Essay: Where I come from Student: Valentin Turri The poem is divided in two stanzas and two extra lines. The poet is an old woman that talks about her present and her old past. In the first stanza the poet starts like introducing us in the text‚ explaining us the meaning of ‘’people are made of places’’‚ this means that all we are made of memories‚ places where we come from
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"CRITICAL OF TIME AND NATURE BY THE SESTET OF OZYMANDIAS " INTRODUCTION Ozymandias is a poem written by Percy Shelley. It was published in January of 1818 in The Examiner. This poem is an Italian sonnet‚ a I4-line poem. The rhyme scheme is ababacdcedefef. The sonnet consists of oktave (the first eight lines) and sestet (the last six lines). The poem is about a person who met a traveler in the desert and was told about a statue. In this context‚the traveler is a book‚and the person is the
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Keley Jackson Floyd ENG 131 11 November 2012 Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers This poem portrays a main character‚ Aunt Jennifer‚ as a humble docile woman; smothered by her marriage and the norms she feels she must meet to please society. Adrienne Rich cleverly names the poem “Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers” because of the importance of the role the tigers play in her life. With a husband who dominates her in all respects‚ she must find her own freedom in her life by knitting in her free
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Mushrooms by Silvia Plath Thinking/Talking Points: 1. a) They way the poem is written out is very unusual and interesting‚ which was already pointed out by you in class. When turning the page 90 degrees you may see something that looks similar to a field of mushrooms. Or when looking at the stanzas you can see that all of them are short (stanza with three short lines)‚ also the poem is consists of many stanzas which one could compare to the “typical” or ”standard” mushrooms you see
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“Stop all the clocks‚ cut off the telephone” by W. H. Auden Stop all the clocks‚ cut off the telephone‚ Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone‚ Silence the pianos and with muffled drum Bring out the coffin‚ let the mourners come. Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead Scribbling on the sky the message He Is Dead‚ Put crepe bows round the white necks of the public doves‚ Let the traffic policemen wear black cotton gloves. He was my North‚ my South‚ my East and West‚ My working week and
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Rising Five Norman Nicholson This poem Rising Five by Norman Nicholson starts with the words of four years old who claims not to be four‚ but ‘rising five’ This statement is followed with the poet’s vivid description of the child’s face which shouts almost with youth and enthusiasm. We see the baby curls of hair‚ the huge staring eyes searching all around about smooth dimpled (‘toffee buckled’) cheeks. This image is a wonderful evocation of little smiling boy. The use of toffee additionally suggests
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Theme of Stopping by the wood s on a snowy evening The poem “stopping by the woods on a snowy evening” is written by Robert Frost. The poem is set in the woods and the speaker here is the stranger who stopped there‚ admiring what his eyes saw‚ the beautiful view. In the opening stanza‚ the poet wonders about owner of the woods and thinks he knows him. The stranger is in the woods and has a horse who thinks its weird that its owner has stopped in a place that does not have a farmhouse ‚ but
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Dutt’s use of descriptive detail in the first two stanzas help to create a uniquely Indian landscape. Her description of the tree’s trunk as a python to open the poem helps to do this in the most immediate of stages. At the same time‚ the convergence of different animals around one natural element also helps to do this. There is a certain feel of the poem that brings to the light the idea that a timeless quality of the tree and the world around it possess. I think that this is what I find the
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Response to William Wordsworth’s ‘I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud’ It is most difficult‚ I feel‚ to compose a response to William Wordsworth’s classic and idolised poem‚ ‘I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud’ in such few words. A response to a poem may be seen as a reflection on features such as the language‚ the imagery and certainly‚ how the poem made me feel. I will however attempt to outline the influence this poem has had on me‚ considering the aforementioned features. This poem has evidently stood
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Near The School For Handicapped Children Essay In the poem‚ ‘near the school for handicapped children’ by Thomas Shapcott a man and his daughter are passing by a local school for handicapped children and come across a handicapped boy from a distance. In stanza one‚ the poet (Thomas Shapcott) describes the boy physically. In stanza two and three‚ he is still describing the boy‚ but also telling us how he feels about seeing him and how he compares himself to the boy while watching him. In the final
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