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...

• Word Count: 788
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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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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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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...

• Word Count: 1990
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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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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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Not only do the two poems have different perspectives and diction, they are also constructed differently. Although both poems have two stanzas, the rhyme schemes are different. ... On the other hand, Blake uses a regular AABB rhyme throughout the whole poem in "Infant Sorrow". ... The first lines of the first stanza and the first couplet of the second stanza are identical in each poem; however, the way the poems develop is in sharp contrast due to the different use in diction and imagery in each poem. In both poems, the nurses express their own thoughts and feelings before they ca...

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Choose three poems and consider how far they support this view of her work. ... However, in this essay I shall explore this in further depth by looking at three poems: "A dream", "A Birthday" and one of the many poems entitled "Song", beginning "When I am dead, my dearest." ... In my opinion this poem has two main themes, both of which greatly contribute to the overall feeling of the poem. The first is the refusal to separate from each shown by the two pigeons in the poem. ... The second poem I shall explore is called "Song". ...

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Siegfried Sassoon's poem The Rear Guard encompasses various poetic techniques which gives this poem a realistic approach of the experience of being in the trenches through a soldier's perspective, who forms the basis of the poem Sassoon shapes the idea that the solider is unable to see clearly by using carefully placed punctuation. ... "Terribly glaring up, whose eyes yet wore agony dying hard ten days before" is an example of the poet's use of imagery in the poem. Imagery provides the main frame of the poetic techniques used to make the experience of being in the trenches ...

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Meant to resemble a eulogy, the poem describes the ordinary life of a deceased man in the perspective of his government. Throughout the poem, we learn he was a loyal Union member who worked in the same factory until retirement. ... The poet ironically concludes the poem asking the crucial questions of: "Was he free? ... The beginning of the poem and the title manipulates readers' into thinking it is about a romantic encounter. ... As shown with these poems, irony establishes depth within a poem and conveys emotions and messages without blatantly stating so. ...

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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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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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In this section of the poem love is represented as a beautiful thing that can last forever. ... This shows a far less nave, and infinitely more shallow, interpretation of love than he describes at the poems beginning. ... Interestingly, this poem seems to show another aspect of love, apparently unintentionally. ... Overall, this poem, in my opinion at least, seems to show an extremely superficial idea of love, based entirely upon physical appearance and basic human lust. ... If this were the case then the poem could be more about an infatuation, which is an entirely different kind of love alto...

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These devices all contribute in their different forms to our establishment of meaning from the poem. ... Possibly the most emotive image in the poem is the reference to "part of my blood's country." ... This view is assisted by the rhyming pattern, or lack of one, evident in the poem. ... Alternatively, Woman to Man, the second of the poems, shows a regular rhyming pattern and rhythm. ... While the poem relies mainly on emotion, it also introduces paradox into it. ...

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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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Irony is a significant device used by the poets in the slavery poems "On Being Brought from Africa to America," "The Dying Fugitive," and "Middle Passage." ... In this poem she uses a highly intelligent and scathing verbal irony. ... The poem also has traces of situational and cosmic irony. ... One difference between the last poem, "Middle Passage," and the other two are that the authors of the previous poems lived during the time of slavery and had personal experience with the peculiar institution. ... The three poets of these slave poems all had different perspectives and aims for their p...

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