Henry Ford‚ the automobile magnate‚ once stated that the "world was built to develop character‚ and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward" (Daily Quotations Network). Man has always struggled with uncontrollable aspects of his environment‚ but his ability to overcome these seemingly indomitable obstacles has earned recognition from numerous classical writers and poets‚ including Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. "One of the real American Poets of yesterday"
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Simon Armitage wrote the poem ‘Mother‚ any distance greater than a single span’‚ it suggests a strong theme of detachment throughout. Although a short poem‚ it holds a lot of meaning that can be interpreted in several different ways. Firstly‚ each stanza ends with a position of different height. Beginning ‘floors’ then ‘kite’ and lastly ‘fly’. Each suggest the narrator is moving further away from reality and is distancing themselves from the world‚ as ‘fly’ shows a clear separation from reality.
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to. For this poem‚ I decided to use tercets (and couplets‚ in a way) to give the poem a quirky meter which made it more fun and entertaining to read. The first two lines of every stanza were focused on external observations‚ and the last line of every stanza was an italicized‚ internal thought from the narrator. The stanzas were written in this fashion such so that the poem could be read multiple ways and be just as funny and entertaining however it is read. For example‚ if the reader wanted to skip
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This poem can only effectively be analysed by considering the poem as a whole and not separating it by stanzas. The entire poem is a person confessing their crimes and admitting/bragging about what they have stolen. The majority of the poem refers to one time when he/she stole a snowman. Therefore‚ I will analyse this poem through the literary devices that are present and not by each independent stanza or line. To begin with‚ the title of this poem proposes several ideas about the speaker
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in this poem to convey how people are influenced by the places they have come from rural or urban. She has used a lot of visual imageries and metaphors to convey the busy lifestyle of the city. There is no rhyme scheme in the poem. In the first stanza‚ the poet has used a very critical tone to show the fast life of the city and how everything is controlled in the city. The first three lines of the poem summarize the main theme of the poem by saying “people are made of places”. “They carry with
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which supports a theme of mental instability as it can be inferred that the entire poem is taking place within the speaker’s mind as she struggles to determine the degree of validity that her memories of a past lover hold. The beginning stanza contains the two central ideas of the poem: perception and instability. The poem is a villanelle in iambic pentameter and these concepts are presented through the poem’s two refrains. The first refrain‚ “I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead”
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athletes or stars of the world that die young‚ and then shows briefly how life is after they’re gone. Housman’s depressing work adheres to a closed style through stanza division and meters. The twenty-six lines in this poem are divided into seven different stanzas‚ and each stanza consists of two pairs of rhyming couplets. The opening stanza forms the pattern for the poem: “The time you won the town race We chaired you through the market place; Man and boy stood cheering by‚ And home we brought you
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then talks about the longing for his childhood. The poem consists of 3 short stanzas but really shows the imagery quite clearly. The first stanza talks about a woman singing and playing the piano which takes him down a trip on memory lane. The music reminds him of the time he was sitting under the piano with his mother gracefully playing the piano while at the same time singing along. On the other hand in the second stanza we are able to see that he creates a conflict with himself that he has to give
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side of the joys of motherhood. Dove’s invented speaker is a metaphor of a woman caught between her internal battle for personal bliss and her social role as a mother and wife who cannot go beyond her predetermined status. The first and second stanzas of the poem give the impression that the woman is overwhelmed by motherhood and all the duties that come with being a mother. During the course of her busy day‚ a mother needs to find a quiet time and place to recharge and clear her head. While attempting
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How does Margaret Atwood communicate her ideas to the readers? Consider: Atwood opens the poem by painting a picture-perfect and rather unrealistic and pretentiously beautiful Canadian suburbia. It was obvious‚ as readers can tell‚ that Atwood was irritated by the unnatural uniformness of the suburbia. Atwood collectively refers to the suburbia as “the sanities”. While many may think being sane is a good thing (as opposed to being insane)‚ the writer may have opined otherwise. Being sane does
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