There is a Garden in Her Face by Thomas Campion and A Song in the Front Yard by Gwendolyn Brooks are similar and different in many ways. ... When the girl in A Song in the Front Yard says, "I've stayed in the front yard all my life. / I want a peek at the back," she doesn't literally mean she's lived in the front yard. ... First of all, in Gwendolyn Brooks" poem, A Song in the Front Yard, the speaker is the girl in the poem. ... It has two unrhymed lines, and then two rhymed. At the end, for extra effect, there are three sets of two rhymed lines. ...

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They have turned their backs on the "hunting flares" at the front lines. ... The lines, "under a green sea, I saw him drowning" (14) and " . . . before my helpless sight"(15) tell the reader that despite the number of people that are there, there is nothing that can be done to save this man from dying. ... It is the last few lines of the forth stanza that Owen points out that war is not all glory and honor. ... Although Owen has the skill of painting a gruesome picture of the front lines, he can also paint the picture of the after effects of the war. ... Seeing a fellow soldier die in fro...

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In the first nine lines the speaker calls God "sir" twice. ... Following this line are the next six lines that are called the sestet. ... The speaker point out a beautiful view that is unfolding in front of him. ... In the first two lines one can find a chiasm: "just, lord, if I contend with thee; but, sir, so what I plead is just". This occurrence evokes the sense that the speaker, even though he is asking these questions, understands that God is just and his justice surrounding him from all sides, front and back. ...

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He was injured in March 1917 and was sent home; he was fit for duty in August 1918, and returned to the front line. ... Owen's poems, published only after his death, along with his letters from the front line to his mother, are perhaps the most powerful and vivid accounts of the horror of war to emerge from the First World War. ... The consonance of these two lines makes the language more violent, for example: 'Bent', 'Double', 'Beggars', 'Coughing', 'Cursed'. ... The Latin phrase at the end is fully integrated into the poem, rhyming ef...

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In verse three, the verse begins with repetition, in: Cannon to the right of them, Cannon to the left of them, Cannon in front of them. ... Most lines in verse four begin with verbs, such as plunged, reeled and shattered. Again verbs are used to begin because doing words give the lines instant action and keep the readers attention. The last two lines of verse four are: Then they rode back, but not Not the six hundred. These lines are significant because this is the first point during the poem, at which we hear of death of members of the light brigade. ...

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Meanwhile these stars, when not in front of the camera, aren't always what they seem. ... There are ten syllables in each line of the poem, four lines per stanza, and in total there are four quatrains. When reading the poem, lines one and three rhyme, as do lines two and four of each stanza. ... The last two lines of this poem make a memorable, though harsh, point. ... The first fourteen lines of the poem don't really tell us about Richard Cory's personality. ...

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When read out loud the lines, paragraphs and trains of thought seem to time themselves with the capacity of a person to speak. ... He wanted people to wake up from their shielded, hazy lives where lack of light clouded the views of the world and people lived with an movie screen pulled in front of their faces and believed what they saw was reality and never questioned for a moment why things were the way they were. ... Shorter lines represent short quick concise thoughts and long breathy paragraphs represent an idea much longer and more complicated. ... If Allen Ginsberg were to come back ...

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This poem has four groups of four lines, for a total of sixteen. ... "The Elk" is longer, two paragraphs the first with 16 lines, the second with 26, however the longer poems seems to require less contemplating. ... The poachers were so close that if they had gone out the front they would have been spotted. ...

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Because this was very slow, it was mainly used for important information, which is suggested by the last two lines of the first verse. " while the head / had to listen, the heart could wait". ... This means that now we reached the stage where we can't get any closer and are talking as if we were standing in front of each other. ... Each of the verse has the same amount of lines (eight) which might show that every single verse has the same importance in the poem. ...

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"Recessional,"" one of Kipling's more political hymns, fronts as a caution to England's empire (Middle 1). ... Kipling's image as an imperialist was brought upon from "Recessional-, especially seen in these lines. ... (19-24) The harsh criticism Kipling received from these lines is still discussed to this day. ... The ending lines of "Tommy- especially express societies "love/hate relationship- with its soldiers (Cantalupo 256). ...

