working as a cottage maiden that falls in love with a lord and gets pregnant‚ and is then discarded for her cousin Kate who marries the lord. The second poem "the seduction" is a more modern poem with an urban setting‚ and is written in narrative form. The rhyme and rhythm is disjointed and irregular. A teenage girl goes to a party and leaves with a young man who gets her drunk and seduces her. Shortly after the young girl discovers she is pregnant as a result of this one night stand and her
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From the excerpts studied in The Rape of the Lock‚ Alexander Pope skilfully uses the mock epic genre to satirize the trifling nature of his society through exaggeration‚ parody and juxtaposition in rhyming couplets. The epic form makes everything larger than life which Pope uses to reveal the absurdity of the society he lives in. A simple card game is turned into a complex “combat on [a] velvet plain‚” which exaggerates the little action that actually takes place in the Canto. In the card game
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The analysis of James Wright’s Saint Judas Saint Judas was written by James Wright at the end of the 60s. Considering the format this poem can be regarded as a traditional Petrarchan sonnet with a rhyme of ababcdcdefgefg; however‚ the content of this poem and the way it was written is different. In this poem James Wright tried to mix the dramatic monologue with the Petrarchan sonnet‚ which is usually written in poet’s tone. Instead in this poem‚ the speaker is Judas: this enables the revealing
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Here’s an example to describe conflict in Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison: “Privileged son arrested; outcast aunt humilities herself for him at jail.” (25) Style 1.) Write an epitaph in the form of a heroic couplet for two of the characters. (Look up these terms if needed. No points if you deviate in form from heroic couplet.) What words could appear on this character’s tombstone to accurately describe the character’s life and the character’s growth or change (or lack thereof?) (10) 2.) Reveal
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How can The Highwayman by Alfred Noyes be considered a ballad form of poetry. The Highwayman can be considered a ballad because of the use of various techniques which are typical of the ballad style of poetry. The author Alfred Noyes wrote the poem in 1906 and at the time he was 24 years old. He died on the 25th June 1958. He is buried on the Isle of Wight where he lived with his wife and children. The first feature of the poem that makes it a ballad is it tells a story. Before words were printed
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The excerpts from Elegiac Sonnets by Charlotte Smith come across as very sad. From the four separate readings by her it is seemed like Smith was maybe depressed. Beginning with Written as the Close of Spring the beginning is beautiful with talk about flowers blooming and spring. Then‚ begging at line 9 it gets sad. She begins talking about humanity and how frail and fair it is. She is talking about how when we age we loose our youth and don’t bud anymore‚ as flowers do. The next excerpt in Charlotte
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In the poem “One Art” by Elizabeth Bishop‚ the speaker’s attitude is reflected through the situations he has been through and the most evident one is his experience with loss. Through verse form and colloquial language. Bishop conveys the speakers attitude throughout the poem to be nonchalant‚ ultimately demonstrating that “The art of losing isn’t hard to master‚” even if it is the loss of a loved one. In the first fifteen lines‚ Bishop describes the attitude the speaker feels towards losing objects
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When exploring literature‚ poetry is my favorite to read because my mother’s a published author. Therefore‚ yes before this course I read poetry. As a published author she writes poems‚ which covers a variety of topics such as spiritual‚ military‚ current events‚ and several other items. Therefore‚ I am a little bias when it comes to poetry. However‚ some other reasons I enjoy reading the poem is because it allows me a means to be open minded and examine ways that these poems can alter the environment
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Comparison of two love poems ‘How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.’ is a poem written in the 19th century by a poet named Elizabeth Barret Brown. Assuming that this love sonnet was written from the poets point of view this poem is about how a lady loves her lover. The title suggests that this poet will list how she loves a certain person and in how many different ways and the poem does exactly that‚ Elizabeth also compares her love to things that it is not possible to live without. The language
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(mostly sonnets). The sonnet was introduced by the Italian poet Petrarch (1304-1374). A Petrarchan sonnet consists of a stanza with eight lines followed by a stanza with six lines. William Shakespeare later adopted the sonnet‚ however he changed form slightly. Shakespeare wrote three quatrains followed by a couplet. Owen wrote his sonnets in the Elizabethan
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