Overall, I think that the poem, Sometimes with One I Love by Walt Whitman, theme is about love and love within someone. ... In the poem, I found a form of literary device which was alliteration, Sometimes with one I love I fill myself with rage for fear I, I found this in the first line of the poem. In this line they are expressing I, which interprets that the poem is focusing on one individual. Another literary device that I found was metaphor which is expressed in lines five, six and seven, I loved a certain person ardently and my love was not return'd, Yet out of that I have written th...

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For example, when reading an allegory, the reader may find it very difficult to detect and interpret the symbolism in the literary work. ... This state of something being unclear is a formal device called ambiguity. ... It is a poem portraying a rather strange moment between a young boy and his father. This poem may be viewed from two different standpoints. ... The third stanza of the poem contains the most ambiguity. ...

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Throughout the poem it is apparent that casual sex is not her cup of tea. ... The very first line of the poem asks a simple question, "How do they do it, the ones who make love without love". ... The informal diction in the poem allows us to get a straightforward answer. ... The most interesting literary device in the poem was the use of open form. ... In a short poem Sharon Olds makes it clear that she feels love should have everything to do with it. ...

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They can even bring a subconscious connection to the poem when used correctly. ... Throughout reading the compilation poems of Silverchest, I came across the use of a horse a few different times. ... While looking deeper into the poems, I began to see that the horse might symbolize more than that. ... As you continue reading the poem, there is a line that says " now the foals, they're stallions. ... But, these are the only two poems that I found use a horse to symbolize all of these things in some way. ...

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While Browning's poem is traditionally and conventionally a poem about love and admiration, Shakespeare rejoices the beauty of his lover beauty through time. A stark contrast can be observed as both poems focus on different elements of life, namely nature and religion, to facilitate in expressing their views about their loved ones. ... Noticeably, Browning repeats the phrase exactly seven times: perhaps representing the seven days of the week, expressing that she loves the addressee of her poem every day. ... Love, as a theme exists in poems, however differently, implying the many facets...

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