Paulina Salas is a former political prisoner in a Latin American country who had been raped by her captors‚ led by a sadistic doctor whose face she never saw. The rapist doctor played Schubert’s composition Death and the Maiden during the act of rape. Years later‚ after the repressive regime has fallen‚ Paulina lives in an isolated country house with her husband‚ Gerardo Escobar. When Gerardo comes back from a visit to the president‚ he gets a flat tire. A stranger named Dr. Miranda stops to assist
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Response to Literature Poem Analysis Writing Guidelines Subject: Poem Form: Analysis Purpose: To explore meaning Audience: Instructor Sample Poem Read the poem below and think about its content‚ theme‚ organization‚ and use of poetic techniques. Then read student writer Stefano Giagregorio’s analysis. I AM THE PEOPLE‚ THE MOB By Carl Sandburg I AM the people--the mob--the crowd--the mass. Do you know that all the great work of the world is done through me? I am the workingman‚
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Death and the Maiden Ariel Dorfman Online Information For the online version of BookRags’ Death and the Maiden Premium Study Guide‚ including complete copyright information‚ please visit: http://www.bookrags.com/studyguide-deathmaiden/ Copyright Information ©2000-2007 BookRags‚ Inc. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. The following sections of this BookRags Premium Study Guide is offprint from Gale’s For Students Series: Presenting Analysis‚ Context‚ and Criticism on Commonly Studied Works: Introduction‚ Author
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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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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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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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The Maiden with the Wooden Bowl *Summary Once upon a time there was an old couple who lived with their only daughter who has a remarkable charm and beauty. One day her mother told her that she may follow her father in heaven. After that her mother told her that she must hide her beauty‚ because men could be tempted by her beauty and charm. And in order to hide her beauty her mother told her that she must wear a wooden bowl. Few days passed the maiden had no choice but to work at the
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Analysis of a Poem When You are Old‚ by William Butler Yeats‚ represents and elderly woman reminiscing of her younger days. A past lover whispers to her as she looks through a photo album. Basically‚ Yeats is showing that as the woman gets older‚ she is alone‚ but she does not have to be lonely. She will always have her memories for companionship. "When you are old and grey and full of sleep‚ and nodding by the fire" (l.1-2) depicts the woman in her age‚ needing to nap more frequently
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Irfan Khan 260215802 September 3rd‚ 2009 Mime 221 If by Robert Kupling Analysis Robert Kupling addresses the qualities which adhere to manhood in this poem If‚ wherein he identifies certain specific criteria as metaphors for achieving things desired in life. The poem consists of four verses‚ each eight lines long. Each specific verse held in it a very different interpretation in responsibility‚ and each prose deals with a separate yet equally important detail that one would need to encounter
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Death and the Maiden | Themes Atonement and Forgiveness While there exists no acceptable rationale for the violence of the military regime‚ Paulina implies that she can forgive the individual for being fallible: she promises to release Miranda if he will confess to torturing and raping her. Miranda does not genuinely appear to ask for forgiveness; he does so only in the context of a confession which may be falsified. Paulina‚ although she ultimately chooses not to kill Miranda‚ does not forgive
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