A Prayer for My Daughter : William Butler Yeats - Summary and Critical Analysis | A Prayer for My Daughter by William Butler Yeats opens with an image of the new born child sleeping in a cradle. A storm is raging with great fury outside his residence. A great gloom is on Yeats mind and is consumed with anxiety as to how to protect his child from the tide of hard times ahead. The poet keeps walking and praying for the young child and as he does so he is in a state of reverie. He feels a kind
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Poet Walt Whitman was born in Westhills‚ Long Island‚ May 31‚ 1819. Walt Whitman lived in Brooklyn as a child‚ his childhood was unfortunately unhappy and boring. He finished education at the age of eleven‚ he then found a job for extra income. As a poet he was not afraid to write about anyone or thing. In the poems “O Captain! My Captain!” and “To You” Walt Whitman uses punchuation and writing about dramatic things to get his points about life across. I think this makes him a good poet because
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An inherent tension between stability and change is revealed through recurring images in Yeats’ poetry. To what extent does your interpretation of Yeats’ The Second Coming and at least one other poem align with this view? William Butler Yeats’ poetry possesses strong imagery and themes of stability and change. Two of the poems‚ which especially highlight these elements‚ are The Second Coming and The Wild Swans At Coole. Within both of these poems the recurring imagery conjures creates strong
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Carpe diem Carpe diem is a poem written by Walt Whitman who is an American writer from 1819 to 1890. The title of this title comes from Greek that carpe would mean like opportunity and diem would mean day so carpe diem could be define as enjoy your day or live your day to maximum I first find the poem in Spanish and the title is no te detengas that has nothing to do with the title of “Carpe Diem”‚ this version is interpreted by Leandro Wolfson a little different but with the same inspirational message
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“anyone lived in a pretty how town” E. E. Cummings’s poem “anyone lived in a pretty how town” is about a small town filled with people caught up in going through the motions. The protagonist is a man referred to as “anyone” who is different from the other townspeople. People shun him for his individualism. Cummings throughout the entire poem is stressing the importance of people being unique in their own way instead of conforming to others’ ideas. His sidekick and lover is “noone
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A PEACH AND ITS CORE --AN ANALYSIS OF _PEACH_ BY D.H. LAWRENCE 1100012705 叶子杰 What will you think of‚ when you eat a fruit‚ like a peach? I think many people’s answer would be nothing at all. However‚ a peach triggers some poetic romance in D.H. Lawrence‚ and some beautiful verses are thus created. The poem _Peach_ was brainless at first glance--this is indeed not an impenetrable poem‚ but it renders a significant thought that the creations of nature‚ even the most unconscious ones‚ has the
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Daniel Ahn The Genius of Walt Whitman One of America’s greatest poets in history‚ Walt Whitman‚ wrote the masterpiece “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d” which is a literary masterpiece that showcases sincere and genuine feeling through his facility of words. Whitman utilizes certain words to enhance his diction to create a somber yet hopeful tone and parallelism to create a more melodious elegy that has lasted through the centuries. Whitman uses his diction to create a dark melancholy
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One of the strongest ways to voice political opinion is in interpretive writing. It is universally known that history is an integral factor of literature; sometimes‚ certain political events inspire poets and authors to cleverly voice their opinions regarding the event in ways that require much ambiguity and analysis to completely understand the author’s intentions. Poetic protest is best shown with careful choice of word‚ punctuation‚ and capitalization. The first example of political protest in
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Daniel Vasquez Ms. Perricone English 4 Period 6 3/4/11 The Irish Rebellion of 1641‚ his mother reading Irish folktales to him as a child‚ and William Blake’s use of fiction influenced William Butler Yeats to write “The Curse of the Fire and the Shadows”. Yeats is a huge part of 20th century English and Irish literature and one of the most important writers that started the “Irish Literary Revival” and was responsible for starting a his own literary club called “The Rhymers Club”. In addition
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Here is what I thought of the poem after reading and studying it. It is not so much an analysis of the poem‚ but an analysis of the devices used to convey the thesis of the poem. E. E. Cummings presents his views about life and how the individual is able to create more opportunities in life by pushing boundaries than if he were to conform to the demands of society by using sequential diction in an informal sentence structure through a weary tone. The weary tone gives the impression that the
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