The Convergence of the Twain Rewrite Intimated in Hardy’s pindaric ode entitled "The Convergence of the Twain" is an attitude of melancholy. While this poem is sad‚ it appears that Hardy also employs his work to revisit a common theme in his works and a strong belief in his life: marriage. The poem seems to carry the metaphor of marriage and the metonymy of the Titanic. Then later demonstrating the sundering of this idea. It is no secret that Hardy does not agree with marriage. In another
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Tension to Attention: Tradition Vs. Modernity in Rene Estela Amper’s “Letter to Pedro‚ U.S. Citizen‚ Also Called Pete” By examining the tension embedded within its lines‚ “Letter to Pedro‚ U.S. Citizen‚ Also Called Pete” by Rene Estela Amper sends us into the tug war between tradition and modernity. As the persona reveals to his addressee‚ Pete‚ old friend‚ There isn’t really much change In our hometown since you left. he actually heralds the changes in their hometown. The label “Pete” used
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The first stanza of this poem illustrates life is a lonely cycle‚ and as a child Young-Lee learned to be hopeful for a better future. Lee Young-Lee is left alone as a child. This loneliness is reflected through the verb tense of words within the first stanza‚ for example the word ‘alone’ comes before ‘time’ which suggests that Young-Lee as a human being is alone‚ but in time he is also alone because even if he has his parents for some time in his life‚ he will eventually have to live life independently
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My focus will be on the relationship between Unoka and Okonkwo. I chose that topic because it is interesting to find out how father and son can differ in so many ways. Eventhough they are directly blood related‚ Unoka and Okonkwo have a very different characteristic. Unoka the father was a very lazy and wasteful man‚ while Okonkwo is everything Unoka was not. Many people have been asking the same question on this strange matter since they are more familiar with the saying ‘like father‚ like son’
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Poetry Analysis Research: Elizabeth Bishop “One Art” One Art by Elizabeth Bishop is a villanelle poem. A villanelle poem is a nineteen line poem that consists of five‚ three-line stanza followed by a quatrain. Bishop’s poem brings a fascinating irony between different levels of losses. Between each stanza‚ the development of trivial losses escalates into a bigger and traumatic loss that was unprepared for. An intense repetition of the phrase “the art of losing isn’t hard to master” suggests a few
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Jirawoot Sararit (B.A. English & Linguistics) 1st Class Honors‚ SWU‚ Thailand Success Is Counted Sweetest Success Is Counted Sweetest is a well-known poem written by Emily Dickinson in 1859. It is obviously seen that the message of the poem is that people who do not succeed are those who truly understand success for what it is (Cummings‚ 2013). In other words‚ deprivation can lead to greater understanding and appreciation of what people lack. This paper is composed of three points
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Response to Schoolsville My first thoughts after reading Schoolsville‚ by Billy Collins‚ as a whole‚ were of the movie {proof}. {proof} is about a mathematician who‚ as he grew older‚ slowly lost his mind. After reading the first few stanzas I thought either the person in the poem is Schizophrenic or simply reminiscing. However‚ when I came upon the second to last stanza‚ I understood the story. The second to last stanza reads; Needless to say‚ I am the mayor. I live in the white colonial
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In the poem "Bredon Hill"‚ the author described life on and around Bredon Hill in the early 20th century. He explains how he and his lover spend many of their Sunday mornings on Bredon Hill listening to the church bells ring through the valleys. As the poem progresses‚ we find out that his lover died and the later part of the poem describes the sorrow and loss of his lover. In the first two stanzas‚ the author introduces of his lover and how happy they are being together as they spend their Sunday
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This poem represents the poet‚ Thomas Hardy as the persona and his grief over his wife’s death using imagery and emotive language. The poem is set at the moment in time after the persona’s partner’s death‚ where the persona is at her grave. The poem reflects on the persona’s guilt of mistreating his late wife while she was alive and his yearning to be with her now ‘Would I lay there – And she were housed there! – Or better‚ together… We both‚ - who would stray there’ Hardy wrote this poem as a way
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Rape by Adrienne Rich Adrienne Rich’s blatant poem‚ Rape‚ speaks a strong theme of a distrust of male authority. She establishes a male audience in the first stanza (the phrase "brothers" indicates male bonds)‚ in order to show them what one of their brethren a cop‚ a figure of authority perverted to one of death ("machinery to kill you") has a sexist attitude‚ not in despite of his morals‚ but because of them. Rich’s portrait of the cop is one that shifts from a physical
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