Alliteration- The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words. Allusion- An expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference. Anapest – A metrical foot consisting of two short or unstressed syllables followed by one long or stressed syllable. Antithesis- A person or thing that is the direct opposite of someone or something else. Apostrophe- A punctuation mark used to indicate either
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• Ballads usually tell a story. • Although the quatrain is often used‚ a sestet (six-line stanza) can also be employed e.g. Wilde’s ’The Ballad of Reading Gaol’ and Lewis Carroll’s ’The Walrus and the Carpenter’. Metre Rossetti tends to vary the metre within the poem to achieve different effects. In the opening
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Literary works have certain meanings displayed throughout their entirety. A single literary work however can be interpreted in a variety of ways. Petrarch whose poetry was about the idealistic approach to love‚ caused for several Renaissance writers to revisit them and translate them to represent different meanings. Basically‚ Sir Thomas Wyatt in his poem "The Long Love That in My Thought Doth Harbour" and Henry Howard‚ Earl of Surrey in his poem "Love That Doth Reign and Live Within My Thought‚"
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Poets express ideas and feelings about love in different and powerful ways. Love is expressed in the poems Sonnet 18 by Shakespeare and Crikey by Cilla McQueen through ideas of eternal beauty and being overwhelmed by love; and the feelings of excitement and longing for the preservation of the love conveyed. To determine the accuracy of the statement ‘poets express ideas and feeling about love in different ways’ the two poems that are being analysed firstly need to be compared. Shakespeare’s
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Poetry Analysis: “The World is Too Much With Us” William Wordsworth’s poem “The World Is Too Much With Us” is a sonnet published in 1807. Williams Wordsworth was an extreme nature-lover‚ and in the poem the speaker stresses how the obsession we have with “getting and spending” causes us to forget the gift and the beauty of nature. The speaker talks about how this world is so overpowering‚ we cannot appreciate and treasure nature‚ and we are so caught up in ourselves and money‚ we do not take the
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Beyond Infinity Amera Andersen Welcome to my world‚ take my hand and see. Come into my world‚ a world of mystery. It’s a magical place where dark meets light‚ shades of shadow grey‚ fading into night. A world where everyone speaks in rhyme‚ with laughing and dancing and bending time. The place where dreams‚ become reality and children rule with regal majesty. Come into my world of tranquility‚ where we warp time and stability. So open your mind as you fantasize and step in the
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Browning also uses alliteration‚ as the following examples illustrate: thee‚ the (lines 1‚ 2‚ 5‚ 9‚ 12)‚ soul‚ sight (line 3)‚ and love‚ level (line 5). Being a Petrarchan sonnet‚ Sonnet 43 consists of fourteen lines which is made up of an octave and sestet. These
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Seamus Heaney - Clearances 3 When all the others were away at Mass I was all hers as we peeled potatoes. They broke the silence‚ let fall one by one Like solder weeping off the soldering iron: Cold comforts set between us‚ things to share Gleaming in a bucket of clean water. And again let fall. Little pleasant splashes From each other’s work would bring us to our senses. So while the parish priest at her bedside Went hammer and tongs at the prayers for the dying And some
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see. Glory of Women is a war-time lyric‚ constructed of 14 lines‚ with a varied rhyme scheme of ABABABAB CDECDE making it a Petrarchan (Italian) sonnet. It is divided into two sections‚ the octave which consists of the first eight lines‚ and the sestet the final six lines. It is written in iambic pentameter‚ which helps clarify the meaning of the poem as you read it. The title of the poem itself is ambiguous‚ posing the question whether womens roles during war are glorious as the soldiers on the
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uses rhyme scheme where a word ends in more while Sonnet XVII has only end rhymes and no rhyme scheme. On the other hand though‚ sonnets‚ in general have fourteen lines consisting of three quatrains‚ a one couplet while in The Raven has eighteen sestets. Thus‚ Sonnet XVII and The Raven by Edgar Allen poe have
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