EXPLICATING A POEM [pic]In order to explicate or give a detailed literary analysis of a poem‚ it is useful to ask the following questions. You do not necessarily have to follow this order. 1. What is the literal sense of the poem? • Can it be broken down into sentences? • What is the meaning of each sentence? • How could the poem be paraphrased: restated in prose form? • In what ways is the poem different from a prose paraphrase? 2. What is the diction of
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The stronger the passion‚ the more bitter it’s effects The Duchess of Malfi and John Donne’s poetry there is much passion involved‚ there are often bitter endings when the passion is introduced‚ there are also occasions where the ending is not bitter‚ but remains happy. There are also occasions‚ mainly in the poetry where the tone is bitter nit the ending. The Duchess and Antonio‚ in The Duchess of Malfi‚ have a very passionate relationship‚ in that they’re passionate about each other‚ however
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Summary of the Poem Stanza 1 .......Old men feel out of place in a land where everything heralds new life: young men with their nubile women‚ singing and cooing birds‚ spawning salmon and mackerel. Throughout the summer‚ animals and fish bring forth new generations. When life is busy reproducing itself‚ it neglects old men‚ whose bodies are nothing but monuments of what used to be--although their intellects do not age. Stanza 2 .......An old man is little more than wrinkled‚ drooping skin hanging
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“Humans are inflicting more and more damage on the environment.” Thesis Statement The human activities that inflicting and damage on the environment are deforestation‚ improper waste disposal and over-exploitation of marine life. Introduction Many disasters and diseases happen recently to cause great suffer to human race and all living things on our environment. In fact‚ the human activities are the main factor that cause the happen of the disaster and diseases. The human activities that inflicting
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Dickinson’s poem “510: It was not Death‚ for I stood up‚” explores the uncertainties of Death. The speaker attempts to define or understand her own condition to unwrap the cause of her suffering. The use of extended metaphor is utilized as the speaker uses the term “death” and that her life and state of mind‚ to her‚ resembles nothing other than death itself. The dominant effect would be the feeling of despair as the speaker represents this by saying “As if my life were shaven‚ / and fitted to a
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death shall all the world subdew‚ Our love shall live‚ and later life renew." By Edmund Spencer The poem by Edmund Spenser is a poem of true love. What this poem is basically trying to describe is that when you love someone or something that love does not have to end. Love is eternal and in this case it will last into what the author believes to be heaven. The central purpose of this poem is to make one realize that our lives are not forever‚ our relationships are not forever‚ but love is. Love
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Comparative Stylistic Analysis of a Poem Submitted to: Mrs. Daisy O. Casipit Submitted by: Lovely Anne B. Unquida (BSEd3-3) October 2013 Easter Wings by George Herbert Lord‚ who createdst man in wealth and store‚ Though foolishly he lost the same‚ Decaying more and more‚ Till he became Most poore: With thee Oh let me rise As larks‚ harmoniously‚ And sing this day thy victories: Then shall the fall further the flight
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attack on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The usage of the atomic bomb was effective‚ but at the same time devastating and unnecessary. The United States should not have dropped the atomic bomb because it maimed countless of Japanese civilians‚ caused radiation poisoning whose effects impacted future generations‚ left both cities in ruins‚ left citizens homeless‚ and it was absolutely unmoral for the United States to have created such havoc and chaos in these two cities. Being there on the day Hiroshima was struck
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The most significant theme in John Hersey’s book "Hiroshima" are the long- term effects of war‚ confusion about what happened‚ long term mental and physical scars‚ short term mental and physical scars‚ and people being killed. The confusing things after the A-bomb was dropped on Hiroshima where that the city had been wiped out‚ all means of communication where gone‚ all the roads and street signes where wiped out‚ destroyed or blocked by collapsed buildings " saw through the darkness that all
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John Hersey’s book on Hiroshima was telling the story of six survivors of Hiroshima. In this book‚ John descripies into great detail of what these six people were doing the day of the bombing that ended World War 2 and how they survived the atomic bomb. Miss Toshinki Sasaki‚ Dr. Masakazu Fujii‚ Mrs. Hatsuyo Nakamura‚ Father Wilhelm Kleinsorge‚ Dr. Terufumi Sasaki and Reverend Mr. Kiyoshi Tanimoto where the six survivors that Mr. Hersey writes about in his story. These six people were among many other
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