"Hospital Evening" and "Monday" by Gwen Harwood are two poems that explore the hardship of immigrants in Australia. Written in the late 20th century after the "White Australia Policy" was abolished and thousands of immigrants landed on Australian shores‚ the poems revolve around Krote‚ a German music teacher‚ who has migrated to Australia and his struggles with racism and the harshness of the Australian environment. The poems negative construction of Australian people acts as a critique of the Australian
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In the Evening Hawk‚ Robert Penn Warren makes extensive use of figurative language‚ imagery‚ and symbolism to describe a foreboding scene that calls attention to the passage of time. He uses simile and the symbol of the Evening Hawk to convey a scene in which he suggests that man is being judged. Warren calls attention to the slow‚ grim passage of time with simile‚ suggesting that “history [drips] into darkness like a leaking pipe in the cellar.” Were there “no wind‚” he says‚ we might
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Kalie Juarez Dr. Ward ENGL 2312 19 February 2013 Ode to a Nightingale In “Ode to a Nightingale‚” the most evident characteristic of Romanticism is the feeling and emotion. This is portrayed since the beginning: “My heart aches‚ and a drowsy numbness pains / My sense‚ as though of hemlock I had drunk‚ / Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains” (lines 1-3). The speaker feels as though he has been poisoned or drugged since he can not see the nightingale. The birds’ song has this paralyzing effect
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Ode to Nightingale Many aspects go into understanding the deeper meaning behind a romantic poem; figurative language and diction contribute to the underlying story that life seems immoral until death actually occurs or is caused. In the romantic poem‚ “Ode to Nightingale‚” by John Keats the use of figurative language adds to the readers’ comprehension of the poem. It allows readers to open their minds to what Keats is really trying to get across in his poem. In life some people have the desire
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An evening on the beach Night was falling. The setting sun’s red rays lit up the sky above the western horizon. I could see an oil tanker making its way across the sea just on the horizon. Soon the sun disappeared below the horizon and the sky turned dark but my two friends and I sat on the beach gazing at the place where the sun went down. Sunsets are mesmerizing as we discovered. Only when the mosquitoes started coming in great number were we brought back to reality. We picked ourselves
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An Essay on Glorification of Childhood in Immortality Ode: ‘Immortality Ode’ by William Wordsworth deals with the immortal memoirs of childhood. The gentle melancholy on the past days leaves a pleasing pain of nostalgia in our heart. On running after the lines‚ we reach somewhere in past; holding the hands of memories‚ we go back to the innocence and each mind would say ‘we had a nice time’ In this poem‚ there was a time in speaker’s child hood when to him every ordinary object of nature appeared
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suggest that John Keats writes about a typical day of this season‚ describing all kind of colourful and detailed images. But before commenting on the meaning of the poem‚ I will briefly talk about its structure‚ its type and its rhyme. The poem is an ode[1] that contains three stanzas‚ and each of these has eleven lines. With respect to its rhyme‚ To Autumn’ does not follow a perfect pattern. While the first stanza has an ABABCDEDCCE pattern (see the poem on the next page)‚ the second and the third
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never. That phrase relates to the theme of Keats’ "Ode on a Grecian Urn"‚ which is an exploration of the border between desire and fulfillment in human life. Keats’ "Ode on a Grecian Urn" features a narrator musing upon the face of an urn that holds‚ for him‚ more life in its earthenware curves than does the curves of the temporal earth. The title itself reflects the reader-response reading of the urn’s text: the ode is on (about ) the urn‚ and the ode is also depicted on the urn." This paper provides
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Dejection: An Ode By Samuel Taylor Coleridge Late‚ late yestreen I saw the new Moon‚ With the old Moon in her arms; And I fear‚ I fear‚ my Master dear! We shall have a deadly storm. (Ballad of Sir Patrick Spence) I Well! If the Bard was weather-wise‚ who made The grand old ballad of Sir Patrick Spence‚ This night‚ so tranquil now‚ will not go hence Unroused by winds‚ that ply a busier trade Than those which mould yon cloud in lazy flakes‚ Or the dull sobbing draft‚ that moans and
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COMPARE AND CONTRAST “ODE TO THE WEST WIND” AND “ODE TO A NIGHTINGALE” “Ode to the West wind” and “Ode to a Nightingale” are two of the main representative poems of the second generation of the Romantic period. Even though Shelley and Keats literary works are both lyric poems they portray some similarities as well as differences. To begin with‚ both poems share a similar genre‚ form and theme. First‚ it can be mentioned that both are odes since they are short lyric poems that have a complicated
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