Theme and Subject The themes dealt in the Elegy are familiar‚ and there is nothing original in them. According to Douglas Bush "theElegy is a mosaic of traditional motifs‚ classical and modern." The dominant theme of the poem is death. It deals with the death of the rude fore fathers of the village‚ death as a common occurence in the world and the anticipated death of the youth who may be the poet himself or the his friend West in whose memory the poem has been written. In fact the shadow of death
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Reflection for “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” Abstract This essay consists of three sections. The first section‚ a brief synopsis of the book “I know why caged bird sings” is presented. At the second part‚ three insights after reading the book are introduced. That is‚ metaphor of caged bird‚ power of literacy‚ and power of silence. At the last section‚ discipline-specific knowledge that relevant to the main character of book is stated. Synopsis of the Text This autobiography
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Music Concert # 1 On Thursday April 25‚ 2013 ‚ I attended a jazz vocal concert at the Music Concert Hall. The first vocal ensemble opened up the performance with a slow rhythmic song called Blue Skies. It began with vocals and I noticed a light auxiliary percussion and drum rhythm. Also‚ the bass guitarist used walking bass and the piano and electric guitar joined in as well. The first song also consisted of two soloist Regina and Chantel who took the front stage to show off their chops. After
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The Passionate Shepherd to His Love By: Christopher Marlowe It is a beautiful example of pastoral love poetry. This poem depicts love rural countryside setting. The entire poem is an entire invitation‚ spoken by the shepherd‚ who pledges to his beloved‚ a shepherd who is eager to give everything‚ opposing the fact that his offerings are transient‚ if only “His love” will accept his pleas to “Come live with me and be my Love.” The shepherd promises that if his beloved will come live with him
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English IV Advanced Shakespeare Sonnets While reading the following sonnets (P. 317-323)‚ identify four of the following literary devices‚ and explain how these devices show the poem’s meaning. Imagery Simile Metaphor Rhyme Symbol Personification Repetition Tone Sonnet 18: This sonnet’s speaker claims that his beloved is lovelier and milder than a summer day—but unlike summer‚ will love forever in his poem. Device Example from poem How this shows the theme
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ng and touch‚ and to internal feelings as well as the sense of sight. The imagery is achieved in any literary work through a collection of images. The Jaguar‚ composed by the zoo laureate Ted Hughes‚ is a poem on the background of a zoo and the poem is well-know for the imagery that the poet uses to portray the condition of the encaged animals and birds and the blind energy embodied in a jaguar‚ the jungle king. The poem opens with the description of the apes. Line –I depicts them in a spiritless
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How does Donne treat physical and spiritual love in his works? Answer: As a Metaphysical poet‚ Donne often uses physical love to evoke spiritual love. Indeed‚ this metaphysical conceit in much of the love poetry is not explicitly spelled out. To this end‚ Donne’s poetry often suggests that the love the poet has for a particular beloved is greatly superior to others’ loves. Loving someone is as much a religious experience as a physical one‚ and the best love transcends mere physicality. In this
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1. What metaphors does Holmes use to describe the ship in stanzas one and two of "Old Ironsides"? “The meteor of the ocean air” in stanza 1 and “The eagle of the sea!” In stanza 2. 2. In 1830‚ the 44-gun American warship Constitution‚ the inspiration for "Old Ironsides‚" was scheduled to be scrapped - that is‚ stripped of everything valuable or reasonable. What proposal is put forth by Holmes‚ in the last stanza of his poem? In the last stanza he states that if the ship should “die” in a sense
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Compare and contrast the ways in which the theme of isolation is presented and explored by Sebastian Faulks and T.S Eliot in ‘Engleby’ and ‘Selected Poems’. Throughout both ‘Engleby’ and ‘Selected Poems’ there is a prevailing sense of ‘apprehension of the tenuousness of human existence’ which is evident in the protagonists’ confining inability to communicate with the world around them‚ as seen in Prufrock’s agonised call‚ ‘so how should I presume?’. ‘The Wasteland’ was written by Eliot to ‘address
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Human Interest Human Interest is a poem written on the events of conflict‚ which I will analysis throughout. The poem is about a man who has killed his wife because she was having an affair. It is quite a serious poem‚ particularly in the first two stanzas. This is directly compromised with the amount of slang used in the poem‚ such as‚ “Banged Up” and “I slogged my guts out”. This makes the impression that the he has become mentally unbalanced by the murder of his wife. The poem‚ Human
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