the stories‚ “I Used to Live Here Once” by Jean Rhys and “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost because the comparisons between these two stories are uncanny as they both use symbolism in two distinct ways. “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost is a poem and “I Used to Live Here Once” by Jean Rhys is a short story that details a journey‚ which can be physical‚ mental‚ emotional‚ or even spiritual. Once you embark upon a journey‚ you are guaranteed to learn something along the way‚ but it is up to
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Owen uses structure to present the loss of innocence of the soldiers in Anthem for Doomed Youth alongside Futility. The poem is presented in a Petrarchan sonnet form‚ which is ironic as their conventional functions are as love poems. However‚ it can be interpreted that this sonnet conveys strong emotions of fear and grief‚ reflecting the love and admiration he had for the soldiers lost. In the first eight lines (octet)‚ the soldier asks a rhetorical question in the present tense. The imitation of
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We are all torn between wanting to stand apart and wanting to fit in. How is this conflict explored in 2 poems and one text? (800 words) An Amerian psychiatrist‚ William Glasser‚ once said: “We are driven by five genetic needs: survival‚ love and belonging‚ power‚ freedom and fun.” As humans‚ the impulse to search for acceptance is present in our nature; however we are also driven by our desire to be unique. It is this conflict between wanting to stand apart and wanting to fit in that shapes our
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John Donne’s Songs and Sonets include love poetry with very different attitudes towards the relationship between men and women. Four such poems‚ "The Sun Rising"‚ "Song"‚ "The Flea"‚ and "The Undertaking"‚ show very contradictory views of what love is and should be. Each of these poems give a diverse even conflicting view of love because they represent the different kinds of love a person encounters throughout their life; starting with young infatuation love‚ moving to bitter love‚ changing to physical
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Silence the Sadness Scott Eyman’s review on the novel A Life Lived Off Balance‚ written by Peter Ackroyd‚ is a look into Edgar Allan Poe’s complex mind and vigorous life. Eyman shares his thoughts through describing Poe’s tortured childhood‚ Poe’s reasoning behind his poems‚ and Poe’s unstable mind. Poe was a tortured misfit whose depression was portrayed through his work. Eyman aspires to depict the circumstances Poe went through‚ and how his brilliant work is as result of an inadequate life
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ancient‚ modern art‚ and literature. Bridges and Stevenson show there opinions’ of Eros through two different poems. Bridges portrays Eros as being beautiful and as important as Zeus‚ as for Stevenson; she sees Eros as misunderstood god‚ who is abused for his lust. Through using poetic devices these writers show that there is more of Eros than may be portrayed. Through two different poems we‚ get two different Eros. Bridges imagery in “Eros” shows how his beauty may be recognized‚ but how little
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To write a comparative poem between two poems Limbo and Caged Bird are two very similar poems. They are mainly about one matter-freedom of captivity. Freedom is what the poems characters desire and hope to have. Freedom is their need and wants to be joyful and happy. I have picked these two poems‚ which link in many different ways‚ because they have interesting descriptions of the scene and tell us what the atmosphere is like. Furthermore‚ the authors‚ Braithwaite and Maya Angelou have used different
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There are an abundant number of poems in the selection that do convey the futility of war and some that do not at all. Wilfred Owens ’Futility’ and ’Anthem for Doomed Youth’ are examples where pointlessness of war is addressed. On the contrary‚ ’The Dead’ differs with the question given as it exalts the dead and affirms that war is a place where one can die with honour. In the poem ’Futility’ by Wilfred Owen‚ he emphasises that war is pointless and stresses that the soldiers that have died in
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tells a story‚ a particular event‚ or happening‚ it often relates to a long story. Lyric poetry is any fairly short poem in which the speaker expresses intense personal emotion or state of mind. Narrative and lyric poetry may seem like they are similar‚ but there is a big difference between the two. An example for narrative poetry is the poem Confession by Bruce Lansky. In the poem he confesses about what he has done wrong. An example for lyric poetry is the song Thousand Miles by Vanessa Carlton
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"Futility" Futility means that something is destined to fail. The quality of producing no valuable effect‚ or of coming to nothing; uselessness. The structure of the poem is in balanced stanzas - the tenderness and hopefulness at the beginning; the growing bitterness of the second‚ with its climax. Owen is telling the persona’s story of the death of a comrade as a balance. This has to happen as so many of them died that there still has to be a degree of sanity left in them. "Futility" mourns the
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