“The Road not Taken” is an analogy discussing about a person who made an important‚ but irreversible decision of life in the past. The poem symbolizes how that person (the speaker) chose the risky decision that has a large impact in that person’s life. In fact‚ later the person feel uncertain if the decision was right. The “yellow wood” depicts the condition of carefulness and privacy. The decision that the speaker made particularly talks about a long-term private life decision. The speaker uses
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Daddy? When you think of the term “daddy” what thoughts come to mind? For most it is an affectionate or familiar term‚ but not for all. In his poem‚ “My Papa’s Waltz”‚ Theodore Roethke depicts an altercation between a father and son. In contrast to the poem‚ Holly Dunn emphasizes love and tenderness between a father and child in the song “Daddy’s hands.” Each writer is showing the important role a father plays in a child’s life from very different points of view. Both pieces have a very different
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In the poem "The Clothespin" the persona in the poem describes looking through the window and seeing her neighbor. This shows that the relationship between the neighbor and the persona was not as intimate as opposed to the persona in the poem Your Hands. In the poem "Your Hands" the persona describes loving the hands that constantly held him/her for so many years without binding me. This creates the insinuation that the persona and the person that he/she was describing are very intimate and were
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piece written by American vocalist‚ Kurt Elling‚ and features Theodore Roethke’s 1954 poem of the same title. Released in 2007 on the album Nightmoves‚ Elling uses musical techniques to enhance the message of Roethke’s poem. However‚ in order to understand the reasoning behind the devices Elling has used‚ the meaning of Roethke’s poem must first be discussed. Roethke wrote ‘The Waking’ after a series of intense poems such as ‘Praise to the End!’ and in it he describes the process of enlightenment through
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be Wisdom or even memory; One thing then learnt remains to me – The woodspurge has a cup of three. Illustration This poem took place in hill where the trees are shaken out by the wind and a field of grass where the man in this poet saw woodspurge as one of the ten weeds and grieving for his problem all day along as the wind blown. The poet described a visual imagery by points out what that man can see while grieving in field‚ such as in ninth and tenth
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could even measure his “vast” power. The reader is led to understand that Ozymandias was an arrogant‚ cruel leader with the words: “frown” (line 4)‚ “wrinkled lip” and “sneer” (line 5). These physical features captured on the visage expose the Pharaoh’s true character as a nasty tyrannical leader‚ sneering and frowning at his subjects if they didn’t follow his “cold command” (line 5)‚ proving his absolute dominion over his kingdom1. The inscription Ozymandias had placed by his statue‚ allows the
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take so easily and break across his knee like a stick.” This excerpt describes the overall perception of the speaker throughout “On the Subway”‚ written by Sharon Olds. Using descriptive language‚ the poem determines the speaker’s perception. The speaker’s fears of the stranger sitting across from her become the reader’s also by her comments and use of descriptive language. The speaker communicates the stranger’s capabilities over her life more than once in the poem. “...he looks at my fur coat
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Ecgwela’s sons. His rise in the world brought lithe joy to the Danish people‚ only death and destruction. He vented his rage on men he caroused with‚ killed his own comrades‚ a pariah king Who cut himself off to his own kind‚ Even although Almighty God had made him eminent and powerful and marked him from the start for a happy life. But change happened‚ He grew bloodthirsty‚ gave no more things to honor the Danes. He suffered in the end for having plagued his people for so long his life lost
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Edward Hirsch’s poem‚ For the Sleepwalkers‚ explores the issue of admiration for sleepwalkers and their faith in themselves. Hirsch uses literary techniques to illuminate how the speaker’s view of sleepwalkers develops throughout the poem. At the beginning of the poem‚ Hirsch uses an evident parallel structure recurring in the first stanza is the phrase “so much faith in.” This repetition emphasizes the amount of faith that the sleepwalkers have‚ and by showing that the speaker acknowledges the sleepwalkers’
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In this poem‚ Blake is trying to dispel the myth of grandeur and glory associated with London and to show the ’real’ people of London and how they felt. London was seen and portrayed as a powerful and wonderful city where the wealthy lived and socialised. However‚ Blake knew that London was really a dirty‚ depressing and poverty-stricken city filled with slums and the homeless and chronically sick. To reveal the truth‚ Blake combines description of people and places with the thoughts and emotions
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