can discover our true character and gain fulfilment from our lives with a sense of purpose and direction. Throughout the journey of self-discovery there will be obstacles but will result in allowing us as humans to reach our full potential. Frost’s poems The Tuft of Flowers and Stopping by the woods on a Snowy evening and A Journey of Self-discovery by Tyler Devault clearly depict how the concept of self-discovery can shape an individual’s understanding of what there purposes in life. Thesis : All
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A poet relates to the world by constructing their identity through their performance in public spaces. At Outspoken Live‚ poet Lisa Luxx performed ‘He Sounds Just Like Me’‚ a moving poem about her being adopted by a British family and her longing for the “absent root” in which she came from Syria. The audiences’ mood changes when Luxx says “[Syria]…is followed by silence”. This eerily captures the atmosphere in the venue. The silent audience shows their awareness of the conflict in Syria‚ brought
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perspectives that have long been marginalised; in particular‚ refugees and immigrants Shire’s remarkable interpretations in her poems have consequently captivated thousands on the Internet and social media. In the poem ‘Home’ Shire intends to distinctly disclose the struggles and the agonizing battles that refugees experience through their journey for a new start‚ what makes Shire’s poems so mesmerizing is she is honest with her words and she is not afraid to not filter out any harsh imagery in order for her
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The people in any army face hardships‚ and the poem “Danny Dever” shows just another one that the British soldiers had to go through. The hanging of Danny Deever not only scares‚ intimidates‚ and disturbs the soldiers‚ but also makes the Colour-Sergeant have to question himself on what the army is doing and whether it is right. The poem shows the questioning of what is ethical and watching the loss of someone you know. The Colour-Sergeant is a higher up of the British army‚ so he knows that the
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Background: On a hot and humid day‚ my course at Columbia University toured Harlem through the route described in Langston Hughes’s‚ Theme for English B. In his poem‚ Hughes describes his walk from City College of New York to his home in Harlem. When we walked down the steps from City College to Harlem‚ just as Hughes did‚ I realized Hughes’s prevalent battle; he came from an underprivileged background to attend a university where he was the only African American student in his class. Going down
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the aeroplane he stares impassively where he earns his living and they do not care. War Photographer is an anti- war poem. The poet Carol Ann Duffy was friendly with a photographer Don McCullin‚ who published photos of war. The present poem is based on the conversation that she had with this photographer. She seems to empathize with the photographer and not the readers. The poem basically is about the feelings of a photographer as he develops the photographs of war. In the opening line itself a
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The message of the poem‚ “Sadie and Maud”‚ is that the success and happiness is not determined by a structured path‚ but the one we create. In the poem it says “Maud went to college/Sadie stayed home/Sadie scraped life/With a fine-tooth comb/She didn’t leave a tangle in” (Lines 1-4). This is saying that Maud went to college and Sadie did not go to college. It is also significant because it compares Sadie with a fine-tooth comb because fine-tooth combs take everything in and does not leave a tangles
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Dark Cloud The pervasive tone of Wordsworth’s poem is that of a dark cloud. A dark cloud emotionally‚ is one that hangs over your life. His dark cloud is a painful awareness of appending mortality. It over shadowing him throughout his life sometimes moving closer and other times farther away. The cloud isn’t there all the time in the same way. He describes periods of being free from it. His descriptions of nature‚ the earth‚ the heavens‚ all of the life of the Earth‚ are so vivid that they convey
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affair. This abruptness is supported by the following line because the phrase “a slap in the face” can be used to imply the element of surprise. The lake in Mirror ‘has drowned a young girl and replaced her with a middle-aged woman. Throughout the poem the mirror/lake appears as quite a sadistic character who takes delight in the girl’s sadness. This text informs us that her youth is passing and age is gaining on her; the word ‘young’ puts particular emphasis on this fact. The drowning could suggest
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“After Auschwitz” is a poem by Anne Sexton; the poem is about an individual that is in the Auschwitz concentration camp during World War Two. Auschwitz concentration camp was known as a death-camp‚ a camp that was made for the extermination of the Jewish peoples. Since death was a normal occurrence there‚ the speaker expresses the anger and despairs he or she feels towards humanity as a result of all the death that is taking place in the camp. In the beginning of the poem the speaker says‚ “Each
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