Queen or Victim‚ the Duality of Female Authority and Oppression. Plath’s first poem in her venerable bee sequence‚ The Bee Meeting‚ offers fertile insight into the speaker of the poem’s struggle to adopt a voice in society and begs the ultimate question about women’s capacity to successfully break the chains of conformity. Plath’s multi-pronged approach addresses the poem’s persona’s confrontation with many social dichotomies. The most basic example of this duality is the fact that the speaker
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Margret Atwood’s poem “This is a photo graph of me” is written in 1st person of someone describing a picture of him or herself drowned in a lake.xnt The poem depicts the narrator loosing a part of him or herself. There appears to be only one character and a narrator. The poem is set in Canada. Atwood use a passive and cheerful tone. The tone then shifts to a more somber regretful medium in the bracketed stanzas. This mood is to then convey how the picture should be viewed‚ a nice wooden house
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The poem ‘Building with its Face Blown Off’ directly portrays the results of a catastrophe after being hit by a detrimental bomb. The poet describes the situation through displaying specific scenes of the damage done throughout the poem. The poem vividly conveys the destruction caused through the utilization of personification‚ impactful contrast‚ unique enjambment and the boldness of the final stanza. In result of incorporating these elements‚ the poet achieves to deliver the intended message to
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In The poems "The Burning Truck" and "Widower in the Country" Murray uses imagery‚ metaphors and personification to enhance the impact of the poems on the reader. "The Burning Truck". The Poem is about war and shows how it can bring out the most primitive emotions out of people. The Poem also shows that during war time regular laws do not exist but a different set of wartime rules and the war will continue. The Title of the Poem‚ The burning truck gives the reader a strong image of a truck which
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PERSONAL SPACE Still I Rise While taking the class Women in Contemporary Literature we read‚ discussed‚ and analyzed a number of historical works‚ poems‚ and essays by women authors of the present and past. The work that impressed me‚ and touched my spirit the most was a poem written by Maya Angelou entitled‚ "Still I Rise". This poem is in essence an autobiography of‚ and personal extension of Ms. Angelou’s soul. Moreover‚ there are many lines‚ words‚ language choices‚ and word choices that demonstrate
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bipartite division into the octave and the sestet: the octave consisting of a first division of eight lines rhyming abbaabba and the sestet‚ or second division‚ consisting of six lines rhyming cdecde‚ cdccdc‚ or cdedce. On this twofold division of the Italian sonnet Charles Gayley notes: "The octave bears the burden; a doubt‚ a problem‚ a reflection‚ a query‚ an historical statement‚ a cry of indignation or desire‚ a Vision of the ideal. The sestet eases the load‚ resolves the problem or doubt
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clearly different parts. The first part‚ of eight lines‚ is known as the octave. The second part‚ of six lines‚ is known as the sestet. ‘Nothing is so beautiful as spring’ is the first line of the poem. This line clearly summarises the meaning of the first eight lines or octave of the poem ‘Spring’. A lot of this part of the poem‚ the octave‚ is easier to understand than the sestet. In the octave‚ Hopkins mentions many of the details of spring that impress him. He gives a series of images one after the
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DRAMA >.a composition in prose or verse presenting in dialogue or pantomime a story involving conflict or contrast of character‚ especially one intended to be acted on the stage; a play. >.the branch of literature having such compositions as its subject; dramatic art or representation. >.the art dealing with the writing and production of plays. >.any situation or series of events having vivid‚ emotional‚ conflicting‚ or striking interest or results: the drama of a murder trial . 1. a
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displays the illogical nature of love‚ as Millay employs the rhyme scheme of a Shakespearean Sonnet with 14 lines of rhymed iambic pentameter‚ but also uses the structure of a Petrarchan Sonnet with the first octet offering a situation and the following sestet providing a resolution. The first octet presents Millay’s opinion on how love is unnecessary for survival and yet people are committing suicide for lack of love. Her argument is logical and uses the repetition of “not” and “nor” to prove her point
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and describes the magnificent sun rise over London. His thoughts and feelings are displayed in the form of a Petrarchan sonnet‚ with the “Abba cod did” rhyme scheme‚ and the eight-lined octave which sets the scenario of the poem‚ and the six-lined sestet which responds and contains a bit of his opinion. Through this form‚ we are able to grasp its message more effectively as the content is more compact in the limitations of the rules of the sonnet‚ and the theme is therefore more intense. By using
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