POEMS Practice 1 IN THE MIDST OF HARDSHIP 1. Why were their clothes ‘soaky’? 2. Write down the line in the poem which reveals that this incident took place in a village? 3. What does the phrase “bloated carcasses” refer to? 4. In your opinion‚ what kind of attitude do the last two lines imply? Explain. Practice 2: IN THE MIDST OF HARDSHIP (stanzas 1 and 2) 1. Write down the line which shows that they have been out for long hours? 2. The theme may not be exactly about hardship as implied
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This poem has a literal side and mythical side to it meaning. The literal side would just be that it is about two sisters with different aspects. The mythical side could be referring to the two sides of Persephone to show the connections between "shade and light". In the first stanza‚ it introduces the two sisters‚ different as dark and light. One sister is very happy while the other is awfully depressed. In the second‚ third‚ and last stanza‚ it talks about the aspects of the sister of the shade
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Name Professor Course Date The Vanishing Memory of My father The poem‚” Eating Alone” by Li- Young Lee is richly crafted in imagery that is used effectively to develop the theme of loneliness and memory. Lee utilized a myriad of literary devices in communicating his message such as imagery‚ flashbacks‚ and sarcasms. The interpretation of this poem is essential in unravelling the meanings of different literary devices that Lee employed in this text to develop his theme of memory and loneliness.
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Syntax and Morphological Analysis of the Poem “The Red Wheelbarrow” by William Carlos Williams Accordingly‚ the rhetoric idea learnt in writing poetry is found in the work of Williams. Analysts found that the author believes that localism aline may lead to culture. Ideally‚ the factor of imagism is well designed in The Red Wheelbarrow‚ giving credit to the poem under discussion. In this paper‚ the author will analyze various features of this poem‚ giving phonological‚ lexical‚ syntactic‚ and sematic
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such as in the poem‚ "The Brain - is wider than the Sky". The poem compares and contrasts the human brain with the sky‚ the sea‚ and God. This poem is manageable enough for the casual reader to understand‚ and yet opens up ideas for the sophisticated reader to explore. In the following paragraphs I will analyze Dickinson’s poem‚ line for line‚ and explain the theme of the poem‚ which is the relationship between the human mind and the external world. In the opening stanza of "The Brain-
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The poem‚ I chose has a very optimistic point of view. It talks about life and how although we all are going to die eventually‚ and it’s no use dwelling on the past so you might as well live for now. This poem is interesting to me because‚ it gives me a different perspective on life now. This poem really relates with the world we live in because a lot of people have this kind of point of view. But also‚ some people feel so lost that they need to hear a positive message like this. I really like that
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Brooklyn Cop‚ by Norman MacCaig is a poem about an American policeman and the daily dangers he faces. The cop appears to be a savage yet we are later made aware of his underlying vulnerability. New York’s reputation of violence and crime leads to our awareness of the cop’s fear of not returning home to his wife. ... We are first made aware of the cop’s intimidating appearance in the first line‚ of the first stanza when MacCaig uses the simile "built like gorilla." This gives us a very negative and
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The first of the two poems I have chosen to compare and contrast is Morning Song By Silvia Path‚ this poem seems focused on the experience of child birth and the powerful emotions that follow‚ and is by no means however a generalized and optimistic account of child birth. The second poem I have chosen to focus on is There Be None Of Beauty’s Daughters by Lord Byron and seemingly depicts a strong sense of love and bondage between the Byron and the person he is writing about‚ however it is unclear
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Poems give insight to the day to day lives of others as well as to the deep underlying meanings hidden all around us. The poem ‘kitchenette building’ is an amazing representation of how the everyday lives of others can be shown through poetry. In this poem‚ Gwendolyn Brooks shows how those in the kitchenette building she once lived in are not given the chance they deserve to live their dreams. Instead they are forced to go with the flow of the lives they currently live. The poem is showing how those
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lot of poems about inequality‚ life and unfairness between social classes. I have chosen to discuss and compare the following poem “The Commission”‚ “Nooligan” and “Streemin” of Roger McGough. The three poems I have chosen are mainly written in the area of inequality of this world and the unfairness of social class. In “The Commission” Roger McGough has written the contrast of the different social class and the difference between the wealthy and the poor. In the poem he wrote “In this poem there
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