In ‘The poetics of Space’‚ Bachelard explores the psychology of human experience of intimate spaces and his perception of space as a blend of experience‚ physical structure‚ and senses. He further reflects on the poetic imagination and on understanding how poetic images are situated in the human psyche and generated by real life settings. In order to convey the powerful nature of such emotions he describes such concepts using a language that evokes ‘daydreaming and poetic images in the reader’s
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Hughes uses a variety of poetic and literary techniques to communicate his tone. Namely‚ he utilized figurative language‚ personification‚ similes‚ and metaphors to effectively get his message across. He uses the repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds; "Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?". Up and sun do not rhyme‚ but they have the same "uh" sound. Rhyme: Poetry having correspondence in the terminal sounds of the lines. "Does it stink like rotten meat?...like a syrup sweet?" Meat
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Addition | again also and and then besides | equally further(more) in addition (to...) indeed next | in fact moreover too what is more finally | Comparison | compared with in comparison with in the same way/manner | similarly likewise | again also | Contrast | besides but however in contrast instead conversely it may be the case that certainly also likewise | naturally nevertheless of course on the contrary on the other hand regardless
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Duke Ellington definitely stands in my mind as one of the more important and productive musicians of this century. One of the first black band leaders‚ and one of the most innovative‚ the Duke wrote music of all types and styles from solo jazz piano pieces to 16 piece pop songs to symphony orchestra pieces. His wide range of composing styles is seen in his collaborations with prominent performers‚ two of which are John Coltrane and Frank Sinatra. He was born in 1899 in Washington‚ D.C.‚ and came
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Terms & Definitions for Famous Speeches Repetition: Repeating a word or phrase‚ either to draw extra attention or to emphasise the importance of it. Analogy: A comparison of two things‚ based on the similarities between them; in this case‚ telling a story with a similar sort of message in order to make a related point clear. Rhetorical Questioning: Questions that the speaker might ask‚ but which do not actually require an answer. Rhetorical questions are used to make the audience think a little
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Write around 250 words in which you interpret ONE of the following poems in terms of poetic language: "A Noiseless Patient Spider" (Whitman 360-361)‚ "Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day?" (Shakespeare 361)‚ "Turtle" (Ryan 362)‚ "My Son My Executioner" (Hall 363)‚ "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" (Donne 398-399). In your analysis‚ please QUOTE (skillfully and grammatically) at least TWICE and use at least THREE out of the following eight TERMS: connotation denotation metaphor simile
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This line appears in Shakespeare’s tragedy "Hamlet" in Act I Scene 2 line 65 and is spoken as an ‘Aside’ by Hamlet when the new king‚ Claudius addresses him as "But now‚ my cousin Hamlet‚ and my son—" in line 64. Claudius calls Hamlet his ’cousin’ and ’son’ because after Old King Hamlet‚ Hamlet’s father‚ died his brother‚ Claudius took his throne and married his brother’s widowed wife‚ Gertrude‚ making him not only Hamlet’s guardian but also his step-father. In terms of the actual words‚ with “kin”
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is good." (pg. 27)‚ according to Poetics. Ibsen attempts to create a good character in Mrs. Alving. Although she makes many mistakes and her judgments lead to the ultimate tragedy her intentions are good. "Yes‚ I was swayed by duty and consideration for others; that was why I lied to my son day in and day out." (Ghosts; pg. 29) She loves and wants to protect her son and to do so she feels she must shelter him from the truths of his father. "I want my boy to be happy‚ that is all I want
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literal or visible meaning. -This word origins in Middle English allegorie‚ from Latin allegoria‚ from Greek allegoria‚ from allegorein to speak figuratively‚ from allos ‘other’ + egorein ‘to speak publicly’. -A short example of this literary device can be the poem ‘Epigram’ by Langston Hughes: Oh‚ God of dust and rainbow‚ help us see That without dust the rainbow would not be. in which ‘dust’ and ‘rainbow’ stand for something else rather than their superficial meaning in this poem. This
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Macbeth - Act 5 Scenes 1-3 Literary Devices: Scene 1: Scene 2: Scene 3: Metonymous Macbeth asks the doctor‚ "Cleanse the stuffed bosom of that perilous stuff/Which weights upon the heart?" (heart represents the soul) Alliteration Macbeth says‚ "And with some sweet oblivous antitdote..." (repetition of /s/) "Thou lily-livered boy..." (repetition of /l/) "Then fly‚ false thanes‚" Personification Macbeth: "Curses not loud but deep‚ mouth-honor‚ breath‚/Which the poor heart would fain deny‚ and
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