of making a pointed comment or manipulating a reader’s emotions. Verbal irony‚ sometimes referred to as sarcasm‚ often occurs in the title of a poem‚ and is in direct contrast with the contents of the poem. "The Unknown Citizen" written by W.H Auden is an excellent example of this. They irony of the title‚ is that right under it‚ you read a person’s social security number‚ followed by the rest of the poem which goes into great detail about specific things in a man life. "When there was peace‚
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very home sick. These guys and sometimes women were on the sea for years. No family on the ship just a bunch of guys for a couple years raiding and killing. In the Exeter Book‚ there are two very prevalent themes of three poems; The Seafarer‚ The Wanderer‚ and The Wife’s Lament; sadness and suffering. In The Seafarer‚
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1. Before sampling began‚ observations were made while examining each population’s distribution pattern. The red-capped introverts have a uniform distribution due to their even spacing between organisms. The blue-footed wanderers have a random distribution as a result of their unpredictable spacing. Lastly‚ the green-chested bar-hoppers have a clumped distribution as they were together in groups or “clumps”. There are other ways to determine which population distribution pattern a population
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The poem “ The Unknown Citizen By W H Auden is a poem that pokes fun at the life of a automaton working in a factory. Reading it in a glance‚ I find the title that catches my very first attention. It is because Auden gives the poem such a title that the whole poem sounds so dramatic and pompous‚ as if it is dedicated to some citizen who have sacrificed so much for the nation. The citizen‚ to my dismay‚ is never named and remains as the unknown one throughout the whole poem. The citizen is referred
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Cited: Auden‚ W.H. “Foreword to A change of World.” Adrienne Rich ’s Petry. ED. Barbara C. Gelpy and Albert Gelpi. New York: W.W. Norton and Company‚ 1975. 277-279. Gelpi‚ Barbara C. and Albert Gelpi‚eds. Adrienne Rich ’s Poetry and Pross: Poems‚ Prose‚ Reviews
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the only real requirement is the ability to remember every scar.” Stephen King How can you do with your experience? Some people will share it‚ but some will keep it for themselves. Both “Digging” by Seamus Heaney and “Stop All The Clocks” by W. H. Auden are beautifully opposite poems about family and love. By using two opposite themes‚ imageries and rhymes‚ both poems bring to reader different feeling. The first similar thing between “Digging” and “Stop all clocks” is their theme. Both of them talk
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be nonwhite”. (Phillip C. Wanderer‚ 2009). “The roots of racial classification emerge from the naturalistic science of the 18th and 19th centuries”. (Phillip C. Wanderer‚ 2009‚ p. 30) “During this time‚ scientific studies extended the classifications of humankind developed by zoologists and physical anthropologists by systematically measuring and describing differences in hair texture‚ skin color‚ average height‚ and cranial capacity in various races”. (Phillip C. Wanderer‚ 2009‚ p. 30) Racial classification
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times throughout Anglo-Saxon literature‚ exile has been a prevalent detail which set a deep‚ dark tone for the story which would follow. These stories typically follow a character exiled by a circumstance‚ unable to return to their life prior. In The Wanderer‚ the main character is alone due to all his people dying. With his kinsman and his lord dead‚ he has nowhere to go‚ and nobody to go to. He spends his time drifting‚ lamenting over his past while in search of a new lord. The Seafarer also exhibits
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assignment I have elected to access three sources dealing with love; in three distinct time periods in the modern era. First we will survey one of the first popular mediums for the expression of love; that of poetry. I have chosen a poem by W.H. Auden to represent the early portion of this century- specifically the 1930s and 1940s. I knew I had to include a song from my idol Jim Morrison. Not only is he the perfect voice of the volatile sex revolution of the 1960s and 1970s; his work captures
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Image pair 1: Four statues of Pharaoh Ramesses II (with smaller royal family figures)‚ 20m high‚ Exterior: Abu Simbel temple‚ Egypt‚ 1279-1213 BCE Gian Lorenzo Bernini‚ David‚ marble‚ 1.7m high‚ Galleria Borghese‚ Rome 1623-4‚ At the exterior to the Abu Simbel Temple‚ in the small village of Nubia in Southern Egypt‚ there lies the ‘Four statues of Pharaoh Ramesses II’. These 20 metre tall‚ statues were carved into the bare stone at around 1279- 1213 BCE‚ and were an exaggeration of Ramesses II’s
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