Once Upon a Time’‚ was written by Gabriel Okara‚ who is a Nigerian poet. He often explains what happens when a traditional African culture meets the forces of the Western way of life. I think the poem was written to outline the fake personalities of many people and to try and get them to return to a natural and innocent state. The poem tells of the conversation between what seems to be a father and son‚ where the father wants to learn from his son how to go back to normality and no longer be
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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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The poets (and scholars based on my research) who I will discuss in this essay have chosen to re-examine and transform the traditionthe scholars by studying the texts again in their original languages and contexts‚ and the creative writers by re-imagining the lives of women in the Bibleto discover the "creative power‚ dignity‚ and goodness" of women in their texts. Their work on the character of Eve‚ the archetypal woman in Western thought‚ as she appears in the Genesis accounts of creation and
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Commentary on the poem- ‘My Grandmother’ by Elizabeth Jennings The poem ‘My Grandmother‚’ is a recount of a childhood memory of the poets’ grandmother who “kept an antique shop”‚ and there are many underlying meaning and thoughts in the poem‚ which illustrate the strong attachment of the grandmother towards her shop and the relationship between her and the poet. The poet uses her grandmothers’ life to portray themes such as loneliness‚ guilt and the passing of time. The first and third verse are
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USE OF FOREGROUNDING IN THE POEM TITLED “GOING” The author of the poem “Going” had a specific message that he intended to set across to his readers. To do this‚ the author used a number of stylistic elements that include foregrounding‚ imagery‚ symbolism‚ diction‚ synthetic parallelism and structure among others. This essay intends to give a brief stylistic analysis of the poem and describe how these devices have affected the meaning of the poem. Basically the poem “Going” according to the essay
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Written in four stanzas‚ London by William Blake uses an A‚ B‚ A‚ B’ rhythmic pattern. More in a lyrical form‚ the poem is basically about someone where he wanders in London and describes his thoughts and observations. He sees poverty‚ misery‚ and despair on people’s face and notices how London is a hideous and corrupted place with injustice in every corner. The poem starts with a sinister and gloomy atmosphere which quickly gives an idea to the reader what the author thinks of London. I noticed
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Mountain Lion is a poem that depicts the death of an inhabitant of the Lobo valley‚ a lion that is trapped mercilessly by two hunters‚ who are confronted by the poet as they leave the valley. The poet describes the lion’s face using contrasting but very emotive descriptions such as beautiful dead eyes’‚ and fine round-fashioned head‚ with two dead ears’ putting emphasis on the word dead by repeating it twice in the same stanza. In the first stanza‚ the poet describes the natural beauty of the Lobo
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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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The Study of Poetry‚ which appeared in 1888 as the first entry of his Essays in Criticism‚ Second Series‚ presents Matthew Arnold’s case for the importance of poetry. According to Arnold‚ poetry is the criticism of life‚ “and the criticism of life will be of power in proportion as the poetry conveying it is excellent rather than inferior” (237). Arnold argues that the purpose of poetry is to interpret life‚ to explain meanings beyond our comprehension: “more and more mankind will discover that we
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In Gerard Manley Hopkins ’ "Spring and Fall‚" the speaker of the poem describes the changing phases of an individual ’s understanding about loss and death from a childhood to maturity. Throughout the poem‚ the child ’s innocence is gradually lost over time as her weeping for the dying leaves turns into weeping for her own mortality. As if putting on a play for his readers‚ the poet incorporates visual images as well as aural effects into his poem. In "Spring and Fall"‚ Hopkins uses rhythm‚ word choice
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