soon as the reader continues reading we see that there is no prise or special event. The word ‘doomed’ also gives the poem a negative‚ gloomy feeling. This giving us the feeling that the poem is about a fate that humans can not reverse. Then the word ‘youth’ completes the negative title as it tells us that the youths are doomed by death. Irony is also used with the poem structured as a sonnet. Back in 1917 sonnets were mainly written as love poem‚ so at first glance of the poem the reader may think
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bordering on haughty disposition. The diction and imagery play vital roles in creating the tone and emotion between the speaker and the woman. In the poem “When You Are Old‚” by W.B. Yeats‚ the speaker’s use of imagery‚ diction‚ and tone allow the reader to see into the woman and the speaker’s relationship. In the poem the speaker’s relationship with the woman has two sides. One emotion that the speaker reveals is that of undying love. He speaks of a time when the woman is “old and grew” (Line 1)
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down the street with the reader ."Let us go you and I‚ When the evening is spread against the sky." (Eliot line 1-2) This is used by Eliot as a way for the reader to follow Alfred and get a glimpse into his life in essence the reader is attending the party with Alfred. The lines "Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels and saw dust restaurants with oyster shells: streets that follow like a tedious argument of insidious intent." (lines 6-9) These lines let the reader view the streets of America
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itself as an emerging voice‚ which responds to each changing situation. And the poem will flow from an outside perspective into the inside perspective. From the beginning of the poem‚ Wordsworth establishes a relationship with us‚ his audience and readers‚ which is as important as the relationship he has with the lady. In other words Wordsworth is to the Scottish lass‚ as we are to him. In the first two stanzas Wordsworth is going to emerge as an outsider voice. In the first stanza‚ the author let
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Brooklyn Cop – Analysis and Evaluation Worksheet Stanza One 1. Look at lines 1 – 4. Do you think that this is a stereotypical image of a policeman? Choose two quotes‚ and explain why they make you feel this way. (3) Stereotypical – “built like a gorilla” = he is big and strong / “..but less timid” = brave Non-stereotypical – “two hieroglyphs in his face that mean trouble” = he is looking for trouble (1 mark for each quote and linked opinion) 2. Quote the line that shows that the divide
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in this sonnet very quickly establishes a point of view by throwing out a pronoun to give a perspective as to who is speaking. In the very first line the second word “we” tells readers that the speaker is speaking in first person‚ including
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“Explain how the poem “not my best side” portrayal of its characters‚ leads to archetypes being gone against.” This poem is inter-textual in a sense that it is based on the painting “St. George and the Dragon”. It takes a humorous role in portraying each of the characters found in the painting and goes against theirs common archetypes of a dragon‚ princess and knight. This poem is a parody on the archetypes that the characters of the painting should have‚ it goes against them completely in a humorous
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Dixon’s poem Plenty shows the relationship between a mother and her five daughters which‚ on a wider horizon could be taken as a relationship between adults and children. The poet starts by telling us that they used to run ’riot’ and this was more than the mother could cope with. We are not told whether the behaviour was meant to annoy the mother or it was just a normal prank played and enjoyed by children. The situation in stanza is not a pleasant one as the poet gives us a grim picture of the situation
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Perhaps‚ no excitement offered by poetry can be greater than that of its seemingly spontaneous creation. But we are all conditioned to the idea of similar possibilities religious revelation or falling in love or experiencing some kind of trauma or through what we have observed in others. Some poets have recorded what they had heard or seen and found an outlet for these through their poems. One cannot question in any way the reality of the experience of poetic inspiration. There is every possibility
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crime. The poet has not made an appearance in the poem as he shows no emotion‚ but he makes the reader feel‚ through his description of the photos that are captured by his use of metaphors‚ onomatopoeia and repetition‚ that they are witnessing the crime. The first stanza has a theme of loss‚ which is slowly released throughout the poem as the poet begins to describe the foreground and introduces the reader to the incident: “Ragged diamond” Morgan has used the word ‘ragged’ to make the glass sound
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