Rita Dove: Literary Analysis Rita Dove has written many different kinds of poetry. She also wrote books‚ short stories plays and all types of literature. This essay will focus on specifics of her writing by analyzing three pieces of poetry that Rita Dove has written. The works we will be looking at are In the Old Neighborhood‚ My Mother Enters the Work Force‚ and The Bistro Styx. Through these three works you will see examples of Rita Dove’s use of home in her poetry‚ her use of figurative
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beginning that lets us know a little bit of the setting with “frozen-ground” (Line 2). He also uses assonance in lines 2-3: “Sends…Swell / Spills‚ Sun”. In lines 17-19‚ Frost uses metaphor‚ personification‚ and hyperbole. A metaphor compares the stone blocks to loaves and balls. A metaphor-hyperbole compares the method of placing the rocks to a spell. Frost uses alliteration: “Before I built a wall I’d ask to know / What I was walling in or walling out” (32-33). Frost’s description of every detail in
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Literary Device Notes Alliteration Repeating the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words. Allusion A figure of speech that makes a reference to‚ or representation of‚ people‚ places‚ events‚ literary work‚ myths‚ or works of art‚ either directly or by implication. Bildungsroman A type of novel concerned with education‚ development‚ and maturation of a young protagonist. Essentially‚ a Bildungsroman traces the formation of a protagonist’s maturity (the passage
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Done By: http://www.livetvee4u.blogspot.com/ Below is some additional information on the two poems written by Margaret Atwood and Kim Boey Cheng respectively‚ found on the internet: “The City Planners” by Margaret Atwood and “The Planners” by Boey Kim Cheng Many poets lament humanity’s soulless march toward technology and industrialization. Both “TCP” and “TP” reflect this sentiment. The poems are similar in ideas and tone‚ although Atwood’s is considerably more skilled and Cheng’s themes
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To His Coy Mistress by Andrew Marvell is a love poem from the period of the renaissance. The poem appears in rhyming couplets which is different than the typical love poems‚ seen in sonnet form that we are used to from that time. The rhyming couplets are our first clue that this poem is not your typical love poem. Through his approach of theme‚ tone‚ and his use of language‚ Marvell criticizes the love poetry tradition as it existed in his time in order to argue that we must seize the moment and
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natural environment. The metaphor "uniform of fire" is a reference to the soldiers fighting and dying in the Gulf War. This phrase reinforces the danger and uncertainty of being a soldier and the high likelihood of death. In the last stanza‚ hyperboles and emotive language are used to strengthen the poet’s point that the wars of men destroy the natural world. "The burnt earth and the sun put out‚ the scalded ocean and blazing well" are all exceptionally strong
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to keep the peace." - (Act I/Scene 2/Line 3) Alliteration: “From forth the fatal loins of these two foes; A pair of star-cross’d lovers take their life.” (From the prologue to Act 1. This is an example of alliteration with the “f” and “l.”) Hyperbole: "If I profane with my unworthiest hand this holy shrine‚ the gentle sin is this: My lips‚ two blushing pilgrims‚ ready stand to smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss." Act 2: Personification: "Will you pluck my sword out of its pilcher
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Maya Angelou’s "Champion of the World" and Amy Tan’s "Fish Cheeks" similarly portray the struggles of minorities growing up in America. One concerns the outcome of a boxing match‚ while the other concerns the outcome of a dinner party. In both cases‚ their pride and confidence are brought into question and affected by the outcome. Both narrator’s vary between feeling insecure and feeling confident in their ethnicity throughout their stories. In "Champion of the World"‚ Joe Louis’s defense of
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It was a Monday at sunny side daycare. The kids were always close together and we’re all friends. The kids at sunny side daycare were like sardines in a can. (Simile) They started talking about parents. They realized that they all had the same rules or about the same. They all had to go to bed before 9:00pm‚ they couldn’t have pop before they went to bed‚ they didn’t get allowance‚ and they always have chores. Then they started talking about how if they made a big fuss about it‚ they might get
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was isolated from everything else. The trees are themselves identified as "emblems of sterility‚" which is symbolic of the kind of life Tom and his wife enjoy‚ and even the house is said to be "forlorn" and to have "an air of starvation." Note how hyperbole is employed in the description of the horse‚ whose "ribs were as articulate as the bars of a gridiron." The simile here conveys just how little it is fed. Clearly any man who would keep their horse in such a condition is incredibly cruel because
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