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    In the poem “Sestina‚” the author‚ Elizabeth Bishop‚ depicts a painful story of a grandmother and a child living with loss. Most readers who have some knowledge of Bishop’s biography would assume that the poem reflects the time in her childhood when she lived in Nova Scotia‚ after her mother had been committed to an asylum (Sanger 47). The story begins in a kitchen on a rainy afternoon in September‚ with both the grandmother and the child having tea and reading the almanac. While the grandmother

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    Poem and Summary Paper: The Elements of Poetry Tenisha Tyler ENG/340 Due: July 23‚ 2012 Erich Sysak The Elements of Poetry There are many different‚ distinctive elements that make up a poem. However many or few can be used as necessary at any specific time by a writer. These parts of a poem consist of imagery‚ metaphors‚ rhyme‚ and structure. A few of these can be seen in Lewis Carroll’s‚ “Jabberwocky”‚ Craig Raine’s‚ “A Martian Sends a Postcard Home”‚ and R. S. Gwynn’s‚ “Shakespearean

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    how to write a poem

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    your poem. First‚ the most important thing is to find inspirations. A poem can be inspired from a trip with your friends‚ your feelings about the last relationship or from ordinary things in life like your house where you have lived since little. But above all‚ your inspiration is something that you desire to bring back memories and feel emotional whenever you remember. It is the content of the poem and the main topic of what you are going to write. Inspiration is the soul of your poem. No one

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    Daddy Poem Analysis

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    Questions for the poem Daddy 1. Discuss the poet’s use of apostrophe in its direct address to the father figure. How does Plath stage that address as a kind of declaration of independence in the decisive tone with which she at once judges and dismisses the father? The poem Daddy‚ written by Sylvia Plath‚ is a text which reveals to the reader‚ the nature of the persona’s relationship with her father as well as the impact that her father’s death had on her. Being a confessional poem‚ the reader

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    E.E. Cummings Poem

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    The poem I chose for this paper is r-p-o-p-h-e-s-s-a-g-r by e.e. cummings. His poem‚ from my point of view‚ resembles the movements of a grasshopper. The format of the poem seems to move side to side which is the way a grasshopper jumps. I also believe that the use of capitalization is very important to the meaning of this poem. In the fifth line‚ all of the letters are capitalized which causes the words to become bigger and appear as if the grasshopper is in mid-air. In the last line‚ cummings

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    manners expected of her at that time: “Gentle maiden‚ pure and fair.” Yet in his longing‚ he keeps his distance as propriety demands. Structurally‚ this poem has both the assonance and alliteration of a lyric poem. For example‚ “Watercress grows here and there…. Gentle maiden‚ pure and fair”‚ and the fishhawk’s song‚ guan guan. The subject of the poem is passionate love that has not/or cannot be obtained. There is a longing for this love that keeps him up at night. Love’s suffering

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    This poem is about a girl who is being bullied and wishes that it would stop by hoping there is nothing wrong with her. Eventually‚ the bully pushes her to her breaking point‚ which causes her to kill herself. The tone of this poem is hostile. The word choice in this poem portrays this tone because of the words such as blood‚ harm‚ and torment. These words create the hostile tone of this poem because the actions that the bully are doing are very aggressive and unfriendly. The word blood can be a

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    Comparisons of 2 Poems

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    devices and themes between ‘Hour’ and ‘Sonnet 116’ Both ‘Hour’ and ‘Sonnet 116’ were written 500 years apart‚ yet both of these poems explore the significant characteristics of love and time. Both poems explore that time and love does not match. But in ‘Sonnet 116’ love is the dominant figure from time and in ‘Hour’ time is the dominant figure from love. In the poem‚ ‘Hour’‚ Carol Ann Duffy is talking about how one ‘Hour’ of their day can be spent as if they have all the time in the world. Using

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    The Two Mothers At whom is this poem aimed? To the sons that haven’t gone to war and the mothers. The first stanza is one of the mothers walking past another mother who is crying. The woman is asking if that the reason she is crying is because her son has died and says hers has died to. In the second stanza it is the mother who is crying that replies that she is ashamed because her son has not gone to war. What is the point of this conversation between mothers? Is to show mums how they

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    Swenson, Dickinson Poems

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    Two poems that explore the change from this life to whatever follows are May Swenson’s “Question” and Emily Dickinson’s “I heard a Fly buzz--when I died--”. The former depicts a someone questioning the fate of her body and soul upon death’s separation while the latter constitutes of a speaker retelling‚ from the grave‚ the moments surrounding her last breath. While both poems are written in first person‚ making the prospect of death personal‚ they differ in tense. “Question” is written in present

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