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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existing‚ with little thought or worry over what tomorrow may hold. Analysis This five-stanza poem takes on a playful rhyme scheme and meter‚ despite its serious and somewhat morbid subject. The first four stanzas are ABCB quatrains‚ each made up of terse lines to communicate the brevity of life‚ which is the subject of this poem. The final stanza‚ however‚ is an AABB rhyme scheme‚ a pair of rhyming couplets‚ which lends an even more playful quality to the poem as a whole while offering a moral or
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indicates that the speaker was very young‚ since she thought stiff backs‚ wrinkles‚ and veined hands were "grand." (I secretly wish the poet had chosen a different word from "grand‚" one that truly reflected her meaning; I suspect she settled on grand to rhyme with hand.) The lines 6-10 contain the reason for the speaker’s changed opinion about aging grown-ups. She had told us that she used to believe that the grown-ups "chose" those aging qualities until she observed her great-aunt’s friend groping helplessly
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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 negative with symbols of the devil but Sexton used a nursery rhyme as a symbol. The connotations of these elements reflect the image the daughters had of their fathers but also the relationships. These poems also both deal with the theme of identity and convey how the relationship of father and daughter consequently
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AP English Language and Composition 2 February 2012 Word Count: 516 Analysis of “I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud” William Wordsworth’s‚ “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”‚ focuses mainly on the beautiful things that nature has to offer. Nature is very important to Wordsworth and it is clear in his writing. Originally the poem was two stanzas and the final version (published in 1815) had four. The feeling of the poem is positive and this attitude remains generally the same throughout
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Text Explication and Facets of Poetic Genre Sonnet 60 by William Shakespeare Professor C. Soldan Poetry is “the art of rhythmical composition‚ written or spoken‚ for exciting pleasure by beautiful‚ imaginative‚ or elevated thoughts”. This paper will focus on poet William Shakespeare (1564-1616) who was famous in the Renaissance Period prior to the year 1750. Shakespeare was found to have 154 written sonnets‚ which dealt with themes such as the time‚ love‚ beauty and mortality. However‚ a personal
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Sonnet 43 was written in secret in Petrarchan style by Elizabeth Barrut Browning. It was written in first person with dominant figure of speech anaphora. Expressing the intense love she feels for her husband-to-be‚ Whereas Sonnet 116 is about love in the most ideal form. It admires people who have got together freely and base their relationship on trust and understanding. Both of the poems are written in iambic pentameter form and the key theme is passionate‚ romantic love and marriage. Sonnet 43
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’Love Songs in Age’ and ’Reference Back’ are both poems by Philip Larkin that deal with the painfulness of memories and our subjection to time. In each‚ Larkin talks of the ways music can provoke memories‚ be it the sheet music ’Love Songs in Age’‚ or the records in ’Reference Back’. The tone of the poems is very similar‚ with a negative opinion expressed in the final stanza of each poem‚ with ’Reference Back’ dealing with the distortion of memories over time‚ and the theme of ’Love Songs in Age’
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Theodore Roethke’s poem‚” My Papa’s Waltz” is one that can be interpreted in two ways. For some they say that the boy is enjoying the dance with his father‚ others say he does not. Neither interpretation can be definitively correct because that decision is solely up to the reader. It is up to that individual reader to weigh every aspect of the story and come to their own conclusion on what it all meant. The stance for this essay will be that‚ “My Papa’s Waltz” has a negative connotation because
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wife’ alludes to the fact he has another wife but makes the read want to read on to find out what has happened to her. Subsequently‚ presenting different ideas about relationship‚ their structures both vary to fit the idea and perspective. The rhyme scheme of One Flesh is A‚ B‚ A‚ B‚ A‚ A in the first two stanzas but the last stanza does not have a rhyming couplet as ‘these two who are my ... has now grown cold’ shows that there was a strong relationship at the start but broke down and has shattered
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