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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• Grade Level: High School

" Ⅱ.The Poem "For Anne Gregory.... The poet wonderfully uses the skills of "metaphor" and "image" in this stanza. ... In this poem, Yeats has done everything so lightly and skillfully that we hardly realize how much has gone into his poem. ... A more mature person, will know that true love takes time to grow and that love seldom happens quickly. ... In this poem, Yeats used "parallelism" skillfully. ...

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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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Taking a brief look at the poem a person would believe that it was written for children. The main reason for such perception would be the simple vocabulary that the poet uses. Also, the poem uses soft alliteration "little lamb- which gives a much softer feel to the poem and some might mistake it for children's poem. ... » "The Lamb- was the poem that evoked the joy and delight of innocence, because everyone is delighted with innocence. ... He reassures the reader of the gentle and benevolent nature of the creator through the use of repetition and...

• Word Count: 2099
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• Has Bibliography
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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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The railroad car, which they use to escape from prison, is similar to the raft; Odysseus uses to escape from his prison upon Calypso's island. ... Then there are the more obvious parallelisms. ... Circe turns Odysseus's men into pigs: Delmar thought that the Sirens had turned Pete into a frog, and Pete later said that they dressed him up like a pig. Lastly, the many cars the gang uses throughout the film, represents the many ships Odysseus uses to return to Ithaca. Even though the poem and the film do not mirror each other completely. ...

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• Grade Level: High School