“Before You Were Mine” by Carol Ann Duffy "Before you were mine" is a poem written by a daughter about how she imagines her mother ’s life ten years before the daughter was born. The author describes the photo of her mother with two of her friends. They “shriek at the pavement” and seem to be sharing a joke‚ young and lightsome (line 4). She knows that the thought of having a child one day doesn ’t occur to her mother when she was young and had a lot of dreams. Now remembering her own childhood
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Theme :- Inspiration in "Ode to the West Wind" "When composition begins‚ inspiration is already on the decline" - P. B. Shelley 	Shelley deals with the theme of inspiration in much of his work. However it is particularly apparent in Ode to the West Wind ’ where the wind is the source of his creativity. The cycles of death and rebirth are examined in an historical context with reference to The Bible. The word inspiration has several connotations that Shelley uses in
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Chippendale has personified to become a family of ‘Aunts’‚ ‘eccentric‚ unmarried first cousins’ and ‘respected gentlemen’‚ when Ivy‚ Vine‚ Rose‚ Myrtle‚ Abercrombie‚ Hugo‚ Louis and Caroline are streets in the ‘Mount Druitt’ of Sydney’s CBD in the late fifties and sixties that were filled with factories‚ drunks‚ thieves‚ rapists and vandal’s. Pauses have been used throughout the poem to generate a sense of unrest and dread‚ making ‘Chippendale’ sound more unruly and fearful than it actually is
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Short Essay on Emily Dickinson’s Poem 712 In Emily Dickinson’s poem “Because I could not stop for Death ---“ it deals a woman who basically tells the character Death she is too busy to die‚ but he takes her away with him anyway. Dickinson seems to deal with death time and time again in her poems‚ though she does not always use the same circumstances in each poem. When you read the first stanza it looks as if Death picks up the speaker in a carriage‚ which seems to be the metaphor throughout the
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The Choosing Essay Marianne Lavery The poem “The Choosing” by Liz Lochead deals with problems of growing up and the issue of education through the two central characters‚ Mary and Liz. This poem is about two young girls called Mary and Liz who grew up together living an ordinary life. They were both intelligent and ambitious. They were best friends for years at primary school until they had the chance to go to secondary school and they went their separate ways to start their new lives. Later
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The title of the poem is where I come from and it has been composed by Elizabeth Brewster. This poem is a type of a perverse. The poet’s voice is real because the poet is talking about a real life scenario. In the beginning of the poem the poet is speaking to us nut in the second part of the poem the poet describes her past memories. There is another voice in the poem and it is doing the same. People differ from places to places because people are born in different countries‚ places‚ regions
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What metaphors does Holmes use to describe the ship in stanzas one and two of "Old Ironsides"? Long has it waved on high‚ Beneath it rung the battle shout‚ and burst the cannon’s roar‚ and no more shall feel the victor’s tread. In 1830‚ the 44-gun American warship Constitution‚ the inspiration for "Old Ironsides‚" was scheduled to be scrapped - that is‚ stripped of everything valuable or reasonable. What proposal is put forth by Holmes‚ in the last stanza of his poem? Holmes is saying it would
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A Poison Tree by William Blake - Analysis Over the course of the poem‚ anger is developed as a poisoned tree. In the first three stanzas‚ the metaphor of anger as a tree is developed using imagery that is suggestive of trees. In these stanzas‚ the development of anger from a seed to a tree is shown as it grows‚ it is watered and sunned‚ or nurtured and allowed to thrive‚ and eventually bears fruit‚ “an apple bright.” Consonance is used in one instance to control the tone and mood of the events
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THE SOLITARY REAPER –William Wordsworth A general outline of the poem: Wordsworth‚ as a romantic nature poet gives his deep impression as he hears the song of the reaper in the highlands. The emphasis is on a single girl singing while she is reaping the corn-alone with nature. The poem highlights the emotional intensity of the girl’s song-it is sad‚ melancholic and overwhelming. The impression that the song makes on the poet is conveyed through the images of weary travelers lost in the desert
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Title is French- The Language of Love. Title translates to: ‘The Beautiful Woman Without Mercy/Pity.’ The woman in the poem speaks French and that’s why the knight misunderstands her. The poem has a circular structure‚ repetition of the first knights’ words at the beginning and end of the poem. The first and last stanzas are almost identical. Lots of lines are repeated throughout. Title taken from a medieval poem‚ romanticism celebrated medievalism and its traditions. Written in the form of a Literary
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