Dawe utilizes a variety of imagery and literary techniques to further emphasize the deeper significance while attempting to convey the message that war is unavailing and effectively a waste of human life. ... By using a great deal of poetic techniques, imagery and his own unique touch, Bruce Dawe has depicted the aspects of the journey soldiers of the Vietnam War have endured and its devastation upon society. ...

• Word Count: 951
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

His inversion technique of the epic has been called by some critics an "ant-epic." ... Robert Hayden uses his extensive knowledge of literature to make a new genre of slave poetry, but all of them recognized the effectiveness of irony as a literary device. ...

• Word Count: 846
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

At first glance, Yeats" poetry may seem to be merely spontaneous emotion, however, after close literary analysis, it is clear that Yeats" poetry is often fairly systematic and reveals an assortment of reoccurring ideas. ... "Long-Legged Fly" is clearly not a purely emotional poem and the unmistakably systematic structure of the poem, indicates that perhaps although all poetry may, on first reading, seem like a page of random emotion, it clearly does involve a number of ideas conveyed through poetic techniques such as imagery. ...

• Word Count: 823
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Additionally, her use of anaphora in "I love thee" reinforces the countless ways she loves "thee" by the technique of listing. ... Through the technique of personification in "thy eternal summer shall not fade" and "Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade," Shakespeare's lover embodies summer itself implying that her beauty will never "fade" and even death cannot cease it. ... Through skillful craftsmanship and varying literary devices, both the sonnets serve as exceptional pieces of poetry that truly encompass pure and absol...

• Word Count: 1172
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

He eventually joined the editorial board of the Harvard Monthly, a college literary magazine, where he worked with his close friends S. ... He was particularly impressed by the sketches of Pablo Picasso, whose cubist techniques later helped shape much of his work. ...

• Word Count: 1201
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In lines 1-2, Duffy presents somewhat of a literary crescendo. ... Duffy is world-renowned for her skilful intermeshing of intertextuality in her literary works, and, in this specific poem, we can assume that she alludes to Vincent Van Gogh's painting: "Starry Night". ...

• Word Count: 1990
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Walt Whitman(1819-1892), broke the literary tradition of his time with regards to content, form and style of his vigorous verse. ... Catalogue technique and Whitman's relationship with the reader In the poem's first line a child asks the poet what the grass is. ...

• Word Count: 2619
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Different authors use various figures of speech to present their characters in plays or poems. For actors, figures of speech usually help to determine the most prominent traits of characters. The first part one of this paper analyzes the character of Doctor Faustus who is the protagonist of Marlowe's play who was overwhelmed with the desire to possess power and the presentation of the character as a pure villain in the play. This will be compared with the character and the figure of Richard III in the eponymous play by William Shakespeare, while identifying the significance of his figure...

• Word Count: 4910
• Approx Pages: 20
• Grade Level: Undergraduate