By the poetry elements of imagery, organization, and theme in the poem of Niemöller "First They Came for the Jews" and imagery in Gershon's poem "Race"; Arendt describes how totalitarianism effects are exposed, emphasizing the importance of diversity and tolerance in society. ... The organization of the poem offers an understanding of the idea of discrimination as a tool of total domination. ... Sentence structure is given by subject-verb-object pattern, showed in the whole poem, intensifies a monotonous and neutral tone. ... The poem is composed by interchang...

• Word Count: 1800
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Graduate

In a typical sense, a reader of poetry will only come to truly appreciate a poem, once he or she has managed by some degree, to obtain a sense of conquest over the disorder, meaningless, and enigma which characterises most forms of poetry. However it is quite often the case that the reader is unable to fully explore and comprehend a poem , while at times even unaware that it has anything more to offer than what is literally written on the page - an oversight that quite commonly can be attributed to having a limited understanding to the context of the poem. ... I have deliberately selected thes...

• Word Count: 418
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: Graduate

Though there is no specific rhyme scheme visible, the poem is written in such a manner that it has a rhythmic flow. The poet deftly analyses the themes of music and individual reaction to music in the poem. ... Symbolism is also an important aspect of the poem wherein the songs are the symbols "My wife plays Stardust. ... " The song is "American popular music" as described in the footnote of the poem. ... To conclude I would describe the poem as a masterpiece as that which can be written by few, the poem will definitely prove as an inspiration for poem writers for generatio...

• Word Count: 1281
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Graduate

When writing a poem, an author often uses allusion to enrich the text - calling on noteworthy figures, ideas, or events that emphasize the poem's deeper meaning. ... Immediately into the poem, Larkin writes "[w]hen getting my nose in a book/Cured more things short of school", revealing how through reading he was able to find remedy to his troubles. ... Lawrence Ferlinghetti's allusion to Charlie Chaplin in "Constantly Risking Absurdity" may seem rather small but through its direct nature, it proves significant in emphasizing the poem's meaning. Beginning the ...

• Word Count: 794
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Graduate

His poems, 'Wild Swans at Coole' explores the conflicting tension of perpetual youth and our inevitable mortality while his great philosophical poem 'Among School Children' takes this dichotomy further in an often despairing quest for meaning in the face of 'sixty winters' of pain. ... The poem is structured in 5 stanzas, each consisting 6 lines, along with a rough iambic meter. ... The nature and persona's recognition of mortality brings the poem to a sombre conclusion as the physical distance between the poet and swans represents the vast metaphysical ga...

• Word Count: 892
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Graduate

Circumstances can influence positive change for many, this is especially true for the protagonist Professor Eisenbart in the poem "Prize Giving" the circumstance is the girl shooting the owl, in the Oscar Wilde text "The Picture Of Dorian Gray" it is where Basil Hallward Discusses Dorian Gray's youthful appearance which in turn causes change in Dorian, In the other Gwen Harwood poem "Prize Giving" the circumstance of Eisenbart meeting the flamed haired girl is the circumstance which influences change in Eisenbart, while in the article or satire by flaco, the circumstance is the environmen...

• Word Count: 470
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: Graduate

"Invictus" a poem by William Ernest Henley, is a distinctly visual poem that invokes the stoic ideals of self-mastery and resilience, allowing the responder to visually experience not only Henley's ordeal - but also to bear witness to his conviction. Written in 1875, in the year that Henley was to undergo leg amputation due to tuberculosis, "Invictus" is latin for 'unconquered' with its titular statement setting the underlying message of conviction throughout the poem. ... Henley's determination to deconstruct our common notions of pain, suffering and i...

• Word Count: 857
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Graduate

Both Eugene Delacroix's painting Women of Algiers in Their Apartment of 1834 and Charles Baudelaire's prose poem, "Beautiful Dorothea" can be understood in terms of Baudelaire's comment in the Salon of 1859 that "a fine painting should be produced like a world . . . each layer heightening the reality of the dream bringing it nearer to perfection." ... Both Delacroix's painting and Baudelaire's poem are distinctly foreign and are visions of the Orient and its women. ... The diction Baudelaire uses in "Beautiful Dorothea" conveys a multeity in unity that situates the...

• Word Count: 2157
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: Graduate

Vladimir Nabokov´s Pale Fire, first published in 1989 is considered to be one of the first Post-modern novels in the English speaking world, primarily because of its narrative structure; the novel is written as a poem with 999-lines by the fictitious writer John Shade. ... The foreword and commentary are far more extensive than the poem itself and this only underlines the fact that Charles Kinbote, the self-proclaimed King of Zembla, is trying to make the work his own. ... This imagined fictional tale creates room for interpretation, and although the reader may not be interested in literary...

• Word Count: 461
• Approx Pages: 2
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Graduate

This notion is portrayed in Peter Skrzynecki's poem, "10 Mary Street" (1975), through the family's ability to build and form a connection to their cultural heritage in a new country. However, in his poem "Migrant Hostel" (1975), the migrants' inability to relate to their physical and social environment due to their lack of empowerment results in their limited perception of belonging. ... In Skrzynecki's poem, "10 Mary Street," the family's ability to connect with the culture and spirituality of Poland has allowed them to establish a long-lasting sense of belonging to t...

• Word Count: 1116
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Graduate

In her own Language Arts classroom she developed MI theory activities such as creative writing, poems posed as problem-solving problems and puzzles, and poems created by a picture or a series of pictures. ... Classroom Connections Some of the suggested MI theory activities that I will implement in my own Language Arts classroom are: dance, visual arts, poems posed as problem-solving problems and puzzles, poems created by a picture or a series of pictures, making comic strips, playing songs and discussing/analyzing the meaning of the lyrics, free reading and journaling, creative writing, stude...

• Word Count: 1304
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Graduate

The affirmations of the former poem were not written out of ignorance of human suffering, and the vituperations of the latter poem cannot be understood apart from the contumely which Pope suffered at the hands of his adversaries "Lady Mary Wortley Montague, Lord Hervey, John Dennis, Joseph Addison, and Lewis Theobald, to name a few. ...

• Word Count: 590
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• Grade Level: Graduate

This dichotomy is explored in Peter Skrynecki's poems "Migrant Hostel" and "Feliks Skyrznecki" as well as Hayao Miyazaki's film Spirited Away. ... This nature is explored is Skryenecki's poems "Migrant Hostel" and "Feliks Skyrznecki" as well as Miyazaki's "Spirited Away....

• Word Count: 1019
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• Grade Level: Graduate

The poem "Comrade Napoleon" along with the "Seven Commandments" indicate the vital role religion and literature can play as ideological state apparatuses in disciplining the masses. ... These two poems, in fact, constitute the driving forces behind the two major patterns of attitudes of the animals in the novel, namely revolution and submissiveness. ...

• Word Count: 1473
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Graduate

In the final line of the poem, this desire evolves into purpose as Ulysses preaches the aphoristic statement: "to strive, to seek, to find and not to yield", with its repetition and rhythmic resonance emphasising the resolute human drive to travel and prompting us to appreciate discovery as a multidimensional process. ...

• Word Count: 917
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• Grade Level: Graduate

Here in the plays of William Shakespeare, poems of Edgar Allen Poe, the stories of Jonathan Swift and/or other predominantly male literary forms, that she encountered would she experience her first taste of true literary art. ...

• Word Count: 1471
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Graduate