imagery‚ in addition‚ involves two famous types of poetic devices: metaphor and simile. It’s intriguing to see that the metaphors are used to describe the ugly‚ while the similes are used for the beauty. These two devices add on to our understanding as readers to see that with the metaphors for the ugly is meant to make us see an over exaggerated view of the speaker’s reality in regards to his beloved and the similes for the beauty is meant for us to see what the speaker really sees because he is in love
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As you grow up everybody wants to be a somebody‚ but! does there come a time where becoming a somebody can make you lose yourself? As a child your ultimate goal is to grow up‚ maybe be a famous lawyer‚ or a famous boxer or even just famous for doing nothing like Paris Hilton or the kardashian.To be "somebody" can be defined as is to have status in society. In " I’m Nobody! Who are you?" Emily Dickinson uses imagery and capitalization to show her passion of how being considered a "nobody." can actually
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did not consider the opinion of the reader and later in the quatrain‚ continues this theme when he states‚ “Such seems” in the third line. This quatrain was a commentary on the beauty of his beloved friend. The poet acknowledges that this is his perspective; yet he does not acknowledge the perspective of anyone else. These lines also discuss that his beloved friend is as beautiful as when they first met and that his opinion of beauty is not judged upon the reader. In the second quatrain‚ the poet
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responsibility‚ honor‚ and social patterns (5). However‚ this line serves to cultivate the disjointed repetition tactic Dickinson employs; the words “Estate” and “entailed” are assonant‚ but again a hyphen separates the words‚ forcing the speaker and reader to pause (5). The next lines “Upon an unsuspecting Heir – / Duke in a moment of Deathlessnes” continues the imagery of inheritance and patterns‚ as the use of “Heir” and “Duke” suggest responsibilities and expectations (6-7). This‚ of course‚ contrasts
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Exploring the Loss of Innocence in Christina Rossetti’s poem ‘Cousin Kate’ The poem ‘Cousin Kate” written by Christina Rossetti signifies a story of the speaker which explains what happens to a ‘cottage maiden’ once she has been sullied by a man which consequently leads her to lose her innocence. ‘Cottage maiden’ creates a rural simplistic image of the speaker who has a low status. Due to the Victorian era in which the poem was written it is clear that the poem is based around the fact that women
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accorded to temporal affairs” (Hopkins’s The Windhover 190). Although Hopkins considers the sprung rhythm more natural‚ most readers finds it difficult to understand. As Chambers brightly clarifies it is “more natural to rhythms of thought and feeling than it is to rhythms of speech (22). The essays concerning with poetry‚ as those written by Cervo or Chambers‚ help readers fully appreciate the works by such a great poets as Gerard Manley Hopkins. Works
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description of love and the ambitions two lovers might have‚ whilst the second a reflection of how quick all may soon be lost through the loneliness of death. Wright is renown for her use language‚ and many of her poems contain paradoxes in which the reader is confronted with a phrase completely unrealisable‚ but effective in portraying the nature of the poem. "The Company Of Lovers" itself opens with the use of a paradox " We meet and part now " instils an image of simultaneous unity and depart‚ evoking
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“I Am” is a poem that was written by John Clare during the 1840s. Clare’s rustic poetry had brought him considerable fame and wealth‚ which enabled him to escape the meagre life he had experienced up until that time. After some years‚ his rural style of poetry was no longer in fashion‚ and his poetry met with little success. Psychological pressures resulting from the need to make money to feed his family‚ the struggles to adapt his poetry to the changing times and his inability to reconcile his rural
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of the sonnet’s theme‚ instead of the last two lines‚ which Shakespeare uses. The twist is the realisation of love. He creates the image of when a priest (faith) kneels by his bed at death‚ meaning he is about to die. He creates the illusion to the reader that he is about to die but in the last two lines he adds that his beloved can bring him from death to life and that a word from her would be enough to soften all the nasty words he has spoken and create a reconciliation between them. The sestet creates
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commentary about “ Warming Her Pearls” comparing it to two other poems Another poem of Carol Ann Duffy which drags you into a state of mind you didn’t know existed. Another character that talks about their uncommon feelings towards others . This time it’s about a woman working for another one‚ forced or unforced‚ with rather different feelings towards her boss than others would have‚ feelings we could call ‘obsession’. It isn’t hard to realize this poem is set in the past. There are references
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