there – And she were housed there! – Or better‚ together… We both‚ - who would stray there’ Hardy wrote this poem as a way
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