CONTENTS Introduction: How to use these Notes The poems: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Sujata Bhatt‚ A Different History Gerard Manley Hopkins‚ Pied Beauty Allen Curnow‚ Continuum Edwin Muir‚ Horses Judith Wright‚ Hunting Snake Ted Hughes‚ Pike Christina Rossetti‚ A Birthday Dante Gabriel Rossetti‚ The Woodspurge Kevin Halligan‚ The Cockroach Margaret Atwood‚ The City Planners Boey Kim Cheng‚ The Planners Norman MacCaig‚ Summer Farm Elizabeth Brewster‚ Where I Come From 1 14 William Wordsworth
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London‚ William Blake portrays a very dark and abysmal picture of London. Throughout the whole poem‚ Blake never mentions a positive scene. The poem seems to deal with the lower class part of society‚ the part which lives in the poor neighborhoods. The first stanza begins with the speaker wandering around London. Throughout the poem‚ Blake repeats a word which he used in one line‚ in the next line. An example of this can be seen in the first two lines. He uses the word chartered in the first line without
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POEM O my Luve’s like a red‚ red rose‚ That’s newly sprung in June: O my Luve’s like the melodie‚ That’s sweetly play’d in tune. As fair art thou‚ my bonnie lass‚ So deep in luve am I; And I will luve thee still‚ my dear‚ Till a’ the seas gang dry. Till a’ the seas gang dry‚ my dear‚ And the rocks melt wi’ the sun: And I will luve thee still‚ my dear‚ While the sands o’ life shall run. And fare-thee-weel‚ my only Luve‚ And fare-thee-weel‚ a while! And I will come again‚ my
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in the cheetah’s eye; They wheel and then stampede‚ for none Knows which it is that has to die. His stealth and swiftness fling a noose And as his loping strides begin To blur with speed‚ he ropes the loose Buck on the red horizon in. Outline This poem shows the game of chance involved when a predator attacks his prey. The Cheetah looks harmless and awkward like a puppy. He relaxes in the shade but gradually focuses in on scattered herds that have no idea that he will attack them. Gradually‚ hunger
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JK 9-19-2013 Poetry Explication: Stanzas Written in Dejection by Percy Shelley Written in 1818‚ Stanzas Written in Dejection was penned directly in the midst of the English romantic era. Shelley‚ though not thought to be at the time‚ was one of the most incredible poets of his age‚ composing unique poems to capture the vibrant emotions of everyday life. Due to this fact‚ it almost goes without saying that his poem‚ Stanzas Written in Dejection‚ is a very descriptive and emotional piece that
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Motion The poem Anne Frank Huis refers to Anneliese Marie who was born in 1929 in Frankfurt to Jewish parents. After the Nazi came to power in Germany Adolf Hitler became the chancellor and the Frank family fled to Amsterdam. The Nazis occupied in Netherlands in 1942 and Franks went into hiding. The poem reminds us one of the three years of fear and suspense undergone by Anne Frank and the family who took shelter in a narrow space in an upstairs building. Andrew Motion in his poem tries his best
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‘Mayday On Holderness’ Stanza Two By Ted Hughes In the poem‚ “Mayday on Holderness”‚ Ted Hughes analyses the relationship between man and nature. The theme of the second stanza is strongly focused on death‚ playing a part of the poem’s overall theme - the cycle of life. Another focus point of the stanza is the eternal being of nature and man’s need for it. Hughes picks up on the inferiority of mankind in comparison to “unkillable” nature. Hughes conveys the idea that nature is immortal and
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“The Road not Taken” is an analogy discussing about a person who made an important‚ but irreversible decision of life in the past. The poem symbolizes how that person (the speaker) chose the risky decision that has a large impact in that person’s life. In fact‚ later the person feel uncertain if the decision was right. The “yellow wood” depicts the condition of carefulness and privacy. The decision that the speaker made particularly talks about a long-term private life decision. The speaker uses
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A Critical Analysis Of Three World War One Poems. The Soldier’ Rupert Brooke The General’ Siegfried Sassoon Dulce Et Decorum Est’ Wilfred Owen. Sassoon and Owen where treated at the same mental hospital during world war one. Do their poems appear to be the work of madmen? Rupert Brooke’s poem The Soldier’ was written at the start of World War One‚ this was before the horror of the trenches was known. The poem is a traditional sonnet in which Brooke expresses his love for England and
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between the three elegiac poems‚ The Wanderer‚ The Wife of Lament‚ and The Seafarer. This similarity is the theme of exile. Exile means separation‚ or banishment from ones native country‚ region‚ or home. During the Anglo Saxon period‚ exile caused a great amount of pain and grief. The theme is shown to have put great sadness into literature of this time period. The majority of the world’s literature from the past contains the theme of exile.<br> <br>The Wife of Lament is another perfect example of literature
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