Paul Dunbar's main theme through out the poem is the agony of captivity. He uses many devices such as metaphors, repetition, simile, imagery and Anthropomorphism to support his theme. ... He uses a particular structure to link it to the theme of his poem. ... Paul Laurence Dunbar uses many literary devices to express to the reader how he felt as an African American. ... The literary devices all help to show the apparent theme of the agony of captivity since the bird harmed itself trying to gain freedom. ...

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From the great expressionists and the literary accomplishments of 16th century English Literature a new breed of poets were born. ... Their poems are known for metaphysical arrogance; a figure of speech that employs unusual and paradoxical images, an intellectual wit, learned imagery and subtle argument. ... Most importantly, all of the poems from these authors share common characteristics. Wit, inventiveness, and an elaborate use of literary devices and stylistic maneuvers hallmark their work. ... They were the first group to master the paradox, in which they present a contradiction which...

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Considering the poem "The Cadaver,"" readers gain a perspective and lens into a medical professional's life as literary techniques enhance the audience's perception of the distressing events they are exposed to every day. ... Implementation of literary devices such as imagery and metaphors allow readers to gauge understanding of the distressing events that occur in the lives of medical professionals every day. In "The Cadaver,"" these devices aid developing a relationship between doctors and readers, especially as emotions come to life. ... Though usage and analysis of these literary...

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It was also not uncommon for historical references to appear in literary works during the seventeenth century. Wespazjan Kochowski, the poet responsible for the Polish Baroque-style poem, A Curse on the Sons, of the Crown: Who Disrupt the Diets, expresses the negativity of Sarmatism with the literary devices of symbolism, metaphor, metonymy, imagery, personification, allusion, and simile. ... Kochowski's poem represents Sarmatism. ... Kochowski's poem is made up of six stanzas, with eight lines in each stanza. ... These literary devices have artistically expressed Kochowski's...

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Irony is a significant device used by the poets in the slavery poems "On Being Brought from Africa to America," "The Dying Fugitive," and "Middle Passage." ... In this poem she uses a highly intelligent and scathing verbal irony. ... The poem also has traces of situational and cosmic irony. ... In "Middle Passage" Hayden uses standard epic conventions and devices and alters and inverts them to his liking. ... Robert Hayden uses his extensive knowledge of literature to make a new genre of slave poetry, but all of them recognized the effectiveness of irony as a literary device. ...

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In his poem "The Charge of the Light Brigade", Alfred Lord Tennyson brings a glorifying light to the war and the soldiers fighting it. ... This image of blood 'gurgling' out of their lungs shows the soldiers in a weak state, and not at all in any glorified or heroic way, like Alfred Tennyson in his poem. ... Another literary device used by Owen in "Dulce Et Decorum Est" to convey his opinion that war is terrible is his diction, where he uses descriptions with extremely negative connotations to describe the miserable lives of the soldiers. ... Tennyson uses imager...

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Literature also makes up a unique reading styles because of the different literary terms and rhetorical devices that it possesses such as simile, metaphor, imagery and many more. ... Allusion is a reference in one literary work to a character or theme found in another literary work. ... Style is the manner of expression of a particular writer, produced by choice of words, grammatical structures, use of literary devices, and all the possible parts of language use. ... Two things I have acquired from this class are that there is more to literature than just plays, poems, and nonfiction stories....

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Later authors like Sappho and Sophocles build on these literary devices in a blending of oral and literate cultures. ... These epithets assist the orality of the poem by giving the narrative more detail and imagery. These epithets also aid the presentation of the poem by acting as available lines in the singing of the poem. ... Beyond the structure of the poem, however, perhaps Homer's greatest device is the use of simile and metaphor to create images that were clear to his illiterate audience. ... Homer shifts reality to make the poem more memorable and to indicate an important part ...

