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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The poem Father and Child written by Gwen Harwood involves a devilish young girl misusing her father’s gun without permission to shoot an owl. The poem starts off with the time of day “Daybreak” and “the household slept”. This tells the audience the start of the poem took place at dawn. “A horny fiend‚ I crept out with my father’s gun.” A horny fiend states that the poet feels somewhat evil and devilish. The poem takes place outside the supervision from the poet’s father stating “Let him dream
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‘Harry Wood’ Pun – explain both meanings 1) What evidence is there in the first stanza of Harry Wood’s struggle for survival? Harry Wood’s struggle for survival is clearly revealed in the first stanza through the use of the pun “digging his way out of poverty” as he literally worked hard in the “mines” and metaphorically worked extremely hard to earn money to climb the social hierarchy from the bottom of social class “mines” to a reasonable position “foreman’s place” 2) What does the
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of the most significant sonnets of this epoch‚ focuses on the relationship of beauty and time. The message is successfully conveyed through the careful use of structure and poetic devices. This particular poem is made up of two quatrains and two tercets‚ of which often provide the conclusion of the argument developed in the quatrain. Each line contains eleven syllables making this sonnet hendecasyllable which is Italian in origin and was widely used in the early modern period. Like most sonnets
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“The Waking” by Theodore Roethke are two poems that relate directly to the speaker. Although both poems share this similarity‚ the way in which both works or literature are constructed are vastly different. Plath uses visual imagery and poetical tercets to show the pain and suffering of the speaker in her poem‚ while Roethke uses the musical Villanelle and synesthesia to create his picture of the speaker’s inner thoughts and a sense of awakening. When reading the poem “Lady Lazarus” for the first
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’Forget Not Yet’ Summary The poem is written as five quatrains‚ with a rhyming tercet followed by a fourth line repeated as a refrain throughout the song. Lines 1-4 In the first four lines‚ the poet asks for the audience not to overlook his intention to reach meaning and truth‚ and to consider the great efforts he has willingly made. The fourth line refrain ‘Forget not yet’ emphasizes this request. Lines 5-8 The request here is for the audience not to forget when they first began this tired
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“Convergence of the Twain” Section 1: Poetry Terms Both of these poems are written in free verse. That is‚ they have no established poetic forms to them. “Titanic” is written in three tercets‚ one quatrain‚ and ends with a single line stanza. “Convergence of the Twain” is more structured; it is written evenly into eleven tercets. Both poems seem to have a good mix of enjambment and end stopped lines. That is‚ in both poems‚ some of sentences stop at the end of the line‚ while others go on to the next line
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The poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins is recognized by critics as some of the most influential and powerful religious poetry in all of history. At the young age of fifteen he won the Highgate School Poetry prize and two years later received the Governor ’s Gold Medal for Latin Verse (website). However‚ despite this early recognition‚ he published very few poems over the course of his life‚ with the majority of his poetry being published posthumously. This can lead one to infer that his poetry was
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Petrarchan sonnet (puh TRAHR kun) a fourteen line sonnet consisting of two parts: the octave‚ eight lines with the rhyme scheme abbaabba‚ and the sestet‚ six lines usually with the rhyme scheme cdecde the octave often poses a question or dilemma that the sestet answers or resolves‚ beginning with a turn‚ also known as a volta also referred to as an Italian sonnet Example: Whoso list to hunt‚ I know where is an hind! But as for me‚ alas‚ I may no more; The vain travail hath
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"Ode to the West Wind": An Examination of Poetic Devices The poem‚ "Ode to the West Wind" was written in the year 1819 by famous Romantic poet‚ Percy Bysshe Shelley. The poem illustrates to the reader Shelley’s struggle to find transcendence‚ for he believes that his thoughts‚ like the "winged seeds / Each like a corpse within it grave" (7-8)‚ are trapped. It is vitally important to Shelley that his words be set free and spread so that they can inspire political change in Europe‚ particularly in
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