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    How is the Need for Embracing Change Conveyed in "The Door" The concept of "The Door" is based on the idea of taking risks and embracing change. The poet uses a persuasive and insistent tone to encourage the audience to take action. The lack of rhythm‚ rhyme and conventional structure also give the poem a conversational tone. The poem opens with the line "Go and open the door" and is used to begin the following three stanzas. The repetition of the imperative constructs a strong sense of not only

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    a hour glass in the third stanza. New words such as ‘trickles’‚ and ‘glass chambers’ help to further explain and convey the reference am trying to make apparent. I don’t know if I succeeded at bringing the image of an hour glass to the mind of the reader‚ but I do think the image

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    Comparison of two love poems ‘How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.’ is a poem written in the 19th century by a poet named Elizabeth Barret Brown. Assuming that this love sonnet was written from the poets point of view this poem is about how a lady loves her lover. The title suggests that this poet will list how she loves a certain person and in how many different ways and the poem does exactly that‚ Elizabeth also compares her love to things that it is not possible to live without. The language

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    Poetry Across Time: Relationships Sister Maude Content Before we analyse the poem in detail‚ it is important to understand what the poem is about i.e. the main content of the poem. General summary A sibling complains that her sister Maude has revealed details about a private relationship to their parents and has caused the death of the relationship. The speaker is bitter and resentful. Detailed summary Stanza one: The speaker asks who has informed her mother of her ‘shame’

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    is expressing worry‚ care and concern for her future. This is a narrative poem written in three lines‚ a tercet. The poem has eleven stanzas. This is a free verse poem. Mr. Wilbur uses metaphors and imagery to convey the meaning of the poem to the reader. The first figurative language mention in the introduction is metaphor. Mr. Wilbur introduces his daughter in the first stanza and uses a metaphor to describe her actions. “In her room at the prow of the house”‚ “Where light breaks‚ and the windows

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    Continuum / Songs of Ourselves / Grade 8 / Dept of Lit / Hiriya School / 2012 / Term 1 Page 3 M ood And Effect In the poem continuum by Allen Curnow‚ the poet creates a sense of depression‚ loneliness and restlessness.This in turn causes the reader to experience an effect of insignificance and powerlessness.The restless mood is made clear in the first stanza when the poet is talking about the moon as a symbol for himself. He explains that the moon ³rolls behind the roof and falls behind my

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    authorizes man to rule over her." The poetry of Eve presents a similar picture. A poem by Ralph Hodgson‚ published in 1924‚ gives us a little taste: As the serpent begins his assault on Eve— "to get even and / Humble proud heaven"—Hodgson asks the reader to Picture that orchard sprite‚ "Eve‚ with her body white. Supple and smooth to her Slim finger tips. Wondering‚ listening. Listening‚ wondering. Eve with a berry half-way to her lips." When she succumbs to the serpent ’s wiles‚ the poet cries out:

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    pathetic monarch of “Nonsense Absolute”. The first four lines which open the poem are in the high style with a delicate Horatian irony controlling the mock heroic inversions of terms. In the opening twenty lines of the poem Dryden introduces the readers to Richard Flecknoe‚ Shadwell’s literary sire in the poem‚ whom Dryden represents as the monarch of the kingdom of Nonsense. Dryden has made him the prince of Dullness‚ Shadwell‚ because Flecknoe was generally regarded as an object of ridicule in

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    or where they came from. As the poem continues‚ the poet says “Atmosphere of the cities how different drops from them” this conveys that how the surroundings affects the way we live. Later in the stanza‚ the poet uses harsh images to show the reader how the cities have been invaded because of the industrialization and the resulting pollution‚ which has created “the smell of smog” it‚ tells us about a typical winter day‚ where the smoke has combined with the fog during winter. As the stanza continues

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    that they use is visual imagery. In “Kind of Blue” by Lynn Powell‚ the author rights the poem in order to give the reader the imagery of a type of blue she is thinking of. Through this the reader compares what the blue would and wouldn’t look like. For example‚ “Not sullen snow slumped” gives

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