The Songs of Experience' parallel poems from innocence to express the ways in which experience destroy what is good in innocence, whilst also expressing the weaknesses of an innocent perspective. ... The Tyger' also has a regular metre, which fit with its regular structure, in which a string of questions contribute to the expression of a central idea. ... The descriptions within the first stanza could be a parallel to the Garden of Eden before Adam and Eve were cast out. ...

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The seventh stanza is set in a series of four strong parallel functions (key, turned, free, world) that point to an effective, persuasive device, allowing for both repetition and enlargement of the theme. ... The secondary imagery of the telephone is depicted by a parallel structure of spiritual connotation; this is recognizable in the terms "haunted" and "ghost". ... The poem is structured to draw on specific representations to re-create symbolic images through our senses, fluctuating from visual (birds), to physical (books), to hearing (laughing and crying). ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The seventh stanza is set in a series of four strong parallel functions (key, turned, free, world) that point to an effective, persuasive device, allowing for both repetition and enlargement of the theme. ... The secondary imagery of the telephone is depicted by a parallel structure of spiritual connotation; this is recognizable in the terms "haunted" and "ghost". ... The poem is structured to draw on specific representations to re-create symbolic images through our senses, fluctuating from visual (birds), to physical (books), to hearing (laughing and crying). ...

• Word Count: 1520
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• Grade Level: High School

I thought that they also employed numerous parallel devices through their perspective of writing and through specific techniques. ... I thought that the poem, with its line structure and its broken form, helped develop the distasteful resentment that the author has for the other person. ...

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Her ability to always create the perfect poetic structure was a necessity, not a luxury. ... Here lies a contradiction right at the end of what seems to be a sweet, innocent and simply structured love poem. ... However, Bradstreet used a surprising amount of rhetorical structures throughout both of the poems mentioned previously. ... She also used parallels with her word and syllables. ... The heart of this essay describes how Bradstreet used the rhetorical structure of contradiction to portray her theme. ...

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The sentence structure within this story relates to rhyming. I believe he was kind of showing off within this sonnet because not only did this man know how to write poetry, he knew the details that came along with it as with the sentence structure and rhyming. Shakespeare not only know how to write poetry while using sentence structure, he also uses imagery in his sonnet. ... The sonnet is well structured from it being parallel and each couplet standing in complete sentences. ... The repetitions at the beginning of each part of the sonnet resemble a structure that Shakespeare seems to follow...

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This man, was Count Leo Tolstoy, who went on to change his belief structure, values and to convert his religion from Russian Orthodox to Christianity. ... The images of blindness, like '"'eyes that did not see'"', parallel the child"'"s lack of understanding of the consequences of death. ...

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Alfred Prufrock,"" commonly known as "Prufrock," written mostly when Eliot was only twenty-two, was pioneering in its use of interior monologue, in its fragmented structure, and in its startling figurative language ("Let us go then, you and I, When the evening is spread out against the sky Like a patient etherised upon a table"").   ...

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Love is a common theme in many poems written by many different authors. There are many different types of love and love can be conveyed in many different manners. Courtly love is a common theme in many medieval writings. Courtly love is a different type of love, as it is not based around sexual s...

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Instead there is the "prickly pear" that parallels the image of the "the cactus land" previously discussed. ... The structure of the poem consists of regular rhythms and short linear lines. ...

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Relating to the religious theme of spiritual resurrectionis the allusion to Jesus Christ in line six.The sun in "and this is the sun's birthday- can be seen two different ways.On one level, the speaker is proclaiming that this is the first day of his new life, and therefore this is the first sun he is seeing.Since the poem is a direct address ("You God-), however, there might be a more religious meaning behind the reference to the sun.Cummings may be implying the "son,"" meaning Jesus Christ.This biblical reference would follow the parallel that the rebirth of the speaker is similar to ...

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These Poets were characterized by their strongly defined rhyme scheme, the use of Iambic pentameter, and the use of a fourteen line structure. ... It includes anecdote about buses and hitchhiking which were all parallels of Kerouac's experiences. ...

• Word Count: 4095
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• Grade Level: High School