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    “Yeats’s poetry is driven by a tension between the real world in which he lives and an ideal world that he imagines.” I believe this is an apt statement to define to work of Yeats. At the heart of Yeats’s poetry there is a strong division between the natural world and the idyllic world which Yeats appears to be constantly seeking. Yeats was an artist who was the first Irishman to win a Nobel Prize in Literature for what the Nobel committee described as: “inspired poetry‚ which in a highly artistic

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    Poetry Slam

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    Poetry Slam On my visit to Bar13 I was instructed to watch a poetry slam. I have never experience such a vivid art of performing poetry. The only way I had experienced poetry before was by reading it from books. This has change the way I see poetry now. The poetry slam is a very competitive event in which the poets perform their work. The poets are judged by people of the audience. The host‚ who was pregnant‚ selected the judges who were instructed to give a numerical score (the score being 0 –

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    Medieval Poetry

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    symbolism are common in medieval literature‚ perhaps more so than in modern writing. Religious and philosophical messages were often conveyed through the use of figures‚ such as the panther‚ an animal which represented Christ. Old Norse and Irish poetry often contains figures of baffling complexity which allowed listeners who puzzled them out to pride themselves on their mastery of the form. One of the most noticeable features of medieval literature is the prevalence of religious subjects. For much

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    Poetry

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    Corn Maze By David Barber      I  picked  this  poem  thinking  this  seems like  a  funny  title  and  it  would be a confusing poem  that  had  a  simple  title  but  a  deep  meaning.  This  poem  had  a lot  of  alliteration  the  roots  er  and  re  were  repeated  very  often‚and  the  only  roots  used  in  the  poem.  The  only  exception  to   this  order  was   the  the  first  line  in  verse  five  where  minotaur  was  used.  The  minotaur  was  placed  there  I  conclude  to  break 

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    The Poison Tree I was angry with my friend I told my wrath‚ my wrath did end I was angry with my foe I told it not‚ my wrath did grow and I watered it in fears Night and morning with my tears And I sunned it with smiles And with soft deceitful wiles And it grew both day and night Till it bore an apple bright And my foe beheld it shine And he knew that it was mine And into my garden stole When the night had veiled the pole In the morning glad

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    how is the theme of loss and separation explored in remember‚ a mother in a refugee camp and poem at thirty nine? The three poems Remember written by Christina Rossetti‚ A Mother In A Refugee Camp by Chinua Achebe and Poem at Thirty-Nine by Alice Walker share the same negative theme of loss and separation. Remember explores the pain felt by losing loved ones. A Mother In A Refugee Camp emphasizes the relationship between a mother and her child living in a refugee camp. Poem at thirty nine is

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    English 1302‚ Composition II Poetry Analysis Assignment: Choose ONE of the prompts below; then write a 3-4 page poetry analysis in which you analyze the use of literary elements in one of the assigned poems listed: “America” (Claude McKay); “We Wear the Mask” (Paul Laurence Dunbar); “Harlem (A Dream Deferred)” (Langston Hughes); “Mirror” (Sylvia Plath); “The Bean Eaters” (Gwendolyn Brooks); “To The Mercy Killers” (Dudley Randall); “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night” (Dylan Thomas). Your

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    Comparing Poetry

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    Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words. Good morning Ms Linton and students‚ today I will be informing you on why you must choose these two poems for the poetry speaking contest. The poems I have chosen are ‘The Man from Ironbark’‚ by Banjo Patterson as well as ‘He Started the Cycling Craze’ by myself. Narratives help the readers enjoy and understand poetry as it is a way the poets can connect to their readers by using storylines that may relate to them

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    Metaphors in Poetry

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    The use of metaphor in poetry is one of the most important aspects of poetic style that must be mastered. Metaphor can be described as figure of speech in which a thing is referred to as being something that it resembles. For example‚ a fierce person can be referred to as a tiger. Another example of a metaphor would be the description of a person who was uncommunicative as being as "silent as stone". The word stone is an image that is used to explain the intense silence of the person. In this way

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    episodes important to the history of a nation or a race. Classifications of epic poetry: There are a number of ways in which literary scholars have attempted to classify the various types of poems that claim to be "epics". The following two systems are offered for your consideration: I. In A Preface to Paradise Lost C.S. Lewis distinguishes between primary and secondary epic poetry: Primary epic--poetry "which stems from heroic deeds and which is composed in the first instance‚ in order

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