Ted Hughes’s poem‚ “Wind”‚ describes the impact and strength nature has over human beings. The poem is written in first person‚ which emphasizes the idea of a personal experience and suggests that the speaker of the poem is Hughes. The poem is situated away from the cities‚ presumably in the countryside or in a very isolated place‚ this can be supported by the use of words like “fields” and “hills”. The setting of the poem is in autumn since the weather is described as being cold and grim. The theme
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Signed‚ Your Mind (SYM)‚ a poem found online and written by Emma‚ is a poem about inner conflict. In particular‚ it is about a girl who struggles with mental illness‚ and her inner voice comforts her‚ and encourages her to push past the pain and stay optimistic. Signed‚ Your Mind is a poem with conflict clearly visible. The mood‚ tone‚ figurative language and rhyming structure/scheme found in the poem play key roles in showcasing the inner conflict. Signed‚ Your Mind distinctly shows conflict throughout
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As a modern poem”The Wasteland” “Eliot’s Waste Land is I think the justification of the ‘movement‚’ of our modern experiment‚ since 1900‚” wrote Ezra Pound shortly after the poem was published in 1922. T.S. Eliot’s poem describes a mood of deep disillusionment stemming both from the collective experience of the first world war and from Eliot’s personal travails. Born in St. Louis‚ Eliot had studied at Harvard‚ the Sorbonne‚ and Oxford before moving to London‚ where he completed his doctoral dissertation
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the Poem "Variations on the Word Love"_ The writer of the poem Margaret Atwood was born in November 18‚ 1939 in Ottawa‚ Ontario‚ Canada. She is not only a poet‚ but also a novelist‚ a literary critic‚ an essayist and an environmental activist. And she is an excellent writer‚ a winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award and Prince of Asturias award for Literature. Her genres of writing include historical fiction‚ speculative fiction‚ science fiction‚ and dystopian fiction. The theme of the poem "Variations
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In the poem “Making Sarah Cry” the theme is being different‚ and in the play “The Watsons Go to Birmingham” the theme is also being different. Both these passages show this theme. In the poem “ Making Sarah Cry” it shows being different in a different way than “The Watsons Go to Birmingham” because sarah was being made fun of because of all of her actions and what she did‚ but in the play “The Watsons Go to Birmingham” it was representing the theme being different in a different way because
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bursting strong imagery in her poems during pivotal points in her poetry to help a particular piece of the poem stand out and convey a certain idea or theme to the reader. While analyzing three of Song’s poems the reader is able to understand and recognize the characteristics that set her apart from other poets in general. “Picture Bride”‚ “The Youngest Daughter”‚ and “Eat” (which are three of Cathy Song’s poems) showcase these characteristics well. Picture Bride‚ a poem that we recently studied in
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My Last Duchess-Robert Browning The poem "My Last Duchess" by Robert Browning is a poem written about a Duke of the 16th the century. The Duke is the speaker of the poem an is explaining to a visitor about a portrait of a ex-wife. He tells how she was a flirt and had very disgraceful behavior. He claims she flirted with everyone and did not appreciate his "gift of a nine-hundred-years- old name." As his monologue continues‚ the reader realizes with ever-more chilling certainty that the Duke in
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On the outermost level the poem‚ “To an Athlete Dying Young” by A.E. Housman‚ is exactly as it sounds. It talks about a young man that was athletically talented for some reason has died. The poem uses many good techniques to suggest‚ however morbid‚ that it good for famous people to die young. The poem has a solemn mood‚ but it is possible to sense a bit of happiness as it recalls the athlete’s life. The first two lines of the poem say “The time you won your town the race / We chaired you through
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A Tale of Two Mammals: The Analysis of How to Make it in Society Connected by the delicate branches of the tree that sprouted from the constantly expanding lineage of the Mammalian family‚ the hedgehog and the armadillo are also separated by millions of years of evolution. The choice in animals for the poems did not fall under the laws of natural selection‚ they were hand selected to represent the separate‚ yet connected underlying messages. Paul Muldoon‚ author of “Hedgehog”‚ and Yusef Komunyakaa
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Analyzing “The Sound of Silence” The song “The Sound of Silence” can be interpreted in different ways‚ but has an overall constant tone of being depressed and weary throughout all of the five stanzas. In the first stanza‚ the narrator may have had a nightmare previously and is turning for darkness to comfort him. It seems as if he wants to keep this awful dream secret “within the sound of silence”. This line may also suggest that he is scared or fears something terrible will happen in the future
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