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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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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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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