Poetry can evoke strong feelings in readers. Select three poems we’ve read and examine the literary techniques the poets used to evoke a reader’s emotional response (note: not your emotional response.) How do the poets’ various techniques connect to their readers’ feelings? Because a writer wants to evoke strong feelings into their writings‚ they use a variety of techniques from wording to the sense of the feeling the reader feels. In the poem‚ “Harlem‚” by Langston Hughes‚ he uses the descriptive
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Surviving “We are so busy making a living that we forgot to make a life.” This statement is one of the best descriptions of Hong Kong dwellers. There are multitudinous researches have stated that Hong Kong is one of the fastest pace of living‚ one of the cities having the most expensive land price in the world‚ one of the most stressful city…etc. I believe these “one of the” can explain why Hong Kong people are so unhappy. In the following paragraph‚ I would like to discuss the contradiction
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this‚ people seem to be showing a tendency to love to be afraid. The regularity with which public consciousness creates new and new global scarecrows‚ like annual deadly pandemics and ends of the world‚ global warming‚ and so on‚ shows that humankind is simply bored and wants to create distractions. While not being an actual scarecrow‚ horror movies serve as an excellent short-span adrenaline stimulator‚ so it is no surprise so many people are love them. All in all‚ horror movies seem to be a natural
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Love Poem Analysis: Linda Pastan is an American poet of Jewish background. She was born in New York on May 27‚ 1932. Today‚ she lives in Potomac‚ Maryland with her husband Ira Pastan‚ an accomplished physician and researcher. She is known for writing short poems that address topics like family life‚ domesticity‚ motherhood‚ the female experience‚ aging‚ death‚ loss and the fear of loss‚ as well as the fragility of life and relationships. Love poem is a very simple poem yet it has a deep
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devices to accomplish his work. Although written in free verse‚ meaning that it is not strictly metered or rhymed‚ sections of Leaves of Grass approach iambic meter‚ which is the same meter as in a traditional sonnet (as in‚ “Come live with me and be my love”). Since iambics closely mimic the patterns of natural speech and are pleasing to the ear‚ Whitman used them for sections of his poems‚ without exclusively writing metered verse. Whitman’s catalogs‚ or lists‚ are used in many of his poems to indicate
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simile the same as most of the last line ‘I think my love as rare as…’ More use of similes could have been made in the following lines. There is an example of weak alliteration in line eleven ‘I grant I never saw a goddess go’ There is a metaphor in line four when he talks about his mistress’ hair‚ saying they are ‘black wires’‚ this view today would be a completely different view from when the poem was written. In our modern time we think of electrical wires coming out of her head. Most
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do scorn Lo! to the vault Of paved heaven With sorrow fraught My notes are driven They strike the ear of night Make weep the eyes of day They make mad the roaring winds And with tempests play Like a fiend in a cloud With howling woe After night I do crowd And with night will go I turn my back to the east From whence comforts have increas’d For light doth seize my brain With frantic pain There’s alliteration = wild winds weep Personification = wind is weeping Rhyme scheme
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Larkin: Wild oats Talking in bed Broadcast Love songs in age Faith healing Sunny prestatyn For Sidney bechet Abse: St valentines night A scene from married life The Malian bird Blond bys The silence of tudor evans Focus on ideas of love Wild Oats BY PHILIP LARKIN About twenty years ago Two girls came in where I worked— A bosomy English rose And her friend in specs I could talk to. Faces in those days sparked The whole shooting-match off‚ and I doubt If ever one had
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“The Day After Tomorrow” showed us what life would be like in the event of a horrific natural catastrophe. Because of the abuse the world has taken from us‚ it started to shut down and it took everyone by surprise. Buildings were heavily damaged‚ streets became raging rivers‚ the state looked like it incurred billions of dollars of expenses‚ and worst of all many lives were lost. You’d think the odds of something so grand and dramatic as that occurring in real life is unlikely. You’d think that
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|SECTION B | | | |Spend about 1 hour on this section. Think carefully about the poems before you write your answer. | |In the first
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