Poetry Project English 10Noah Stoner 4A Lyric Poem: Baseball is life Some people think it’s just a game And that is really quite a shame It’s more than that It’s more than just a ball and bat A feeling when the bat goes crack The ball flies to the warning track Round the bases Joy is on the fans bright faces Will he be safe? Will he be out? We wait to hear the umpires shout Tension is rife And that is why baseball is life!
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This poem by A.E Houseman is an eight-stanza poem with a rhyme scheme of ABCB. It is about a man struggling with his uneasy conscience. The narrator/speaker has a conversation with his dead friend‚ where he imagines what his friend would ask him‚ and then gives his response. The punctuation of the poem indicates who’s speaking. In every odd stanza‚ which are surrounded by quotation marks‚ his deceased friend is asking him questions. Conversely‚ In every even stanza‚ which do not have quotation marks
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Nikki Giovanni’s "Poem for Black Boys" is a poignant literary work that addresses several issues concerning the young black male in America and the conflicting views taken by members of the African-American community during the Civil Rights Movement with an inclination towards the peaceful movement perpetuated by the likes of Dr. Martin Luther king‚ Jr. and his non-violent contemporaries. Giovanni’s use of allusion‚ imagery and the sardonic humor of the speaker blend effortlessly to denounce all
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lines in spirit but not necessarily in law. In much the same way‚ the rigid repetitiveness of housework done by the author’s mother is the focus of the poem. Alvarez resists at first‚ but finally accepts the value of this much-disputed “woman’s work” in the last stanza‚ by drawing a parallel between her mother’s house work and her own writing. The poem begins with the voice of Alvarez’s mother. “Who says a woman’s work isn’t high art?” (J. Alvarez‚ p. 790) is certainly not the author’s sentiment.
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Drowning By: JUNE MANN -- 09|09|16 - Artistic productions Small beach goers speckle the shallow ocean waters‚ Lifeguards alert stop there rise‚ searching for troubled swimmers or my next victim. I wait patiently‚ invisible lurking the waters silently. I am alone‚ empty‚ and hungry. I am feared‚ in your worst nightmare perhaps. Whisking you away into the vast deepness‚ where it is calm‚ dark and painful. My coldness slows your body and your lungs being to drain. You struggle to fight for air but
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Dickinson’s poem “510: It was not Death‚ for I stood up‚” explores the uncertainties of Death. The speaker attempts to define or understand her own condition to unwrap the cause of her suffering. The use of extended metaphor is utilized as the speaker uses the term “death” and that her life and state of mind‚ to her‚ resembles nothing other than death itself. The dominant effect would be the feeling of despair as the speaker represents this by saying “As if my life were shaven‚ / and fitted to a
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work. Kipling wrote the poem‚ “If”‚ that can be found online at http://www.kipling.org.uk/poems_if.htm‚ a Carpe Diem poem meaning seize the day‚ which suggests and gives warning about what one may encounter in life and what they can do for the world to be theirs. Having the structure of four stanzas with eight lines in each stanza‚ Kipling uses repetition‚ conjunctions‚ personifications‚ and an illusion as the literary devices in his poem. Throughout the poem‚ the author repeats the
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Robert Morgan‚ the author describes the practice of burying the dead under a tree‚ which in turn nourishes it and continues the cycle of life. Memory and the passing of a legacy are concepts that can be observed throughout the poem. Life‚ death and rebirth is the theme of this poem‚ the idea that a person is more than a body‚ and can transcend the material realm and continue to live in the memory of future generations. This point is stated in lines 8‚9‚ and 10‚ where he describes the transfer of the
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Spellbound & Freud Sigmund Freud was the originator of psychoanalysis. Some of the broad ideas of Freud’s psychoanalysis are used in the Hitchcock film Spellbound. Among them are the unconscious‚ Id‚ Ego‚ and Dream Analysis. The mind is broken up into two parts the conscious‚ the processes that one is aware of and the unconscious‚ processes that one is not aware of. The Id mainly resides in the unconscious mind; it desires to satisfy basic wants and needs and is present at birth. Ego develops slowly
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The title of this lyric poem is ‘ A valediction forbidding mourning’ - written by John Donne - in the first person point of view. The speaker is a man and most likely a saint who would not participate in acts that are profane. A valediction is a farewell message. As seen in the title‚ forbids his wife from sorrowing over their separation‚ the poet decides to present reasons why his embassy to France will not occasion grief or anxiety. He accomplishes this through a series of conceits - similes and
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