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    protesting? Are they simply proclaiming love to the world because they feel so strongly about it? Interpreting‚ first of all‚ is that there is a whole sense of what love is‚ and what is not. Love‚ that is what the crowds are singing about. The woman in the poem yells about love and he is dissatisfied “But after she leaves/I feel odd.”(17-18) Something about this love did not feel right‚ but the gun has its own sense: “I lock the door‚/go to the desk and take the pistol/from the drawer. it has its own sense

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    The poem “Creep” has a very dark‚ twisted and displaced feel to it and crates an image of a “psychotic” person obsessing and wanting control over a certain person. Part way through the poem‚ the writer says “I don’t care if it hurts / I want to have control” (12-13). This indicates that one of the characters wants control and will do anything to achieve it‚ even if violence actions are needed. This feeling of dark and twistedness is present throughout the whole poem. This gives the poem an overall

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    Thanatopsis Poem Analysis

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    of how or why leaving people like artists to try to make reason of it. The poems “Thanatopsis” by Bryant‚ “Don’t Fear the Reaper” by Blue Oyster Cult‚ and “Dust in the Wind” by Kansas are three poems which speak of death; however they all have different purposes. They each explain and describe death with different points of views. Although all of the poems had different purposes‚ they also had similarities. The three poems are all about the topic of death and how scenarios may differ for different

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    Poem Analysis: Daffodils

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    Daffodils Essay In the poem Daffodils‚ by William Wordsworth‚ Wordsworth explains how nature’s beauty can positively impact our lives and emotions. Wordsworth believed that all good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of emotion. In this poem‚ he uses an array of different figurative language to show nature’s positive effect. He uses figurative language such as simile‚ personification‚ and hyperbole. Not only does he use figurative language‚ but he uses selective examples of rhythm. In a rhythmic

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    Introduction The narrator of the poem “To be of use” is inspired by people who he states “Jump into work head first without dallying in the shadows and swim off with sure strokes almost out of sight.” The narrator who is never given a name in the poem is talking about how he loves people who work hard‚ give it their all‚ and have a passion for what they do. The poem also talks about how these people not only have a strong motivation to work‚ but they also feel connected to the task they are completing

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    2015 I went to an art presentation at “Artists’ Showplace” on Coit Rd. The presentation featured many splendid works of art made by some of Dallas’s finest‚ but the one which will be discussed in this paper is a painting called “Autumn Light” by Linda Clary. Her painting had no shortage of detail‚ and was vibrant with shades of green and yellow. Clary’s painting was able to evoke a pleasant response from the audience through her use of light shimmering down a single tree‚ contrasting colors‚ patterns

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    In the poem "The Clothespin" the persona in the poem describes looking through the window and seeing her neighbor. This shows that the relationship between the neighbor and the persona was not as intimate as opposed to the persona in the poem Your Hands. In the poem "Your Hands" the persona describes loving the hands that constantly held him/her for so many years without binding me. This creates the insinuation that the persona and the person that he/she was describing are very intimate and were

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    Perez: Poem Analysis

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    who have family or are from Guam relate to this‚ but anyone who has faced oppression. One of the weaker crafts in these poems was the form. I normally like shorter poems‚ especially when they are broken up into couplets. However‚ there were times Perez used couplets‚ where I would have used something else. Some of the line breaks‚ although intentional‚ took away from the poem. Example: ginen tidelands [latte stone park] (14). One comment I also would like to mention

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    Linda Hogan’s poem “Heritage” is an insight into all the things the speaker feels they inherited from their family. As I was reading “Heritage”‚ I was thinking about my family and everything I inherited from them. This poem made me think not just about the concrete things I inherited like hair color‚ but also the behaviors and emotions I learned from growing up with family. This poem talks about how the speaker inherited certain traits from his parents‚ uncle‚ and grandparents. This made me think

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    created the brilliant poem‚ “The Tides.” This specific poem is the story of watching the tides change. Most of Bryant’s works are nature-oriented and take advantage of multiple literary terms. “The Tides” has a significant meaning‚ several romantic elements‚ and uses many literary devices. The general interpretation of “The Tides” is about what occurs when the tides change. Bryant uses great description in characterizing the violent seas at high tide. Norbert Krapf analyzed this poem and described the

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