Love is a beautiful feeling that a lot of people have felt. In the poem Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe‚ Annabel has a lover that is deeply in love with her. Poe wrote this poem to all the people that just cant seem to explain the feelings they feel about a certain person. By writing this poem so descriptively Poe wanted the reader to feel the love he felt for the beautiful Annabel Lee. And to express the love he felt towards her. Poe makes this Poem seem like a fairytale and so magical to express
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An Explication of Langston Hughes ’ "Mother to Son" Langston Hughes once stated in his own words that his whole purpose for writing was‚ "to explain and illuminate the Negro condition in America." In the poem "Mother to Son"‚ he denotes his belief on racism in America. In "Mother to Son"‚ a mother is giving advice to her son about life from her perspective and experiences. She wants her son to keep striving on what he believes and to have a more prosperous life than what she had. Langston Hughes
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Explication of “Nude Descending a Staircase” Kennedy’s “Nude descending a Staircase” focuses on a woman walking down a flight of stairs while someone is watching her. The poem begins by introducing and describing the woman’s motions in the first stanza. The second stanza introduces those that are looking at her. The second stanza has been written to be twice as long as the first stanza‚ indicating that it could or should be separated in half. Towards the end of the second stanza‚ the poem describes
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Explication of Dulce Et Decorum Est SITUATION The poem doesn’t really tell a story‚ but walks through all the dreadful situations through the eyes of an innocent and shell-shocked soldier. It is told through a WWI veteran’s point of view in second person. By examining this “war” poem and Wilfred Owen’s background‚ it is reasonable to believe that Own is talking about his experience during war. Therefore making the speaker‚ he himself. Owen is talking to everyone that does not know the realistic
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A Mother’s Work ENG/125 March 6‚ 2013 A Mother’s Work A liquid takes the form of the container into which it is poured. Similarly‚ an artist chooses a medium for painting or sculpture‚ and a poet chooses a form. This aesthetic should complement the artist’s overall theme. In the case of “Woman’s Work” by Julia Alvarez‚ the chosen form is a villanelle. This form is very restrictive and repetitive‚ often used to express some sort of obsessiveness. Alvarez slightly modifies the traditional
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Our universe is an ever-turning wheel that maintains a beautiful balance of life. On the spokes of this wheel the existence of all things is assured; life is given‚ bodies and souls are fed‚ each position on the wheel is cultivated by the next‚ and then one day we will pass away‚ only to start the circle again in another mysterious way. Take a moment to look around you and see the many cycles that exist for the sole purpose of keeping our wheel in motion‚ and then recognize how little these great
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Diane Thiel’s poem "The Minefield" is about a man who’s mind has been ravaged by memories of a war in his childhood. She shows that even though the war had been over for years‚ the memory of it haunted the man in everything that he did. Through a powerful combination of symbols‚ dark images‚ and a split chronology‚ she creates a full picture of a life changed forever by war. In the first stanza‚ the tone is lighter‚ describing a scene where two boys are running through towns. The boys race‚
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Allen Ginsberg’s "Howl" (2540-2547) explores American culture and presents the issues that creative minds‚ "the best minds" (line 1) of his generation face in a traditional conforming society. "Howl combined apocalyptic criticism of the dull‚ prosperous Eisenhower years with the exuberant celebration of an emerging counterculture." (2538). Ginsberg’s repetition serves as both stability and disruption as it takes the reader from thought to thought in the eccentric form of this poem. "who cut their
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Loss of One Is it possible to care for one thing so much that the destruction or loss of a city can have no significance to a person? When a person loses so much on a daily basis‚ when does the loss start to make a difference? In the poem “One Art”‚ Elizabeth Bishop utilizes structure‚ rhyme scheme‚ and conceptual symbolism to portray that the loss of one’s love negates the loss of everything else. To begin‚ the structure of this poem is entirely about the narrator attempting to convince themself
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Note: My professor didn ’t agree with my explication‚ but he did comment that it was "well written‚ imaginitive‚ and nicely argued." The possibility was well explained. What lowered my score were spelling and grammatical errors‚ so please double check your work. Essay: When first reading this poem one could easily assume that this poem is about an eagle and nothing else (Tennyson). However‚ after further analysis‚ one finds that there is more to this than just the eagle and it ’s natural behavior
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