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    Poetry Response

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    Eulogy for a Veteran Author Unknown Do not stand at my grave and weep I am not there‚ I do not sleep. I am a thousand winds that blow I am the diamond glint of snow I am the sunlight on ripened grain I am the gentle autumn rain When you awaken in the mornings hush I am the swift uplifting rush of quiet birds in circled flight I am the soft stars that shine at night Do not stand at my grave and cry‚ I am not there‚ I DID NOT DIE

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    In the short poem‚ “Wild Geese”‚ Mary Oliver speaks to the reader through the poem informing the reader that being good doesn’t matter. That we all make mistakes in life and we all have regret. Olihat what matters is that we don’t spend all our tiur imagination and free us from our anguish anorld has to offer. Oliver compares human emotions to nature itself and creates In the first stanza‚ Mary Oliver uses imagery and a hyperbole to get her meaning across. In the first line‚ Oliver informs the

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    Write a critical appreciation of the poem INCENDIARY by Vernon Scannell. You should comment on theme‚ diction‚ tone and structure. An incendiary is a bomb which sets things on fire‚ which gets across the idea that the boy was like a dangerous weapon‚ ready to explode at any time. This poem is about a boy who sets a farm on fire in hope that he receives the attention he has been longing for. In the first line‚ the poet describes the boy to have a face “like pallid cheese”. This simile is depicts

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    In the poem “An Echo Sonnet”‚ author Robert Pack writes of a conversation between a person’s voice and its echo. With the use of numerous literary techniques‚ Pack is able to enhance the meaning of the poem: that we must depend on ourselves for answers because other opinions are just echoes of our own ideas. At first glance‚ the reader notices that the poem is divided into two parts in order to resemble a conversation. When reading the sonnet for the first time the reader may make the mistake

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    Loss In Poetry

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    How the poets explore the concept of loss in “Mid-Term Break” and “Mother any Distance” In this essay‚ the concept of loss will be discussed in the poems “Mother‚ Any Distance” by Simon Armitage and “Mid-Term Break”; which is an autobiographical poem by Seamus Heaney based in Northern Ireland which looks at denial and regret felt in loss whereas “Mother‚ Any Distance” explores the loss in the relationship of a family. The metaphorical use of “counting bells knelling classes to

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    and also the desire of the Irish people of living in a country without the British domination‚ as in the social life like in the religious. In spite of this poem‚ not all the critics consider him as a postcolonial author. Seamus Deane defines his poetry as "a strong cultural nationalist‚ but just as often he accuses Yeats of

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    Judith Wright's Poetry

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    Wright’s poetry a worthwhile study for Australian students?</b></center> <br> <br>Judith Wright is a respected Australian poet is also known as a conservationist and protester. Her poetry has captured the most amazing imagery of Australian Culture. For Australian students to understand their own culture and history it is necessary to study the best poetry and Judith Wright’s poetry is definitely some of the best. <br> <br>Her achievement in translating the Australian experience into poetry led in

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    personification and anomatopeia‚ to express ideas or feelings. * Poets use metaphors to compare two apparently unlike things without using the words like‚ as‚ then‚ or resembles. The sky is a patchwork quilt * Poets use similes to make such comparisons using connection words as in the sky is a patchwork of quilt. * Personification is a language that attributes human qualifications to non-human things as in the wind danced in the trees * Onomatopoeia is the use of the word those sound

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    Wilfred Owen's Poetry

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    Wilfred Owen establishes a sense of conflict in his poetry‚ this is depicted in “Anthem for Doomed Youth” and in “Dulce et Decorum est”. There are a number of themes in Owen’s poems‚ which all relate to the war. The poems focus on the allied soldier’s experiences and the impact the war had on them. The environments that Owen mentions in his poetry include the battlefield in France and the small towns in England. Owen’s poetry has many types of conflicts which include conflicts in the environment

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    when I read T.S. Elliot’s poetry is that the wants people to use their brains and think about things‚ to learn constantly. When I read " The Hollow Men‚" a part of me wanted to prove him wrong‚ that I am not going to end my life with a whimper‚ but a bang. Perhaps this was the effect he was looking for.

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