Poetry can evoke strong feelings in readers. Select three poems we’ve read and examine the literary techniques the poets used to evoke a reader’s emotional response (note: not your emotional response.) How do the poets’ various techniques connect to their readers’ feelings? Because a writer wants to evoke strong feelings into their writings‚ they use a variety of techniques from wording to the sense of the feeling the reader feels. In the poem‚ “Harlem‚” by Langston Hughes‚ he uses the descriptive
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Surviving “We are so busy making a living that we forgot to make a life.” This statement is one of the best descriptions of Hong Kong dwellers. There are multitudinous researches have stated that Hong Kong is one of the fastest pace of living‚ one of the cities having the most expensive land price in the world‚ one of the most stressful city…etc. I believe these “one of the” can explain why Hong Kong people are so unhappy. In the following paragraph‚ I would like to discuss the contradiction
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devices to accomplish his work. Although written in free verse‚ meaning that it is not strictly metered or rhymed‚ sections of Leaves of Grass approach iambic meter‚ which is the same meter as in a traditional sonnet (as in‚ “Come live with me and be my love”). Since iambics closely mimic the patterns of natural speech and are pleasing to the ear‚ Whitman used them for sections of his poems‚ without exclusively writing metered verse. Whitman’s catalogs‚ or lists‚ are used in many of his poems to indicate
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Love Poem Analysis: Linda Pastan is an American poet of Jewish background. She was born in New York on May 27‚ 1932. Today‚ she lives in Potomac‚ Maryland with her husband Ira Pastan‚ an accomplished physician and researcher. She is known for writing short poems that address topics like family life‚ domesticity‚ motherhood‚ the female experience‚ aging‚ death‚ loss and the fear of loss‚ as well as the fragility of life and relationships. Love poem is a very simple poem yet it has a deep
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“The Day After Tomorrow” showed us what life would be like in the event of a horrific natural catastrophe. Because of the abuse the world has taken from us‚ it started to shut down and it took everyone by surprise. Buildings were heavily damaged‚ streets became raging rivers‚ the state looked like it incurred billions of dollars of expenses‚ and worst of all many lives were lost. You’d think the odds of something so grand and dramatic as that occurring in real life is unlikely. You’d think that
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simile the same as most of the last line ‘I think my love as rare as…’ More use of similes could have been made in the following lines. There is an example of weak alliteration in line eleven ‘I grant I never saw a goddess go’ There is a metaphor in line four when he talks about his mistress’ hair‚ saying they are ‘black wires’‚ this view today would be a completely different view from when the poem was written. In our modern time we think of electrical wires coming out of her head. Most
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In the beginning of “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love‚” Mel’s talk about spiritual love meant the most to me. I have always been very strong spiritually‚ and very strong in my faith and love with God. Throughout the conversations in “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love‚” there are three main types of love discussed. Mel has stories trying to pinpoint true love‚ Nick and Laura are newlyweds that think they are in love‚ and Terri looks at love from an abusive standpoint. Mel makes
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do scorn Lo! to the vault Of paved heaven With sorrow fraught My notes are driven They strike the ear of night Make weep the eyes of day They make mad the roaring winds And with tempests play Like a fiend in a cloud With howling woe After night I do crowd And with night will go I turn my back to the east From whence comforts have increas’d For light doth seize my brain With frantic pain There’s alliteration = wild winds weep Personification = wind is weeping Rhyme scheme
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influences of the society in which they live. In seeking to make sense of our sexuality we must look to its origins. Where does our sexuality come from? In this article‚ I would like to look at two approaches to that question. Is the mystique and the romance‚ the music and the moonlight‚ just nature ’s way of hoodwinking men and women to reproduce? One is the prevalent‚ contemporary‚ scientific approach. And then we ’ll contrast it with the Torah approach o specifically‚ the KabbalisticoChassidic perspective
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|SECTION B | | | |Spend about 1 hour on this section. Think carefully about the poems before you write your answer. | |In the first
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