In "A Martian Sends a Postcard Home‚" Craig Raine uses many metaphors to describe what a Martian would see if he came to earth. In the first stanza Raine uses metaphors to describe what a Martian may think a book looks like. Raine makes reference to William Caxton‚ who was the first to print books in England‚ in the first stanza; "Caxtons are mechanical birds with many wings / and some are treasured for their markings. A book would resemble a bird when opened‚ the wings being the many pages‚ and
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motivation? Fight the toughest situations with pride and dignity. 5. What type of poem is it? Shakespearean sonnet‚ 14 lines long (3 quatrains or stanzas – lines 1 thru 12 and one couplet (lines 13 thru 14). 6. What is the rhyme scheme? ABAB CDCD EFEF GG 7. What is the Meter? Iambic pentameter (meaning five foot or iambs and 10 syllables in each line).
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provide hope for oppressed people and to also recognize her own struggles and how she got through them. The title itself "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" was inspired from "Sympathy" by Paul Laurence Dunbar where in the last sentence of the final stanza he concludes by stating "I know why the caged bird sings." I believe she also titled her poem this because the "I" refers to her personal experience on why she knows the "caged bird sings". She at one time‚ I believe‚ was the "caged bird" that she
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secret. In the first stanza of the poem Murray uses imagery to paint a picture in the readers mind of a busy city coming to a halt‚ ‘Pitt Street is baked up for almost half a mile.’ At the end of the stanza Murray again uses imagery to make the readers see a man crying. People walk by him and see him crying but they do not stop him. The man in this poem is not crying of regret or remorse but to cleanse himself of all the bad things he has experienced. In the seventh stanza of the poem a young woman
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that I composed upon it. "To Autumn‚" the " perfect embodiment of poetic form‚ intent‚ and effect‚" is an ode‚ a serious and dignified lyric poem that adheres to a stanzaic form and is fairly long. Keats’s ode is divided into three eleven-line stanzas with the rhyme scheme of abab cdecdde. Autumn is personified by Keats‚ and he employs apostrophe‚ addressing Autumn as a woman: Who hath not seen thee oft amid thy store?..../thee sitting careless on a granary floor‚/Thy hair soft-lifted by the
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describes two different kinds of desert places and clearly emphasizes the most frightening one. To help readers understand the meaning of “Desert Places”‚ Frost uses variety of images to create the specific atmosphere and revile the theme. In the first stanza‚ the narrator is traveling through the fields covered with snow without stopping. The images of coming evening and falling snow are masterly combined to create the atmosphere of isolation and loneliness. The readers can feel that the narrator does
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the lines of the stanza 2‚ “ I am hurt/I am scared/ I want to live/ I want to die/ I don’t know/ Where to turn/ In the void/ And when/To cut out.” These lines indicate the frustration and doubts in his life‚ he doesn’t really know what he wants and how to behave in his life‚ he is never sure if he should listen to himself because he doesn’t know if he is right or wrong. Kerouac also shows how much his religion has to do in his life as he describes‚ “ For me no church told me” (Stanza 3 line 18) and
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In “Dreams” by Langston Hughes‚ metaphors help convey the meaning of the poem and add to the power of it. He starts off in the imperative mood‚ telling people to hold on to their dreams (line 1). The use of the phrase “hold fast” in connection with the word “dreams” shows that Hughes is using the word “dream” to mean hope and will-power for the future—not the kind of event that takes place in the mind when we are sleeping. Then‚ he transitions to the conditional (“if”) of a dream being lost (line
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by Robert Hayden‚ although similar in some respects‚ differ in tone‚ structure‚ rhyme and rhythem. STRUCTURE The structure of both poems are very different. “Those Winter Sundays” consists of 3 stanzas of differing lengths. In contrast Seamus Heaney’s “Follower” is made up of of six stanzas of equal length.“Follower” has a regular ABAB rhyme
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shows the importance of the “laugh”. These points made strongly give the poem an appearance of a tirade‚ whereas the use of an epithet “son” shows he is talking to someone and give some hope at the start that it may change to a plea. In the second stanza Okara continues missing the past and complaining about the present which gives off an
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