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Later authors like Sappho and Sophocles build on these literary devices in a blending of oral and literate cultures. ... These epithets assist the orality of the poem by giving the narrative more detail and imagery. These epithets also aid the presentation of the poem by acting as available lines in the singing of the poem. ... Beyond the structure of the poem, however, perhaps Homer's greatest device is the use of simile and metaphor to create images that were clear to his illiterate audience. ... Homer shifts reality to make the poem more memorable and to indicate an important part ...

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The poem is based around the literal returning of passed soldiers in the sense that they were not appreciated. Dawe utilizes a variety of imagery and literary techniques to further emphasize the deeper significance while attempting to convey the message that war is unavailing and effectively a waste of human life. ... Due to the relatively cynical tone the poem reads at a steady pace averting the possibility of heedlessly skipping through. The foremost section of the poem introduces the seemingly routine task of transporting dead bodies as if it were trivial. ... Poetic devices are used to h...

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Although irony can be a hard concept to grasp, three powerful poems will further distinguish and clarify each type of irony and why they are such a powerful device poets use. ... Throughout the poem, we learn he was a loyal Union member who worked in the same factory until retirement. ... The poet ironically concludes the poem asking the crucial questions of: "Was he free? ... Just as an artist paints something so simple with a deeper story or meaning behind; irony can be considered a literary art form in which poets can portray one thing to creatively convey their deeper meaning. ... As...

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Part B: Poem Analysis – The Draft Horse Emma Tan Robert Frost, author of The Draft Horse wrote this poem in the early to mid-1920's. He's been known for many acclaimed poems that pose complex philosophical, and societal questions about human nature, or ethical issues. ... " (5-8) The abnormality and eerily calm ambience about this poem is almost deliberate; so when you take a first look it over its' form, structure and language it deftly composes a simplistic poem with nothing out of place – complete with no apparent literary devices that th...

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To understand the suffering of the speaker, he or she must put the reader into his or her same position with the same surroundings, which is done by the use of sound, tactility, and visual; expressed through the descriptions and the use of literary devices. ... Not only is the content of the poem important, but also are the techniques used to organize it and in what way it is written. Duffy uses enjambment when names are being listed in the poem: "Rebecca Rachel Ruth Aaron Emmanuel David," (23) and "Sara Ezra," (20). ...

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While Browning's poem is traditionally and conventionally a poem about love and admiration, Shakespeare rejoices the beauty of his lover beauty through time. A stark contrast can be observed as both poems focus on different elements of life, namely nature and religion, to facilitate in expressing their views about their loved ones. ... Noticeably, Browning repeats the phrase exactly seven times: perhaps representing the seven days of the week, expressing that she loves the addressee of her poem every day. ... Love, as a theme exists in poems, however differently, implying the many facets...

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This is illustrated in his romantic poem "Wild Swans at Coole. ... Hence, a tension is conveyed through the use of literary devices between Yeats, resistant of change, and the vibrant, immortalized swans, which are free from the restrictions of this change. ... This is illustrated in the symbolism and motif of circularity throughout the poem. ... This recognition is particularly evident in his allusion to the Celtic myth, "The Children of Lir" in his poem "The Wild Swan at Coole". ... My interpretation of Yeat's poems has been shaped through the exploration of t...

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Choose three poems and consider how far they support this view of her work. ... However, in this essay I shall explore this in further depth by looking at three poems: "A dream", "A Birthday" and one of the many poems entitled "Song", beginning "When I am dead, my dearest." ... One of the obviously fundamental aspects of poetry is the language used and the literary devices employed, and Rosetti's poetry is certainly no exception to this. ... In my opinion this poem has two main themes, both of which greatly contribute to the overall feeling of the poem. ... The second poem I shall ex...

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Apparently it was a spoken memorization mnemonic device used to ease the burden of recalling endless texts. ... The feel of the poem, the originality is somehow lost when the said epic is translated to plain English. ... It is best to come to personal conclusions regarding "Beowulf" and its translation, simply put a version is only as good as its author and his knowledge, a literary critic must judge on personal joy, accuracy, and aesthetics; the reality is that most people in our modern society would not be overjoyed to engage the early translations of "Beowulf" in this manner, the Heaney ver...

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