LaStacia Bradley Instructor McBride English 1023 June 29th‚ 2012 The Comparison and Contrast of Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath The two poems‚ “And One for My Dame” by Anne Sexton and “Daddy” by Sylvia Plath‚ both explore similar themes through the use of literary elements such as structure‚ tone and symbolism. Structures in each poem are alike with length but differ with the actual form. The tone Plath conveys is negative one while Sexton’s is more neutral. The symbolism in “Daddy” was also
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Mowing There was never a sound beside the wood but one‚ A And that was my long scythe whispering to the ground. B What was it it whispered? I knew not well myself; C Perhaps it was something about the heat of the sun‚ A extra syllable Something‚ perhaps‚ about the lack of sound— B And that was why it whispered and did not speak. D extra s. / emphasis It was no dream of the gift of idle hours‚ E emphasis Or easy gold at the hand of fay or elf: C emphasis Anything more
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back on his difficult decision and go back to take the other road but realizes that he will not have the fortuity to do so. When analyzing the form‚ rhetoric’s‚ syntax‚ and vocabulary of Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken”‚ the poem has a rhyme scheme of ABAAB CDCCD with limited and boldly rhymes addressing the readers who can relate with similar positions of making a decision at the very moment. In line one‚ a very descriptive syntax that’s simple yet retentive in detail‚ “Two roads diverged in
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varying rhyme scheme‚ stable yet altering structure‚ and vivid imagery‚ Douglas describes the conditions and brutality of war and how each soldier will be remembered by both lover and killer alike. Throughout the poem‚ the rhyme scheme is constantly changing from stanza to stanza‚ each involving end rhyme. In stanza one‚ Douglas rhymes the words “gone” and “sun” in lines one and four‚ and the words “ground” and “found” in lines two and three‚ thus giving the stanza an abba rhyme scheme. This differs
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structure of a Petrarchan sonnet‚ and is therefore written in iambic pentameter. It consists of 14 lines‚ and is divided into an octave and a sestet. The octave has a rhyme scheme of ABBA ABBA. It presents the primary problem facing the author‚ in this case being the question of her declaration of love. The sestet has a rhyme scheme of CDCDCD. It resolves the problem presented by clarifying the ways in which the author loves her beloved‚ and claiming that her love would be strengthened in the afterlife
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As Leon Battista Alberti once said‚ “Painting is possessed of divine powered‚ for not only does it make the absent present‚ but also makes the dead almost alive”. This seems to summarize the central theme of William Butler Yeats’ poem‚ “Sailing to Byzantium” that through human imagination‚ nature and its raw materials are transformed into something that will withstand the test of time. Through the use of Yeats’ clusters of images‚ paradoxes‚ and syntax‚ this theme of endurance over time is emphasized
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I have chosen this poem to write about because the poem seems to be giving a clear message about how life can be taken away from you and death can come at anytime. This poem interest me because Henry Longfellow explains how people should not waste their life away‚ but instead takes advantage of their life. I like this poem because I was able to understand the poem’s meaning and it helped me understand how I and everyone else shouldn’t waste the life they have because today may be their last day and
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also has characteristics that make it unique. Both the structure and word choice that Nashe uses‚ help to set this poem apart from other works from this time. The poem is made up of six stanzas‚ each adhering to the rhyme scheme of A-A-B-B-C-C-D. This implemented rhyme scheme makes it so that when the poem is read‚ it possesses a smooth flowing movement. Within the poem‚ each stanza keeps the same two ending lines‚ “I am sick I must die/God have mercy on us!” It could be determined that every stanza
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Performance Analysis of OFDM Systems using Cooperative Diversity Techniques Abstrac t: Cooperative Diversity has been widely used in wireless network‚ and Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) is a key technique of multi-carrier transmission to meet high data rate requirement of wireless communication. The aim of this project is to combine the technology of OFDM with cooperative diversity techniques. The simulation will be done in MATLAB. The performance of the system will be compared
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Hardy wrote ‘During Wind and Rain’ after the death of his first wife‚ Emma. Here‚ the poem provides various scenes that portray various seasonal activities done by possibly Emma and her family that spread over a number of years. However‚ the poem does contain examples of reversal; each stanza consisting of joyful images for the first five lines and the last two lines end with images relating to death that serves as a reminder that time will inevitably rob even our most cherished memories. The
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