"The Funeral" Ten words or allusions: dissolution: the action of bringing to an end; the state of being ended humility: the quality of being humble‚ humbleness‚ meekness idolatry: excessive devotion to or veneration for a person or thing; adoration manacled: fetter or confine‚ bind‚ restrain martyr: a person who undergoes death or great suffering on behalf of any religious or other cause‚ or as a consequence of devotion to some object provinces: a principle administrative division of certain
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(from a variety of sources) Metaphysical Poetry Metaphysical poetry arose as a reaction to the extremes of Petrarchism; one problem with Petrarchan poems is a kind of predictability-the conceit is found‚ presented‚ & elaborated‚ but there are few subsequent surprises. Donne and his followers like to catch us off-guard‚ change direction‚ etc.‚ to foil expectations. Metaphysical poetry is‚ in general‚ characterized by its ingenuity‚ intellectuality‚ and frequent obscurity. In terms of subject matter
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Poem Explication Poetry is one of the oldest arts. Poems come in many forms from songs‚ ballads‚ and epics‚ to haikus. Many poets use elements like similes‚ metaphors‚ personification‚ rhymes‚ and imagery to get their themes or meanings across to the reader. In the poem “Schizophrenia”‚ Jim Stevens uses personification of the house to give the poem its overall meaning. Personification and symbolism are the most important poetic elements to “Schizophrenia” because they are used to describe how the
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Classical Chinese Poetry Re-Created as English Poetry1 Roslyn Joy Ricci Centre for Asian Studies University of Adelaide Introduction The well-known Robert Frost2 witticism that poetry is what disappears in translation ’ is only valid if poetic translation aims to produce a perfect re-creation of the original‚ ’3 however‚ I suggest that successful translators re-create poetry in another language as opposed to translating it into a second language.4 The aim of re-creating poetry is to attempt
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Continuum The moon rolls over the roof and falls behind my house‚ and the moon does neither of these things‚ I am talking about myself. It’s not possible to get off to sleep or the subject or the planet‚ nor to think thoughts. Better barefoot it out the front. door and lean from the porch across the privets and the palms into the washed-out creation‚ a dark place with two particular bright clouds dusted (query) by the moon‚ one’s mine the other’s an adversary‚ which may depend on the
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POETRY POEM. N. AN ARRANGEMENT OF WORDS WRITTEN OR SPOKEN‚ TRADITIONALLY A RHYTHMICAL COMPOSITION‚ SOMETIMES RHYMED‚ EXPRESSING EXPERIENCES‚ IDEAS‚ OR EMOTIONS IN A STYLE MORE CONCENTRATED‚ IMAGINATIVE‚ AND POWERFUL THAN THAT OF ORDINARY SPEECH OR PROSE: SOME POEMS ARE IN METER‚ SOME IN FREE VERSE. A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom. – ROBERT FROST PROSE…words in their best order. POETRY…the best words in the best order. – SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with
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Kendra Hamilton Block 5 Mrs. Hodges 15 December 2015 Langston Hughes “Harlem” Poetry Explication The most obvious quality of Langston Hughes’ "Harlem" is the poem’s use of imagery. The imagery in this poem contributes to the image of the frustrating times of how dreams end up for African Americans during this time period. The speaker in the poem describes the fate of a dream being “deferred.” Langston Hughes uses several analogies to describe the image of a dream that might have happened but didn’t
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John Lewis Partnership Strategic Analysis APPENDIX (A) | Vision-Employee co—ownership with the happiness of partners as the ultimate purpose. (1) | Mission-Satisfying employment in a successful business. (1) | Value-Best possible choice‚ quality‚ trust‚ value and customers services. (1) | Corporate objectives-achieve success for John Lewis for building sustainable business for the long term‚ generating partnership value through consistent profitable growth‚ whilst marketing sure that
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Unseen Poetry (Road 1940 by Sylvia Townsend Warner) a. The poet begins each stanza by ‘she said’ to convey to the reader about the woman’s feelings like in the first stanza ‘Who do I carry‚ she said‚ This child that is no child of mine’ showing her bewilderment as to why she picked up the child. The use of ‘she’ indicates the poem is written in a third person perspective‚ which is striking‚ as the reader knows only the thoughts and feelings of the woman‚ while other characters such as the child
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Poetry is an unusually polarizing form of literature. While many are elated by it‚ others could not care less about it. To me‚ I always considered myself to be one of the latter. However‚ now that I have been given the opportunity to select poems I admire instead of being forced to know a poem‚ I have started to really enjoy certain aspects of poetry. The poems I chose for my anthology were ones that I had an instant connection with‚ but also had a deeper meaning. The five poems I selected were
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