By reading the poem we can tell that he has a lot of anger, having lost his son, when he said "flesh's rage" (quoted in Approaching Literature, 828). ... "Oh could I lose all father now" (quoted in Approaching Literature, 828) shows that he may lose his faith in God. ... The line "Ben Jonson, his best piece of poetry"(quoted in Approaching Literature, 828) has some significance, comparing his son to his poetry. ... After grieving for some time, Ben shows that he is now content that his son is in a better place when he uses the words "rest in soft peace" (quot...

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The second stanza ends with the line "fearing the chronic angers of that house," (line 9), hints at the fact that there may be a daily continuance of anger that is present in the house, between the father and the child. Hayden uses diction in this quote in a way that makes it seem like a serious thing in the narrator's childhood that he may now regret. ...

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An understatement I believe can be found as Frost quotes," But if it had to perish twice."... When Frost speaks of hatred, however, instead of seeing it as an emotion or a feeling, like anger, he writes it as a thought. ...

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Human history has been plagued with change; I do not mean the inaugural stages of human development when we fought petty tribal wars fueled by anger, I mean the development of our own species that through time feels as though it has bettered itself but in essence is retarded by its own destructive nature. ... Even as far back as the opening stanza of "Alter Ego" that quotes: "who stands beside me still- is a Rhetorical question that also conveys a sense of the urgency or longing on the part of the poet to unravel her identity, thus this poem is clearly a self analysis of Harwood's own pa...

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Feeling Poetry Linda McCarriston shapes feelings of anger, rage, contempt and healing in her poetry through narration, metaphors with detailed sensory language as she unfolds the painful story of sexual abuse and family abuse at the hands of her alcoholic father. ... Linda McCarriston uses alliteration, assonance and punctuation throughout her poems that create an atmosphere of anger, rage, contempt and human brokeness. ... The hardness of the "d" ending the word "hand" and the assonance of the sound "ow" being repeated in abrupt short phrase suggests the anger of the narrator. ... I got...

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One poem in particular, "The Harlem Dancer", reflects his anger towards the the perjudice that the black people received, and many other African Americans looked to him for inspiration. ... An example of this is in the quote "I knew her self was not in that strange place," implying that he knows she can make something better of her life. ...

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One poem in particular, "The Harlem Dancer", reflects his anger towards the the perjudice that the black people received, and many other African Americans looked to him for inspiration. ... An example of this is in the quote "I knew her self was not in that strange place," implying that he knows she can make something better of her life. ...

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Alvarez is quoted as admitting, "I am a Dominican, hyphen, American. ... It is Alvarez's constant and unrelenting flow of anger that prompts the consideration she is both bitter about her experience in a new land and irate with her unpleasant American "captors". ...

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• Grade Level: High School