revelling in the non personal notions of a poem worthy India‚ its glorious past‚its mysticism‚cultural or historical nostalgia”. He answers that Ezekiel’s ‘primary concern is not the India which appeals to the West‚ but the India to which he can and he does‚ truly belong” His contribution to Indian poetry is important both for its quality and variety. His early poetry has close affinities with the work of T.S. Eliot‚ W.H. Auden‚ Ezra Pound and Rainer Maria Rilke. Ezekiel’s poetry renders the contemporary
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any time. This poem is about a boy who sets a farm on fire in hope that he receives the attention he has been longing for. In the first line‚ the poet describes the boy to have a face “like pallid cheese”. This simile is depicts the boy to look quite sick and weak. We immediately feel pity and realize that the boy is uncared for. The poet also describes the boy to have “burnt-out little eyes” implying that‚ with reference to fire‚ his eyes have died out showing that he has lost hope. The fire
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Mariah Lindsey AP Literature & Composition Poetry Essay Final Draft December 16‚ 2012 As you begin to pay attention to your own stories and what they say about you‚ you will enter into the exciting process of becoming‚ as you should be‚ the author of your own life‚ the creator of your own possibilities. The theme of William Shakespeare sonnet # 18 “Shall I Compare Thee to a summer’s day” is eternal love. Shakespeare compares his lover to summer‚ the most beautiful season of the year.
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Modern History Sourcebook: World War I Poetry: Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967):"How to Die" Link to Collected Poems [At Columbia] Wilfred Owen (1893-1918):"Anthem for a Doomed Youth" Link to Collected Poems [At Toronto] Wilfred Owen: "Dulce et Decorum Est" Herbert Read (1893-1968): "The Happy Warrior" W.N.Hodgson (1893-1916): "Before Action" Wilfred Gibson (1878-1962) "Back" Link to Collected Poems [At Columbia] Philip Larkin (1922-1985): "MCMXIV" Link to Poems [At Hooked.net] Siegfried
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and figures such as Jesus‚ Angel of God‚ and Grace of God (lines 14-15) even though the act of slavery is one of the most sinful systems in the eyes of these slaves and in the eyes of all decent human beings. Though a myriad of Lucille Clifton’s poetry is about survival‚ the people in the ships have barely survived‚ but more importantly‚ though many of them have not‚ a significant amount did despite the fetid‚ deadly‚ inhumane conditions. Lines 1-5 illustrate the terrible conditions of the ship
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Poetic Devices Alliteration - The repetition of initial consonant sounds. “Doubting‚ dreaming dreams no mortal ever…” Poe‚ “The Raven” Assonance - The repetition of vowel sounds. “Poetry is old‚ ancient‚ goes back far...So old it is that no man knows...” Sandburg‚ “Early Moon” Hyperbole – An overstatement or extreme exaggeration. Example: I nearly died laughing. Imagery - Words or phrases that appeal to any sense (sight‚ taste‚ touch‚ hearing‚ and smell) or any combination
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Poetry Explication 20 May 2012 Questions Entwined into “The Summer I Was Sixteen” Words often have meaning behind what is said‚ regardless of those particular words. Emotions can be extrapolated from statements. A close reading and analysis of the poem “The Summer I Was Sixteen’ reveals more to the reader than just what sits on the page. Whilst reading this poem‚ a feeling of unusual melancholy and normalcy arises from a point in time which should be a substantial amount more upbeat. During
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see how he employs the depiction of beauty in women throughout his poetry to portray it as mainly a poetry of the body. In his collection we come across two different visions of the woman’s body: the glorification and blissful memory of her‚ seen in “Le Balcon” or the absolute disgust and repulsion seen in “Une Charogne.” To Baudelaire interpreting and writing about women and their body is clearly the primary inspiration to his poetry. Similarly though‚ his poems suggest multiple themes open to interpretation;
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Poem published: October 1917 3. Facts about Wilfred Owen: * Wilfred Edward Salter Owen (18 March 1893 – 4 November 1918) was an English poet and soldier‚ one of the leading poets of the First World War. * His shocking‚ realistic war poetry on the horrors of trenches and gas warfare was heavily influenced by his friend Siegfried Sassoon and stood in stark contrast to both the public perception of war at the time‚ and to the confidently patriotic verse written by earlier war poets such
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cities‚ the Napoleon final battle of Waterloo in 1815 left many soldiers unemployed‚ and many social problems took over these years (Peterloo massacre‚ 1819). In literature‚ poets wanted a revolution too‚ Wordsworth and Coleridge changed the way poetry was conceived in contrast with the period that came before‚ the Augustan Age. A change in the vocabulary used in the poems‚ much simpler than in the Augustans. Now‚ emotions were important‚ the feelings and the imagination‚ in despite of reason
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