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    poem for my sister

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    Vu Ngoc Giang Poem for my sister “Poem for my sister” is another opus of Liz Lochhead about the relationship between a big sister and her younger sister. Furthermore‚ it’s her feelings towards her sister’s process of growing up. In stanza one‚ Liz tells us of an everyday occurrence – her sister trying on her shoes‚ she uses heeled shoes as a metaphor for life and how her sister is experimenting with it : My little sister likes to try my shoes‚  to strut in them‚  admire her spindle-thin twelve-year-old

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    To analyze a poem stylistically‚ we can analyze the poetic device‚ which is usually deviation and foregrounding‚ that the poet used in the poem. The term foregrounding refers to an effect brought about in the reader by linguistic or other forms of deviation in the literary text (Leech‚ 1985).In poem‚ devices of foregrounding and deviation are always used to draw reader’s attention and impress the readers. In the aspect of deviation and foregrounding‚ there are some perspectives on the nature of poetic

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    relationships. Robert Browining‚ a great Victorian poet‚ wrote two pre-1940 poems‚ ‘My last Duchess’ and ‘Prophyrias lover’‚ they are both examples of domineering me or individuals who end up killing their former lovers. The main theme which the poems are centred around is madness. ‘The Ballad’ on the other hand has an unknown poet‚ this could be as a result of it being passed down from one generation to another. All the three poems deal with the distorted image and status of women‚ and how this had an

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    We killed them We slayed them In the egde of the woods We displayed them We stabbed their eyes We disgraced them With tools and hands We defaced them We degraded them We attacked them In photos and cameras We embraced them We slashed them We poked them On their insides We explored them We smashed them We smiled We chuckled Amused and laughing We smiled Still breathing Still living We gashed them Delightful! Morality is alive In the eyes of the Sublime Who are

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    Point – The human mind is a complicated thing to understand. The poem speaks philosophically to describe how the human mind has a conscience and how our conscience helps us distinguish right from wrong. Main Point – Death is cold‚ lovely‚ and dark. The winter season is harsh and so is life. Death is an escape from “winter”‚ death is “easy wind and downy flake”. Concluding Statement – Many interpretations can be created with this poem and the only limit to the interpretations is the creativity of

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    Poem Analysis

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    analyzing is a poem by Lorna Crozier called The Child Who Walks Backwards. Throughout my analysis I will look into parental abuse‚ underlying meanings in the lines in the poetry‚ as well as connections I can make personally to the book. I think it is also important that I bring forth essential messages in the words and statements of the poem. The main theme I will choose to focus on is that abuse does not only happen at school or back alleys‚ but that it happens in homes as well. This poem is told from

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    Analysis of the poem‚ “Still I Rise” Maya Angelou’s poem‚ “Still I Rise” may contain different meanings depending on the reader who interprets it. It is a poem that talks about keeping one’s head up no matter how hard the situation they come from and not being affected by the problems on the side. Maya Angelou was part of a generation wherein the black race was still seen as “inferior”. During that time‚ the “truth” is usually kept hidden favoring the more superior groups of people. Hence‚ the

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    LORD ULLINS DAUGHTER POEM ANALYSIS The atmosphere is one of the distinct characteristics of the poem Lord Ullin’s Daughter. The poem starts with an agitated atmosphere that arrests our attention. A chieftain of the highlands rushes to the seashore with his beloved and orders a boatman to row them across the sea without delay. He promises to give the boatman a silver pound. The chieftain’s restlessness and anxiety are evident here‚ though why he is in a hurry is not clear. It arouses the boatman’s

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    Loving your daughter and she is the best thing that has ever happened to you and the hardest part is letting her go. In the song‚ “There Goes My Life” by Kenny Chesney it explains about how there was kid who just found out that him and his girlfriend are having a kid and he was nervous because he was one himself and as they had the kid which was a girl he realized that he loves his little girl so much and the hardest thing he’d have to do was let her go as she got older. The father was nervous at

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    INTRODUCTION (1 paragraph) Use key words from the essay title in a brief description of what the poem is about. Comment briefly on the themes‚ issues‚ thoughts and feelings the poem explores.  Identify the narrator‚ the tone and viewpoint of the poem. STRUCTURE (1 or 2 paragraph) Divide the poem into sections and explain in more detail what the poem is about‚ section by section.  Write about the development of ideas and themes from one section to another and one stanza to another. Consider the

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