In William Yeats’ The Second Coming‚ the speaker shows his recognition of the degeneration of the world and turns the traditional biblical allusion of the Second Coming upside-down to incarnate his fear of what that degeneration might cause. The speaker imagines that the frightening state of current affairs will lead to a second coming of the messiah which will be far more gruesome than the first. The speaker uses figurative language and paradox in the first stanza to describe the injustice in the
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Poetry Commentary: The Wild Swans at Coole by Yeats The Wild Swans at Coole by William Butler Yeats is‚ as the title suggests‚ a poem about a flock of Swans inhabiting the lake at Augusta Gregory ’s Coole Park residence. However‚ the theme of the poem is change and unrequited love‚ presumably inspired by the transformation Europe‚ and Yeats himself‚ underwent in the late 1800s and early 1900s. The poem is written in a consistently contemplative and plaintive tone‚ and it seems the poet is experiencing
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similarities and differences between two Ballads‚ Charlotte Dymond and John Lomas. Charlotte Dymond and John Lomas‚ are two poems which share several techniques. They also‚ however are different in many ways. This essay will explore their similarities and their differences and explain reasons why the two ballads are different or similar. For example‚ both poems have a theme of murder. Ballads normally have a sad or shocking story‚ so this is very common. In both poems the murderer is always hanged after
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“First Poem for You” is a poem by written by Kim Addonizio‚ an American poet. This poem “First Poem for You” is a closed-form poem but written as an English sonnet. The poem a person who loves the tattoos in his or her lover’s skin. At the same time the tattoos scares him or her by their permanence. The thoughtfulness and the depth of details expressed in this poem makes us conclude that the persona or speaker in this poem is a female. The speaker is certain about the permanence of the tattoos on
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this tumultuous period‚ two great American writers captured their ideas in poetry. Their poems give us insight into the time period‚ as well as universal insight about life. Although polar opposites in personality‚ Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman created similar poetry. Dickinson ’s "Hope is a Thing with Feathers" and Whitman ’s "O Captain! My Captain!" share many qualities. <br> <br>"Hope is a Thing with Feathers" and "O Captain! My Captain!" contain a similar scansion. Both have a predominantly iambic
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the significance of the insignificant characters in paintings. The speaker in the poem is that figure painted behind/beside the subjects of artworks‚ where he/it speaks out of its existence to us: in the form of a wing‚ a squire‚ a distant figure or part of a crowd. This insignificant character reflects upon several scenes he/it has stood in‚ such as the two slaughter of Innocents (i.e. the murder of infants from both Old and New Testament Bibles)‚ and settings such as ’the Garden ’ (of Eden). The
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Comparison and Contrast of Sappho’s Poems with Egyptian Love Poems The ideas of love in the Egyptian love poems are almost similar to Sappho’s idea of love‚ but there is a difference in the way they approach it. In the Egyptian love poem‚ love is portrayed more erotic and passionate and the reader sees things from both the male and female’s point of view while in Sappho’s poetry‚ love is more romantic and passionate and talks more about the deeper feelings of the characters. Egyptian love poems
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Wars inspired many writers to write poems during and after the wars. Some poets fought during World War I and World War II. We can define a war poet as person who participates in war and writes about his experiences. The war poems I read from WWI and WWII are kind of related. In this essay I will do a comparison of two different poems from each world war. "Wirers” is a World War I poem about a soldier that was going to fight at WWI. The soldier had to overcome many obstacles to get to a barbed wire
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Comparison of Robert Burns ’ "A Red‚ Red Rose" and Christina Rosetti ’s "A Birthday" Though the subject of both Robert Burns ’ "A Red‚ Red Rose" and Christina Rosetti ’s "A Birthday" is love‚ the tone‚ diction‚ and form of each underline the different themes. The theme of the Burns poem is the beautiful ardency of the lover saying farewell to his love‚ while the Rosetti poem focuses on the joyous feelings of lovers being reunited. Both poems convey love as an emotion that transcends the immediate
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of poems they think of a kind of love poem‚ in truth poems can be about anything‚ good or bad. These poems all develop a main or central idea over the course of the poem‚ and in some cases over the course of multiple poems‚ each with a different main idea‚ but are based off of‚ and use the stories of other poems to develop there own point. One such poem is by a man named William Carlos Williams‚ he wrote the poem "Raleigh was Right"‚ which was based off of‚ and a response to two other poems. These
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