The Voice – Thomas Hardy Analysis Notes: €the Voice€ Analysis In the poem The Voice by Thomas Hardy‚ the speaker of the poem hears what seems to be the voice of his dead wife‚ Emma. He remembers with nostalgia their time together before her death and in doing so three different moments of their lives is presented: the beginning of their relationship‚ the latest days of it‚ and the present. At the beginning‚ their relationship was based on love‚ whereas as time passed‚ the woman changed from the
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Responding to the Poem Deanna Gulston 1. In this poem‚ there is more than one meaning to such phrases as bring us to our senses and cold comfort. What do you think the poet intends these phrases to mean? In this poem phrases such as cold comforrt could mean that he is happy to be spending time alone with his mother‚ making memories. The comfort is cold because she is ill and she is going to die soon. Phrases such as brings us to our senses could mean that even though the poet and his mother
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The winter imagery poem I chose that I felt captures the essence of Canadian winters is called “An Ontario Poem”. This poem provides expressive words and vivid examples to provide the reality of Canadian winters. The first couple of stanzas explains just how vigorously the wind blows also showing the reality of just how cold it really gets. It portrays this by stating “...and the gentle breezes blow at seventy-five miles an hour at thirty-five below”. The following four lines discuss how we love
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"Eliminating the Pest" In the poem "Woodchucks" by Maxine Kumin‚ the speaker is in her garden and is annoyed with some woodchucks that are eating and destroying the produce in the garden. The speaker in turn tries to remove the woodchucks by using humane gas to kill them and when that is unsuccessful‚ she resorts to more violent means. This poem uses the annoying woodchucks to signify the Jewish people during the Holocaust by the Nazi Party. In the first stanza of the poem‚ the speaker clearly identifies
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Jaclyn Mallan-King May 28‚ 2012 The Multiple Dimensions of Beauty "She Walks in Beauty‚" is a lyric poem that focuses on the true beauty both described outwardly and inwardly as seen by the narrator. George Gordon Byron (more commonly known as Lord Byron) describes this woman in detail regarding her character and her physical looks in order to emphasize her beauty. The title of this poem gives the reader an inclination that the description of this woman is not going to be described one dimensionally
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Hunting snake is the poem written by Judith Wright‚ an Australian environmentalist‚ who shares her amazing encounter with a great black snake. The main theme of the poem is nature. Here‚ the description that the poet gives about “the great black snake” is pretty much similar to the red bellied black snake which was found in the writer’s hometown in New South Wales. In this poem‚ the persona or the voice is that of the poet herself. The poem is written in a quatrain‚ i.e four stanzas altogether and each
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Melissa Eidson 5/28/14 The poem "The Dog and the Sparrow" by Ivan Sergeevich Tourgenieff is an example of the sublime. It has the ability to cause the reader to feel deeply for the sparrow and its bravery and sacrifice. The poem is told in first-person point of view and uses figurative language and metaphors to tell the story. The theme is reverence for the sparrow‚ which like most themes‚ which is discovered until the end of the poem. Tourgenieff wrote this poem in the first-person
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Harvesting Life In the poem "Loneliness" by Laura Cortes there seems to exist a small hope and wish for the past. The poem has many lines that seem to show an echo for the similarities of harvesting the apples and the harvest of life itself. Through the course of the poem‚ the speaker uses the word ghosts to hint at the death of family members. The line "Now he and the trees are tired and old. " (14) Obviously hints to the speaker being of old age. The man in the poem seems to reiterate the
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Nineteenth century poet‚ Emily Dickinson ponders in poem 579 of the initial reaction towards something new and how obtaining wealth for the first time means she has to give up something in return. However‚ she would not be able to use her newfound wealth because of her inability to handle it. Poem 579 explains what happens when a person discovers something completely new and how the narrator handles new experiences. Going through a new experience is what happens to the poet’s diminishing eyesight
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mind fly and find More rapidly than the wind. The first line‚ "unfold‚ oh timid flower‚" implies that the youth is silent and consequently has not yet gone into full bloom for whatever reason there is that may have silenced them. In the beginning stanza‚ Rizal encourages the youth‚ by telling them to hold their heads high for they possess talents and skills and abilities that would make their country proud. The second verse can be rearranged in contemporary English to say: "Oh genius great‚ soar
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