Sophomore English October 9‚ 2014 “Death Be Not Proud” Response Paper “Death Be Not Proud” by John Donne opens with the lines “Death‚ be not proud‚ though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful‚ for thou are not so” which means that Death must think he’s a really big deal‚ and the speaker is trying to tell him that even though other people might think he’s scary‚ he really isn’t. It goes on to say “For those whom thou think’st thou dost overthrow Die not‚ poor Death‚ nor yet canst thou kill me.” Here
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Anna Sidhu September 26‚ 2010 Unit 1 – Lesson 1.1 – 1.11 Aunt Poem Literary Response After reading the poem Aunt by Al Young the inference I can make about the aunt’s personality is that she is not afraid to express her emotions whether those feelings are of happiness or anger‚ out going‚ and a generally happy positive person. The reason I know that she is not afraid to express her feelings is from the line in that poem “O & her anger realer than gasoline slung into fire” and “She
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The poem that I reviewed this week is called‚ “The Death Spread” by Tyler Brewington and I found it on versedaily.org on 5/09/16. In summary‚ this poem is about death and the uncomfortable yet beautiful images it can invoke. While reading this poem I had to reread several lines over and over again simply because I liked them so much. A few lines that stood out to me were‚ “The skeleton of a calf’s been wrapped around a pipe”‚ “A yolk slides down the drain”‚ and “You drive into the Wyoming part
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"If I Could Change The World" "What would you do if you could change the world?" is not an easy question to answer for some people. There are endless answer to that question because there are endless ways to change the world. Everyone has a different vision of how they think the world should be. But now I am going to let you in on a little sneek-peek on my vision of how the world should really be. First of all whenever it rains‚ dollars would fall out of the sky. It would snow in the
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Death comes unexpectedly‚ yet there is always comfort in familiar places‚ and in death it’s self. The speaker’s response to the death of the toad is revealed using the formal elements of structure‚ diction and imagery. The structure of the poem helps to show the speaker’s response to the death. The poems structure is laid out in steps; first with the cutting of the toad’s leg‚ “A toad the power mower caught‚ chewed and clipped of a leg.” Secondly‚ with the laying under the cineraria leaves‚ “With
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POETRY – Poems about Love DIRECTIONS: Discuss the attitude/tone of the poem and the theme in your small groups. Afterward‚ write down your conclusions regarding the tone and theme of poems about a similar subject. |“The Quiet World” |“Flirtation” |“Song: To Celia |“love is more thicker than forget” |“Neutral Tones” | | |
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Jaclyn Mallan-King May 28‚ 2012 The Multiple Dimensions of Beauty "She Walks in Beauty‚" is a lyric poem that focuses on the true beauty both described outwardly and inwardly as seen by the narrator. George Gordon Byron (more commonly known as Lord Byron) describes this woman in detail regarding her character and her physical looks in order to emphasize her beauty. The title of this poem gives the reader an inclination that the description of this woman is not going to be described one dimensionally
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Allegra Borges Mr. Cunic American Literature Honors 801 20 September 2013 Prompt: Think about the major Puritan beliefs as you re-read this poem. What philosophical beliefs about God and the purpose of human life are reflected in Bradstreet’s poem? In the poem “The Burning of Our House‚” author Anne Bradstreet wakes up in the middle of the night to discover that her house has caught on fire. Anne Bradstreet was a woman born into a family of Puritans and then married a Puritan man. Being of Puritan
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Response to Death Be Not Proud of John Donne The poem Death Be Not Proud‚ by John Donne‚ is a typical “Holly Sonnet”. In these poems‚ he spent a lot of effort in looking into his “inner self”‚ expressing his attitude towards religion and life. In this poem‚ Donne stresses man’s superior over death in particular by using a series of poetic elements. The sonnet is written in Petrarchan sonnet form with fourteen lines iambic pentameter; the first eight lines are octave‚ while others are sestet. It
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Comparing Poems about Death Felicia Farmer ENG125: Introduction to Literature Ashley Dornbusch 8/6/2012 The two poems “Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night” written by Dylan Thomas and “Dog’s Death” written by John Updike are very good poems to compare and contrast to each other. They are both about losing someone who is important to you. One is about losing a pet and the other about a person. In “Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night” the author is trying to convince his father to
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