Poetry Analysis of Robert Browning's "Porphyria's Lover" While reading "Porphyria's Lover" the main idea that stood out most in the poem was love. ... This element is used to indirectly show the speaker's character. ... Browning uses this parallel to the character of the speaker and the storyline. ...
An Analysis of "Aunt Jennifer's Tigers" It is difficult to depict a primary poetic technique within this poem. ... Marriage and the culture that supports it have effected the character in this poem greatly. ... This is paradoxical in that at first sight this poem is formal and conventional and yet within the lines lies a character in need of liberation. ...
Analysis of figures of Speech and Poetic Devices. ... A winged chariot is assumed to move quickly, so here the character unveils his natural attitude of being hasty and concerned about time. ... " Obviously, the character was not born during Noah's time. ... " In this case, the character uses hyperbole to exaggerate the beauty of his mistress and to flatter her. The character is fully committed to the conquest of satisfying her. ...
(Balance sharp-edged critical analysis with personal impression.) ... - Make brief notes for characters (who? ... How do the effect the theme/setting/plot/character development? ... Poetry To analyze poetry: - Title - Paraphrase: to put something in your own words after the first read through - Connotation: the actual/true meaning, examining literary devices - Attitude: author's perspective (tone/diction/imagery) - Shift: key words, punctuation, stanza division, length, change in sound - Title Revisited: 2nd impression/proper understanding - Theme: love, betrayal, lost love (...
At first glance, Yeats" poetry may seem to be merely spontaneous emotion, however, after close literary analysis, it is clear that Yeats" poetry is often fairly systematic and reveals an assortment of reoccurring ideas. When analysis of Yeats" works is undertaken, especially when discussing Yeats" ideas and thoughts expressed through his poetry, it is often useful to consider the context of the poems. ... These regularly reiterated ideas are clearly uncovered when analysis is applied to Yeats" poetry, which indeed, on first reading appears to be predominantly spontaneous emotion. ... The i...
In the modern poem, the man is the weaker character. ... The female character seems to be enjoying her isolation in the tower. ... The male is a weaker character. ... The re-working of the fairy tale genre is significant due to the stereotypical characters contained in them - reinforcing the idea of stereotypes and expectations of how men and women behave in society. Form Analysis The message seems to be that women should not wait for a man to come and rescue them - as they will be disappointed that men do not have all the right answers. ...
Alongside the character's loss of innocence, other supporting themes are present, such as drug abuse, the passage of time, and violence. Through immensely detailed description in imagery of the author's childhood memories and present day, we witness the personal growth and nostalgic recollection of memories of a character. ... This emphasizes the presence of the 'child' character in the poem. ... " This bizarre imagery and description of events in the author's childhood support the ideas of both having a very young character in the poem and the drug abuse. ... H...
"Ballad of Birmingham": A Poetic Analysis Poetry is a form of expression, a way of invoking feelings from a reader as well as expressing one's own. ... Randall presents his poem as a story complete with dialect between his characters, a narrator, a beginning to establish characters, a middle to build the plot and an end to conclude. ... The way the setting is portrayed gives the reader a sense of what is going on around the characters at the time the poem is set. Not only does this introduce the story, as the character description does, but it also contributes to an ironic ending. ...
The criteria for a canon is then necessary for the sake of focused analysis from different critical lenses. ... This is typical of the older dystopian fiction genre, as now and the majority of dystopian fictions revolve around a character is completely aware that they're living under the regime of a corrupt government. ...
In the poem previously mentioned by Richard Brautigan, I will show my analysis and I will explain the impact the context have in the meaning of the final message, although it can mean the opposite depending on the readers point of view. ... In the next three paragraphs I will present some of the elements found in the poem, a description of each verse and finally my analysis. ... He introduces characters being highly related to an electronic utopia, this characters consists of deers and flowers. ...
