The poem "Cross" by P.K.Page describes the sorrow of witnessing a stony couple who can barely remember why they are angry with each other after a week-long battle. They won’t discuss it or resolve it because "neither/can come to that undemanded act of love-/kiss the sleeping princess or sleep with the frog--/and break the spell which holds them each from the other." So the couple ends up like "two on a desert island‚ back to back‚" an emotional chasm dividing them which neither is willing to bridge
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Animal Farm Animal Farm is not just about a story about animals it is about human nature and behaviour. “Animal Farm” by George Orwell is a novel based on the lives of a society of animals living on the Manor Farm. Although the title of the book suggests the book is merely about animals‚ the story is a much more in depth analysis of the workings of society in Communist Russia. The animals are used as puppets to illustrate how the communist class system operated‚ and how Russian citizens responded
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The Raven. Stanza 1 This man was nearly asleep and his senses were really sharp when he hears a knocking on his door. He began to be a little scared‚ for the night was creepy. Stanza 2 This man was feeling nostalgic. When he heard the knocking on that door he imagined his diseased wife‚ he wants the past back. Stanza 3 This man started to visualize things that didn’t actually happen. He felt like someone was there entering through the door. Stanza 4 The man decides to face that thing that
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The poem itself it a lot alike to a detective story as Armitage forces the reader to try and figure out what is going on. Armitage also forces the readers to make their own judgements on the man described and what has happened to him‚ to a certain extent. ‘About his person’ is the phrase police use when they go through the items found on a dead body. Armitage uses puns which can also be used as metaphors for the man’s life. IMPORTANT LINES AND SUGGESTED EXPLANTIONS: About his person What
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Axana Chhetri Eng 102 Dr. Pierre Essay #1 “I‚ too ” The poem “I‚ too” was written by Langston Hughes in the year 1926. This poem talks about the struggle of a hard working minority black man who is suffering from the hardship of an unfair labor. This is an anti-discrimination poem which addresses about injustice of racism that has been done by the America. I argue that the theme of the poem‚ “I too” is about the America’s dark history of racial injustice during 1920s and also a look towards a brighter
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Heller Levi Not Bad‚ Dad‚ Not Bad 3. “The grey planes pregnant with bombs.” – Dorianne Laux Singing Back The World 4. “I spoke to friends who recognized the language of our relm.” – Leanne O’Sullivan The Cord 5. “eight dancers dressed as swans.” – Mary Cornish Numbers 6. “Always wants a hug and never gets enough”- Ronald Koertge Sidekicks 7. “whose perfume swayed in the air‚ turning the modest flowers scarlet and loose.” –Peter Meinke Love Poem 8. “Their whisper rises from
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Poems tell us about life experiences. The poems of Theatre by Kate Llewellyn and Even If You Weren’t My Father by Camillo Sbarbaro express the different life experiences of individuals. The aspects of family‚ love and memory can be viewed in both positive and negative lights through these poems. By using a range of different experiences felt by the poet the audience can become connected to them by human experience. The theme of family/relationship can be seen in the poems Theatre and Even
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In Herbert Lomas poem “The Fly’s Poem about Emily” he tells the story of a fly‚ related to another poem from Emily Dickinson‚ that is from a nightmare and is ready to devour some delicious meat. The fly is happy in this story because the female poet dies instead and the fly gets to eat. The literary element that forms this poem is denotation‚ literal meaning of a word and the critical strategy formalism‚ the elements in the work itself. This poem is about how a fly was sent from the devil or Beelzebub
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Step 1- first impression Step 2- contrasts Step 3- purpose of the author in writing the poem Step 4- line-by-line analysis of the literary devices used in the poem Expository paragraph Sonnet from the Portuguese V: I lift my heavy heart up solemnly by Elizabeth Barrett Browning I lift my heavy heart up solemnly‚ As once Electra her sepulchral urn‚ And‚ looking in thine eyes‚ I overturn The ashes at thy feet. Behold and see What a great heap of grief lay hid in me‚ And how the red wild sparkles
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What connotations are linked to each of them? The title of the poem contains several meanings‚ all of which underscore the main theme. This poem relates to the speaker’s inner turmoil because if his mixed racial ancestry.First of all‚“crossˮcan mean“angry.ˮThe speaker was angry‚ or “cross‚”with his father and mother for their passing on to him an amalgam of genes. After his anger subsides‚ he forgives them but still feels puzzled about his own background.Next‚ “crossˮis associated with “crucifixion
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