Debra Marquart uses her poetry to explore ideas of identity and projection. Specifically‚ how people tend to project their own stories and ideas onto passing strangers. When interacting with or observing a stranger there is no context to what they were doing before you crossed paths. Marquart’s poem is clearly not talking about herself when she creates these interesting backstories for a person she has no understanding of. This is exemplified by the statement‚ “I think of the one to whom bad news
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Analysis of ‘Diptych’ ‘Diptych’‚ by Robert Gray is a free verse poem in which imagery is used to invoke feelings‚ but also specifically influence a reader’s first impression of character. Throughout the poem Robert Gray has swayed natural speech‚ used strong imagery and also included poetic tone to create a poem which allows insight to his childhood. Robert Gray has explored his parent’s struggles during their marriage‚ in the poem ‘Diptych’. He likens his childhood experiences to a diptych hinge
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“Australian poetry gives us insight into the human condition.” Discuss this statement with reference to at least 3 poems. Human condition encompasses the unique and inevitable features of being human. It includes all aspects of human behaviour‚ irreducible part of humanity that is inherent and not dependent on factors such as gender‚ race or class. Human condition also includes concerns such as the meaning of life and anxiety regarding the inescapability of death. The techniques used in the poems
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As I walk down the street with my friends‚ I think the mouse is squirming in my trouser pocket. But‚ for the sake of secrecy‚ I can’t reach down and hold the lump from moving because a woman hobbling along the street has just seen it too‚ and she gives me a disgusted look and quickens her pace. We get nearer to the sweet-shop and the critter in my pocket is thrashing like mad‚ and I notice that the man in rags whom I usually give my spare change to‚ does not seem keen to ask me for anything that
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later years led Romantic writers to write of the Emperor of France’s cruelty‚ escaping to nature to flee the real world and its problems. William Wordsworth became one of the most influential poets of the Romantic period displaying throughout his poetry his love of nature which he discovered at a young age. Wordsworth’s poems often present an instant when nature speaks to him and he responds by speaking for nature. “Tintern Abbey” explores the ways in which observing natural beauty can deepen human
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Stage 2 English Communications- Poetry Analysis Speech By Josephine Donnan Gary Turk’s poem‚ “Look Up”‚ Robert Frost’s “Stopping By The Woods On a Snowy Evening”‚ and Edgar Allen Poe’s “Alone” all contain the theme of isolation. Although the theme is the same‚ the poems display it in different ways‚ and express it through different writing styles‚ language devices and poetic structures. “Look Up” is a spoken-word piece that talks about society’s current obsession with the Internet and social
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In both of Katherine Mansfield’s stories‚ “The Garden Party” and “Bliss” we can find this “multiple personality” in the main characters. In the first one we have Laura‚ who is a young lady of a well-positioned family in an upper class neighborhood. The young woman’s world is presented almost like a fantasy; the description of the environment is filled up with “perfect beauty”. The girl is not like the other members of her family‚ she seems to reflect about the things she is doing and is affected
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Dramatistic and Modal Analysis Poetry by Pablo Neruda Dramatistic Analysis Poetry is the language of a living soul. Pablo Neruda’s persona speaks to himself in one of his poem’s entitled Poetry upon recognizing‚ seizing and accepting love into his life. This is illustrated through the use of the Pablo Neruda’s vivacious combination of words revealing exhilaration‚ euphoria and immortalizing through the power of his pen in the form of poetry. As mentioned previously‚ the author speaks of a certain
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literature/myth in general? To these myths in particular? How do they individually and collectively help characterize the speaker’s situation? Through the use of metaphor and allusion‚ Cullen allows the readers to put themselves in his shoes. Through his poetry‚ the reader is presented with the struggle and the underlying true message- the harshness and cruelty towards the African Americans- the reality of racism. 2. Does the speaker’s attitude toward God or our sense of that attitude shift or change
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Danielle Carkin Charles Ng . When you first hear the news about an offender committing numerous crimes‚ you assume he or she might have been abused at some point in their life or that they have had a long criminal record. Most repeat offenders come from a string of a bad life‚ parental abuse such as abandonment‚ neglect‚ and/ or physical abuse to name a few. At an early age they show signs of being cold hearted‚ fearless and possibly thrill-seeking behavior. This wasn’t the case for Charles Ng. Born
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