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Soldiers as young as 18 years old defending trench lines, which produced deadlock and nightmarish battles which ended in horrific consequences. ... Owen thought of Jessie Pope as an unfeeling civilian enjoying the drama of war at home and helping to drive men to the battle fronts, which is evident in her pro-war poem "Who's for the game?" ... Pope uses striking lines comparing war to sport it is a new way to "play for England" the poem is very jingoistic with a regular beat and an alternative rhyming pattern. ...

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He did this by drawing on copper plates, which turned into the front covers to both of the books Blake wrote. ... This idea is supported by these lines, "He is called by thy name, / For he calls himself a Lamb; / He is meek and he is mild, / He became a little child" (13-16). ... Throughout "The Tyger" the lines are regular and rhyming, but unlike "The Lamb" the rhythm of the poem is heavy as well as harder consonant sounds, in words such as "burning," (1) "bright," (1) "brain," (14) "dread," (15) "dare," (16) "deadly," (16) and "terrors" (16). ...

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Wilfred Owen is a tired soldier on the front line during World War I. ... Due to every second line rhyming this makes your remember what the poet was trying to put across in the previous lines as all the different lines have a way of tying in with one another. ...

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Soldiers as young as 18 years old defending trench lines, which produced deadlock and nightmarish battles which ended in horrific consequences. ... Owen thought of Jessie Pope as an unfeeling civilian enjoying the drama of war at home and helping to drive men to the battle fronts, which is evident in her pro-war poem "Who's for the game?" ... Pope uses striking lines comparing war to sport it is a new way to "play for England" the poem is very jingoistic with a regular beat and an alternative rhyming pattern. ...

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In the last stanza the poet and some more people (which can be deduced from how he uses plurals in this and the next few lines) are sitting in front of a fire, the poet and other people are now feeling afraid because of the storm and can't do anything except sit gripping their hearts in fear and wait for the inevitable. ...

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The men then walked away from the front line where the flares are described as "haunting". ... Their moral is very low and so the officers don't want the fresh recruits to see them so they have a traffic light system where the new recruits go up one tunnel to the front line while the wounded come down the other tunnel so their disturbing injuries can't be seem. ... Another way we notice the unpleasant nature of war is between lines five and six where it describes in more detail of the state of the men. ... Their distant view is blocked by the life threatening fog, which hovers ove...

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I wheeled a cushioned seat straight in front of the bird, bust, and door (68). ... The repetitive six line stanzas written in iambic octameter keep a strict rhyming scheme: abcbbb, where b is the end-rhyme for Lenore which is consistent throughout the 108 lines of the poem. Enjambment lines are non-existent as each line represents a complete grammatical clause. ... In the ninth and tenth lines, "Eagerly I wished the morrow;- vainly I had tried to borrow/ From my books surcease of sorrow- sorrow for the lost Lenore-, - "morrow- and "borrow- are internal rhymes; "borrow- and "sorrow- ...

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In the first three lines, the narrator calls what he sees as a "little black thing among the snow" (Line 1) instead of a child, and asks him where his parents are. ... The first lines of the first stanza and the first couplet of the second stanza are identical in each poem; however, the way the poems develop is in sharp contrast due to the different use in diction and imagery in each poem. ... When "the sun is gone down, and the dews of night arise" (Lines 5-6), both nurses addressed the children to come home. ... " (Lines 7-8) In this context, the words "spri...

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When her mother crumples under the pressure of life, she is able to smooth out her appearance to put on a good face in front of her daughter, and Gwen is especially grateful for that. ... The lines obscene bundle of stuff that dropped and dribbled tangling in bowels hobbled in it's own blood' provide a vivid imagery of the owl's death, the catalyst. ...

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"I see the city and it's grown into a big machine" and "a hidden landscape on the brink of a development" are lines in which the songwriter has input his views towards development over environment as well an the increasing industrialisation of places where historical sites and nature reserves are. ...

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And is upturned, open, available hand is always in front of you, yet only to ward off and warn, though wide open, incomprehensible. ... This is evident in lines such as "The scent of these armpits is aroma finer than prayer, / This head is more than churches or bibles or creeds," (Song, p. 22) and "My faith is the greatest of faiths and the least of faiths." ...

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