Spring offensive; by Wilfred Owens focuses on the uselessness for war. There is a striking contrast between the first and last few stanzas‚ as in the beginning all is calm‚ slow and pleasant. From the 5th stanza onwards‚ there is a sudden change from the serene environment‚ to an outbreak of activity. The poem starts off with peace and tranquility. ’Lying easy‚ were at ease and finding comfortable chests and knees‚ Carelessly slept.’ However even this early in the passage the last two lines connote
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Richard Wilbur’s use of imagery in the poem helps us to understand his purpose of this poem. The stanzas in the poem paint two completely pictures in your head when you read them. The first stanza makes you see the snowman as a blue object that is always lonely. The second stanza paints the picture of the snowman’s view of the little child who is sad about something that he does not understand. In the first stanza‚ the poem is showing how the little boy sees the snowman “standing all alone” and “returns
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This poem by A.E Houseman is an eight-stanza poem with a rhyme scheme of ABCB. It is about a man struggling with his uneasy conscience. The narrator/speaker has a conversation with his dead friend‚ where he imagines what his friend would ask him‚ and then gives his response. The punctuation of the poem indicates who’s speaking. In every odd stanza‚ which are surrounded by quotation marks‚ his deceased friend is asking him questions. Conversely‚ In every even stanza‚ which do not have quotation marks
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poem provides a window onto a new perspective of war poetry that of the female point of view. In the first stanza the writer uses repetition in the poem to create a feeling of hopelessness‚ see in the recurrence of ‘and’‚ as every day seems the same. The use of the adverb ‘Perhaps’ at the beginning of each stanza shows the uncertainty of a future without your loved ones. At the end of each stanza there is a emphasis of ‘You’ which makes it clear that it is a source of grief and this is made even more
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person lyrical narrative makes the title figure unable to linguistically control her own poem. The refrain is the only part within the poem in which Mariana is able to speak out directly to the reader as well as the only form of dialogue: in the first stanza‚ line’s 9-12 “’My life is dreary/He cometh not’ she said:/She said‚ ‘I am aweary‚ aweary‚ I would that I were dead!” Her desperation is evident to the reader‚ and ‘she said’ being written in past tense is significant since we are left wondering of
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with pleads from his son to hold on to life. In the last stanza‚ the son as well as the father accepts death as merely a part of living. 	Furthermore‚ the repetitious last lines serve to strengthen the speaker’s thoughts. In the first‚ third‚ and fifth stanzas‚ the last lines match each other; in the second and fourth stanzas‚ the final lines match. The final stanza combines the last lines from the odd and even-numbered stanzas for an additional line. This portrays the ongoing war between
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Hospital. It is very likely that he would have seen lots of soldiers pass through his ward with severe injuries such as missing limbs. Contrasts Throughout the poem there are many examples of contrast or juxtaposition in a majority of the stanzas. In the first stanza the veteran is sitting all alone in his wheelchair with his legs amputated. Owen describes the boys playing in the park. These boys are a direct juxtaposition to the veteran because they are able to run around and he is not able to‚ and
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applied to the scenery‚ along with the red wheelbarrow and white chickens. Although initially the reader sees the four stanzas separately‚ it’s not until further analysis of the poem that one starts to realize that each word plays a critical role in capturing the scenery that Williams paints for the reader. Through the use of imagery‚ symbolism
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stresses that in the beginning we all look forward to the future. Nicholson uses the seasons and the times of the day to show different stages of life. E.g.:Stanza 2‚ here‚ spring symbolizes youth and freshness - "It was the season after blossoming‚ before the forming of the fruit. .. " (lines 14 and 15) Different times of the day are shown in stanza 3‚ lines 20 and 21 - "Not day‚ but rising night." The evening symbolizes old age. Norman Nicholson also uses the metaphor of developing fruit to compare
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years gone by. We can discover that there is an ambiguous‚ harmonious tone‚ which is accentuated by its structure and rhyme. It also insists of rich imagery that creates a vivid picture for audiences. It is a relatively short poem that has only three stanzas‚ but Lawrence conveys the main theme of ambiguous， bitterness and sweetness of nostalgia simply and honestly. D.H. Lawrence structures the poem with a simple rhyming scheme‚ using this rhyming pattern to mimic the form of a song. Because the music
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