as the author desires. Both Edson’s W;t‚ and the poems of Donne reflect this idea of intricate textual differences‚ despite shared themes. The difference in ideas regarding the themes stems from the differing contexts‚ or cultures that the texts are based in; these cultures being literary‚ and scientific. While Donne’s poems are written from a literary culture‚ the bulk of W;t is set in a scientific culture. These opposing cultures
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Anders Carlson-Wee explores how ethics is merely a byproduct of societal rules and displays that idea with a children’s game‚ giving cause to morality. To begin‚ “Dynamite” uses a game to represent how society influences our ethics. At the start of the poem‚ the speaker lays out the rules of their game and how “[anything] you throw. is dynamite” (6‚ 7). Their game has structure and rules similar to how society‚ purposefully or inadvertently‚ has guidelines for its members. It is through these rules that
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“The Road not Taken” is an analogy discussing about a person who made an important‚ but irreversible decision of life in the past. The poem symbolizes how that person (the speaker) chose the risky decision that has a large impact in that person’s life. In fact‚ later the person feel uncertain if the decision was right. The “yellow wood” depicts the condition of carefulness and privacy. The decision that the speaker made particularly talks about a long-term private life decision. The speaker uses
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Point – The human mind is a complicated thing to understand. The poem speaks philosophically to describe how the human mind has a conscience and how our conscience helps us distinguish right from wrong. Main Point – Death is cold‚ lovely‚ and dark. The winter season is harsh and so is life. Death is an escape from “winter”‚ death is “easy wind and downy flake”. Concluding Statement – Many interpretations can be created with this poem and the only limit to the interpretations is the creativity of
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this poem‚ the poet‚ Markus Natten wonders when and where he lost his childhood. In this quest to find the moment he grew up‚ Markus highlights the innocence and faith he lost even as he gained rational individuality. Adolescence is usually a confusing time for a child who is unable to immediately come to terms with the physical‚ hormonal and psychological changes in his or her personality. He no longer feels like a child but is not quite ready to call himself an adult either. In the poem‚ ’The
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piece written by American vocalist‚ Kurt Elling‚ and features Theodore Roethke’s 1954 poem of the same title. Released in 2007 on the album Nightmoves‚ Elling uses musical techniques to enhance the message of Roethke’s poem. However‚ in order to understand the reasoning behind the devices Elling has used‚ the meaning of Roethke’s poem must first be discussed. Roethke wrote ‘The Waking’ after a series of intense poems such as ‘Praise to the End!’ and in it he describes the process of enlightenment through
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With the poems of Siegfried Sassoon we are moving from the conventional way of writing in the approach of the issue of war‚ in what sense??? First of all his approach is an anti- war approach ‚ he is not encouraging young people to join the war ‚ he speaking of war as being a cause of death. Because he is less conventional; he is less traditional ‚ he is writing poems labeled until now as anti war poems ‚ we find the division of his sentences‚ rhyme in words‚ the division of the poem into 2 stanzas
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Poem of Envy Essay "Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy." Heraclitus. The poem‚ "My Rival" by Rudyard Kipling‚ is about a young girl and an older woman both at a ball and the younger is watching‚ envying‚ the older and comparing. This poem consists of many tones and meanings‚ along with interesting representation. "My Rival" has an abundance of tones and meanings. There are a few of with that stand out more then others and seems to be the main ones. Such as‚ throughout
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(Alexander). All kinds of different embodiments of writing may be an art form of some sorts to a human being. The debate has raged on regarding the evolution of the artistic qualities in song lyrics‚ and how that relates to the old ways of poetry. The poem “Remember” by Joy Harjo is elevated
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not a precise speaker of this poem‚ which I sometimes enjoy but for this poem I feel like there should have a been a definite speaker. I found this poem to be rather a sad and depressing. The way the speaker describes this beautiful “girlchild” (1) is with such admiration and articulation. The speaker describes her as “healthy‚ tested intelligent / … strong arms and back / abundant sexual drive and manual dexterity.” (7-9) It almost seems as if the speaker of this poem is someone who is admiring this
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