indicating how carefully she treats her husband. “And handle and hold the damaged‚ porcelain collar bone‚ and mind and attend the fractured rudder of shoulder blade.” The point she makes about her husband being injured and she wants to treat him. Use of alliteration with ‘handle’ and ‘hold’ puts a strain on how delicate his body must be at this time. The form in ‘Manhunt’ is in couplets and they show the relationship between the husband and wife and represent their love after the first phase‚ “after passionate
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responses from the responder. His poems ’Meatworks’ and ’Flames and Dangling Wire’‚ both social commentaries‚ exemplify techniques he calls upon in order to reproduce the personas feelings‚ emotions and thoughts through powerful images. Assonance and alliteration are employed by Gray to increase the memorability of an image‚ leaving it lingering in the responders mind. He uses these techniques to ensure lengthened visualisation of specific images‚ portraying the grotesque and repulsive nature of his subjects
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Philip Larkin- “Here” analysis Nick Webb The poem "Here" by Philip Larkin is a descriptive poem on Larkin’s travel from the countryside to the city of Hull‚ where Larkin lived for the last thirty years of his life. The descriptive words used to describe the motion of his journey "swerving" (which is repeated throughout the 1st stanza to represent movement) and “harsh-named halt" suggest a train journey in
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is exactly what the young girl in goes through to get cupcakes‚ a desirable treat or reward. The poem has a lot to do with racism and discrimination. It is written in first person and as a narrative with many different poetic techniques such as alliteration‚ sibilance‚ oxymoron‚ personification etc. Holmes offers very vivid and descriptive details explaining what these cupcakes mean to this little girl. Being the reader‚ you can almost smell the cupcakes with the visuals the author gives. Holmes uses
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Kappeler October 7th‚ 2013 Traditional and Intellectual Methods of Digging To break away from a tradition is often a means of upholding it. This is the case in “Digging‚” a poem written by Irish poet and playwright Seamus Heaney. Through alliteration that subtly alters tone‚ changes in tense that gently signify a change from real time to memory‚ imagery that appeals to all the senses‚ a free form that allows for the manipulation of stanzas‚ and the tying together of ideas through repetition
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Furthermore these components help to clarify the theme of the poem that has to do with survival of the fittest and nature’s brutality. At the beginning of the poem‚ the poet expresses admiration for the pike. This is evident by the use of the alliteration “perfect pike in all parts‚” as well as when Hughes says that pikes are “stunned by their own grandeur.” The poet specifies the fish’s pattern by describing it as “green tigering the gold‚” and he created the word “tigering‚” in order to make the
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is evident when following her putting "Phenomenally" she writes "Phenomenal woman‚ That’s me" In the first line of the poem‚ the poet writes "Pretty women wonder where my secret lies" in order to foreshadow the rest of the poem. She uses alliteration in order to draw attention to the main idea of the poem. This helps emphasize essentially that although the "pretty women" has everything that should make her happy in the eyes of society‚ she seeks the aid of the average "happy" women. The three
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to him. Browning incorporates alliteration at the end of each line in this poem‚ as he passed through “the long black land” and saw the moon “large and low‚” creating the image of the environment which the man passes through. The use of the word “long” describes his lengthy trip on land‚ while the moon lying “large and low” in the sky tells of the time of his travel‚ the moon is low because he is traveling late into the night. Browning employs the ensuing alliteration serves the purpose of describing
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Preludes - TS Eliot [1888-1965] Relevant Background Thomas Stearns [TS] Eliot was born in into a wealthy family in St Louis‚ Missouri‚ America in 1888 He became a British citizen at the age of 39 in 1927. His father was president of a brick making company. His mother wrote poetry and was once a teacher and social volunteer. They were determined to educate Thomas well. TS Eliot’s awareness of how differently some people lived inspired a lot of the descriptions found in Preludes’.
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Gillian Clarke’s poem ’Cold Knap Lake’ centres on a childhood memory of a girl almost drowning in a lake in South Wales. The poet‚ with her parents‚ ’watched a crowd’ of people pull the girl out of the water. It seemed at first that they were too late: the girl’s lips were blue and she ’lay for dead’. The metaphor ’dressed in water’s long green silk’ tells us that she was covered in weeds from the lake. In the second stanza‚ Clarke describes her mother as a ’heroine’ as she knelt down to resuscitate
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