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    Love Poem Analysis

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    Many famous poets such as Robert Frost and William Shakespeare wrote about love whether it is tragic‚ cheerful‚ or indifferent. Poetry is a way to express emotions with art forms such as allusions‚ imagery‚ and personification. In this particular case‚ love is the common subject poets write about. Although love is most associated with happiness and lustful feelings‚ it can also fade away‚ be hurtful‚ and sacrificial. In “The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd‚” a nymph is a fairy‚ a character that

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    The Planners Poem Analysis

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    In these two poems‚ Cheng expresses worries about the way people neglect the importance of the environment and how the progress of industrialization is insuppressible‚ not even nature is spared. “Report to Wordsworth” is a negative view on mankind’s harm to nature‚ the causes and results of pollution; it was written with a tone of desperation and Cheng’s attempt to seek help from Wordsworth to inform him about the problem with the world today. “The Planners” highlights the importance of preserving

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    may backfire and hurt us. It’s a fear that comes naturally because we all know that we are too trivial to gain control over the world. In the poem “The Story”‚ Karen Conelly examined the confrontation between insignificance and vastness and conveyed the idea that human’s deepest fear is the fear of being consumed by things he does voluntarily. The poem is highly metaphorical and symbolic. The story‚ on the surface‚ really is about swimming in the ocean alone. However‚ as we readers examine further

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    death Onomatopoeia “BOOM” This is an onomatopoeia because it imitates the sound of a gunshot. This helps the poem become more lively and interesting by this use of onomatopoeia as you can hear the gunshot which correlates with death. Furthermore‚ this bluntly states the theme which is that drugs kill people and helps the theme become more impactful. This also helps set the mood of the poem which would be frightful as when you hear the “BOOM” you will imagine a gun shot. Allusion Explicit “Drugs

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    Poem Of The Caid Analysis

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    readers. The stories in the New Testament and the Poem of the Cid each had a particular impact on the audience in the time period for which they were written due to the writing style of the authors. Each work provides a written history of a topic important to the readers many years after the events occurred: Matthew and the author of Acts recorded the story of Jesus and his early ministry as it would impact the First century C.E; and the long-sung Poem of the Cid was recorded to act as a model or example

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    Roadblocks: Poem Analysis

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    Many writers on their venture to becoming great‚ are faced with roadblocks. I too feel those stresses. When sitting down to begin a story‚ novel‚ or poem we all strive to be different. But as Baldwin explains‚ "there is no original thought‚ because we all humans think and feel has been thought and felt so many times before‚ by so many generations." This in itself makes starting writing a very daunting task. Not to mention the sea of fellow authors you are competing with for limited shelf space. A

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    crimes in a local church. A poem was written by Dudley Randall about a true story that happened in Birmingham‚ Alabama in 1963. A group of white supremacists bombed a church that belonged to Martin Luther King Jr. What they did not know was that there were four little girls playing in there at the time. The church should be a safe‚ quiet place one can pray to God‚ but these incidents indicate that violence is creeping into the most innocent of

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    Poem Analysis: Aeneid

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    Aeneid 1 Virgil states theme of poem (I sing of arms and the man-also reference to Homeric influence‚ Odyssey and Illiad)) followed by the invocation to the Muse and by the mention of Carthage‚ Juno’s beloved city. In her fear for Carthage and her hatred of the Trojans she has for long years kept the Trojans away from their promised home in Latium (six years‚ coming up for seventh summer). So great a task it was to found the Roman race. As the Trojans are sailing from Sicily on the last stage of

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    Poem Analysis: The Mother

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    In this poem “The Mother” it was this mother that had many abortions. This speaker was having an emotional breakdown. For example‚ “I have heard in the voices of the wind the voices of my dim killed children” (Brooks 1940). When reading ‘’The Mother’’ the speaker talked about her and focused on the children she aborted. But the speaker never mentioned a father. So‚ after realizing she did not mention a father this question came to an understanding. Why do people have different emotional and physical

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    According to Nikki Jones‚ in article “The Gender of Police Violence” talks about that there is a similar connection between sexual harassment which females experience on the street and how African American males face with police violence. To prove this statement‚ she brought up few real life examples to gain credibility of the reader. Jones main point in this article is she wants to be the voice for those who are affected by this sexual harassments to make sure their voices are heard. Also‚ she mentions

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