“Out‚Out-“ and Bredon Hill are two very different poems which both deal with the theme of unexpected death. “Out‚Out-“‚ by Robert Frost‚ is the story of the death of a boy caused by a buzz-saw. The title‚ “Out‚Out-“‚ was taken by Frost from Shakespeare’s Macbeth – these words were used to express Macbeth’s grief at the death of his wife‚ Lady Macbeth‚ saying “out‚out brief candle”‚ which enforces the idea that a life has prematurely ended‚ which echoes the theme and narrative of the poem. However
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quatrains in an ABAB rhyme scheme (893 lines 1-14). He writes of America as an omniscient narrator‚ however‚ after each stanza‚ he parenthetically places his own thoughts about how the legend of America never was what it was supposed to be to him. By doing this‚ he manages to subtly insert his opinion at first‚ allowing the reader to form their own‚ thus far‚ anyway. Later in the poem‚ however‚ Hughes breaks away from the simple quatrain. He slowly abandons the rhyme scheme previously mentioned as
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Analytical Essay on “Dulce et Decorum Est” By ZA 2010 and 15 years of Age British war poet‚ Wilfred Owen‚ incorporates many techniques of poetry writing in his works. As a soldier‚ Owen often wrote poems which described the misery and hardships on the fronts of World War One. To illustrate the image and scenes of the conflict‚ Owen uses an array of techniques which can be noticed in his poem “Dulce et Decorum Est” In the poem‚ “Dulce et Decorum Est”‚ Owen recollects the event of a gas attack on returning
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Analysis Anthem for Doomed Youth‚ 1917 by Wilfred Owen Anthem for Doomed youth1 What passing-bells for these who die as cattle? Only the monstrous anger of the guns. Only the stuttering rifles’ rapid rattle Can patter out their hasty orisons. No mockeries now for them; no prayers nor bells; Nor any voice of mourning save the choirs‚ – The shrill‚ demented choirs of wailing shells; And bugles calling for them from sad shires. What candles may be held to speed them all? Not
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that their father made damaging statements‚ and confessed to them that the business was a lie‚ that it was a Ponzi scheme from the beginning‚ which led Federal agents to arrest Madoff‚ and all those involved. Madoff told authorities that the scheme began in 1990‚ but according to the FBI‚ it was started early as the 1970s. It has been reported that Madoff’s trial of deceit led his scheme to accumulate as much as $65 billion‚ with a reported
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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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Situation of Poem: This poem does not tell a story‚ but instead is a narrative piece of how she feels and the authors feelings towards certain things like children and her husband. The author expresses her life much through this poem. The speaker of the poem seems to be Sylvia Plath herself‚ and she seems to be speaking directly to the audience‚ no more like as if she is speaking to people around her‚ that understand her life. Because her life one can make direct connections to her life and to
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questioning she cannot ‘resist loves charms’ and she does indeed do what ‘he’ (love) ‘lists’ and this is emphasised 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
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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 be
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In the opening stanza‚ Longfellow begins by saying “Tell me not in mournful numbers/Life is but an empty dream.” With these lines Longfellow establishes that he does not want to hear from those who feel that life is only time spent on earth and that there is nothing after one dies. Longfellow indicates that things may not be as they seem. In the second stanza‚ Longfellow exclaims that life is real and earnest‚ but the grave is not its goal. Dust to dust did not refer to the soul just the physical
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