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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is a poem written by Dylan Thomas at the time when his father was at the brink of death. The piece is actually a villanelle where it consist of six stanzas‚ each with three lines except for the sixth stanza which has four lines. The rhymes on the first until fifth stanzas are aba‚ aba‚ aba‚ aba‚ aba. While‚ abaa is the rhyme for the last quatrain stanza. Thomas died a few months after his father‚ it is believed that this poem was written by him especially for his father. It’s said that Thomas was an
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towards the sinking of the ship. -> In the first five stanzas‚ the author discusses the already submerged ship. "Stilly couches she‚" describes the ship resting on the bottom of the ocean. The lines‚ "Jewels in joy designed lie lightless‚ all their sparkles bleared and black and blind"‚ point out the waste of money‚ technology and craftsmanship going down with the ship which is consistently mentioned in these stanzas. In the next six stanzas he describes the iceberg and the ship meeting together
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when contrsasting content with purpose‚ it is up to the reader to judge what Slessor is trying to convey. Each stanza ends with‚ "you find it ugly‚ I find it lovely". This tells readers that it is up to them to make the judgement of whether it is ugly or lovely. In addition‚ this simply sets two types of opinions and reinforces it through repetition throughout the poem. The first stanza sets up the atmosphere of William Street‚ with the "red globes" of light‚ illuminating the streets. Also‚ mentions
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The Cool Web Children are dumb to say how hot the day is‚ How hot the scent is of the summer rose‚ How dreadful the black wastes of the evening sky‚ How dreadful the tall soldiers drumming by. But we have speech‚ to chill the angry day‚ And speech‚ to dull the rose ’s cruel scent. We spell away the overhanging night‚ We spell away the soldiers and the fright. There ’s a cool web of language winds us in‚ Retreat from too much joy or too much fear We grow sea-green at last and coldly die
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the comparison of him and an inanimate object. This is due to life’s difficulties and the adversities of unemployment. Throughout the first stanza‚ the sentences are short and full of caesuras. This depicts the thiefs state of mind where the pauses show the confusion and chaos in her mind which doesn’t let her be able to think properly. The second stanza contains a lot of violence with the words‚ "dead‚ frozen stiff‚ fierce chill‚ piercing my gut‚" which can mirror the tough times in the 1980’s
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clear that the males are attracted to her. The poem contains seven stanzas with four lines in each stanza. It is a narrative poem because it has a plot about a beautiful woman trying to use her ways of seduction‚ but the men are too threatened of it and they soon run off. There is no rhyming scheme although there are some rhymes like “afternoon” and “spoon”. Each stanza does not have rhyming endings‚ only four out of seven stanzas have a rhyming scheme. An interested thing that the readers might notice
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the similarity between the sea and the dog. The very first line of the first stanza spells out the metaphor quite clearly: “The sea is a hungry dog”. Moreover‚ the rest of the poem reinforces this idea by frequently referring to a dog’s physionomy: teeth‚ jaws‚ gnaws‚ bones‚ paws‚ sounds (howls‚ snores‚ licking‚ moans)‚ and movement (rolls‚ bounds to his feet‚ shaking his wet sides). In the first stanza‚ the angry sea is described as a hungry dog who is gnawing at a bone. In fact
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countryside to the city of Hull‚ where Larkin lived for the last thirty years of his life. The descriptive words used to describe the motion of his journey "swerving" (which is repeated throughout the 1st stanza to represent movement) and “harsh-named halt" suggest a train journey in which‚ in the 1st stanza‚ Larkin describes to the reader what observes. He can see everyday life during his journey‚ "traffic"‚ "workmen at dawn". He also describes his journey into hull by the use of the widening of the river
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She shares that desire in a very interesting way. The whole poem is mostly based on irony and sarcasm. Especially it can be noticed throughout the first three stanzas‚ where she intentionally understates herself and her skills. For example‚ “A Bartas can do what a Bartas will‚ But simple I according to my skill”‚ from the second stanza and‚ “My obscure lines shall not so dim their worth”‚ from the third. Even though she criticized herself‚ she does know her writing skills. She knows she can write
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