In Shelley's poem "Ode to the West Wind," the wind is the force that has all the power. ... Throughout the poem, the speaker seems to love nature and enjoyed being out in it. ... In conclusion, these two poems are similar but yet different in many ways. ... Both poems make reference to this. ... In both poems, he is completely in awe of the power of nature. ...
In the poem "Good Times" written by Lucille Clifton; the author reminisces on the pleasant days of her childhood. ... The poem uses simplistic terms to identify a complex dynamics of family and its" ups and downs. ... Repetition plays a major role in Clifton's poem of highlighting the significance of the happier times in her youth. ... The word good times in the poem also represents the negative aspects of her life such as "the insurance man is gone and the lights are back on." ... In the poem "Good Times", Lucille Clifton reflects on the happier days of her youth. ...
Both of the poems were short and very descriptive. ... When reading each of these poems it's easy to figure out that the poems were written from a son's perspective of his father. ... Roethke's poem on the other hand suggest the father disciplines throughout the whole poem. ... I think that both of the poems were organized well. ... But all in all the poems were much alike. ...
Poems are a way to express people's ideas and reflect on their feeling. ... Many of the poems that I had looked at on this website had no depth, no hidden meaning, not saying this was an extremely deep poem. ... Another poem I also liked was "The Panic Bird" by Robert Phillips. ... Both poems were definitely different yet enjoyable. ... These poems both showed how different poetry can be used....
As the poem goes on there is a major change and the poem goes from calm and pleasant to rushed and ick. ... The second poem is "The Elk" by Hugh McNamar. ... This poem makes the reader feel disconcerted and creepy. ... The poem has a little over one hundred words. ... The poem is very bold from the beginning. ...
English Assessment Poems: Clothes, It Will Not Change The poem "Clothes" by Elizabeth Jennings portrays the change of fashion and clothes over the years and the future. ... With the other poem I find that I don't see any pictures but rather think about what the poem is talking about. ... In the first poem the author uses a simple ABCB rhyming pattern. ... The second poem differs from the first one quite a lot. ... Like the first poem it flows very nicely but due to a lack of paragraphs it is not quite as snappy, so one would rather read it slowly, also to take in everything the po...
Comparing poems Different poems appeal in different ways and some are not really comparable. ... What is the poem about? ... Rhyme Do the poems rhyme? Rhyme can carry a poem along. ... Dylan Thomas The poem's voice Lastly, you need to think about each poem's voice. ...
"Its Raining" a poem by Guillaume Apollinaire is written in the form of rain falling. ... The poem's unusual shape lets us know what the poem is about even before we start to read it. ... This line, like most lines in the poem, uses metaphor to describe sound. ... This poem also uses metaphor to draw a picture. ... The feeling of this poem is mixed. ...
His poem is a parody of "This is Just to Say" by William Carlos Williams. ... The poem consists of four stanzas of three lines each. ... It is not like most poems. ... It's funny how Koch's poem comes off. ... I never knew people did parodies of poems. ...
The title of the poem supports the idea of a repeated metaphor related to music. ... In the poem, T-Bar, the poet describes the mountain scene by calling it "haemophilic snow." ... The Ice-Floes is another poem where the author uses metaphor. ... In all three poems, the author illustrates to us the use of metaphors. ... Each symbols can be unique to that individual experience as seen here in each poem. ...
In such a poem, the speaker expresses his sadness at the thought of swiftly passing time and the brevity of life. ... The poem begins, "Had we but world enough, and time, This coyness, lady, were no crime." ... The beginning of this poem instantly sets its reader off with a sense of urgency. ... The footnote from the poem refers to "him" as time. ... All of these images occur in the first half of the poem. ...
Critical analysis on American literature I analyzed a selected poem by Ralph Waldo Emerson titled "Bacchus" written in 1847. ... Emerson starts out the poem with "Bring me wine, but wine which never grew". ... He continues the poem with "Let its grapes the morn salute from a nocturnal root, which feels the acrid juice of Styx and Erebus". ... This poem which Emerson wrote in 1847, strongly draws on the Persian poet, Hafiz's, way of using "wine" as a symbol for intellectual freedom. ... He attached to this poem a note, which read, "The man who is his own master knocks in vain at the d...
