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. When analysis of Yeats" works is undertaken, especially when discussing Yeats" ideas and thoughts expressed through his poetry, it is often useful to consider the context of the poems. ... Yeats" often drew parallel's between ideas within his poems, and also, between poems. These regularly reiterated ideas are clearly uncovered when analysis is applied to Yeats" poetry, wh...

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The poem "Wind" by Ted Hughes is a free verse following a quatrain pattern. It has a direct title which gives some idea of what the poem is going to talk about. The basic idea of the poem is a description of a storm by the narrator who is stuck in house during the fierce storm. ... The poem follows the effects of the storm on various objects observable from the house, starting with a metaphor comparing the house with a ship far out at sea at night and stuck in a storm. ... The poem follows a very well structured timeline beginning with the fact that the poet has already been facing t...

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In this poem, Plath adopts a mocking tone to describe those who seek to commodify her suicide attempts. ... In the poem's final stanza, Plath again plays on a familiar allusion to explore the concept of individual liberation. ... In this free verse poem, Hughes seeks to directly access the aforementioned father figure of Otto Plath. In this case, he uses familiar images to provide a significant analysis of Plath's tendency in conflation of her oppressive father and her later husband. ... The poem describes the entangled images of Plath and Hughes created in Sylvia Plath's poetry...

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Tobias builds the foundations of the reader's understanding within the strikingly interesting and equally as strange title given to the poem. What seems to make the poem so alluring is that the title is ridiculously long and that it humorously introduces the poem as a "reflection on a gift of watermelon pickle.... " The unicorn appears throughout the poem symbolically as a metaphor for childhood. ... This emphasizes the presence of the 'child' character in the poem. ... However a closer analysis reveals violent images of war. ...

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The following analysis investigate, separately, a passage from Whitman's "Song of Myself" and Emily Dickinson's poem 334 -see Appendix- focusing on thematic contents and on the formal aspects which lead to their interpretation. ... Poetry of the Nature In this poem Dickinson creates her characteristic fusion of nature and art, of the rose and the poem (Fart,Carter,2005). This can be deduced particularly through the analysis of two stylistic elements: the demonstrative pronoun "this", at the end of the second line, and the synesthesia in lines 4 and 5. ... Thus, th...

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Now, however, I do not doubt that science and poetry are related having learned that both the scientist and the poet utilize keen analysis, previous observations, and a "hands on" approach to learning. ... We are told in the film that Bishop makes a "microscopic inspection of things" and we can see evidence of this in her poem entitled "The Fish." ... Likewise, Wordsworth in his poem entitled "Lines" laments the effect that nature has upon him and states that "with an eye made quiet by the power Of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things." ... Such is the case i...

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With the use of similes, symbols, meter, structure, rhyme, connotation Rich created her poem, Aunt Jennifer's Tigers. Adrienne Rich uses a number of similes and symbols in the poem to convey her theme. ... In addition, the verb prance' is also used symbolically in the poem, both in the first stanza of the poem to describe the tigers in Aunt Jennifer's screen, and in the final line of the poem to create a proud, strong image of the tigers; so fittingly symbolic of Aunt Jennifer's dreams and desires for herself. ... The rhyme scheme in the poem is very basic: AABB CCDD E...

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Part B: Poem Analysis – The Draft Horse Emma Tan Robert Frost, author of The Draft Horse wrote this poem in the early to mid-1920's. He's been known for many acclaimed poems that pose complex philosophical, and societal questions about human nature, or ethical issues. ... " (5-8) The abnormality and eerily calm ambience about this poem is almost deliberate; so when you take a first look it over its' form, structure and language it deftly composes a simplistic poem with nothing out of place – complete with no apparent literary devices that th...

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Some of her works such as poems are even considered to be autobiographical kind of poems. The paper presents an analysis of Maya Angelou through researching her cultural context and how it helps readers to understand her work, influences among writers, her writing style applied to I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, her theories about literature and writing, and critical reception of the writers work. ... In some poems, Angelou uses the four line stanzas with rhyme and rhythm and in others he does not. Angelou's poem titled I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is a significant poem that present...

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Although poems can make us think, above all, they make us feel; "Fern Hill" is, I believe, one of the most sensory poems written inasmuch as, after a reading (slow please, very slow - try to hear a talking voice!)... As noted within my analysis of "A Visit to Grandpa's":- 'As we peer back into our own childhood we sift and filter our memories so that the ones portraying our contentment or delight predominate - we remember sunny holidays, visits, happy places, treats, Christmases, presents. ... The "sun", in all its glory, dominates so much of the poem that we almost feel like scr...

