joy lies slain‚ And why unblooms the best hope ever sown? --Crass Casualty obstructs the sun and rain‚ And dicing Time for gladness casts a moan.... These purblind Doomsters had as readily strown Blisses about my pilgrimage as pain. | | | NEUTRAL TONES (1867) | | | WE stood by a pond that winter day‚ And the sun was white‚ as though chidden of God‚ And a few leaves lay on the starving sod‚ --They had fallen from an ash‚ and were gray. Your eyes on me were as eyes that rove Over tedious
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Essay: Diction and Tone in Poetry In the field of literature‚ authors use various forms of writing techniques to create diction and tone. One way that the author‚ Andrew Marvel‚ of “To His Coy Mistress” uses a unique way of diction to portray several styles of tone‚ in which they shift from one another‚ through stanza to stanza. His diction creates a variety of literary styles that most authors use as a way of conveying a personal message. This diction creates a multitude of imagery that the reader
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Nature is the pre-dominant source of theme and techniques in poetry in society. We see evidence of this within the works on Thomas Hardy. Nature is an important aspect of Hardy’s work. He uses nature in order to set the atmosphere of the poem‚ and uses external elements to mirror the internal emotions of the protagonist. Nature acts as a tool for Hardy to enhance imagination and reflect events and emotions. Nature also provides the poet with inspiration. Using nature to symbolize is one technique
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criteria one can use to evaluate it. Historical significance‚ tone‚ and subject matter can all be used to evaluate a work of art. For example‚ all of these criteria can be used to evaluate the poem‚ “Invictus” by William Ernest Henley. The circumstances surrounding the creation of the poem are significant because of the state of modern medicine at the time. The subject matter is one that many people can and have related to over the years. The tone is gloomy‚ yet inspirational. “Invictus” is a poem written
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Poetry: Tone‚ Voice‚ Meaning and Sound John Donne’s ‘The Flea’ is a metaphysical love poem that takes the usage of a hilarious erotic narrative. The main theme of the poem is seduction that is shown using a persuasive vanity of a meek flea. The extremely original symbol of the flea is utilized to show unconventionally that both lovers are already adjoined in church and God’s eyes since the flea had bite off their bodies and intermingled with their blood. The tone used in the poem is extremely dramatic
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self-awareness and understanding. Further examination of the text shows that the narrator is actually embarrassed and chagrined by the confused adoration towards his friend’s older sister that marked his childhood‚ creating a reflective yet fatuous tone that is developed through the utilization of literary devices such as dramatic diction‚ simile‚ extended metaphor‚ and religious imagery. Joyce’s word choice both provides insight into and encapsulates his feelings regarding blind love and infatuation
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Tone of “Truth” The poem‚ “Truth‚” by Gwendolyn Brooks‚ was written in 1949‚ during a continuing era of black oppression in America. Brooks was born June 7‚ 1917 in Topeka‚ Kansas but her family moved to Chicago shortly after her birth‚ according to her biographer‚ Georg Kent (2). The Poetry Foundation biography of Gwendolyn Brooks says her father was a janitor who had dreamt of becoming a doctor and her mother was a schoolteacher and classically trained pianist (Halley). Both of her parents had
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came across about going back in time to a carefree young you right? In the poem “Birches”‚ by Robert Frost‚ he portrays a child being carefree and being jovial to being an adult that wants to go back to his childhood. The author presents a hopeful tone through the use of imagination‚ details‚ and imagery to help picture what Robert is talking about. Also its theme about escaping the rationality‚ of the adult world‚ if only for a moment. The first writing style in “Birches” is imagery. A example
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diction‚ and imagery depict Jude’s thought process after speaking to Sue and what he should do to fix their relationship. Hardy starts the quotation with the lone physical action‚ “looked away”. He had just finished fighting with Sue when she entered his lodging after she ran away from the training school.
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France‚ and was copyrighted in 1955. The novel is an erotic tragicomedy set in France and America in the 1940s. 2. Humbert Humbert’s personality is quite erudite. Humbert uses words very carefully in speech as well as in writing. Humbert uses his tone and diction to take the reader’s attention from the terrible acts which are actually being described and as a result‚ he becomes far less despicable to the reader. Playing with words softens the blows of the horrors of Humbert’s lived fantasies.
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