Shakespeare uses imagery to parallel the themes of the passage of time and nature by combining the two and using the idea of day and night to represent a natural clock. ... By talking about the passage of time in the first line and then using the imagery of day turning into night Shakespeare is able to parallel the two. ... Now again through the use of imagery and figurative language the author seeks to parallel the theme of the passage of time to the themes of nature and human youth. ... The structure of the poem is also noteworthy because the poem begins with the author pondering on the pas...

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Yeats" often drew parallel's between ideas within his poems, and also, between poems. ... This idea is paralleled with the image of a tiny fly riding the incredible natural force of a stream, which appears in the. ... "Long-Legged Fly" is clearly not a purely emotional poem and the unmistakably systematic structure of the poem, indicates that perhaps although all poetry may, on first reading, seem like a page of random emotion, it clearly does involve a number of ideas conveyed through poetic techniques such as imagery. ...

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The Songs of Experience' parallel poems from innocence to express the ways in which experience destroy what is good in innocence, whilst also expressing the weaknesses of an innocent perspective. ... The Tyger' also has a regular metre, which fit with its regular structure, in which a string of questions contribute to the expression of a central idea. ... The descriptions within the first stanza could be a parallel to the Garden of Eden before Adam and Eve were cast out. ...

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I thought that they also employed numerous parallel devices through their perspective of writing and through specific techniques. ... I thought that the poem, with its line structure and its broken form, helped develop the distasteful resentment that the author has for the other person. ...

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The typography of the poems, structure and figurative language are techniques employed by Harwood in order to convey this meaning. ... Typography alone in "The Carnival of Venice" does not have a significant effect, but when combined with rhyme and meter; Harwood uses the whole structure of the poem to act as a parallel to society. ... The structure of both poems also allows Harwood to criticise society's construction and oppression of women. ...

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The structure of Sunflower Sutra is crucial and an intentional device Allen Ginsberg utilized in ensuring that the listener received just the message that he intended him/her to receive. ... Thought and breath in parallel existence give the reader's words urgency , urgency was what Allen Ginsberg felt in 1955 when he looked out over the banks of the tincan banana dock and saw a world wrapped materialism world and being showered with the filth that was the product of its own worthless existence. ... The structure and order of this type of poetry left Allen Ginsberg feeling that his poetr...

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This man, was Count Leo Tolstoy, who went on to change his belief structure, values and to convert his religion from Russian Orthodox to Christianity. ... The images of blindness, like '"'eyes that did not see'"', parallel the child"'"s lack of understanding of the consequences of death. ...

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This clearness does not always mean the poem is easy to understand, but it does serve to create a sober mood that parallels the radical simplicity of each piece and draws out their serious, more complicated aspects. ... The Lamb has a simple form that reflects the structure: one longish, 10-line stanza of questions, and an equally long second stanza of answers. ... To transform complex issues into a simpler structure, Blake successfully uses various language and construction techniques. ...

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Love is a common theme in many poems written by many different authors. There are many different types of love and love can be conveyed in many different manners. Courtly love is a common theme in many medieval writings. Courtly love is a different type of love, as it is not based around sexual s...

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The poet is showing the reader that they are parallel ideas, and rural and urban environments can co-exist. ... So, in conclusion, both poems strikingly convey the relationship between past and present through different techniques and structures....

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During the 1920s and 1930s he traveled widely in Europe, alternately living in Paris and New York, and de eloped parallel careers as a poet and painter. ... 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. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate