A poem is a form of literature that has been around in the world for a long time. Poems can bring people together‚ provide a way to let people express themselves‚ as well as tell stories before written documentation was invented. To express themselves better the poet can use figurative language to improve how the poem effects the reader. By using figurative language‚ the poet can further extend his or her emotions and feelings to the reader. By extending the poet’s emotion‚ a poem can reach the heart
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statement in light of your understanding of the poetry of Gwen Harwood. Gwen Harwood’s mournful laments Mother Who Gave Me Life and Father and Child explore the challenging ideas of nostalgia and mortality to provide valued texts. Harwood’s elegy Mother Who Gave Me Life nostalgically explores the confronting concepts of the unavoidability of death and past bleak memories. Harwood explains explores the fragility e nature of life through the fabric motif symbolism; “fine threadbare linen” depicting
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fellow soldiers and of their enemies; being surrounded by death on a daily basis can lead anyone to feel betrayed by life and life-givers. The anonymity of this poem allows it to universal; it can be describing any soldier. This poem also serves as an elegy‚ which is a song‚ poem‚ or speech that expresses grief for one who is dead‚ and it is usually melancholy in tone. Move him into the sun- (line 1) The poem begins with the narrator ordering that the man be moved into the sun; this leads us to believe
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"O Captain! My Captain!" is a poem written by Walt Whitman in 1865. The poem is classified as an elegy because it is a mourning poem that was written in the memory of someone. The poem was written to honor Abraham Lincoln‚ the 16th president of the United States. Walt Whitman was born in 1819 and died in 1892‚ so he lived through the American Civil War. Being born close to the founding of the country‚ he knew people that were a part of the American Revolution. Through this he experienced the unification
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UNIT I 1.1 PORTS OVERVIEW Ports are points of convergence between two domains of freight circulation‚ land and maritime domains. The term port came from the Latin word “portus”‚ which means gate or gateway. Ports are bound by the need to serve ships‚ and so access to navigable water has been historically the most important site consideration. Ports can be classified in two categories; Mono-functional port and Polyfunctional port. Monofunctional ports transit a limited array of commodities
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"The words of my books‚" said Walt Whitman‚ "are nothing‚ the drift of it everything." The various themes in Whitman’s works are the most important‚ the actual erudite terms are only important in upholding these ideas. The main themes of his "O Captain! My captain!" are death of a hero‚ family‚ a journey‚ and defeat vs. victory. The themes are supported by a variety of concrete stylistic techniques‚ including tone‚ apostrophe‚ allusions‚ archetypes‚ and repetition. Death of a hero is the first theme
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Thomas Hardy is an intriguing and enigmatic poet whose poetic themes deviate from war‚ nature and heroism to love‚ the transience of life and the death of the soul. Though penned some eighty years ago‚ the poetry of Thomas Hardy remains remarkably accessible and identifiable to a modern reader. While some critic’s claim that his poetic writing is archaise. His language elegant but awkward and his work difficult to comprehend‚ I enjoyed the poetry of Hardy for its diversity of themes‚ its earthly
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RELATED STUDIES FOREIGN 1. HOW TO USE GESTALT INTERPRETATION FOR VENTILATION-PERFUSION LUNG SCINTIGRAPHY Introduction: The use of a so-called gestalt interpretation‚ an integration of different sets of criteria and the physician’s own experience‚ has been advocated in the interpretation of lung scintigraphs of patients with clinically suspected pulmonary embolism. However‚ data on the reliability of this approach are limited. The aim of this study was to investigate the observer variability
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Victorian Age The beginning of the Victorian Period is dated sometimes as 1832 (the passage of the first Reform Bill) and sometimes as 1837 (the accession of Queen Victoria). It extends to the death of Victoria in 1901. But when we refer the history book of W. J. Long and literary terms of M. H. Abraham‚ we find that the period between 1850 -1900 is regarded as the Victorian Period‚ which is also known as the Age of Compromise and the Age of Peace and Prosperity. When Victoria came on the
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Queen in Guatemala.” Cultural Anthropology 11 (9): 287–308. Paredes‚ Americo. With a Pistol in His Hand. Austin: U of Texas P‚ 1958. Radin‚ Paul. The Trickster: A Study in American Indian Mythology. New York: Greenwood‚ 1956. Sacks‚ Peter. The English Elegy. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP‚ 1985. Schlereth‚ Thomas. Material Culture Studies in America. Nashville: American Association for State and Local History‚ 1982. Storey‚ John. Cultural Theory and Popular Culture. Athens: U of Georgia P‚ 1993. Tracy‚ Steven
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