From the great expressionists and the literary accomplishments of 16th century English Literature a new breed of poets were born. ... Their poems are known for metaphysical arrogance; a figure of speech that employs unusual and paradoxical images, an intellectual wit, learned imagery and subtle argument. ... Most importantly, all of the poems from these authors share common characteristics. Wit, inventiveness, and an elaborate use of literary devices and stylistic maneuvers hallmark their work. ... They were the first group to master the paradox, in which they present a contradiction which...

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It was also not uncommon for historical references to appear in literary works during the seventeenth century. Wespazjan Kochowski, the poet responsible for the Polish Baroque-style poem, A Curse on the Sons, of the Crown: Who Disrupt the Diets, expresses the negativity of Sarmatism with the literary devices of symbolism, metaphor, metonymy, imagery, personification, allusion, and simile. ... Kochowski's poem represents Sarmatism. ... Kochowski's poem is made up of six stanzas, with eight lines in each stanza. ... These literary devices have artistically expressed Kochowski's...

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Literature also makes up a unique reading styles because of the different literary terms and rhetorical devices that it possesses such as simile, metaphor, imagery and many more. ... Allusion is a reference in one literary work to a character or theme found in another literary work. ... Style is the manner of expression of a particular writer, produced by choice of words, grammatical structures, use of literary devices, and all the possible parts of language use. ... Two things I have acquired from this class are that there is more to literature than just plays, poems, and nonfiction stories....

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" Chaudhry's words can be applied to the theme of isolation in both William Faulkner's short story "A Rose for Emily," and Edwin Arlington Robinson's poem "Richard Cory.... On the other hand, in Robinson's poem, Richard Cory is a man envied by all; yet, his loneliness from not having any contact with his community leads him to take his own life. ... In both literary works, the authors use setting to demonstrate the social separations and alienation of the characters from their communities. Situational irony is another literary device used to convey the...

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Similarly, Carol Anne Duffy's poem Love, penned for her novel-length poem Rapture published in 2005, comments on the unpredictability of love's nature; an immortal, white-winged dove incapable of subjugation. ... In lines 1-2, Duffy presents somewhat of a literary crescendo. ... Perhaps the natural element in the poem could be an allegory for the addressee of the poem, and that he/she too embraced death as the leaves adored the wind. ... The device could be interpreted to reaffirm the preceding line that "[he/she] [is] everywhere", even in the hollow spaces that are interwo...

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