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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Daffodils Essay In the poem Daffodils‚ by William Wordsworth‚ Wordsworth explains how nature’s beauty can positively impact our lives and emotions. Wordsworth believed that all good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of emotion. In this poem‚ he uses an array of different figurative language to show nature’s positive effect. He uses figurative language such as simile‚ personification‚ and hyperbole. Not only does he use figurative language‚ but he uses selective examples of rhythm. In a rhythmic
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"Traveling Through the Dark" by: William Stafford< The speaker in the poem must reflect on what to do about the dead does‚ he knows that in order to keep other ppl from hitting her & getting into an accident he must push her into the canyon‚ but the still alive foal weighs on his conscience. The speaker has to search his mind in order to reconcile the necessity of his actions w/ the harm that he have caused or will cause to others. * The Theme of Man’s disregard for nature & nature vs. technology:
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Charles Dickens’ novel Great Expectations and William Wordsworth’s collection of poems portrays images of a variety of young women. Dickens’ novel establishes a wide set of personalities through a variety of female characters. The works of William Wordsworth sets a same set of characteristics of girls throughout his poems. Dickens has a more realistic view of women and girls whereas Wordsworth has a slightly more idealistic view of them. Though the works of these two writers are different in terms
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Mirna Garcia 6/30/11 Assignment #3 William Stafford’s "Traveling Through the Dark" is a poem that expresses the challenging aspects of having to make difficult decisions accompanied by sadness. The narrator expresses his struggle of how he deals with a tragic event he runs into while traveling in the dark on a swerved road. As he is driving down a narrow road he runs into a dead deer. Most people view these animals as beautiful creatures belonging and associated it with our beautiful
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My own reading to "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud"‚ Mohamed Ibrahim Handling such a wonderful poem gives me a feeling of internal joy‚ the thing which pushed me to choose it from the poetry of Wordsworth. In my simple reading here I hope to present a comprehensive appreciation to this glorious piece of harmony with nature. I chose such poem because I think that it stands for a craftsmanship of a poet when he delineates perfectly his experience in a very well-created versicular language. The peace
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this letter‚ Charles Lamb declines an invitation into Cumberland from the English Romantic Poet‚ William Wordsworth. Lamb uses multiple techniques to help him decline this invite. For example‚ Lamb expresses to Wordsworth how much he loves London and the fact that he never wants to leave the attachments he had made there. He also explains that he is neither interested nor passionate to join Wordsworth and his sister on their journey into Cumberland. Lamb also uses tone in his letter. Because readers
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Nature is the universe‚ with all its phenomena‚ the elements of the natural world. In society there are those individuals that have an intense connection with nature. William Wordsworth‚ a romanticist‚ pantheist and transcendentalist believed that the natural world was an emblem of god or the divine and his poetry often celebrates the beauty and spiritual values of the natural world. Chris McCandless believed that nature was the essence of freedom. The module "In the Wild" deals with humanity’s relationship
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2015 Northanger Abbey At the opening of the Novel‚ Austen states‚ “She never could learn or understand anything before she was taught; and sometimes not even then‚ for she was often inattentive‚ and occasionally stupid. Her mother was three months in teaching her only to repeat the ’Beggar’s Petition’; and after all‚ her next sister‚ Sally‚ could say it better than she did" [1]. Beggar’s Petition is a poem published in 1769‚ written by the Reverend Thomas Moss. This was only poem among the many Moss
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Task 1 LITERARY ANALYSIS: READING POETRY AND WRITING THE ESSAY Pre-writing exercise 1 • Man: This primarily mean adult male but can designate any human being regardless of sex or age. Wikipedia (2011) • Wall: This is an upright structure of wood‚ plaster or any building material serving to enclose‚ divide or protect an area. Wikipedia (2011) • Berlin Wall: This is the wall that separated East Germany from West Germany. Wikipedia (2011) • Wailing Wall of Jerusalem: It is the remnant of the
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