Technical description of Gerard Manley Hopkins" poem: The poem in designed as an English and Italian sonnet. ... The poet is using accented metric when he counts the syllables, he is also using parallelism, personification, and a writing topos. ... Parallelism can be found in line five "Wert thou my enemy, O thou my friend" this parallel line might mean that the speaker is seeing God equally as a friend and an enemy. ... The use of the enjambment in these lines raises the possibility that the speaker is excited by nature, that is similar to a person who is excited about a ...

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In his poem "Tommy," Kipling describes the reasons for the frustration of a British red-coat during the colonial days. ... After commenting on the general relationship between the two groups, the speaker reverts to the poem's quasi-chorus and in it he states that a t peace time, the colonists question the morals of the soldiers by asking, ""Tommy, "ow's yer soul?" ... This duplicity makes the speaker feel used and makes the community appear dishonest. ... Furthermore, he feels sorry that the soldier suffers through this abuse. The parallelism he uses to conclude each stanza...

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In the following writings that are described below are all related in some way with ironary, satire or nature that Frost uses to convey his message. It is clear by using his unique method that he is better than everyone he writes about and that is what creates the difference between him and the rest of the world. ... In the poem "Mending Wall" the direct comparison is that the speaker Frost is once again using satire and ironary "Good fences make good neighbors", his neighbor from the poem says. Frost uses irony with analogies to argue that his apple trees will not eat his neighbor's pine...

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The poem follows the iambic pattern (x) and the main structure is the iambic pentameter- five feets in each line-. ... The couplet is used as a turning point to tell us that immortal youth can be achieved for "my love-- the young man- by means of verses in his poetry. ... The purpose of the poem is clarity, simplicity and directness. DETAILED ANALYSIS In the 1st line the poet makes use of a recorded proverb of the age, "Time devours all things-. ... Lines 2 and 4 share the same idea - L2 The earth devours her own children in the sense that they all return to the dust and ashes of whic...

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The poet uses apostrophes: "O thou by Nature taught", or "O chaste unboastful nymph, to thee I call!" ... They believed that something, which is harmonious and simple, is beautiful. ... After that it disappeared from poetry after the gradual decline of Roman poetry. ... There are many devices used in the poem which strengthens its emotional character. ... There is also parallelism between 39th and 48th line: "Love, only Love" and "Thou, only thou". ...

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This use of paradox adds intensity to the sonnet and lays the foundation for the following quatrain. The first quatrain is like the silence before a storm; the way it is presented suggests that there is more to come. ... In a passage such as this, the distance between the composing author and the fictive speaker almost vanishes, as it is very easy to imagine that Shakespeare, a master of expression, would tell himself that a perfect ceremony of love could be invented. ... Furthermore, the verbal parallelism of the octet is replaced by an irregular line-motion as the persona's agitation ac...

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Soon he would show the world that he had a voice, and that it spoke with a poet's words. ... No wonder he demonstrated such an insight for life in his poems. ... His form was similar to "thought-rhythm", or "parallelism", which also can be found in Old Testament poetry and in some Indian sacred books. ... The reader of his works could not help to criticize him for his use of the world's fault to explain his view of the world. ... It is difficult to think of many major American poets who have not felt the need to produce their own long poem - and who have not felt that Whitman w...

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Literature was learnt using any other science of culture. ... Imagery is used both in prose and poems. ... Visualization using imagery normally appears in prose than poems. There are good completely imageless poems, imagery should not be confused with actual visual image-making. ... When, however, imitation is used as a form of diction, Plato comes to the conclusion that any such imitation which mimics men who are not of upright and intelligent nature is undesirable in the ideal city. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate