unrealistic and unachievable‚ creating an insecurity in the realm of teenage girls‚ respectively. The girl throughout the poem deals with the constant struggles that comes with being a girl in society. A classmate of the girl tells her “you have a great big nose and fat legs.” (line 6) At a young age it is indoctrinated in the brains of children to criticize others. Beginning the poem‚ the words “girlchild” (line 1) appear bringing the idea that she is still a child but must maintain a certain dynamic
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tone‚ which has the tone of the poem spilt out across the words written down which holds an encoding. The encoding or message is what the poet truly wants to get across to you from the particular speaker or mask they are behind. In the poem “If” by Rudyard Kipling‚ he masks himself with the face of a father reaching out to his son. He characterizes what would make the ideal person‚ making them seem almost holy‚ if they could accomplish all tasks addressed in the poem. Evidently‚ Kipling tries to rely
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another goal that needs to be accomplished-- things that fuel our determination and strengthen our resolve. The two poems‚ “Speech to the Young: Speech to the Progress Toward” by Gwendolyn Brooks and “Mother to Son” by Langston Hughes are good examples of how poetry‚ too‚ can speak to a reader’s heart and mind and fuel their determination. “Speech to the Young Speech to the Progress
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Wilfred Owen Poems MINERS (Page 75) There had been a terrible accident at a place called Podmore Hall Colliery (1918). 140 miners and pit-boys died Owen wrote in a letter that he thought this poem had ‘sour’ taste. He also said that if the poem were to have a subtitle it would be: ‘How the future will forget the dead in war.’ This would be its epigraph Soldiers and miners are similar in that they both risk their lives General strike in 1926 because miners didn’t get paid enough for the job
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_________ Poets try to use a concentrated blend of sound and imagery to create an emotional response and to try to get us‚ the reader‚ to sense a particular thing. In this poem “Ozymandias” by Shelley Percy Bysshe‚ there are different types of sound devices. The poet uses alliteration multiple times throughout the poem. “Cold command” and “boundless and bare” are examples of alliteration because the beginning letter of each word is the same. Alliteration helps the poet to make their meaning
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government makes each individual merely a number unless they do not conform to society’s norms. The monument of the "unknown citizen" is erected not to honor the memory of a man‚ but to show how he is the perfect example of a good citizen (Auden). In this poem‚ the citizen is just an average person who never stands out among the rest of the population. For example‚ "Yet he wasn’t a scab or odd in his views‚" (Auden 9) illustrates how he holds the same opinions as the majority. Scabs were workers who would
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Hip Shooter - When I first read this poem it made me think of travelling‚ maybe in life. The cold and harsh world‚ though beautiful‚ is hard to live in. The horse is the character’s only companion. The ending though‚ seemed as if the character was waiting for sleep‚ and would keep traveling in the cold and dark until they reached a place to sleep. This could also mean sleep as a final resting place‚ as death. The character will continue to travel a cold‚ dark and harsh path of life with his only
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When we hear about death we imagine something scary‚ such as The Grim Reaper. In our minds The Grim Reaper is a tall‚ dark figure who’s wasting no time on bringing you along with him. However in the poem I’m going to talk about in this paper views death in a different perspective. In Emily Dickinson’s poem‚ Because I Could Not Stop for Death‚ the speaker describes death as a gentleman‚ and how he took her on a nonstop journey. Besides death being talked about as a person‚ the speaker also goes through
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From the beginning of the poem you can see the cottage maiden was in love with the Lord she calls him ‘a great Lord’ and asks herself ‘Why did a great Lord find me out to fill my heart with care?’ She’s admitting he filled her heart with care‚ but by asking why‚ she’s saying he hurt her. She also says ‘O cousin Kate my love was true.’ Here she’s expressing her sadness and the feeling of betrayal she has for her cousin she also says ‘If you stood where I stand‚ I would have spat into his face‚ and
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Langston Hughes purpose of these sets of poems was to outline the current condition for African Americans at that time‚ and also to display his desires and present the ideal conditions for African Americans. Below are several of his poems that has symbology and reflects and demonstrates his desires and ideals. In my opinion‚ Dream Variations demonstrates Hughes desire for African Americans to be able to enjoy the pleasures of life as white people did. When he says “to whirl and to dance till the
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