“Those Winter Sundays” & “Paper Matches” “Those Winter Sundays” and “Paper Matches” are poems that came together to form the same qualities. However the two individual poems expresses it‚ in its own contrasting ways. Both “Those Winter Sundays” and “Paper Matches” intertwine metaphors into its work and the aspect of the under-appreciation of one party toward another. The poem “Those Winter Sundays” is of a grown adult looking back into his childhood. He remembers an event that led him to realize
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Text Response: War Poetry Dulce et Decorum est by Wilfred Owen and Homecoming by Bruce Dawe are about the disaster of war‚ yet they speak of different wars with different mindsets of the soldiers. In the following essay I discuss the history behind the poems‚ the poetic devices that Owen and Dawe used. Each poem addresses their own truths about war. The first poem is from WW1 where ignorance was common‚ so common that boys of only 17 years were signing up for “the adventure of a life time”. The “adventure”
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Poem Analysis Shakespeare’s Th’expense of Spirit in a Waste of Shame Where most poetry since Petrarch had been based on the unavailability of the love object‚ Shakespeare in sonnet 129 writes about exactly what happens when you get what you think you want. But contrary to expectations it is not an achievement devoutly to be wished‚ but rather an inevitable nightmare. It’s quite hard to pin down Sonnet 129 to one specific speech situation. Neither is there any “I” – a clear reference to a particular
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Robert Frost is one the finest poems written in the 20th century. It describes the difficulties of a traveler who has to choose between two diverging roads. Frost uses the roads as a metaphor for life’s many choices‚ and exemplifies how these they decide a person’s outcome in life. It can also be interpreted that the speaker in the poem is promoting individualism‚ self reliance and wondering what he might have missed by not taking the other road. All the stanza’s in the poem have a rhyme scheme of: A
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Chosen by Asker The poem “Richard Cory” by Edwin Arlington Robinson is about the tragic death of a wealthy idolized man. Robinson uses the irony of a man that seems to have the perfect life‚ to show us the reality that all is not what it seems. It is not the actual suicide that is the subject of the poem‚ but the idea that outward appearances may not always reflect what is going on inside‚ and that money may buy fame and admiration but not true happiness. Through the poem‚ it never hints or shows
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Tongue of War‚ a poetry collection by Tony Barnstone‚ is written from the perspectives of a wide variety of characters based on the events of World War II. Barnstone shows the emotional and physical trauma these characters receive due to their race‚ status and position in the war. In many of the poems‚ Barnstone depicts the aftermath caused by the use of deadly weapons from both the culprits perspective and the victims. In one of the poems‚ an American Seaman was bombed from Japanese planes‚ he escaped
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The narrator writes this poem throughout the story‚ “It was a poem about an old man sitting on a bench in a park and getting into conversation with a boy ... and they swap opinions and observations and it’s not till the end you realise they’re the same person” (Lively 30). However‚ after the couple finally leaves at the end the story and the narrator doesn’t return to the Pitt-Rivers‚ the narrator tears up the poem “never did go on with that poem. I tore it up‚ as far as it had got‚”
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dammed are often words that come to mind when I look at how the human race manages their water. It is through ironies like this‚ which show the true extent of damage the Earth faces. Brenda Hillman in her work Practical Water echoes this through her poems concerning the environment and its downfall. In poetry we dwell‚ but it is impossible to dwell on something whose base is crumbling. Like the polar bear on the lone ice float in the Arctic Ocean‚ we too now find ourselves desperately
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Brooklyn Cop‚ by Norman MacCaig is a poem about an American policeman and the daily dangers he faces. The cop appears to be a savage yet we are later made aware of his underlying vulnerability. New York’s reputation of violence and crime leads to our awareness of the cop’s fear of not returning home to his wife. ... We are first made aware of the cop’s intimidating appearance in the first line‚ of the first stanza when MacCaig uses the simile "built like gorilla." This gives us a very negative and
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dehydration‚ infection‚ etc… Being that most women of that time spent most of their adult lives pregnant and having multiple births‚ this increased the likelihood of their demise. Bradstreet’s poem was soft and personal. It would seem that she was contemplating the likelihood of her dying while giving birth. The poem was addressed to her husband‚ which makes since as if she were to die‚ she would want him to know her final words and not to mention he would be raising the child alone. Being that Bradstreet
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