The Poetry of Jose Rizal Jose Rizal is the Philippines’ national hero. He was an amazing polymath. One of the fields he excelled in is poetry. While other poets wrote out of sheer creativity‚ Rizal wrote mostly out of fervor for his motherland. Many other poets write or wrote for the fame or to please a patron. He always wrote under duress. He lived during the time of the corrupt colonial Spanish government. This is probably why there is such poignancy in his poetry. It is as though he longs for
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Kendra Hamilton Block 5 Mrs. Hodges 15 December 2015 Langston Hughes “Harlem” Poetry Explication The most obvious quality of Langston Hughes’ "Harlem" is the poem’s use of imagery. The imagery in this poem contributes to the image of the frustrating times of how dreams end up for African Americans during this time period. The speaker in the poem describes the fate of a dream being “deferred.” Langston Hughes uses several analogies to describe the image of a dream that might have happened but didn’t
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eye looks out from an inch-wide hole stamped out of a piece of unusually corrugated cardboard on the cover of a book. The book is the special issue of the journal Film Culture published in 1963. It is we are looking at‚ and is looking at us. In Metaphors on Vision‚ Brakhage (1963) claims that there is an original perspective of an eye. From Brakhage’s perspective‚ it is his eye that peers through the hole. It is his eye we are invited to see through. For many of his audiences in the years since the
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In the poetry of 1914 there is both crude propaganda and poems that are subtle and deeply moving if naïve. The poetry in 1914 had purpose for why they were written. Some were written with the intent of trying to enlist more men for the war because the authors believed that all men should fight for their country. While others were to show everyone that war is not so glorious and there is nothing sweet about fighting for their country. Either way‚ they all used naïve idealism or sometimes crude propaganda
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important contributions during this period were Paradise Lost. Paradise Regained and Samson Agonistes. Neoclassical poetry as such‚ did not have any concerted body of principles and methodology. The prominent writers shared a common view based on their response to the various ancients. They concurred regarding the concision‚ elegance and wit of their classical forerunners. Their poetry matched the intelligence of Horace’s Verse‚ beset energy of Juvenal’s Satire and the heroic raise of Homer’s Epic
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Poetry Project Introduction These poems are all written based off of my‚ Miciah’s‚ opinions. I have a distinct perspective on religion‚ therefore I chose to write a poem describing hate and love and how I thing religion is a dumb idea. My poem is titled “Hate and Love”‚ based off of the poem “Fire and Ice” by Robert Frost. In it I concur to what religion claims‚ symbolically saying that religion is wrong and not serious. I used the same exact syllables and rhyme scheme as “Fire and Ice” by Robert
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Edgar Guest both share a message that no matter what happens‚ it is important to persevere. They are able to reveal this message by using literary devices such as metaphors and rhyme. However‚ they both differentiate in their own ways because Edgar’s poem uses personification. Michael Sage’s poem has a usage of rhyme and metaphor. An example of rhyme in his poem is‚ “We’ve all had times‚ when the going gets rough; The smooth ride suddenly‚ feels bumpy and rough.” In this case he’s rhyming
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Poetry is an unusually polarizing form of literature. While many are elated by it‚ others could not care less about it. To me‚ I always considered myself to be one of the latter. However‚ now that I have been given the opportunity to select poems I admire instead of being forced to know a poem‚ I have started to really enjoy certain aspects of poetry. The poems I chose for my anthology were ones that I had an instant connection with‚ but also had a deeper meaning. The five poems I selected were
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thousand guineas” worth of crops. The fact that he uses “guineas” could imply that the poem was set some time ago. Scannell portrays the scene as frightening and very damaging: “Is frightening- as a fact and a metaphor”. He describes the flames as “flame-fanged tigers”. This is a metaphor in which the flames are compared to tigers; wild animals which are perceived as viscous and ferocious. These large flames are said to be “roaring hungrily”. The use of the word “hungrily” implies that the flames
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IS POETRY DEAD? Yes‚ poetry is dead to some extent. Poetry in the classical sense is dead anyway‚ but there is still poetry in today ’s society. We may not look at it in the same way we did years ago because it has changed. We as a society do not take the time to read as we once did‚ to understand and enjoy literary text. I agree with Wexler ’s statements "we have become lazy and lack the knowledge‚ commitment‚ and patience to understand and enjoy poetry." I myself do not understand poetry and
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