To analyze a poem stylistically‚ we can analyze the poetic device‚ which is usually deviation and foregrounding‚ that the poet used in the poem. The term foregrounding refers to an effect brought about in the reader by linguistic or other forms of deviation in the literary text (Leech‚ 1985).In poem‚ devices of foregrounding and deviation are always used to draw reader’s attention and impress the readers. In the aspect of deviation and foregrounding‚ there are some perspectives on the nature of poetic
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Jeet Patel Period-6 How is Technology changing the world‚ and what are you doing in order to adjust to those changes? Us humans have came long way since the stone ages. We have made many extraordinary inventions and explorations. The world we live in now is nothing like the world it was before‚ that is because of technology. Technology has reshaped the way we socialize ‚ the way we prepare our kids for their careers and most importantly the way that we live our everyday lives. Technology
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The rest of the song allows a closer look into the religious beliefs of the writer. “I hear Jerusalem bells a-ringing / Roman cavalry choirs are singing / Be my mirror‚ my sword and shield / My missionaries in a foreign field.” Chris hearing the bells and choirs symbolizes his acceptance of faith or religion in a way he did not accept it before. After the loss he went through‚ it seems as though he has found religion as a way to cope. The mirror‚ sword‚ and shield also symbolize his newfound faith
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What I Have Lived for ---Bertrand Russell Three passions‚ simple but overwhelmingly strong‚ have governed my life: the longing for love‚ the search for knowledge‚ and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. These passions‚ like great winds‚ have blown me hither and thither‚ in a wayward course‚ over a deep ocean of anguish‚ reaching to the verge of despair. I have sought love‚ first‚ because it brings ecstasy --- ecstasy so great that I would have sacrificed all the rest of life for a few
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Analysis of the poem‚ “Still I Rise” Maya Angelou’s poem‚ “Still I Rise” may contain different meanings depending on the reader who interprets it. It is a poem that talks about keeping one’s head up no matter how hard the situation they come from and not being affected by the problems on the side. Maya Angelou was part of a generation wherein the black race was still seen as “inferior”. During that time‚ the “truth” is usually kept hidden favoring the more superior groups of people. Hence‚ the
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The poem‚ “Why I am Not a Painter”‚ by Frank O’Hara contains the various terminology that is used by Bartholomae‚ Petrosky‚ and Waite. The specific language that is used by O’Hara contains a tone that can be described as prosaic or conversational. For example‚ instead of the narrator “visiting” Mike Goldberg‚ the narrator just drops in to see the progress of Goldberg’s painting. The author also says that Sardines is removed due to the fact that “it was too much.” O’Hara’s word usage is very similar
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Grading myself Final Grade Technique 10 I drew a grid on both the Plexiglas and the paper as directed. I then accurately transferred the image on the Plexiglas to the drawing paper. The shapes of the hand and fingers are close to the shapes of my hand. 10 points: I did an excellent copy of the image on the Plexiglas. 7 points: I followed directions for the most part. 5 points: I was kind of sloppy and did not really care. 9 Composition 20 I created an interesting composition that looks
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Irfan Khan 260215802 September 3rd‚ 2009 Mime 221 If by Robert Kupling Analysis Robert Kupling addresses the qualities which adhere to manhood in this poem If‚ wherein he identifies certain specific criteria as metaphors for achieving things desired in life. The poem consists of four verses‚ each eight lines long. Each specific verse held in it a very different interpretation in responsibility‚ and each prose deals with a separate yet equally important detail that one would need to encounter
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1 The poem I selected is called “I Hear America Singing” by Walt Whitman. The major theme I could find was how he could hear all the noises that go on around him in America and he compares the noises to singing. Some of the figurative language I saw was personification‚ metaphors‚ and repetition‚ which all help to show his meaning in this poem.The first figurative language I saw was personification. This was seen when he says that he couldhear America singing and how things belong to the day and
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When time passes‚ things are forgotten. People who have achieved great things eventually drift away. But what if soon after their peak of glory they die. Would the memory of them and their glory live on longer? In the lryic poem "To an Athlete Dying Young" by A.E. Houseman the narrator shows how dying young and at the peak of your glory is better then living to be forgotten. The setting of the poem is in a town and cemetery in nineteenth-century England during the funeral and burial of a young athlete
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