Explication Of: My Last Duchess‚ By Robert Browning The situation- This poem tells a story of a man that is paranoid about his wife and how much he admires her. This is a narrative poem. The poem’s expresses a mood of desperation and the character is worried. The speaker is the Duke of Ferrara and the poet is speaker through the Duke and telling us a story. The tone of the poem is anger and love. He admires her sculptures but also is angery at her because he suspects her of cheating. The structure-
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Elizabeth browning wants to be loved for who she is and nothing else. In sonnet fourteen she states “If thou must love me‚ let it be for nought‚ except for love’s sake only. Her poetry can be reflected as a prayer like quality in sonnet 14‚ browning says “I love thee freely‚ I love thee purely‚ I love thee.” The high modality anaphora enhances the religious imagery and the idea of her love being sacred”. Browning’s voice and her idealistic view on love is transcendent into her poetry‚ where her
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Program #11 The Sacred Words: Elements of Poetry 1. Understand the importance of economy of language in poetry. It is important because it is the fewest words to fully get your idea across‚ not rambling on. Program #12: A Sense of Place 1. Show how clues and information in the poem about the setting affect a poem’s meaning for a reader It affects it changing the reader’s vision about what they are reading. 2. Discuss how a reader’s understanding of a poem is affected by
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Rhyme Schemes of Robert Frost’s Poetry Jake Jelsone English 120-08 A rhyme is defined as a verse or poetry having correspondence in the terminal sounds of the lines. One of the best examples of a poet that mastered rhyming beautifully was Robert Frost. Robert Frost was one of the best poets of the twentieth century. He is highly admired for his work about rural life and command for the English language. While many poets like to free verse their poetry‚ Robert Frost normally does not. One
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In Robert Frost’s Acquainted with the Night the speaker describes a man faced with depression‚ evoking a dark undertone within the poem. Some readers may argue that the poem describes a man of immorality or intent of doing ill will‚ however I think back to the quote of Henry Longfellow the first poet who ever translated The Divine Comedy by Danté. The same poem Frost imitated Acquainted with the Night after in which Longfellow states‚ “Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not;
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Robert Frost‚ an American-born English poet who could never feel satisfied in one location‚ constantly sought out travel throughout his hard experiences and times when life felt dull (Pritchard). However cliché the symbol of a journey might appear as life‚ in Frost’s case the journeys he took really did reflect each element or turning point in his existence. From his birth in 1874 in San Francisco to his move to Lawrence‚ Massachusetts after his father’s death‚ to Dartmouth for college‚ back to
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have a lesser value than husbands in everywhere. Of course in the poem “My Last Duchess” by Robert Browning‚ the speaker also considers his wife is just a woman whom needs to be quiet all the time. The poem begins with him drawing the attention of the person whom he is talking to‚ who‚ asks about the smile of the last duchess in the portrait‚ is silent during the entire poem. Since the move of a Browning dramatic monologue is psychological selfcharacterization‚ the speaker considered himself a very
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Society’s focus on materialism and consumerism has lead to the shift in our value system‚ which in result has lead to the degradation and neglect of the environment. In his poems‚ Robert gray forces us to consider and reflect upon our involvement on the issues presented- being our priority of material and superficial value which in result has implicated on the natural world‚ provoking its decline and also the degradation of Australian society itself. Furthermore‚ we have lost the values that make
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Robert Frost takes our imagination to a journey through wintertime with 
his two poems "Desert Places" and "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening". These two poems reflect the beautiful scenery that is present in the snow covered woods and awakens us to new feelings. Even though these poems both have winter settings they contain very different tones. One has a feeling of depressing loneliness and the other a feeling of welcome solitude. They show how the same setting can have totally different
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For my cultural event I choose to go to the African-American Poetry Night hosted by MCCC writing center. I found the event insightful as it highlighted well know African-American poets such as Mayo Angelou and Langston Hughes‚ and some poets that are not as well known‚ such as Marvin X. The event was open to the public‚ and the attendees was welcome to bring a poem or a story to share. The night started out with the president of the college‚ Dr. Kojo Quartey reciting a poem written by Marvin X‚
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