Poem Paraphrase Paper When Richard Cory entered the business district all of the townspeople would stand aside and watch him. He was trim and clean cut. He was very rich and knowledgeable. He was also extremely privileged. The townspeople wanted to be him. They continue to work their lives away. One day Richard Cory killed himself. This brief summary of Edwin Arlington Robinson’s “Richard Cory” does not capture the true emotion and irony presented in the original poem. It excludes many uses of
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1. Paraphrase Entire Poem‚ Stanza by Stanza: I. The dad drank too much whiskey and his breath is making his son dizzy. The son is performing a drunken waltz with his dad. II. Their waltz creates such a commotion in the kitchen that pans begin to fall off the shelf. The mother appears to be disapproving of the situation. III. The father is grasping the son’s wrist. Every time the father misses a step‚ the boy’s ear scrapes along the father’s belt buckle‚ unacknowledged by the father. IV. The father
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Ron Koertge When my English teacher told us that we had to analyze a poem I was excited to start. Once I started looking at all of the one hundred and one poems‚ I disliked a lot of them‚ when I first stumbled upon the title I thought that the title was way to long and the poem would be boring. When I finally read it‚ I mentally scolded myself for judging the poem by its title. The title is always an important part of the poem and if someone is looking at a list of titles before actually reading
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Prize for poetry in 1954 for his book‚ The Waking. (www.poets.org) One of his poems that seems very personal‚ is his poem “Dolor“‚ which he had written in 1943. Both the English and Spanish definition of dolor greatly describe the theme and mood of Theodore Roethke’s poem. Not only does he use the word dolor for his title but as well in line two‚ referring to the “Dolor of pad and paper weight.” Through out his poem he gives off in great detail the constant mood he is in. He makes you feel his
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The poem “Creep” has a very dark‚ twisted and displaced feel to it and crates an image of a “psychotic” person obsessing and wanting control over a certain person. Part way through the poem‚ the writer says “I don’t care if it hurts / I want to have control” (12-13). This indicates that one of the characters wants control and will do anything to achieve it‚ even if violence actions are needed. This feeling of dark and twistedness is present throughout the whole poem. This gives the poem an overall
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of how or why leaving people like artists to try to make reason of it. The poems “Thanatopsis” by Bryant‚ “Don’t Fear the Reaper” by Blue Oyster Cult‚ and “Dust in the Wind” by Kansas are three poems which speak of death; however they all have different purposes. They each explain and describe death with different points of views. Although all of the poems had different purposes‚ they also had similarities. The three poems are all about the topic of death and how scenarios may differ for different
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English II Honors 28 March 2013 Tones of Love Poems Pablo Neruda and Billy Collins both wrote poems about love; however‚ they each create individual tones through literary devices and relations. Neruda employs imagery and uses similarities between the speaker and his lover to create a serious tone‚ while Collins instead creates a satirical tone using metaphors and separating the narrator from his beloved. In “XVII‚” Neruda employs imagery such as words like “dark‚” “secret‚” “soul‚” and “shadow”
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“Salome” is a poem written by Juan Calvino. The poem itself has fourteen lines; each being no more than five to six words in length‚ containing three stanzas in total. “Salome” is a ghastly poem which is also very vague‚ but if taken the time to be examined the poem can have multiple meanings. Although‚ the poem ’s historical significance gives you a much deeper perspective. The poem itself cannot be understood in its entirety without looking at its biblical influence. When I first read this poem I had
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a WWI poem that is about the soldiers rather than the war itself‚ the message of the poem is that soldiers although viewed as hated killers that kill innocent victims the poem expresses the fact that the soldiers are just like the "normal" person‚ the poem also consists of many thoughts and doesn’t single out one side or another this shows that is was probably written by a observer of the war or someone that was directly involved in the war itself. The first two lines of the poem sign is
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Conflict can be internal or external‚ as exemplified in “Diving into the Wreck” and “Storm Warnings”. Conflict is the common theme between these two poems. Both of these poems were written by Adrienne Rich. Rich was an American poet and she was also a feminist. She wrote “Diving into the Wreck” during time period where women were still viewed as house wives. Even though some women had jobs‚ they were not giving the same benefits as male coworkers. The external conflict is between the women and the
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