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    uses powerful imagery to help convey misery and loss of love‚ from Stanza one to Stanza four hardy speaks in images conveying moments of his happy times with Emma and moments of grief. Thomas Hardy starts by saying “Woman much missed” which is alliteration used to emphasize how much he misses her and how she is distant from him‚ this shows nostalgia. Hardy uses a triple rhyme “call to me call to me/ all to me” to show his grief and express the loss of love. The repetition of “call to me” suggests

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    thoughts behind parentheses as if they are a thought or aside‚ and then keeps the worshipful lines out in the open. Line after line‚ the words dance to the rhythm of the poem’s tone of rebirth. ‘The gay‚ great‚ happening‚ illimitably earth’ leaps with alliteration and its rhtyhm conveys an eventful‚ almost tangible energy. The assonance in ‘leaping greenly spirits of trees’ shares the same spirit while giving an aura of freshness and vitality to the entire poem. Words are placed and adjusted to the rhythm

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    the reader to a small island away from the chaos of everyday life‚ an island where the poet imagines he will go to live independently. The reader is transported‚ with the poet‚ to a place far away from schedules‚ deadlines‚ and stress. Yeats uses alliteration‚ end rhymes‚ and other poetic strategies to transport the reader to his imaginary getaway: the Isle of Innisfree. One technique Yeats uses in his poem is anaphora. In the first line of the poem Yeats writes‚ “I will arise and go now‚ and

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    Look again at ‘At a Potato Digging’ by Seamus Heaney and at ‘A Sheep Fair’ by Thomas Hardy‚ which both deal with the theme of the hardship of rural life. With close reference to the ways each poet uses language‚ compare and contrast what the speakers in the poems say about rural life. You should include relevant contextual material. Which poem do you find more interesting? Give your reasons. Seamus Heaney and Thomas Hardy both depict images of rural life as difficult and uncomfortable. In their

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    The reason behind Sir Walter Raleigh’s “A Farewell to False Love” is evident in the title‚ the first few lines‚ and throughout the entire poem. It repeats over and over the theme of love being false and untrue. The poet portrays love as being a horrible thing‚ a liar and a deceiver. The poem is structured in the ababcc format‚ which was a common simple style of the time. The poem portrays love as being warm and fuzzy on the outside‚ but really just a "poisoned serpent covered all with flowers." This

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    about young people who are supposed to attend school. The poem has an up tempo beat‚ almost like a rap. This rap-like sound may also help to appeal young readers. 2) Literary Devices But as if the rhyming weren’t enough‚ Brooks also uses alliteration‚ the repetition of a particular sound in the first syllables of a series of words or phrases‚ usually a consonant. “Lurk late. We” “Strike straight. We” (684) Sometimes the rhyming doesn’t even stop with the two end words: “Sing” “sin”

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    Assignment #1: Poetic Terminology 1. Alliteration- repetition of a particular sound or syllable two or more times in a group [EX: Elderly elephants egress elegantly] 2. Allusion- casual reference or implication of something [EX: Titles of books often allude to what the contents will hold‚ subtly or not. A book titled Little House on the Prairie implies that there will be a small house on a plain of grass.] 3. Analogy-two things that have something in common making them comparable [EX:

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    to construct the meaning of the expression. The poet highlights sadness when he speaks the “sad song sung by a woman. It is not a song but the dirges sung by the women who are wailing the deaths of their children. The poet also makes use of alliteration “sing my sad song sing for me” to emphasise the dirges and wailing of the parents. The poet truly brings out the emotion of sadness and hopelessness in this sentence. The poet also uses a lot of metaphor in his poem. He writes “strummed

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    Act four‚ Scene one is an extremely dark scene within the play‚ where torture and death play a prominent role. It is an important scene in the play as the tempo increases immensely and the audience are given a glimpse of the main characters fate. Therefore it is a pivotal point in the play as the relative calmness of the previous scenes is replaced by chaos and death. The scene consists of the three main characters of the play and through their reactions to the gruesome acts in the scene the audience

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    sun do not rhyme‚ but they have the same "uh" sound. Rhyme: Poetry having correspondence in the terminal sounds of the lines. "Does it stink like rotten meat?...like a syrup sweet?" Meat and sweet rhyme. They have the same ending "eat" sound. Alliteration: The repetition of the same letter at the beginning of two or more words immediately succeeding each other‚ or at short intervals. For example‚ the "s" sound in syrupy and sweet is repeated. This adds emphasis to the phrase. Imagery/Figurative

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