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In this poem, even light is oppressive – the contrast between light and dark is shown to be quite close to the contrast between life and meaning. ... The form of Dickinson's poem also contributes to the feeling of inevitability that comes with her particular brand of despair. ... The particular meter of the poem gives us a further sense of travel, and the varied length of the lines in the poem keeps us on our toes. The result is a poem of specific order and rhythm intended to make the audience feel the repetitiveness and melancholy of Dickinson's attitude toward light and life....

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His poem "Sleep" can be interpreted mainly in one of two ways. ... The poem's textual integrity allows for both interpretations to be supported through techniques founded within the text. ... " begins to point to the poem being an illustration of the process of childbirth. With solid evidence for both interpretations of the meaning behind the poem, one could find themselves lost in trying to understand the poem. ... Slessor's poem Sleep is written in such a way that the reader can interpret it in more than one way. ...

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However, Tennyson's oevre is too large to encompass every single poem poem of his. Thus, I will focus on one his early poem "The Lady of Shalott", considered as "art poem",which provides an insight into Tennyson's ideas on the figure of poet by portraying an isolated artist-like figure in conflict with society, in other words which represents best the charactersistics of Tennyson's artist-figures and Tennyson's internal struggle between "social responsibility" and "artistic detatchment"(alaya). ... (Arnold, "Preface to Poems&...

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In the poem "The Jaguar," Ted Hughes is watching a jaguar's cage in a zoo, as he shows both awe and fear towards the large cat. The poem begins by describing other animals in the zoo, not as powerful or as mesmerizing as the jaguar but also found in cages and bored by their monotonous and repetitive life. ... And finally the poem shows the conflict of the jaguar against its cage, the animal that cannot be trapped mentally. Like many of Hughes' poems, nature rising over mankind is a very strong theme, showing the animal's superiority over the humans who imprisoned it. ... ...

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In this poem, important aspects of the life of his times- political and religious- find expression in it. ... In this sense, readers can realise that characters are described as different type of universal human characteristics along the poem. ... Before the grand jury had acted Dryden published this poem in order to influence their verdict. ... David -in the poem- finishes this poem saying; "The law shall still direct my peacefull sway and the same law teach rebels to obey-. The poem is famous for its brilliant portraits of the king's enemies and friends. ...

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Essay Topic: An analysis of the ideological implication of Andrew Marvell's poem, "To His Coy Mistress", in respect to similar themes in William Shakespeare's Sonnets "18" and "73". There is an uncomfortable shallowness of the contextual nature of Andrew Marvell's poem, "To His Coy Mistress" that in some way separates it from several of William Shakespeare's sonnets. ... The first two parts of the poem provide descriptions of two separate worlds of opposition, creating a rather disorientating reaction. ...

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These works, although they have been subjected to much critical analysis, remain the "ultimate expression of Keats's genius" and as such "secure his reputation as a great poet." ... The power of this poem lies in Keats's persuasive vigour in alternate states of being. ... What becomes obvious in reading these poems is Keats's exploration of creative expression and morality within human life. Life and tragedy are set against the Nightingale's music; and as a result is comparable to the inspiration of the poem. ... These poems grasp at common and inconsolable senses of loss a...

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Different authors use various figures of speech to present their characters in plays or poems. ... Finally, this section will also compare the two characters with that of Satan, the major character in the poem "Paradise Lost" by John Milton. ... Satan: Milton's Paradise Lost In the epic poem of Paradise Lost by John Milton, Satan who is one of the characters is also depicted as a villainous character that is up to causing rifts and disturbance due to his quest for power and authority (Milton 58). He is the main villain of the great heroic poem presented as the epitome of evil incarnate....

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The "sorrowful quick figures", the "coasts (that) swing upwards" and the "knuckled hills" all imply a greater presence within the poem, possibly of a God who takes the soldiers "high high and higher" away from their loved ones and histories. ...

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In sonnet 141 (CXLI), Shakespeare speaks again of physical and emotional aspects of the persona's lover, however this sonnet differs in that the woman's physical appearance and ways of conduct are not appealing at all to the persona. From the start of the first quatrain, the persona declares his l...

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Imagery is used both in prose and poems. ... Visualization using imagery normally appears in prose than poems. There are good completely imageless poems, imagery should not be confused with actual visual image-making. ... All these distinctions between literature and non-literature: personal expression, realization, lack of practical purpose and fictionality are restatements within a framework of semantic analysis of age old aesthetic terms such as: unity in variety, aesthetic distance, framing, invention and imitation. ...

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