Response to Literature Poem Analysis Writing Guidelines Subject: Poem Form: Analysis Purpose: To explore meaning Audience: Instructor Sample Poem Read the poem below and think about its content‚ theme‚ organization‚ and use of poetic techniques. Then read student writer Stefano Giagregorio’s analysis. I AM THE PEOPLE‚ THE MOB By Carl Sandburg I AM the people--the mob--the crowd--the mass. Do you know that all the great work of the world is done through me? I am the workingman‚
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Sofilda Totoni March 3rd‚ 2011 Lit 216 “The Fire Sermon” Analysis. This section‚ and the longest of Elliot’s “The Waste Land”‚ depicts poor‚ gloomy‚ lethargic scenery in which the themes of lust‚ sexual ambiguity‚ moral degradation‚ spiritual melancholy‚ abound throughout the poem. The poet himself often embodies the role of ancient and mythological figures to which he alludes in order to strike the reader ’s infatuation. He continually reminds
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INTRODUCTION (1 paragraph) Use key words from the essay title in a brief description of what the poem is about. Comment briefly on the themes‚ issues‚ thoughts and feelings the poem explores. Identify the narrator‚ the tone and viewpoint of the poem. STRUCTURE (1 or 2 paragraph) Divide the poem into sections and explain in more detail what the poem is about‚ section by section. Write about the development of ideas and themes from one section to another and one stanza to another. Consider the
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TGAF 04 April 2013 An Ambiguous Meaning A poem is used to express the emotions and experiences of the author. There are four types of poems: narrative‚ lyric‚ didactic‚ and dramatic. A narrative poem contains a sequence of events in chronological order that tells the reader a story. A dramatic poem is normally used for onstage performances with dramatic monologue. A lyric poem is songlike‚ but the subject matter is not song appropriate. A lyric poem has rime‚ which is where words look alike‚ and
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Work without hope analysis Work without hope was written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The poem is mainly about how spring is starting up and all the animals are moving around and the speaker seems to still be stuck in his depression. The first half of the stanza includes a personification In the first half of the poem‚ the speaker identifies that the bees‚ slugs‚ and birds are coming out of hibernation. The speaker seems depressed as spring is starting up and all the animals are moving around
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Algeron Charles Swinburne’s “Love and Sleep” established a theme of his lover’s beauty and his unconditional love towards her through strong diction which creates a passionate form of image. In the poem‚ such words as “lying” (1)‚ “asleep” (1) and “night” (1) implies the speaker is in his bedroom‚ creating a lonely‚ quite atmosphere. In this immersive atmosphere‚ the writer strikes a chord with the readers and graphs the sorrow and yearning incisively and vividly. Moreover‚ the word “saw” (2)‚ being
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ordered the propellers travel at a faster speed despite numerous warnings of the danger of a crash. In the second stanza‚ the once lively “salamandrine fires” of the Titanic are contrasted with the now cold‚ “steel chambers” of the sunken ship. Moreover‚ this can be viewed as a comparison between death (cold) and life (warm fire). In the last line of the stanza‚ Hardy describes the steel chambers as making “rhythmic tidal waves‚” meaning the currents of the ocean are flowing through the
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those three works‚ “To Build a Fire” by Jack London‚ “The Fish” by Elizabeth Bishop‚ and “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin is the loss of something significant. Each story or poem has a different way of ending peacefully and handling the loss. The narrator in “To Build a Fire” by Jack London‚ experiences the loss of fire. The wise man told the narrator that he should not go out in the Yukon by himself. There were many failed attempts by the narrator to build a fire to keep him‚ and his dog warm
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Higher Question – Choose an essay or a piece of journalism which has made an impact on you because of its effective style. Discuss how the writer’s style adds to the impact of the content. “A Hanging” by George Orwell is an influential‚ autobiographical essay‚ in which the subject of capital punishment is powerfully examined. The essay is based on a prisoner’s execution in a Prisoner of War camp in Burma during the Second World War. In the essay‚ Orwell is a prison guard for the camp and carefully
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Irfan Khan 260215802 September 3rd‚ 2009 Mime 221 If by Robert Kupling Analysis Robert Kupling addresses the qualities which adhere to manhood in this poem If‚ wherein he identifies certain specific criteria as metaphors for achieving things desired in life. The poem consists of four verses‚ each eight lines long. Each specific verse held in it a very different interpretation in responsibility‚ and each prose deals with a separate yet equally important detail that one would need to encounter
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