with a cadence which holds true through out the whole poem (Team, Shmoop Editorial). Service’s application of literary devices like alliteration enhances the flow of the poem; “roam 'round, cursèd cold, foul or fair, half hid, and brawn and brains” (Service).…
James Cannon was born in 1864 and grew up to be a well-educated man; he got degrees from Randolf-Macon College and Princeton University. From about 1904 to 1918, Cannon was the editor of the Baltimore and Richmond Christian Advocate, a Virginia Conference Newspaper, where he inserted passionate ideas of the Methodist cause of Prohibition. Beginning in 1901, James Cannon became a large part of the Anti-Saloon League; he started out on the executive committee, moved on to president, and was superintendent by 1909. After the death of Wayne Wheeler, the head of the Anti-Saloon League, in 1927, James Cannon become the most powerful leader of the Temperance Movement. In 1918, Cannon was appointed as bishop, which helped him influence the entire country of his ideas on Temperance.…
Compare the ways in which the poets present isolated characters in ‘The Hunchback in the Park’ and ‘Horse Whisperer’…
The speakers speaks of nature throughout the entire poem. He uses metaphors and similes to compare Jane to living things as an attempt to give her new life through nature…
On the both poems, D. H. Lawrence’s “snake” and Elizabeth bishop’s “Fish,” both author mentions about animals. Both writer treated animals as animals at first, but later on, they compare those animals with human. The explanation of visual, the time when two authors think those animals as human, and the ironic feeling that both author have demonstrate that both speakers state of mind change.…
Throughout Grahn’s poem, feminine characterization is portrayed through her constant connection and linkage to those similar actions of a broken down mother, and a common rattlesnake. Grahn introduces such word play with an exclamation that “She’s a copperhead waitress, tired and sharp-worded”/ (line one) in order to give the reader the fairly elaborate picture of Ella. Grahn familiarizes the reader with the looks of Ella being a tough, proud, fierce, redheaded waitress, who would do anything to protect her young; much like a rattlesnake would, therefore, introducing the idea that the common woman is much like a rattlesnake. Grahn uses a great deal of imagery words to attempt to persuade the reader that everyday women are as tough and aggressive as a rattlesnake in such that “She keeps her mind the way men keep a knife” (line seven) implying that the common worn out woman is still as sharp as can be and demands the respect she may not continuously get. For the reason being that neither women have the satisfactory lives they wish for, they portray their wants and feelings onto the animal they feel fits them best.…
Both poems are symbolic and important toward the fight for women’s rights. Sojourner Truth was nothing but the truth, she questions her own use and reason for being treated the way she is…
Poetry is a very powerful mechanism through which writers can tell their readers something about themselves or the world around them. The language within “Traveling Through the Dark” by William Stafford and “Woodchucks” by Maxine Kumin display the speakers’ psychology and what sort of relationships they have with the animals and their deaths in their respective works. Despite being similar in a few aspects, these two works are very different.…
The values put forth by Henry David Thoreau in his essay "Walking" are shown in Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales and in particular The Oxford Cleric's tale. The idea that only wildness is attractive to readers and is evident in the clerics tale because it has things as far away from dull as possible happening. Love, trust, deception, and a happy ending all contribute to an anything but dull tale which in fact proves Thoreau's ideal. In particular the strained relationship between the two main characters causes a wildness to occur and grab the reader in a way that dull or plainness simply can't.…
The poem is written in blank verse. This means that there is no set rhyme scheme or metre to the poem. The poem is divided into nine stanzas of four lines each and it concludes with one single line stanza. The first nine stanzas with their four lines each, demonstrate the narrow mindedness of the white woman and the thinking of her fellow white Americans; while, the final one line stanza is an attempt by the poet to show that the Native American Indians are both separate and have a broader scope than the white Americans. Yet, the use of the blank verse form by the poet, suggests that there is room for imaginative speculation on the poem.…
One of the major themes of both these poems is the poets’ expression of a common message of how we rely on our imagination over and over again. Longfellow, the poet of The Ropewalk, demonstrates this common theme by scripting, “While within this brain of mine,/ cobwebs brighter and more fine.” (Longfellow 15-16) One of the poetic devices in this quote is rhyme scheme. The poet uses rhyme scheme to get the readers mind working- it causes the audience to use their imagination. This flow and rhyme helps exemplify the common theme of imagination. It does this by prying open the reader’s tightly enclosed mind, making him or her think, and use their imagination to predict what is coming next. By having a consistent rhyme scheme the reader will have a consistent surge of imagination. Emily Dickson then writes in the poem Because I could not stop for Death, “Because I could not stop for Death-/ He kindly stopped for me-” (Dickenson 1-2) This quote has many different rhetorical devices which, like The Ropewalk, also creates the theme of inspiring imagination. One very powerful device Emily Dickenson has used throughout her poem is the use of hyphens at the end of lines. This way of finishing each line is significant, because it tells the reader, unconsciously, to drift…
In modern times, poetry is often considered a complicated and confusing art, incapable of being fathomed by an average person. Poetry is written in the vernacular which typically becomes outdated and therefore unfamiliar. With regards to Anne Bradstreet’s “To My Dear and Loving Husband” and Edward Taylor’s “Huswifery”, this is not the case. Anne Bradstreet and Edward Taylor use two different writing styles to compare a similar topic in drastically contrasting ways.…
Robert Browning uses many techniques one such example being his continuous reference to women being similar to roses. Browning uses the imagery of roses throughout the poem to represent women and femininity. It is a common practice in literature for poets to refer to women as flowers, in particular roses; such as Browning has done in ‘Women and Roses’. This is because they represent natural beauty that has been created by God, which compliments the woman Browning is talking about because it shows his feelings on how he believes they don’t have to try to be beautiful. Roses also represent love and passion, the colour red is an intimate colour that represents seduction and sometimes danger as seen in ‘Of Mice and Men’ where Curley’s wife is referred to as having “full rouged lips” and “red fingernails”. The thorns on roses continues this theme of potential risk, because the simple idea of men picking roses for women could injure the man due to the thorns on the stem, this could represent how men have to fight past the hard things in love to get to the beauty or the woman.…
The third stanza creates a hint of competition as nature is trying to match the perfection and beauty of the animals, “To match them, the landscape flowers, Outdoing, desperately Outdoing what is required”. The idea…
The figurative language in this poem has a huge impact on the poem. This poem uses very realistic and graphic mental imagery. The poems repeating phrases make you think of a man horseback riding through a dark, dismal place, trying to get to his lover. It also creates a sense of King George's soldiers progressing down that road the horseman was on hunting him down. The language helps enhance the setting of the story. The story takes place in a dark spooky town, with an aged inn on a stormy night. What keeps the reader focused on the story is the intensity of the spookiness on that black, alarming night.…