Work without hope analysis Work without hope was written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The poem is mainly about how spring is starting up and all the animals are moving around and the speaker seems to still be stuck in his depression. The first half of the stanza includes a personification In the first half of the poem‚ the speaker identifies that the bees‚ slugs‚ and birds are coming out of hibernation. The speaker seems depressed as spring is starting up and all the animals are moving around
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immediate and unsophisticated sense that he feels of how beautiful the London view is; the opening line‚ for instance‚ could hardly be more straightforward‚ and after a description of some of the sights that strike him so vividly Wordsworth ends the poem on a similarly and utterly simple note. What is the effect of the simple and straightforward listing of words in lines 5 and 6? How does Wordsworth make such plain description so effective? How many similes or metaphors are there in the whole sonnet
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“Magic of Love” and John Frederick Nims “Love Poem” The word Love is a strange feeling that can be one of the most exciting things someone will ever experience. It’s a feeling of warm‚ personal deep affection that one has for another person or thing. In Helen Farries poem “Magic of Love” she is very straightforward about how love makes someone feel “It can comfort and bless/ it can bring happiness” (601). But in John Frederick Nim’s poem “Love Poem” he uses metaphors to talk about love and you
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Hardy’s “Convergence of the Twain” Section 1: Poetry Terms Both of these poems are written in free verse. That is‚ they have no established poetic forms to them. “Titanic” is written in three tercets‚ one quatrain‚ and ends with a single line stanza. “Convergence of the Twain” is more structured; it is written evenly into eleven tercets. Both poems seem to have a good mix of enjambment and end stopped lines. That is‚ in both poems‚ some of sentences stop at the end of the line‚ while others go on to
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shut out of factories as their employers did not want to acquiesce to better working conditions / wages - Materialism infected merchant’s minds Form: - Ballad‚ has a clear chorus - Popular form in Irish Culture - One of Yeats’ most sarcastic poems‚ he chooses this form in order to mock - ABAB Rhyme Scheme‚ simple structure and strong rhyme carry political messages better. John O’Leary - died in 1907 - Founder of Young Republic Brotherhood - Yeats was influenced by him- revolution could
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Does Time have a beginning or an end? In ancient Greece‚ Plato and Aristotle agreed that the past is eternal. Aristotle claimed that time had no beginning because‚ for any time‚ we always can imagine an earlier time. Imagine‚ the earliest past you have and by extension imagine all the people in history doing this. Be it as it may before mankind even. Isaac Newton believed future time is infinite and that‚ although God created the material world some finite time ago‚ there was an infinite period
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Section I: The texts “Son of Mine” a poem by Oodgeroo Noonuccal and Other Word’s “Jim Crow Alabama” a graphic sketch by Khalil Bendib both explore conflicting perspectives in relation to racism. Noonuccal’s purpose is to respond to her son’s questioning of the racism he is subjected to‚ “My son‚ your troubled eyes search mine…” her views conflict within the text as she expresses two views‚ one of how white people treated Indigenous Australians and on how she as an Indigenous mother adopts a positive
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on the importance of being on time at your place of duty. I thought about what I could write about and this is what I came up with. It made me think back to one of my seven army values; Duty. What is my duty? It is my duty to show up at my station of assignment on time if not even a little early. Reasons for this would be that the NCO would know that all personnel are present and ready for the day. I know that my inability to be at the right place‚ at the right time‚ in the right uniform‚ and with
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The poem “Lament”‚ written by Gillian Clarke‚ is an elegy‚ an expression of grief that appeals to the reader for them to react to human mistakes which are damaging our planet. The poem is lay out in seven stanzas of 3-line each (triplets)‚ each of them very well defined and concentrated in a different complaint. The rhyme is quick due to the constant repetition of the word ‘for’ in the beginning of each stanza. The sentences in the poem lack of subject‚ so we can consider that these are written
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The Structure of a Pantoum Poem The pantoum is a form of poetry of Malaysian origin from the 15th century which was modified by the French in the 19th century. The modern pantoum is written in an unlimited number of quatrains (stanzas of four lines) with a strict repeating pattern - the second and fourth lines of each quatrain are repeated as the 1st and 3rd lines of the next quatrain. The pattern continues until the final quatrain when the 1st line of the poem becomes the last line and the 3rd
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