the author trying to say something else. Thus the reader has two ways to analyze this poem‚ the surface analysis and the deeper analysis. The reader is also able to learn that this poem has two main themes; choices and isolation. The first stanza of the poem says “Whose woods these are I think I know/His house is in the village though/ He will not see me stopping here/ To watch his woods fill up with snow.” On the surface of the poem the reader understands that this man is traveling in the woods
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and is overwhelmed by his senses. After stepping out of the river into the night air and safety Bradbury uses metaphor to help create imagery. The first metaphor comes in the phrase‚ “The land rushed at him‚ a tidal wave”. This metaphor helps the reader understand how overwhelmed Bradbury is to be on land again after being in a river for so long. Bradbury also uses personification in the phrase‚ “He was crushed by darkness and the look of the country and the million odors on a wind that iced his
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In the poem “Sestina‚” the author‚ Elizabeth Bishop‚ depicts a painful story of a grandmother and a child living with loss. Most readers who have some knowledge of Bishop’s biography would assume that the poem reflects the time in her childhood when she lived in Nova Scotia‚ after her mother had been committed to an asylum (Sanger 47). The story begins in a kitchen on a rainy afternoon in September‚ with both the grandmother and the child having tea and reading the almanac. While the grandmother
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gains maturity and loses his innocence. Due to the poem’s disturbing content that some would say would negatively influence its readers‚ many educators frown upon it being taught in school‚ fearing that students would follow the path that the speaker of the poem chose. True that some may get the idea that suicide is a perfect solution to their problems‚ but it is up to the reader to judge him or herself whether after reading the poem‚ he or she still thinks that death is the only rational escape. Though
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replace them. I think that is a very powerful way to persuade an idea to readers. His style is great by showing what he calls the myths in modern education first and then turning it around by stating the better side of the cons. It helps that he put some facts and resources. It makes it seem that he really knows what he is stating and helps back up his reasoning. It will persuade people more because it will connect the reader to another person other than David Orr side. For example‚ when he talks
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story is‚ what each story is about‚ what each story involves‚ and how each story reads. Each of these things play an important part in a book as well as in the plot. Without knowing any of these things‚ a book would be confusing and would leave the readers guessing‚ which could make the book boring‚ in which case no one would want to read it. Where the story takes place is an important part of every book and plays a big role in the plot of a book. In most books you learn the setting and where they
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cover bodies when they decay. By repeating this concept over and over in each stanza Thomas sets the foundation for his poem and moulds everything else around it‚ making the poem’s objective clear and firmly planting what he wants to convey to the reader in their memory. A key theme in Thomas’s poem is the presence of a divine‚ almost god-like entity‚ which creates‚ maintains‚ and has dominion over life. It is the vigorous ‘force that drives’ life forward ‘through the rocks.’ We get a sense of its
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suggests she’s seen more as a possession than a person. The first time she is seen the reader can instantly see she doesn’t fit in as she is wearing ‘red mules with ostrich feathers’ which is incongruous in the setting of the ranch. The colour red is often considered for portraying a sign of danger. Steinbeck portrays these signs frequently‚ ‘red mules….full‚ rouged lips’. In doing this‚ it is suggesting to the reader that Curley’s wife is‚ as the workers call her‚ ‘jailbait’. Another thing that indicates
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the sentace which is what changes each time. This slight difference creates a dramatic effect while adding emphasis for a more effective question to the reader. The emphasis adds drama to the section of the phrase that is not being repeated which helps the reader understand what he/she is reading. This emphasis and repition also helps the reader imagine the imagery that is placed in the poem. There are a few examples of this including lines 5-6‚ 7-8‚ and 9-10: the one who has flung herself out
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Owen wrote this poem to express the damage done through war towards the humanity of the soldiers and men involved; he evokes empathy in the readers using techniques such as war imagery and personification. In the first stanza‚ he makes us‚ as readers‚ feel distant from the ‘mental cases’‚ ‘these’‚ ‘they’ and ‘their’ all create a space between us and them; however he includes us in line eight‚ ‘we’ are mentioned (line 8). By not naming them‚ he makes a representation of what they lost (who they
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