Bri Doane Ms. Stewart English II-III 30 January 2012 Explication of “The Snow Man” Wallace Stevens was a poet born on October 7‚ 1879 in Reading‚ Pennsylvania. He was always interested in writing growing up and wrote many poems later on in his life. He has written popular poems throughout his life. One of his more well-known poems is “The Snow Man”. It was first published in 1921 and is still a popular poem to this day. The poem is a very controversial one; it is open to many different
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Explication of "The Man He Killed" by Thomas Hardy 1. "Had he and I but met 2. By some old ancient inn‚ 3. We should have sat us down to wet 4. Right many a nipperkin! 5. "But ranged as infantry‚ 6. And staring face to face‚ 7. I shot at him as he at me. 8. And killed him in his place. 9. "I shot him dead because- 10. Because he was my foe. Throughout the poem it is easy to tell that the flow of this poem is non-traditional‚ for example‚ Hardy expresses hesitation in lines one and
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Explication of “Piers Plowman” by William Langland ENG/306 April 9‚ 2012 Shannon Loerch Explication of “Piers Plowman” by William Langland In the 14th century William Langland penned a poem entitled “Piers Plowman”. He used 111 lines of metered rhythm to illustrate a man’s quest for a stereotypical Christian life. Classified as a dramatic poem the manner in which the author describes this quest invokes an imaginative fever in the mind of the reader. The language used requires
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It’s here in a student’s journal‚ a blue confession in smudged‚ erasable ink: “I can’t stop hoping I’ll wake up‚ suddenly beautiful‚” and isn’t it strange how we want it‚ despite all we know? To be at last the girl in the photography‚ cobalt-eyed‚ hair puddling like cognac‚ or the one stretched at the ocean’s edge‚ curved and light-drenched‚ more like a beach than the beach. I confess I have longed to stalk runways‚ leggy‚ otherworldly as a mantis‚ to balance a head like a Fabergé
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David Bowie’s “Afraid” Explication Even though the emotion of fear is the dominating theme runs through the lyrics of David Bowie’s “Afraid” fear is not the first emotion the reader or listener encounters in the verses of the song. In the first stanza‚ the emotion of longing is the first sensation you meet with the narrator yearning to be smarter or even to be taller; testifying his goal of self-improvement‚ he longs to be a different person‚ different than he is now. In the second stanza
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"The Red Convertible" by Louise Erdrich In "The Red Convertible‚" by Louise Erdrich‚ the red convertible symbolizes the brothers relationship at different stages through the story. In the story Erdrich uses specific actions of the brothers to show change in their relationship‚ which corresponds with the red convertible. Erdrich uses scenes involving the red convertible to show different stages of the brothers relationships. The story begins with a road trip representing the boys closeness‚ then
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“Fleur” Literary Analysis “Fleur” by Louise Erdrich was written to encompass a cursed Chippewa woman‚ Fleur Pillager‚ as she struggles against the oppressing binds of men‚ race‚ and society. Since a young age‚ she was considered dangerous because of the thought that the lake monster of Lake Turcot‚ Misshepeshu‚ wanted the girl for himself. Ever since‚ she’s been out casted not only for her “curse”‚ but for her ethnicity and her gender. This story is very much like “A Worn Path” by Eudora Welty
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Corn Maze By David Barber I picked this poem thinking this seems like a funny title and it would be a confusing poem that had a simple title but a deep meaning. This poem had a lot of alliteration the roots er and re were repeated very often‚and the only roots used in the poem. The only exception to this order was the the first line in verse five where minotaur was used. The minotaur was placed there I conclude to break
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The Poison Tree I was angry with my friend I told my wrath‚ my wrath did end I was angry with my foe I told it not‚ my wrath did grow and I watered it in fears Night and morning with my tears And I sunned it with smiles And with soft deceitful wiles And it grew both day and night Till it bore an apple bright And my foe beheld it shine And he knew that it was mine And into my garden stole When the night had veiled the pole In the morning glad
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how is the theme of loss and separation explored in remember‚ a mother in a refugee camp and poem at thirty nine? The three poems Remember written by Christina Rossetti‚ A Mother In A Refugee Camp by Chinua Achebe and Poem at Thirty-Nine by Alice Walker share the same negative theme of loss and separation. Remember explores the pain felt by losing loved ones. A Mother In A Refugee Camp emphasizes the relationship between a mother and her child living in a refugee camp. Poem at thirty nine is
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