Our Casuarina Tree | | Toru Dutt (1856–77) | | | LIKE a huge Python‚ winding round and round | | The rugged trunk‚ indented deep with scars‚ | | Up to its very summit near the stars‚ | | A creeper climbs‚ in whose embraces bound | | No other tree could live. But gallantly | 5 | The giant wears the scarf‚ and flowers are hung | | In crimson clusters all the boughs among‚ | | Whereon all day are gathered bird and bee; | | And oft at nights the
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Here is My Summary of the poem ‘The Solitary Reaper’: The Solitary Reaper is a delightful lyric by William Wordsworth. William Wordsworth is known as a great lover and preacher of nature. He impresses us by the imaginative and philosophical quality of his thoughts. It was written when the poet is travelling through the scottish highlands. while crossing a valley‚ the poet heard a beautiful voice of a young lass singing a song which was probably sad. this highland lass was also reaping
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t Narrative Poetry .ne A summary of ‘The Inchcape Rock’ by Robert Southey These are in the right order‚ as numbered. 1. 10. One day‚ out at sea‚ when there was no wind The bell sank and Sir Ralph said‚ ‘The next person who comes to the rock won’t thank the water. the Abbot’. 2. 11. The day was so still that there were no He then rowed back to his boat and sailed sounds or signs as the water moved around away. He was gone a long time‚ during and over
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Poems 2/HS305 The Harp Of India Why hang’st thou lonely on yon withered bough? Unstrung for ever‚ must thou there remain; Thy music once was sweet - who hears it now? Why doth the breeze sigh over thee in vain? Silence hath bound thee with her fatal chain; Neglected‚ mute‚ and desolate art thou‚ Like ruined monument on desert plain: O! many a hand more worthy far than mine Once thy harmonious chords to sweetness gave‚ And many a wreath for them did Fame entwine Of flowers still blooming on the
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Sylvia Plath’s poem‚ "Medallion" is about a snake she finds dead‚ and the details of its body that she notices. Written in 1959‚ its form was strictly "controlled." Plath uses imagery‚ literary devices‚ and sensory details‚ especially colors. First‚ we "see" the image of a snake‚ bronze‚ lying in the sun near a gate with a "star and moon" design. By the gate with star and moon Worked into the peeled orange wood The bronze snake lay in the sun Next‚ Plath uses a metaphor
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Bradstreet’s poem “The Author to Her Book” looks at the author’s humiliation at having her work published and exposed to the critical public. Bradstreet uses a child as a metaphor for her book. This explains when she is embarrassed when it is snatched from her and reflects on her as the mother. Regardless of the author’s attachment to her “child‚” she is still ashamed to send it out the door. Almost all the lines of the poem rhyme‚ this sort of speeds up the pace of poem. The poem also has a steady
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In the poem “One Art” by Elizabeth Bishop‚ the speaker’s attitude is reflected through the situations he has been through and the most evident one is his experience with loss. Through verse form and colloquial language. Bishop conveys the speakers attitude throughout the poem to be nonchalant‚ ultimately demonstrating that “The art of losing isn’t hard to master‚” even if it is the loss of a loved one. In the first fifteen lines‚ Bishop describes the attitude the speaker feels towards losing objects
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forum to share the stories and shed light on the experiences of people in groups that get overlooked. Omar Sakr’s powerful poem ‘The H word’ explores issues of poverty and danger in the daily lives of disadvantaged people and draws attention to the idea of a safe‚ happy home environment that isn’t the same for people who aren’t privileged. Similarly‚ Kevin Gilbert’s haunting poem “Kiacatoo”‚ serves as a tool to tell the stories of Aboriginal people and the massacres that were otherwise swept under the
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experiencing when he wrote his poem‚ “Side Kicks.” Ronald has spent a lot of time both teaching and being taught. He received his BA from the University of Illinois and an MA from the University of Arizona. Robert has also taught at Pasadena City College (Website 1). Most of Ronald’s writing is about teens and young adults. “Side Kicks” is a poem about losing a hero or someone important. The poem‚ “Side Kicks” has many different meanings. When you read the poem the surface meaning gives
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Though we don’t know who wrote this poem by name‚ if we look deep in our heart we all know what was a man or woman that come to our country seeking refuge‚ but found only pain and suffering. You can feel how hopeless this person’s situation was simply by the words you wrote. The last line of this poem is most heart wrenching line any individual could bring himself to write. To bow your head in reflection and hopelessness
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