Kris Nolan Professor Rich Carpenter ENGL 102-12 English Composition II 4/16/12 Decisions at a Crossroad There are many decisions that need to be made in a persons life. Like choosing to spend time hanging out with friends‚ or to spend time studying for exams. The decisions that a person makes are based on their priorities. The person who chooses to hang out with friend values their friendship over their education‚ meanwhile‚ the person who chooses to study for their exams values their education
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Comparing and contrasting essay of Dylan Thomas and A.E. Housman poems Both of the poems‚ “ To an Athlete dying young” and “ Do not go gentle into the night” are referring to the subject of death but show different outlooks and seem to explore the helplessness with growing old and the progress towards death. Although the poems are against death each have a different way of how it should be approached. Both poems show views on how people should deal with death while one sees death as a misfortune
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of other works on classical Greek art‚ and had first-hand exposure to the Elgin Marbles‚ all of which reinforced his belief that classical Greek art was idealistic and captured Greek virtues‚ which forms the basis of the poem. Divided into five stanzas of ten lines each‚ the ode contains a narrator’s discourse on a series of designs on a Grecian urn. The poem focuses on two scenes: one in which a lover eternally pursues a beloved without fulfilment‚ and another of villagers about to perform a sacrifice
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meaning he could be sculpting her cold clay figure or she could have been cold with fear about Pygmalion touching her and giving him a sinister image to the reader‚ straight away providing the reader with a dark concept of the poem. In the next stanza we are informed of how Pygmalion ‘kissed her stone-cool lips’ again she reiterates the cold vibe to the reader giving the poem that negative dark feel to it. We then learn how she ‘lay still as though she had died’ and that ‘he stayed’ which gives
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princess and knight. This poem is a parody on the archetypes that the characters of the painting should have‚ it goes against them completely in a humorous way and using each of the three stanzas from either the dragon’s‚ princess’ or knight’s perspective‚ to go against their respective archetypes. In the first stanza‚ the dragon is portrayed as narcissistic only caring about it appeared‚ even to the point where he “was sorry for the bad publicity”. The repetition of the title showed that the dragon
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first person in the impotent unborn baby to dramatize the fact that it is alive and not given a choice for its life. Each stanza repeats the fact that it has yet live. This set the reader into the speaker’s deepest burden as it reveals its concerns. The poem also uses images associated with pains and fears the speaker faces to communicate its tone of deep depression. The first stanza shows us a child’s nightmare of "bat"‚ "rat" and "ghoul"; followed by equipment of torture such as "walls"‚ "racks" and
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its structure. Rothenberg appears to want to isolate the first stanza from the rest of the poem. At a closer reading‚ the first stanza is concerned with the poet’s thoughts of war‚ while it is taking place‚ whereas the remaining stanzas talk about his feelings on the notion of war‚ irregardless of whether it is occurring or not. This distinction is further enhanced by the language and degree of imagery of the stanzas. Note that in stanza one‚ there is more emphasis on description‚ with the constant
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towards something new. Although obscure at first‚ the second line of the first stanza in Breaking asks “Give us wholeness‚ for we are broken. / But who are we asking‚ and why do we ask?” (Breaking‚ Phyllis Webb). The question of “who” we are asking if referring to God‚ and by asking “who” God is‚ the poet questions his power. This is expanded by the addition of “why do we ask”‚ implying an impotency. The second stanza is ripe with allusions to the Bible‚ attacking “god” immediately in the first verse:
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Morrow"consists of three stanzas which include 7 lines with an ABABCCC rhyme scheme. Donne’s use of figurative language‚ along with the point-of-view and tone of the speaker‚ enhances his poem. Sexual imagery is present in the first stanza with words such as ‘wean’d’ and ‘suck’d’ elicit breast images. These loaded terms also help identify pleasures as a metaphor for breasts. Another example of metaphor is the word ‘beauty’ in line 6‚ which actually represents the woman. In the second stanza‚ there is an example
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This poem named ‘Man of this land’ by Stella P.Bell captures the essence of Indigenous people’s life when men went hunting. In each stanza‚ Bell gives examples of how things were in the past. The producer has shown us her great admiration for her heritage‚ culture and admiration for indigenous Australians through this poem. Poetic devices in a literary text have been used to represent the Indigenous people’s experience and their culture. This poem consists of rhyme‚ imagery and personification which
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