By using characters as a portal, Harwood recaptures the past in her poetry and constructs a deep foundation on which she builds an ensemble of emotions. ... Even as far back as the opening stanza of "Alter Ego" that quotes: "who stands beside me still- is a Rhetorical question that also conveys a sense of the urgency or longing on the part of the poet to unravel her identity, thus this poem is clearly a self analysis of Harwood's own past, as she enters her twilight years. ...
She personifies the character of death and then dramatizes the experience: Death is portrayed as a genteel friend who "kindly" stops to take to her grave." Style : - 6 stanzas, 4-lines each - Traditional meter, often found in hymns and nursery rhymes - Iambic pentameter Analysis: Lines 1-2- Death is greatly personified in these lines. ...
Analysis Burying the body of a relative with proper rites was a recurring theme in classical literature (such as in Sophocles' play Antigone), so it was not surprising that Ovid would make it part of the story of Seys and Alcyone. ... This comedic turn shows the difference between the noble, allegorical characters in the story (Alcyone, Juno, Seys) and the realistic, human characters of the poet's world. ... He describes her modesty, moderation, courtesy toward all, and the general integrity of her character. ...
Finally, Plath uses aggressive diction to analogise Hughes to 'a vampire', a fairy tale character likely familiar to her audience. ... It begins with the use of a second person active sentence describing the character of Plath: 'Your worship needed a god/Where it lacked one, it found one.... In this case, he uses familiar images to provide a significant analysis of Plath's tendency in conflation of her oppressive father and her later husband. ... It uses Otto Plath's familiar character to explore the power of Plath's poetry to subvert realistic standards of guil...
In this sense, readers can realise that characters are described as different type of universal human characteristics along the poem. ... Another character "Shaftesbury- is told to behave in bad manners: -In friendship false,"resolved to ruin or to rule the state-. ... The portrait of Shaftesbury as Achitopel is a picture of a complex and tortured character. ... In conclusion, there's a certain ironic humour in the parallels themselves and the development of the story in biblical terms but with a strict eye on contemporary events and characters in England gave Dryden abundant scope for ...
Different authors use various figures of speech to present their characters in plays or poems. For actors, figures of speech usually help to determine the most prominent traits of characters. The first part one of this paper analyzes the character of Doctor Faustus who is the protagonist of Marlowe's play who was overwhelmed with the desire to possess power and the presentation of the character as a pure villain in the play. ... Finally, this section will also compare the two characters with that of Satan, the major character in the poem "Paradise Lost" by John Milton. ... Throughout th...
Thus proving that the analysis on Emily Dickinson's poetry is some of the most emotionally felt works of the nineteenth century. ... Allen Tate describes her biggest influence to be nature itself, and though she could not deal with the problems of society, she had such an attitude toward life that she was able to see into this character of nature more deeply than any other (84). ...
In the description of fictional characters the writer may not suggest visual images at all for example. All these distinctions between literature and non-literature: personal expression, realization, lack of practical purpose and fictionality are restatements within a framework of semantic analysis of age old aesthetic terms such as: unity in variety, aesthetic distance, framing, invention and imitation. Literary work is not a simple object but rather a highly complex organization of a stratified character with multiple meanings and relationships. ... Plato's account of imitation would se...
In sonnet 141 (CXLI), Shakespeare speaks again of physical and emotional aspects of the persona's lover, however this sonnet differs in that the woman's physical appearance and ways of conduct are not appealing at all to the persona. From the start of the first quatrain, the persona declares his l...
The paper presents an analysis of Maya Angelou through researching her cultural context and how it helps readers to understand her work, influences among writers, her writing style applied to I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, her theories about literature and writing, and critical reception of the writers work. ... In the poem, Angelou utilizes scenes and conversations, which outline the different emotions of her characters. ...
Thoreau's best-known work is Walden; or, Life in the Woods (1854), which embodies his philosophy and reflects his independent character. ... His first volumes of poetry, The Torrent and the Night Before (1896) and The Children of the Night (1897), contain psychological portraits of the townspeople of Tilbury, whose inner depths of character are presented with acute understanding and irony. ...
