“The Colonel” stands out as a poem for two distinct reasons. The first thing that you notice is that the author chose an untraditional format. That‚ paired with the line “What you have heard is true. I was in his house‚” and the indifferent tone‚ gives more of a ‘journalistic’ vibe. Without directly stating it‚ the author hints at the theme of disillusionment. At the beginning of the poem‚ she begins by describing a seemingly ordinary family evening. “His daughter filed her nails‚ his son went out
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innocence -sleeping on beach was common -gray has managed to describe the life of a hippie/hitchhiker -hitchhiker was a man! - north coast summer -washed himself at tap -always mud near a tap -puts hand in pocket finds sand this adds reality for the poem -as he looks around he notices hamburger stand but without money it doent make much difference -he only has a floury apple to eat -sand crawled
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John Donne’s Songs and Sonets include love poetry with very different attitudes towards the relationship between men and women. Four such poems‚ "The Sun Rising"‚ "Song"‚ "The Flea"‚ and "The Undertaking"‚ show very contradictory views of what love is and should be. Each of these poems give a diverse even conflicting view of love because they represent the different kinds of love a person encounters throughout their life; starting with young infatuation love‚ moving to bitter love‚ changing to physical
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In Suárez’s poem‚ "Isla" the speaker uses a few imagery and descriptive phrases to develop sympathy in me as a reader. The phrase “The Three Stooges‚ The Little Rascals‚ Speed Racer‚ and the Godzilla movies” has a meaning to the poem‚ which is why they are written at the beginning of the poem (Kirszner & Mandell‚ 2012). The Three Stooges represents consistently making bad decisions while making a mess out of everything. The Little Rascals represents a group of mischievous troublemakers. Speed
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Many writers on their venture to becoming great‚ are faced with roadblocks. I too feel those stresses. When sitting down to begin a story‚ novel‚ or poem we all strive to be different. But as Baldwin explains‚ "there is no original thought‚ because we all humans think and feel has been thought and felt so many times before‚ by so many generations." This in itself makes starting writing a very daunting task. Not to mention the sea of fellow authors you are competing with for limited shelf space. A
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MOTHER TO SON: VIDEO PRESENTATION ‘Mother to Son’ is an ecstatic poem composed by Langston Hughes. The poem is structured in a form of a conversation between a mother and her son. Hughes assures her son that her life wasn’t crystal stair‚ she also had to face several struggles in her life. Hence‚ she commands her son not to look back and keep climbing higher in life even if he thinks climbing is hard. He should try not to fall and climb the stairway of success without any fear because his mother
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‘LE LOUPGAROU’ The poem begin with a ’curious tale’ which ’threaded through the town’ (note the use of alliteration). Through greying women sewing under eaves. These ’greying women’ (meaning old women) may not have been literally sewing under the trees‚ but were ’threading the tale’; meaning‚ they were gossiping. Was how his greed had brought old le brun down. (what comes next is a tell of how his greed brought him down’ Greeted by slowly shutting jalousies (refers to the people who shut their windows
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Comparative Commentary on “Salome” and “Medusa” Both “Salome” and “Medusa” are poems written by a poet called Carol Ann Duffy‚ which have similarities and differences based on various aspects of poem analysis. To begin with the poem “Salome” has a slightly different audience than the poem “Medusa”. The audience in “Salome” is unconfident and oppressed women who do not believe in their power and what they can do‚ men who underestimate women and people who discriminate others based on their sex
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William Blake Poem William Blake‚ the worlds famous English poet (1757- 1827). He never limited himself to a title where you would say he’s poet of only romance or drama but whatever went wept through his soul he would engrave it in words. Joy and sorrow are opposite each other yet Blake develops poems from each aspect. The two poems I will be talking about are Infant Joy and Infant Sorrow. Infant Joy seems as if it’s a poem about an Infant named Joy. It is very perky
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Throughout the text I demonstrate emotive and exclusive language. This poem claims words like “our leaders” so it’s aimed precisely at our government. The emotive segment of the poem comes into play within the first few lines‚ I display the imagery of pain in relations to cancer‚ this pain I convey in the poem is then afflicted upon the reader. It’s important to use this technique first‚ because then pull the reader’s attention and emotions
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