Explication – “For The Union Dead” The first stanza speaks of an old aquarium‚ one that has obviously been abandoned and left to the elements. The second stanza speaks of lost memories‚ perhaps fond ones‚ of the author and the old aquarium when it was still open. The third stanza speaks of lost time and of time marching onto a new (and more often than not‚ not exactly better) tomorrow‚ with new things going up where old things once were. The fourth stanza speaks of the old being torn up and new things
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metaphysical conceit‚ both figurative and seditious language‚ and elongated sentence structure in order to carry out the many shifts in tone throughout the poem‚ as well as to amplify its overall tone of seduction and sexuality. Within the first stanza of The Bait‚ Donne makes use of a metaphysical conceit‚ comparing the act of making and seeking love to fishing. This conceit is employed through the image “...we will some new pleasures prove Of golden sands‚ and crystal brooks‚ With silken lines
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life around‚ this is seen straightaway in the first stanza when she writes all of the tasks she has to complete before the day is out‚ “The floor to mop // The food to shop // Then the chicken to fry” This emphasises her feelings towards her dull and drab life whilst also showing that she has the potential to be more which brings in the use of feminism in this poem. She knows that she is more than what is expected of her which is why she asks in stanza three to be blown away “from here With your fiercest
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the end of the world‚ particularly in a religious sense What is the poem about? This is the only poem we’re studying which looks directly at the fighting in the war. The first three stanzas show us the soldiers relaxing before the battle and appreciating the nature around them‚ before the fighting begins in stanza 4. The men who are left then return to where they came from. The title itself is quite ironic as spring is a time of new life and growth‚ and war is obviously a time of death and destruction
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the poem a conversational tone. The poem opens with the line "Go and open the door" and is used to begin the following three stanzas. The repetition of the imperative constructs a strong sense of not only urgency and necessity‚ but it also gives the audience a sense of the poet’s voice and presence as he urges change. A strong sense of speech is present in the second stanza when the poet directly addresses the audience ("you’ll); this gets the audience’s attention. The poet uses the central concept
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Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening Robert Frost constructed this poem with four stanzas in iambic tetrameter. Frost’s rhyme scheme is intriguing; the first‚ second‚ and fourth lines of each stanza rhyme‚ where as the third rhymes with the next set of first‚ second‚ and fourth lines. Although‚ this pattern is broken in the fourth and final stanza‚ where Frost rhymes all the lines with the third line in the third stanza. To finish off the poem‚ the fifteenth line is repeated as the last line (aaba‚
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the first stanza in the ninth line “his first breath on Earth” emphasizing the topic of the first stanza – the beginning. The second part is present as well in the poem‚ in the second stanza‚ ninth line “exhales her last breath” emphasizing the second part of the title and also the topic of the second stanza – the end. An important aspect is the structure of the poem. It is composed of two stanzas‚ each stanza containing one sentence that is broken up at various intervals. Both stanzas have each
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The Two Mothers At whom is this poem aimed? To the sons that haven’t gone to war and the mothers. The first stanza is one of the mothers walking past another mother who is crying. The woman is asking if that the reason she is crying is because her son has died and says hers has died to. In the second stanza it is the mother who is crying that replies that she is ashamed because her son has not gone to war. What is the point of this conversation between mothers? Is to show mums how they
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place and have changed the world we live in. “Out of the Blue” was broadcasted 5 years after the 9/11 and won the Royal Television Society Documentary Awards in 2006. Agards’s poem consists of 5 stanzas and each stanza has an 8-6-8-syllable count making it very structured. The first 4 stanzas start off with a question about something the speaker sees or envisions and is followed by an answer‚ therefore there are two voices. As everybody is aware flags are very symbolic objects‚ however in this
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figurative language‚ Hardy also has a continuous structure to match his theme of Death and Time. The structure appears to stay regular‚ continuous in it’s appearance of four stanzas‚ with seven lines in each stanza with a unvarying ABCBCDA rhyme scheme‚ which does not complement the to the theme. Hardy uses ellipses in each stanza‚ on every fifth line‚ giving a sense that the moment is left unfinished. This fits with the theme as it’s reflects the presence of Death‚ that it appears unnoticed and it
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