Explication #2 “The Gift” By Li-Young Lee This poem is written in free verse‚ separated into four stanzas each with a varying number of lines and syllables. There is no precise rhyming pattern‚ but there is a pattern within the usage of words. The speaker uses bodily words such as palm‚ hands‚ face‚ and head at the ends of lines in the second stanza when describing‚ in the literal form‚ when the speaker is talking about the experience he went through getting the metal sliver pulled from his palm
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rape and destruction. The stanzas have three different tones through the rhythms of the meters. The tones move from pleasant to unpleasant to contemplative. The first and second stanzas contain dactyls followed by imperfect accented feet and trochees while the last stanza contains iambs and spondees. The dactylic meter imitates the sound of distant drums beating in Africa in the first stanza. The repetition of imperfect stressed feet at the end of lines in the second stanza suggests the disruption
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scheme of abab cdcd efef gg. Composed by three quatrains and one couplet‚ it is basically an iambic pentameter‚ with variations in some lines. The poem depicts the pain of being separated both in time and space respectively in the first two stanzas. The third stanza is where the “turn” appears. Although many Shakespearian sonnets put the turn at the couplet to suggest a conclusion‚ Wainwright mentions that “he often offers a distinct turn of thought after line 8 just as he sometimes waits…until the couplet
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Structurally‚ the poem has a consistent rhyming pattern of a regular ABCB until it reaches the last two stanzas. Stanza one to four provides is a good example of syllable pattern‚ “history-lies-dirt-rise”. It is arouse that “Still I rise” begins in making the reader immediately think of a sense of lies and silent discrimination surround the history of African- American as Angelou mentions dust in the first stanza. This brings along to mind many blacks were killed. Angelou tells us how she is above lies and
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presentation. I separate slides in two stanzas. The significance of the title‚ "A Certain Lady‚" tells a story of the lady who interacts with the man‚ but he is unable to see her love‚ and he talks about his exploits with other women to her. Both stanzas show how she pretends her happiness to the man‚ and he’ll never realize it. It’s a bit ironic that he goes out with other women‚ yet he is unable to see the lover right in front of him. In the first stanza‚ eager lips and rapturous eyed depict
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attribute authoritative sanction or approval to 5 to treat as illustrious‚ preeminent‚ or sacred 6 Don’t know 1. How many steps? 5steps. 2. What does it mean to be beatified? to give a dead person a title of honor for being very good and holy Stanza 1 1 Presumably‚ what has been said to the speaker to cause such a harsh backlash?It is nearly blasphemous when following the sacred title. 2 How is “for God’s sake” considered blasphemousBy saying hold your tongue after it. 3 What does the speaker
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"The Manhunt" has been arranged in very short‚ precise‚ two- lined‚ separate stanzas. I think Simon Armitage did this to emphasize the SMALL steps in this painstaking process of returning a man to the real world after all the suffering and traumatizing scenes he has witnessed in war. There is also some repetition of the structure of the stanzas which all contain two verbs each‚ an example of this is in the fourth stanza‚ where it states‚ “And handle and hold his damaged porcelain collar bone.” Armitage
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lines of the stanzas. Elizabeth Bishop approaches loss is an indirect way‚ meaning the poem does not directly explain what it means to lose something. She gives examples of losing things‚ like keys and her mother’s watch‚ before she mentions the bigger things like losing a home‚ or a loved one. Although she starts off with the smaller things‚ she does end up mentioning losses that do feel like a “disaster.” Throughout the poem‚ you’ll realize that there are a ton of rhymes in every stanza such as master/disaster/vaster/faster
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endurance over time is emphasized. Yeats additionally employs other figures of speech such as symbols and allusions to further illustrate his main theme. This lyrical poem of four stanzas differs from other poems of the time (1928) as there is neither a conventional speaker‚ nor a plot that follows as we would expect. These stanzas‚ each eight lines long are characterized by their open-form‚ however‚ they follow a specific rhyme structure of ABABABCC which highlights the author’s rigor to form. The situation
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her as seeing that she has suffered a great amount until it has reached insanity‚ but at the same time it makes us feel really disturbed by her mad identity. The second stanza symbolises her “self-absorption” and “self-pity” behaviours. She started off with a strong word: “Spinster”. The use of caesura in beginning of this stanza shows how much she emphasizes and detests this word. Besides‚ the feeling of abhorrence has been further strengthen by the use of trochee can be seen in the word “Spinster”
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