In “Strange Fruit” Abel Meeropol protests and raises awareness of the treatment of African Americans in South USA. The song describes the scene of lynching of Black American’s and their resemblance to a fruit hanging from a tree. We also studied the poem “took the children away” by Archie Roach which similarly portrayed a great understanding of the horrific treatment of black people. Roach sings about his personal story of the stolen generation in 1969. Two techniques that were used by both composers
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Thomas Hardy’s “Channel Firing” is a poem written in 1914‚ four months prior to the start of World War 1. This historical context is crucial to understanding the poem as it expresses the dark and sorrowful foreshadowing of the months before the war‚ creating feelings of tension‚ turmoil and unrest. There were‚ at the time‚ many young men who did not share the common unease‚ more so tension turned to excitement‚ turmoil to eagerness and unrest to anticipation. The split between society in the months
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Analysis Of William Blake’s Poems Infant Joy Notes This simple poem is two stanzas of six lines each. The two stanzas each follow an ABCDDC rhyme scheme‚ a contrast to most of Blake’s other poetic patterns. The rhyming words are always framed by the repetition of "thee" at the end of the fourth and sixth lines‚ drawing the reader’s attention to the parent‚ who speaks‚ and his or her concern with the baby. The infant’s words‚ or those imagined by the parent to be spoken by the infant‚ are set
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What do the speakers of Frost’s poems reveal about themselves through the stories they tell? About Repeated items (theme‚ diction) Tone (through diction) Words (genre‚ metaphor‚ simile‚ imagery‚ etc.) Alliteration (sound created) Rhyme (end rhyme- group ideas‚ internal rhyme- strengthen idea + emphasizes‚ masculine rhyme- rhyming syllables are stressed and feminine rhyme- rhyming syllables are unstressed) Rhythm Structure Prosody- technical aspects of a poem i.e. rhyme scheme‚ rhythmic pattern
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them cleverly throughout her poems. ‘Lady Lazarus’ and ‘Daddy’ explore her intimate struggles and how the abandonment and betrayal of masculine figures in her life shaped her views on life and death. Her carefully selected language is crucial in exhibiting her feelings about the oppression of herself as a woman and her demand of dominance over the men around her. The protagonist of ‘Lady Lazarus’ is an allegory of Sylvia Plath herself‚ the suicide attempts in the poem being a reflection of the poet’s
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Through the use of personal pronouns in the final stanza such as ‘my neighbor‚ my land‚ we can’t face the newspapers‚’ Clarke is able to change the viewpoint and make the final line more direct and engaging. This allows the poem to become more personal towards us. The poem portrays many techniques to make us feel empathetic towards the innocent children associated and reveal the gratuitous violence depicted in the human
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in the year 1954. She is a poet‚ documentary film-maker and an artist. Her family moved from Lahore to Glasgow when she was less than year old. Presently she divides her time between London and Mumbai. Her other works includes Purdah and other poems (1988)‚ Post Cards from God (1997)‚ I speak for devil (2001)‚ Terrorist at my table (2006)‚ Leaving foot prints (2009). Dharker is also a documentary film-maker and has scripted and directed over a hundred films and audio-visuals‚ centering on education
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Savannah Frederick Boehringer ENG 102 30 October 2014 Diving into the Wreck Called Life While poems laced with metaphors can be hard to understand‚ reading into them deeper can create an even more beautiful story to be told. Adrienne Rich had a deeper story to tell through her poem “Diving into the Wreck.” Her story was more than scuba diving; it was a story of life and self-discovery while she remained ominous and mysterious; Rich hid behind her metaphors. Upon first reading “Diving into the Wreck”
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Constantly risking absurdity The poem “Constantly Risking Absurdity” by Lawrence Ferlinghetti is a poem where he compares a poem to an acrobat.He starts off by describing how an acrobat risks everything even his life to his audience by walking in a high wire of his own making.What Ferlinghetti means is that an acrobat does everything he can including his most precious values mental and physical to entertain and amaze his audience. He doesn`t care if he makes a fool of himself o even kill himself
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Class Professor Date Use of the Word “Darkness” in “Gretel in Darkness” “Gretel in Darkness‚” a poem by Louise Gluck is an example of a poem revisiting a renowned fable‚ but it gives its readers a new perspective by crediting the important things that happened in the tale. Throughout the four stanzas in this poem‚ it appears that it doesnt have a clear rhyme scheme. Louise Gluck‚ urges the readers of this poem to try to think about fairytales a different way. Therefore‚ she allows the readers to find
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