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 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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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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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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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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"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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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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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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John Betjeman's poem "In Westminster Abbey" is set in the beginning of World War II in Great Britain. ... In this poem, John Betjeman is elegantly satirizing the attitudes and visions of Britain's elite. ... Throughout the whole poem, John Betjeman makes an attempt to show the reader the effort that the then Britain's aristocracy made to contribute something to the war and their expectancy of winning it. The whole context of the poem is selfish, sentimental, evocative and provocative in a way, but that doesn't take the humorous parts away from it. ... Hypocrisy ...

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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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It had caused a social uproar and rage, because of the references of his bisexuality in the poem. Despite these critics and uproars, he still continued to write his poems for many years on. For many of his poems, such has, O Captain, My Captain, he writes in a dark, mourning tone in his poems, for example, "Fallen Cold and Dead" (Poetry Foundation 1). As in the poem O Captain, My Captain, he writes the poem in a very interesting manner. ... It is also known that Whitman was known as the "Father of Free Verse," but his poem doesn't contribute to this. ...

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" The central narrative of the poem, describes the death of an anonymous soldier who was overcome by a poisonous gas. ... The subject of the poem can be seen to stem from a letter by Owen to his mother in which he conveys the vivid description of being overtaken by tear-gas. In the poem, "Dolce Et Decorum Est," the long vowel sounds compliments the imagery that are describing the noun. ... The long "i: in limped and the short "o" in "blood-shot" works to also provide more description of the life of a solider and also contributes to the tone of the poem in which ...

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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.... "During that summer" is a popular opening line to the stanzas in the poem, which is repeated in order to create a reminiscent tone. ... " The unicorn appears throughout the poem symbolically as a metaphor for childhood. ... This emphasizes the presence of t...

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