This poem was very confusing at first‚ because of the way it seemed to contradict itself. One of the first statements is “for a duro‚ you could lie down in the hallway of the hotel. For a duro‚ you could have a coffee and a plain roll that would shatter like glass.” Then‚ with no transition at all‚ it says “for a duro‚ you could have it all‚ the cars‚ the women‚ the seven course meal.” This contradicting diction is also seen when the poet goes back after talking about all the nice stuff you can buy
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Poem Summary(seafarer) Lines 1-5 The elegiac‚ personal tone is established from the beginning. The speaker pleads to his audience about his honesty and his personal self-revelation to come. He tells of the limitless suffering‚ sorrow‚ and pain and his long experience in various ships and ports. The speaker never explains exactly why he is driven to take to the ocean. Lines 6-11 Here‚ the speaker conveys intense‚ concrete images of cold‚ anxiety‚ stormy seas‚ and rugged shorelines. The comparisons
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When Meléndez is describing the whole route of the butterfly and what it does within the community‚ the structure of the poem becomes much more spread out and divided between lines. The sentences become longer and are split between multiple stanzas rather than just one‚ showing more time spent on his thoughts. The presence of this butterfly in his neighborhood becomes impactful to the author as he watches it’s every move and the reach people are using to try and get to it. The reason the butterfly
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The pattern in “The Walking” is a closed form poem with an “aba” pattern then in the last stanza it has an “abaa” pattern This poem has end rhyme that uses the long “O” sound and “AIR” sound in an alternating pattern‚ demonstrated in‚ “We think by feeling. What is there to know / I hear my being dance from ear to ear” (4-5). In these lines the use of slant rhyme is also used in line five. This poem is in a nineteen-line villanelle‚ I concluded this because it has five three line stanzas and ends
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Afterwards‚ the notion of “they rock” can be seen as the faster and unshaken movement of the whales because the faster they rock the more they can get the chance to reach the “depth of the seven seas easily which is a metaphoric usage.To illustrate the word “sensual” is important with its sudden intervention as the meaning might get changed because even though the whales are portrayed with the act of rocking‚ their sexual side is demonstrated.In that sense‚the narrator portrayed the whales with
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In the year 2004‚ elections were being held for a new United States President. The candidates were republican‚ George W. Bush‚ and democrat‚ John Kerry. The film “So Goes the Nation” portrays the strategies each political party did in order to win the election. Both political parties had very different strategies‚ but Bush did an unfair campaign compared to what Kerry did in his. Both political parties held conventions where they will talk to their voters and also have other people represent them
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“It Lures” by Everest is a poem talking about her father and the cancer that is within him. Everest finds a hard time in understanding why this would happen to someone she loves dearly‚ and why there is no cure for it to go away forever. She wonders why her father won’t be in charge and kick cancer out the door‚ but she doesn’t see the difficult time he has to go through. In “It Lures”‚ Everest uses personification‚ metaphor‚ and idiom to portray that sometimes the strongest and most pure people
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In Suárez’s poem‚ "Isla" the speaker uses a few imagery and descriptive phrases to develop sympathy in me as a reader. The phrase “The Three Stooges‚ The Little Rascals‚ Speed Racer‚ and the Godzilla movies” has a meaning to the poem‚ which is why they are written at the beginning of the poem (Kirszner & Mandell‚ 2012). The Three Stooges represents consistently making bad decisions while making a mess out of everything. The Little Rascals represents a group of mischievous troublemakers. Speed
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Throughout the text I demonstrate emotive and exclusive language. This poem claims words like “our leaders” so it’s aimed precisely at our government. The emotive segment of the poem comes into play within the first few lines‚ I display the imagery of pain in relations to cancer‚ this pain I convey in the poem is then afflicted upon the reader. It’s important to use this technique first‚ because then pull the reader’s attention and emotions
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Harvesting Life In the poem "Loneliness" by Laura Cortes there seems to exist a small hope and wish for the past. The poem has many lines that seem to show an echo for the similarities of harvesting the apples and the harvest of life itself. Through the course of the poem‚ the speaker uses the word ghosts to hint at the death of family members. The line "Now he and the trees are tired and old. " (14) Obviously hints to the speaker being of old age. The man in the poem seems to reiterate the
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