Response to Emily Dickinson, Selections from " The Complete Poems" I found Emily Dickinson to be a wonderful poet. ... To be so full of creative energy to write thousands of poems is almost incomprehensible. Although we covered several poems during class I think this response would be better served to discuss one poem in particular. ... Written around 1861, 241 is in essence a poem about the realness of people. ...
The references to nature are evident in all of these poems, but the most clear is in Tintern Abbey. ... Dejection, is a poem about the streaming example of the poet's way of showing emotions. This poem is about Coleridge himself. In this poem he talks about the difference between having joy and being pure at heart versus being proud and sensual. ... This poem is about a girl named Madeline who performs the ritual of St. ...
In Wilfred Owens's poems he shows that war is unpleasant and not the great adventure promised by the earlier poems. ... " Exposure" and " Dulce Et Decorum Est" and "Exposure" are very realistic poems. ... Owens poems are very gruesome and tell about the distraught agony men were being put through. ... The poem written by Pope " Who's for the Game?" and "Fallin" written by Begbie are very jingoistic poems and make war seem like a game. ...
The translation of this poem has been very difficult since it has a definite rhyme scheme and by trying to maintain the scheme in the translation I might alter the meaning of the poem. ... At the age of ten he started to translate poems from Latin and at age 12 Lope wrote his first play. ... The work of translating the poem, took me a while, since I had to look real hard inside my head for words to rhyme and all types of words so that I could get the sense that I was not damaging the meaning of the poem and yet also I still think I missed some of the meaning to the words. ... I think it was b...
I decided to choose three out of the poems we discussed in class. ... This poem made war real for me. ... This poem speaks of a woman who has aborted her unborn children. ... These three poems touched me. ... Reading these poems made me think about things in life. ...
A Married Woman's True Love Brief excerpt of the poem: It is true love because I do not resent watching the Green Bay Packers Even though I am philosophically opposed to football, It is true love because If his mother was drowning and I was drowning and he had to choose one of use to save, He says he"d save me. ... Literary Response: It is a modern poem written by a married woman, and every single word in the poem reveals her deep emotion inside about her husband and her family. ... The poem emphasizes on one topic that what the author's true love is. ...
Death and fame are illuminated in the poem To an Athlete Dying Young. ... The poem uses many different literacy devices. ... Rhythm is the beat to the poem. ... The use of imagery is shown throughout this poem as well. ... After the soldiers death, the poem recognizes the immortality of dying young. ...
When reading the poem "The Bait- by John Donne, one may initially interpret the poem to be one about fishing. Overall, this poem could have a lot of meaning to a fisherman. ... Here, Donne gives his first clue that this is actually a love poem. ... Much of this poem is reminiscent of a song. ... The structure of this poem leaves the reader with a feeling of deliberation. ...
The author's tone in the poem is longing and sad. ... The ironic sadness of the poem is that the thing which he wants is far beyond his reach. ... This only increases the sadness of the poem. ... The author uses these ironies to enhance the tone of the poem, which is longing and sad. The basic message of the poem is a question, "Will the "happily ever after" ever come?" ...
In poetry, love is the theme of a poem, which is a common use of a device for all poetry. This method allows us a sense of the speaker perception while writing these poems. ... One poem discusses the love for his beloved who didn't show her love back to him. ... Both poems though describe love as unconditional and passed up. ... Although both poems have their difference, they do have similarities too. ...
Night Feeding The title of the poem made me feel hungry. ... The poem itself made me feel depressed. It seemed as though the poem were talking about death. ... The poem had a dark tone it. The words used in the poem had a negative connotation to them. ...
In this poem, Emily Dickinson is expressing her way of recovering after someone or something she loved is no longer around. She divides the poem into two perspectives: those of her heart and of her mind. ... In the last stanza of the poem, Emily is addressing her heart, "asking" it to let her know when it is successful in getting over the warmth, or physical closeness, of the loved one. ... In this poem, it seems Emily feels that the heart is stronger than the mind, in the sense that the heart will grasp fond memories and emotions, making it harder for the mind to forget. ... This poem contain...
Earth's Bounty Analysis In this poem, on the first line they say they are stating an overall theme that will set the tone for the rest of the poem. ... Dealing with the different lands all over the world, this poem relates to many people. ... I think that this poem can totally relate to the people of today in the United States and how bad our pollution is and how dirty our land can get. ... This poem also triggers the cycle of life in my brain, the never ending cycle that each species partakes in. ...
