The intention of both William Blake and William Wordsworth is to portray their own deeply felt views in their poems. ... The poem is written in the mood of contentment and bliss. ... His style is rather hyperbolic and this tends to reinforce the concept of social coercion in the poem. ... Wordsworth's poems are in conflict between nature and humanity. ... Blake was more ingenious in his poems by enclosing a painting to enhance the readers understanding of the message enclosed. ...

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However, there is still the ability to argue the poem's natural form. ... Throughout Andrew Marvell's collection of the four, "Mower," poems it is clear that the pastoral world is being presented primarily as the poems are written in the presence of shepherds. ... The actual meaning of this poem expresses human intervention in nature, which then allows for this poem to be seen in an artificial way. ... " Many comparisons can be made between this poem and Christopher Marlowe's poem 'The Passionate Shepherd to his Love'. Marlowe romanticizes the Nymph in his poem. ...

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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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Whether you refer to his poem as "A Song" or "Ask Me No More," Carew revolutionizes the love poem and redefines beauty in such a way that the recipient of these words could care less about what the poem is called simply because it would be just as romantic with any other title. Breaking from the Shakespearean sonnet that had become commonplace, Carew's poem exhibits a few distinct structural differences that make it unique and memorable. ... This poem, albeit longer than a sonnet, does an amazing job of capturing as much imagery and emotion as it did in so few lines. T...

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The construction of such a male oriented world is explored further in another of Plath's 'Holocaust poems', 'Lady Lazarus. 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. ... The poem describes the entangled images of Plath and Hughes created in Sylvia Plath's poetry. ...

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In our society today we have those who choose to lead the way and those who choose to stay off in the distance and follow. A wise man once said," One man with courage makes a majority," and in fact this point is only justified in Richard Wilbur's Still, Citizen Sparrow. Wilbur's use of stylist...

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Both poems benefit from the sudden change of tones providing the backbone for their sense of belonging and place. ... Murray commences his poem with a plain yet effective sensory imagery of the "high cool country", which informs the reader of an isolated place. ... However it also becomes the turning point in the poem as the tone begins to change. ... The tone of the poem begins to change as the persona reflects on her lost connection with the landscape. ... We can conclude that different poems represent different yet similar ideas of landscape and thus their sense of place and conne...

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In the six stanza poem, "One Art," by Elizabeth Bishop, the poet points out that one ought to be almost indifferent to the loss of any given thing - and not upset - because some things actually want to be lost. ... However, later on in the poem it is evident that this rule (of indifference) is not applicable in all cases, because although something may be ready to be lost the possessor of that thing may not be ready to lose it. ... And by the end of the fourth stanza she reassures the reader that "The art of losing isn't hard to master"(12) as she repeats this statement f...

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Wilfred Owen's poems concerning WWI offer the responder a unique personal response as Owen was actually on the battlefield as an Army lieutenant. ... This sonnet takes this concept and ironically uses the form to point to the loss of a whole generation of youth due to war, instantly gives the responder the sense that the content of the poem is of serious nature. ... Owen further emphasises this idea of war killing the young with his use of "boys" and "girls" in the poem's conclusion The final metaphor, which completes the poem, is that of the "drawing down of blinds", this ver...

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GCSE English Literature: War Poems Compare two poems from the selection which make you feel sympathy for the people involved in war. ... Perhaps the most famous of these poems is that of Owen's "Dulce et Decorum est", a poem based on a re-occurring nightmare that Owen says haunts him "In all my dreams". ... Moreover, on looking at the draft copy of this poem, one can see that Owen chose to change the adjective "clauring" to "haunting" as a description of the flares. ... This poem is extremely effective as an anti-war poem, making war seem absolutely horrid and revolting, just as the auth...

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Writing good poetry is not just a cognitive matter; it takes a connection to the moment or a situation that really gives life and meaning to a poem. ... The meaning and driving force that is the heart of the poem. ... This is ideal for the best possible outcome of the poem being understood and appreciated. ... This picture must continue developing throughout the poem until it has been completely finished. ... This also is an additional tool that is not just used when writing poems or songs but all writing. ...

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In this article, Robert Graybill analyzes the deeper meaning of the poem The Dream of the Rood. ... To fully understand how the poem achieves this, it will be necessary to give a background on first the Anglo-Saxon people as a whole, and then on the poem itself, followed by an analysis of how the poem reveals the true depth of Anglo-Saxon culture. ... The author of the poem is unknown, as is the exact date of its origin. ... But, for Graybill, the real importance of the poem lies in what it shows of the Anglo-Saxon culture. ... The Dream of the Rood is a beautiful poem, and having read G...

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The poem appears to be like any other free verse but what makes Mackowski's poem special is its unusual content, the human mind. ... This juxtaposition of images is very clear in the second sentence of the poem. ... The metaphors used by Mackowski in the poem highlight the incredibility of the human mind. ... To make her poem easy to read, Mackowski uses a simple structure for the poem and mainly focuses her attention on the content itself. ... Mackowski does not use any consistent meter patterns or rhyme in the poem, but the poem is full of slant and internal rhymes. ...

