Poetry Across Time: Relationships Sister Maude Content Before we analyse the poem in detail‚ it is important to understand what the poem is about i.e. the main content of the poem. General summary A sibling complains that her sister Maude has revealed details about a private relationship to their parents and has caused the death of the relationship. The speaker is bitter and resentful. Detailed summary Stanza one: The speaker asks who has informed her mother of her ‘shame’
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Before the live scan system was used‚ we used the good old paper and ink method. Contrary to popular belief the ink and paper is used more often than you think. On one of my deployments‚ in Afghanistan we used ink and paper for clearances‚ watch list suspects‚ visas‚ and suspects in an actual attempted murder. We did not have any new technology over there. So we brought almost 100 people to be finger printed by ink and paper. I assure you with that experience I have a new found affection towards
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Poetry analysis: Skunk Hour‚ by Robert Lowell In beginning of "Skunk Hour" (the first four stanzas to be more precise)‚ Robert Lowell gives the sense of a Maine sea town that is slowly declining. For example‚ lines 4 through 6 state the following: "Her farmer / is first selectman in our village; / she’s in her dotage." With the usage of the word "dotage" in line 6‚ it clearly suggests that the condition of Maine is in its declining years. For a better understanding of its poor state‚ stanza
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English Sonnets Essay Poets usually write poems in order to communicate ideas or views to readers. In the two poems‚ “High Flight” (John Gillespie Magee) and “Suburban Sonnet” (Gwen Harwood)‚ the poets are trying to convey their experiences and lives. In the poem‚ “High Flight”‚ the poet uses various techniques such as active verbs‚ imagery‚ personification‚ a metaphor‚ exaggeration‚ alliteration‚ and symbolism in order to portray his joyful experience as he test- flies a new plane. Active verbs
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Sonnet 130 and My Ugly Love Contrast and Comparison Shakespeare’s sonnet 130‚ “My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun” and Pablo Neruda’s “My ugly love” are popularly known to describe beauty in a way hardly anyone would write: through the truth. It’s a common fact that modern lovers and poets speak or write of their beloved with what they and the audience would like to hear‚ with kind and breathtaking words and verses. Yet‚ Shakespeare and Neruda‚ honest men as they both were‚ chose to write
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Hide and Seek How does the poet bring the subject matter “to life” to the reader? The poem shows that the child is just starting out in life‚ and as the poem progresses‚ he learns something new about it; that he is actually vulnerable in the real world. The poet manages to bring the subject matter to life by using a set of language and structure that intensifies the reader’s participation in the poem. As seen‚ the poem consists of only one‚ long stanza‚ which simply creates the vision of a flow
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Poetry Analysis Thesis of There’s a certain Slant of light: Even in the darkest of situations‚ Faith can inspire anyone and guide them to a more stable environment‚ physically and mentally. There’s a certain Slant of light depicts the strength of faith through use of style. One type of style Emily Dickinson uses is her punctuation. Throughout the poem‚ she includes dashes and commas. These dashes and commas force the reader to pause and contemplate what they have just read. One instance of dashes
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O Level Literature – “Horses” by Edwin Muir The titular creatures in “Horses”‚ despite being rather ordinary animals‚ are viewed by the poet as shocking‚ overwhelming‚ and somewhat divine. Every element of these horses is made to look awe-inspring and godlike‚ inciting both reverence and fear in the poet. The opening verse depicts the horses using words like “terrible‚ “wild”‚ and “strange”‚ as well as them being “Like magic power on the stony grange”. Already‚ we are given an idea of how the
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Compare and Contrast the ways in which two Poets create Sympathy for their Characters – ‘On a Portrait of a Deaf Man’ and ‘The River God’. The poems ‘On a Portrait of a Deaf Man’‚ written by John Betjeman and ‘The River God’‚ written by Stevie Smith appear as two very different poems; one in monologue form and the other in a regular form; but they are in fact two very similar poems. ‘On a Portrait of a Deaf Man’ presents a character mourning the death of a deaf man who was very close to him/her
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The main theme of this poem written by Norman MacCaig is Death and Death is something that every single one of us will have to face one day because it is also written in the bible that God said from the Garden of Eden That from the dust you were made from the dust you shall return so this means as long as we are human beings we WILL face Death some day of our lives and this poem is a very good example of that kind of situation‚ Norman has also used different types of techniques to convey his feelings
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