Mushrooms by Silvia Plath Thinking/Talking Points: 1. a) They way the poem is written out is very unusual and interesting‚ which was already pointed out by you in class. When turning the page 90 degrees you may see something that looks similar to a field of mushrooms. Or when looking at the stanzas you can see that all of them are short (stanza with three short lines)‚ also the poem is consists of many stanzas which one could compare to the “typical” or ”standard” mushrooms you see
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The Summary of P.B. Shelley’s Ode to the West Wind Published in 1820‚ P.B. Shelley’s Ode to the West Wind‚ is a poem which allegorizes the role of the poet as the voice of change and revolution. Shelley realizes that he cannot in actual life‚ rise to the height of imaginative perfection‚ which was his dream. But it is his bold optimism that he invokes the West Wind to blow the clarion call to the ‘unawaken’d earth’ and to sow the seeds of hope of regeneration. The poem begins with three stanzas
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This poem "Digging" is in Heaney’s first collection of poems called "Death of a Naturalist" (1966).This poem is the first poem of this collection. It is a free verse poem written in first person narrative‚ with eight stanzas containing two couplets. The free structure of this poem allows Heaney to freely express his respect of the Irish tradition as well as his pride and dignity towards his ancestors. The poem starts and ends with the same lines "between my finger and my thumb/The squat pen rests"
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Stealing Stealing by Carol Ann Duffy was written in the 1980’s after Duffy had seen her neighbours snowman stolen from their front garden. Getting inspired by this‚ she had written this poem reflecting on the problems that occured in that moment‚ hence it was the time in Britain where unemployment was high due to Margaret Thatcher’s (the Prime Minister during the 1980’s) government policies. The poem starts with a rhetorical question‚ "The most unusual thing I ever stole?" This question seems
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“Stop all the clocks‚ cut off the telephone” by W. H. Auden Stop all the clocks‚ cut off the telephone‚ Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone‚ Silence the pianos and with muffled drum Bring out the coffin‚ let the mourners come. Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead Scribbling on the sky the message He Is Dead‚ Put crepe bows round the white necks of the public doves‚ Let the traffic policemen wear black cotton gloves. He was my North‚ my South‚ my East and West‚ My working week and
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Rising Five Norman Nicholson This poem Rising Five by Norman Nicholson starts with the words of four years old who claims not to be four‚ but ‘rising five’ This statement is followed with the poet’s vivid description of the child’s face which shouts almost with youth and enthusiasm. We see the baby curls of hair‚ the huge staring eyes searching all around about smooth dimpled (‘toffee buckled’) cheeks. This image is a wonderful evocation of little smiling boy. The use of toffee additionally suggests
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Theme of Stopping by the wood s on a snowy evening The poem “stopping by the woods on a snowy evening” is written by Robert Frost. The poem is set in the woods and the speaker here is the stranger who stopped there‚ admiring what his eyes saw‚ the beautiful view. In the opening stanza‚ the poet wonders about owner of the woods and thinks he knows him. The stranger is in the woods and has a horse who thinks its weird that its owner has stopped in a place that does not have a farmhouse ‚ but
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Dutt’s use of descriptive detail in the first two stanzas help to create a uniquely Indian landscape. Her description of the tree’s trunk as a python to open the poem helps to do this in the most immediate of stages. At the same time‚ the convergence of different animals around one natural element also helps to do this. There is a certain feel of the poem that brings to the light the idea that a timeless quality of the tree and the world around it possess. I think that this is what I find the
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English 1102-265 April 19‚ 2010 Imagery in Robert Frost’s “Desert Places” Robert Frost‚ an American poet of the late 19th century‚ used nature in many of his writings. One of the great examples is the poem “Desert Places” that express feelings of a speaker and the meaning of the entire poem through images of nature. The poem describes two different kinds of desert places and clearly emphasizes the most frightening one. To help readers understand the meaning of “Desert Places”‚ Frost uses variety
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Response to William Wordsworth’s ‘I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud’ It is most difficult‚ I feel‚ to compose a response to William Wordsworth’s classic and idolised poem‚ ‘I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud’ in such few words. A response to a poem may be seen as a reflection on features such as the language‚ the imagery and certainly‚ how the poem made me feel. I will however attempt to outline the influence this poem has had on me‚ considering the aforementioned features. This poem has evidently stood
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