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In this poem, Wordsworth idealizes nature at the same time he expresses his disapproval of mankind. ... As the poem progresses; however, the mood of the poem improves as Coleridge continues to fantasize over what all his friends might encounter on their walk. ... Coleridge's mention of "the Almighty Spirit" also indicates the poem's Romantic orientation. ... The rhyming scheme utilized in the poem is also uniquely Whitman's. ... Even still, the last two listed poems are still definitively recognized as examples of Romanticism. ...

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His first published poems appeared in the anthology Eight Harvard Poets in 1917. ... The poems excised from the original manuscript that were later collected in XLI Poems and & are generally more erotic in content. ... Structured in a pattern of darkness moving toward light, 1 x 1 begins with poems that denigrate businessmen and politicians and ends with poems praising nature and love. In his late verse--XAIPE: Seventy-One Poems (1950), 95 Poems (1958), and the posthumously published 73 Poems (1963)--Cummings effects a softer, more elegiac note, recalling his early affinity for New England ...

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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. ... 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. ... In the fourth and final stanza, Duffy renders the poem with a uniquely framed triplet. ... A pseudo-dénouement if you will, Duffy concludes the poem with a rather ambiguous ending; the reader is left complete...

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While containing the characteristics of an epic, Beowulf also has the elements of an elegiac and heroic poem. I believe this epic can be considered as a "heroic-elegiac poem-. An epic is defined as a "long narrative poem that relates the great deeds of a larger-than-life hero who embodies the values of a particular society."" Although this is found in Beowulf, the elements of an epic hero poem and an elegiac poem combined, more completely describe this piece of Anglo-Saxon literature. ... Combining the elements of an epic hero poem and a elegiac poem, it is seen how Beowulf is considered an ...

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Yeats" often drew parallel's between ideas within his poems, and also, between poems. ... The rhyming scheme of the poem can be described as "a a b b c c d d" and the poem is divided into 3 stanzas each with a repeated couplet. ... "Politics" (1939) is another of Yeats" poems which embodies one of his many re-occurring themes. At first the reader may be troubled at what the actual meaning of the poem is. The title of the poem itself may lead the reader to the false conclusion that the central ideas from the poem regard Politics. ...

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The speaker in the poem documents the experience of listening to a piano player in Harlem play the blues. ... The poem's last line, then, ignores the blues performer's ability to articulate pain and likewise to subsume it. ... Finally, at no point in time does the speaker in the poem insert himself into the lyrics. What this implies is that "The Weary Blues" can also be read as an anti-Jazz Age poem. That is, a case can be made in which we need not equate the speaker in the poem with Hughes at all. ...

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Bishop starts off the poem with such light-heartedness and playfulness, that the reader automatically starts to view loss as a natural and unimportant ritual. The first stanza gives the poem an instructional structure to it, where the reader is the student and Bishop the teacher. ... The poems irony comes out through Bishops use of rhyming, rhythm, syntax, tone, and structure. ... This rhyme scheme gives the poem a cheerful beat, which was Bishop's intent to cover up the seriousness of the poem. The number of lines (19), stanzas (6), repeated lines ("The art of losing isn't hard to ...

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Many of his poems criticise groups and individuals for their actions and attitudes within society, but we tried to find some poems to compare which were a little more hopeful and less dismal. Although these poems are not meaningless, they are a little more lighthearted than many poems, as they do not talk about war, conflict, death, or the doomed earth. ... This idea is also evident, to an even greater degree, in the poem "The High Mark". Dawe unashamedly and indiscreetly portrays the football player as a god in this poem. ... Both of the final lines in the poems under discussion follow t...

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"Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" Robert Frost's poem "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" is an excellent example of one of his darker pieces of writing. ... One can interpret the poem not only by considering the meaning of the words Frost uses in a literal sense but also by considering them as symbols. ... Initially, the poem may convey more transcendental ideals and thus appearing to be understood on a literal level -- the positive side. ... Reevaluating the poem with a more negative mind frame as well as interpreting the words as mere symbols, the poem takes on an entirely n...

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One of the migrants that decided to fight back against Australians through the use of poems is Ania Walwicz. Her poem "Australia " conveys her emotions about Australia, Australian perspectives and Australian people. ... The poem is mainly about the unwelcoming attitude and over glorified Australian culture. ... This poem has brought out the negative light of Australia that was usually silenced in that time. ... Each of the poems presented are written by a single person/author, so the reader is limited to the author's opinions and thoughts, however the poems were written by migrants who...

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At the end of the poem there is a slight reinforcement of the mother's grasp for control. ... Therefore, from the beginning of the poem the reader is shown a loss of emotional control felt by the parent in the poem. ... The poem ends with a reference to; "still I am fighting you off", reinforcing a loss of parental control as they're relationship is not developing or progressing. ... The last line of the poem; "As you ask me to skate in the dark" Shows the mother gaining a bit of control as her daughter asks permission to skate. ... The form and structure of the ...

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The fact that Blake himself described the collection of poems as shewing the contrary states of the human soul', must be seen as an invitation to view the poems of Innocence and Experience in relation to one another. ... In the world of Experience, "Nurse's Song" takes three of its eight lines from the earlier poem. ... The poem has two stanzas, each containing five rhymed couplets. ... The companion to this poem, found in the Songs of Experience, is The Tyger - read together, the two poems give a perspective on religion that includes the good and clear as well as the terrible a...

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