“then I sing to the bright-beaked bird outside‚ then to the manicured spider between window and screen”(17-20). A bright beakered bird and the manicured spider is not a norm in society and cant be defined as a stereotype in her life‚ which makes this a form of symbolism. Rita is attempting to neglect the
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Alvarenga 1 Tirzah Alvarenga Ms. Fortier English II 11 January 2011 Narrative and Lyric Poetry Poetry has been around for centuries. Most often poetry is used when someone is down or when someone wants to show his or her love to someone else. Poetry is basically language condensed for artistic effect. Two types of poetry are narrative poetry and lyric poetry. Narrative poetry tells a story‚ a particular event‚ or happening‚ it often relates to a long story. Lyric poetry is any fairly short
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The poem “Fog” at its very essence exhibits themes of change‚ as well as ideas about the natural world. It seems as if the speaker is using cat feet as a dramatization of the quietness of the fog. Cat feet within this poem are used as a way for the speaker to convey the idea that the fog acts as cat feet do‚ in how quiet and sneaky they are. As the poem progresses the reader experiences a mood change from being anxious and not knowing what to expect to a feeling of excitement. This excitement stems
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all that is unethical. Wordsworth uses his Petrarchan style to divide the octave into describing England in its pitiful ways and the last six lines as describing the influential John Milton. The rhyme scheme is ABBAABBA and BCCDBD. Along with the form of the sonnet‚ the symbols illustrate a sense of all the institutions Wordsworth conveys as dilemmas in England. The altar represents religion‚ the sword stands for the military‚ the pen symbolizes literature‚ and the fireside signifies the home‚ all
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The Structure of a Pantoum Poem The pantoum is a form of poetry of Malaysian origin from the 15th century which was modified by the French in the 19th century. The modern pantoum is written in an unlimited number of quatrains (stanzas of four lines) with a strict repeating pattern - the second and fourth lines of each quatrain are repeated as the 1st and 3rd lines of the next quatrain. The pattern continues until the final quatrain when the 1st line of the poem becomes the last line and the 3rd
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as the waves make towards the pebbled shore’ to compare the movement of the waves as they make their way towards the pebbled shore to how the minutes of our human lives hasten towards our end. When one waves moves forward it recedes and another one forms and it disappears again and this motion chronic‚ similar to the way a person dies and another one is born; we are not going to last forever‚ we are going to be replaced. By means of this metaphor‚ ‘In sequent toil all forwards do contend’ Shakespeare
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Essay #1: A Close Reading of William Wordsworth´s “Composed Upon Westminster Bridge‚ September 3‚ 1802” The poem‚ a Petricharan sonnet‚ “Composed Upon Westminster Bridge‚ September 3‚ 1802” by William Wordsworth describes the view from Westminster Bridge in an early morning sunlight and represents the image even more the beauty of London city in a very positive and peaceful way. The speaker achieves to produce an image in the reader´s mind that is so clear‚ that the reader is able to picture himself
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some of the words from our terminology list. You will be asked to respond to a poem‚ using some words from the terminology list. You will be asked to answer some short questions relating to metaphor‚ simile‚ rhyme scheme‚ and the rules of some fixed form poems. You will be asked to compose some poetry that follows specific rules. Poetry assignment: present an anthology of your poetry written this term. In other words‚ type all the poems you’ve written this term and submit them for marking. Print them
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Students I. Objectives Students must be able to do the following at the end of the activities with at least 75% proficiency. Define poetry. Enumerate the kinds of poetry. Interpret a poem. Explain observation regarding young love in written form. II. Subject Matter “Ambahan” Hanunuo-Mangyan Poem Reference: http://www.mangyan.org/book/export/html/34 Materials: Copy of the pre-assigned text‚ pictures and questionnaires. III. Procedure A. Motivation: Show the class a picture
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question‚ “What happens to a dream deferred?” which has infinite many answers. In stanzas‚ two and three he answers his first rhetorical question with five more questions. In the forth stanza‚ he provides a final answer to the original questions in the form of a declarative question. Hughes beginning the poem with a question‚ “What happens to a dream deferred?” His inversion of syntax‚ dream deferred instead of deferred dreams makes the reader become conscious of the fact they are in the world of poetry
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