Bean Eaters Gwendolyn Brooks poem "The Bean Eaters" is about an old couple and how their lives changes. As they get older‚ they end up living in a small back room eating mostly beans. Old age can be a dark time but remembering the good times will keep people going. This poem implies that old age can be boring. For example‚ "Two who are mostly good/ Two who have lived their day‚ but keep on putting on their clothes and putting things away" (lines 5-8). This shows that they have nothing else
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Comparing and contrasting Text A and B In the poem To Autumn‚ it celebrates the rebounding nature. The symbolic aspects of life‚ in preparation for death; Keats was devoted to poetry due to personal problems. In contrast of the extract‚ it’s about celebrating and sharing with people about the markets in Italy about the exotic vegetables; he’s excited and wants to communicate with the reader. Both texts are describing what they see like e.g. plumps‚ hazel shells‚ vegetables‚ and a sense of bountifulness
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Sabrina Lugo February 12th 2013 4:30pm I never lived for rainbows or eclipses just because of the conflict of interest for attention between what is brought out most within the spectrums of our personalities. To visually stimulate the brain‚ to object to reality‚ to imperfect the shade that is invisible to the eyes- FEAR OF KNOWING THE TRUTH Intertwining through and through creating emotions and depth to those objects we could not touch‚ we could not bear‚ we could not feel. Who savor the
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Longfellow‚ he uses a central metaphor to juxtapose loss and grief to friendship. In his first two stanzas‚ he utters about how he shoots off an arrow and soon after he loses it‚ and how he is not confident where it is going‚ and he misplaces it and he is sad‚ but he does not know what to do. He is perplexed‚ and he does not know figuratively where to look for it. But thereupon in the second stanza he talks about how he sang a song and it was lost‚ and he was said‚ but he says "For who has sight
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After Norman gets his job offer letter from the University of Chicago‚ he goes into the house to find his father reading aloud in his study. Norman and Reverend John Maclean recite various excerpts strung together from the poem "Ode: Intimations of Immortality" by William Wordsworth: (Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting The Soul that rises with us‚ our life’s Star‚) Hath had elsewhere its setting‚ And cometh from afar: Not in entire forgetfulness‚ And not in utter nakedness‚ But
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Beauty Poems‚ like stories and novels‚ often have themes and ideas that are expressed. In the two poems I read‚ de los Santos’ “Perfect Dress” and Hoagland’s “Beauty”‚ it is apparent that great thought was put into themes of beauty and into the ideas and opinions behind it. Through analyzation of these two poems I will collectively share the opinions and uncover perhaps previously unrealized perspectives that perhaps is not originally apparent In “Perfect Dress” the tone is immediately set with
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this poem‚ the poet‚ Markus Natten wonders when and where he lost his childhood. In this quest to find the moment he grew up‚ Markus highlights the innocence and faith he lost even as he gained rational individuality. Adolescence is usually a confusing time for a child who is unable to immediately come to terms with the physical‚ hormonal and psychological changes in his or her personality. He no longer feels like a child but is not quite ready to call himself an adult either. In the poem‚ ’The
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Analysis of a Poem When You are Old‚ by William Butler Yeats‚ represents and elderly woman reminiscing of her younger days. A past lover whispers to her as she looks through a photo album. Basically‚ Yeats is showing that as the woman gets older‚ she is alone‚ but she does not have to be lonely. She will always have her memories for companionship. "When you are old and grey and full of sleep‚ and nodding by the fire" (l.1-2) depicts the woman in her age‚ needing to nap more frequently
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The Poems analysed are: The City Planners‚ Margaret Atwood and The Planners‚ Boey Kim Cheng. These are taken from the IGCSE Cambridge Poetry Anthology‚ but may be interesting for unseen poetry too. Question Set How do these poets use language and structure to get across their theme? I wrote this in about half an hour. Both poems are very similar‚ and have the same topic - City Planning - as shown in their titles. Structurally‚ they are different though‚ and the tone differs in places. I’ve
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Daffodils Essay In the poem Daffodils‚ by William Wordsworth‚ Wordsworth explains how nature’s beauty can positively impact our lives and emotions. Wordsworth believed that all good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of emotion. In this poem‚ he uses an array of different figurative language to show nature’s positive effect. He uses figurative language such as simile‚ personification‚ and hyperbole. Not only does he use figurative language‚ but he uses selective examples of rhythm. In a rhythmic
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