Comparing and contrasting essay of Dylan Thomas and A.E. Housman poems Both of the poems‚ “ To an Athlete dying young” and “ Do not go gentle into the night” are referring to the subject of death but show different outlooks and seem to explore the helplessness with growing old and the progress towards death. Although the poems are against death each have a different way of how it should be approached. Both poems show views on how people should deal with death while one sees death as a misfortune
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metaphors‚ and imagery. "My Papa’s Waltz" is written in the format of ABAB. Examples of this rhythm can be seen with words that end each line such as "breath; dizzy; death; easy". “Dizzy” and “Easy” don’t rhyme perfectly‚ but they still fit the ABAB rhyme scheme. Although it may be a bit of a stretch‚ the ABAB format may be used to symbolize the consistency of Roethke’s love for his father. The whole poem is basically a metaphor in and of itself. The idea of the father’s
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Caged Bird by Maya Angelou explores themes of Social injustice‚ Lack of freedom/choice and Shattered dreams in six stanzas of varying length. There is no set rhyme scheme to the poem but there are noticeable rhymes in stanzas two‚ three‚ four and five. Stanza six is a repetition of stanza three. There are half rhymes throughout. Vocabulary and sentence structure is very straightforward. The stanzas alternate between the free bird’s perspective and that of the caged bird with regularity: two stanzas
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of four stanzas which are constructed around an ABAB rhyme scheme. Hardy uses powerful imagery to help convey misery and loss of love‚ from Stanza one to Stanza four hardy speaks in images conveying moments of his happy times with Emma and moments of grief. Thomas Hardy starts by saying “Woman much missed” which is alliteration used to emphasize how much he misses her and how she is distant from him‚ this shows nostalgia. Hardy uses a triple rhyme “call to me call to me/ all to me” to show his grief
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and confidence‚ whereas the protagonist in ‘Porphyria’s Lover’ emerges as a depressed man with no apparent intuitions or social life. Browning uses different structural techniques in both poems to portray each character; there are contrasting rhyme schemes and meters to capture their complex mentality. The language and literary devices used to portray the speakers also differs with pathetic fallacy in ‘porphyria’s Lover’ and symbolism in ‘My Last Duchess’. The presentation of both these speakers
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placed remote rhyming in this poem‚ as the final words of each second and fifth line (of each stanza) are whole rhymes. These rhymes are one-syllable ’masculine ’‚ which is strong to the ear‚ however‚ the rhyming scheme is less obvious due to Dobson ’s choosing: a reflection to the distant "Bystander" figure who is barely there in a painting. In order to emphasise upon the separated rhymes‚ they lie at the end‚ where the reader stops to take a breath. This pattern is echoed throughout all four stanzas
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treasures‚ such as gold or money. The poem is written almost as a prayer in the sense that the questions aren’t answered and the problem isn’t solved but instead is offered up to God. The poem consists of three stanzas‚ the first of which has a ababcb rhyme scheme. The first line presents a question “Am I Thy gold?” (1). It is widely agreed that gold is a valuable thing‚ especially in the time period the poem was written‚ so the real question is “Am I of value to you?” or “What’s my worth?”. It could even
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“The Sound of the Sea” consists of fourteen lines and a particular rhyme scheme (abba abba cde cde). The first eight lines of the poem consist of one drawn out sentence‚ which is the description of the sound of the sea and other natural forces‚ which then in the final sestet‚ which also consists of only one sentence‚ are used by Longfellow as a metaphor to allude to the inspirations of the human soul. The change in the rhyme scheme of the sonnet and the two concrete sentences‚ serve to aid this transition
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due to the repetition of a question which has the same sentiment but has simply been rephrased. This effect is furthered through the rhyme scheme which has altered from the opening stanzas and now adopts an A A rhyme pattern which gives a sense of escalation and despair. The third line of the stanza ‘No‚ seek some host to harbour thee: I fly’ does not include a rhyme and this coupled with the determined semantics of the declarative give a sense of passion and resolve which I see as a turning point
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much reflects the thing that it is describing‚ the room and even the life‚ (if you can call it that); of Mr. Bleaney seem dull‚ monotonous and bare. Even his name is bland. The poem reflects this not only in words but in its rhyme scheme and rhythm too. It has a rhyme scheme of ABAB and it continues throughout the poem and shows the predictability of their lives. The enjambment which continues throughout the poem shows how the monotonousness of his life runs on and on. The room doesn’t even have
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