English Literature poem comparisons How do the writers express/convey their emotions by focusing on the themes of control and freedom? 1) Prayer Before Birth (Louis Macneice) 2) Tyger (WIlliam Blake) 3) Sonnet 116 (William Shakespeare) 4) War photographer (Carol Ann Duffy) 5) Do not go gentle into that good night (Dylan Thomas) 6) Remember (Christina Rossetti) Q1) “With strength against those who would freeze my humanity‚ would dragoon me into a lethal automaton.” Qa) “He has a job
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George B 11/18/11 Explication of “A Birthday Present” by Sylvia Plath For many readers‚ the draw of Sylvia Plath’s poetry is distinctly linked to her life as well as the desire to end her life. As Robert Lowell states in the forward of Ariel‚ “This poetry and life are not a career; they tell that a life‚ even when disciplined‚ is simply not worth it” (xv). “A Birthday Present”`‚ written by Plath in September of 1962 and hauntingly recorded in her own voice on audio in October of that same year
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feeble-pointed spikes of flowers E (Pale orchises)‚ and scared a bright green snake. G The fact is the sweetest dream that labor knows. F emphasis My long scythe whispered and left the hay to make. G emphasis Robert Frost The speaker of the poem is the mower himself. It cannot be determined from the sonnet whether or not the speaker is actually male or female. His age is also undetermined‚ but we can assume that he is at least young enough to wield a scythe. After long periods of time‚
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Donne’s love poetry and his religious verse have an extremely close relationship and this manifests itself in the presence of religious imagery and reference in his love poems‚ the presence of imagery in his religious poems that is more akin to that from courtly love‚ and in his style and technique. It is this sense of Donne’s individuality that creates two types of poetry that‚ for all their differences‚ are strikingly similar. The holy sonnets refer to the old love poet characteristics
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The poem that was chosen was “Stone” by Charles Simic. Charles Simic argues that it is better to be as simple as a stone‚ than being energetic and some other kind of creature or object that has action in its life. The narrator is telling us that his idea of perfection or tranquility is being a stone‚ lying there‚ doing nothing for eternity. He prefers this over being something like a tiger or something with action. In the beginning of the poem‚ Charles Simic says the he would go straight to doing
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live in today. The texts I used were Schindler’s List‚ directed by Steven Spielberg‚ The Road‚ written by Cormac McCarthy‚ The Wasteland‚ by T.S Eliot and Fire and Ice‚ written by Robert Frost. I felt that all these texts reflected how society shows this idea of death and how we interpret these concepts to become the social norm. One of the large ways death is presented in these texts is through the empty and desolate settings. In ’The Road’ a world is shown as "barren‚ silent‚ godless". The silence
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Prison Alphabet Blue L 150 Reflections on a Benevolent Dictatorship 1. What opinion is Dawe expressing through this poem? That dictatorship is bad 2. What is the character reflecting about? The character is reflecting about a benevolent dictatorship‚ and how it resembles people who are incapable and live in a mental home. And about all the bad things that had Happened during this time 3. How does Dawe use the images of a mental home to encapsulate a dictator’s downfall? That people who are
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He Had Such Quiet Eyes By: Bibsy Soenharjo 3.1 SYNOPSIS OF THE POEM The poem is about a woman who has been deceived to think that she was loved by a man with ‘quiet eyes’. She suffers for this and only learns on hindsight not to trust or give in to men who seek women only for pleasure. The poet gives an advice on being able to recognise what is true and what is not‚ when a person is truly friendly and when he is not. You may lose in the game of love and give your heart away‚ but knowing the truth
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| | our Casuarina Tree is a poem published in 1881 by Toru Dutt‚ an Indian poet. Its a perfect example of craftsmanship.In this poemToru Dutt celebrates the majesty of the Casuarina Tree and remembers her happy childhood days spent under it and revives her memories with her beloved siblings. ------------------------------------------------- Summary The poem begins with the description of the tree. The poet says that the creeper has wound itself round the rugged trunk of the Casuarina Tree‚ like
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Interpretation of poems Dulce et decorum est are the first words of a Latin saying taken from an ode by Horace). The words were widely understood and often quoted at the start of the First World War. They mean "It is sweet and right." The full saying ends the poem: Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori - it is sweet and right to die for your country. In other words‚ it is a wonderful and great honour to fight and die for your country. The opening of the poem suggests Owen pities the state to
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