and tomorrow is not guaranteed. If I Could Tell You by W. H. Auden is a villanelle much like others using rhyme‚ repetition‚ and meter‚ that revolve around the main idea of the continuity time and its unforeseeable nature. The rhyming of the alternating ending lines‚ “Time will say nothing but I told you so” (1) and “If I could tell you I would let you know” (3) keep the rhyme scheme which stays on the central themes. “Time will say nothing but i told you so” shows that time keeps going‚ because
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"If I Could Tell You" Analysis In "If I Could Tell You" W.H. Auden uses personification‚ repetition and imagery in order to prove the point; you must live your life like you do not have time left. Auden gives a vast setting over all. There are two main characters; Auden and time. The dialogue is in first person and he is speaking to some one he cares about. Auden uses personification to give life to time. This shows how time is the keeper of our destiny. He personifies time because he does not
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work. Language This poem was written in 1940 during the second world war. This becomes evident through Audens language. In the first stanza he talks about the “price we have to pay”. This is in retrospect to the damage a war can cause‚ the poet wonders will he have to pay in damage or maybe his life. This adds heightened anxiety for the listener throughout the poem. By giving time a capital T Auden shows us how precious it is in an era of uncertaincy. Audens “If I could tell you I would” shows the poet
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“First Poem for You” is a poem by written by Kim Addonizio‚ an American poet. This poem “First Poem for You” is a closed-form poem but written as an English sonnet. The poem a person who loves the tattoos in his or her lover’s skin. At the same time the tattoos scares him or her by their permanence. The thoughtfulness and the depth of details expressed in this poem makes us conclude that the persona or speaker in this poem is a female. The speaker is certain about the permanence of the tattoos on
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Death Stops for No One Jaime Hayes Death Stops for No One The poem “Because I Could Not Stop for Death” by Emily Dickinson is an extended metaphor on death‚ comparing it to a journey with a polite gentleman in a carriage taking the speaker on a ride to eternity. Through unusual symbolism‚ personification and ironic metaphors Dickinson subjugates that death is an elusive yet subtle being. Dickinson portrays death as an optimistic endeavor while most people have a gruesome perspective of death
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“Because I Could Not Stop For Death” Emily Dickinson During the start of the realist movement‚ Emily Dickinson wrote “Because I could Not Stop for Death‚” questioning the communal values of religion and eternity. The poem‚ at first‚ looks to be about the eternal afterlife‚ but with closer inspection of the language‚ (i.e. “Surmised” is a word of uncertainty) we find that she is actually not sure about the eternity of afterlife and all it entails. The 19th century was the beginning
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children playing with a ball. At noon the family’s bony dog enters the house and dies of starvation after he recognizes that there is no one left who cares about him anymore. After dinner time the house automatically reads out Mrs. McClellan’s favorite poem by Sara Teasdale which is about the fact that nature goes on no matter what has happened or whether mankind exists any longer. In the evening at ten o’clock a tree bough falls into the kitchen where a fire is burning on the stone hearth and causes
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relationships can’t be guaranteed permanent now a days. Kim Addonizio chooses tattoos as a symbol in this poem “First poem for you.” Water and lightning is what makes the poem most symbolistic. “Lines of lightning pulsing just above your nipple can find as if by instinct the blue swirls of water on your shoulder where a serpent twists facing a dragon.” Though symbols can have more than one meaning to them the poem helps to point of the specific meaning of these symbols. The girlfriend of the guy with tattoos
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Macbeth’s position? 8. Why is Duncan’s reference to Lady Macbeth as a “noble hostess” in Scene 6‚ line 24 of this tragedy an example of dramatic irony? 9. What do both the summary of Scene 7 and the sidenote for lines 1-10 of this drama tell you? 10. What do Macbeth and his wife do to make sure that Duncan’s guards are blamed for his death? 11. What are two similarities and two differences between Macbeth’s and Banquo’s reactions to their prophesies? Use two details from Scene
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I Wish I Could I wish I could turn back the clock to vanish regrets of my wrong decisions from my heart and memories. Those regrets not only made me mentally weak but also depress me. Elders are real profit and their advices are the best way to success. My ego made me blind and ruled the brain and that was the point where I fall and still regret. I wish I could go back to correct my mistakes and to be a man I used to be‚ full of confidence‚ cheered and eager for success. There is saying that if you
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