Shahriari skillfully uses vivid diction, awakening tone and the use of rhetorical devices in his poem to showcase his immigrant voice and feelings through his literary work, showing the struggle he had to endure and how it made him the man he is today. ... Thirdly, throughout the passage Shahriari subtly uses rhetorical devices to show a persuasive feel throughout the literary work. ... His use of rhetorical and persuasive devices throughout the poem showcases his true feeling in the matter of his poetry. ... The time frame of this poem being written puts a loud voice of struggle into this pi...

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In this poem, the literary devices of tone, allusion, and trope, all build on each other to express the frustration and anger that a woman's relationship with god is dependent on her marital status. ... A literary trope uses language to give off the recurrent theme of the poem. ... by Emily Dickinson has many literary devices working together in order to explain the meaning of the poem. ... This is the significance of any literary device. Through close reading of this poem, and intently analyzing the way the literary devices work together, the poem was able to relay the frustration of ...

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Through the poet's literary devices and use of language, a poem comes to life, the quality which is lacking in most translations of the same. ... " However, behind the literary devices and imagery that this translation presents, is lacking depth and pathos. ... " However, Kunitz goes the extra mile in that his poem truly preserves some of the beauty of the original, through his literary devices and his ability to spin the poem to give it meaning. ... Kunitz's ability to take a foreign poem, translate it, and augment it by adding his own twist to the poem. ... Within the aut...

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The two poems being compared are both love poems. ... Both poems are well written love poems that have similar subjects (love) but differ dramatically because of their structures, meaning, and literary devices. ... Poem two contains all of these elements which makes it a fixed form poem. ... Another literary device in On My First Son is words. ... After comparing both poems one can see that though their subjects are similar each poem's structure, meaning and literary devices are not the same. ...

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Aside from the contents, I was impressed with the level of literary complexity of the Qur'an. The messages from the text are conveyed with various literary structures and devices. ... To me the style of poem-like prose is remarkably beautiful, and also extremely powerful. ... Brown summarizes that the seeming disorganization of Quranic literary expression is in fact a literary device capable of delivering profound effects as if the intensity of the prophetic message were shattering the vehicle of human language in which it was being communicated. ... The literary styles of repetition, ima...

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This poem is written in blank verse. ... This poem is complex and makes the reader look for the deeper meaning in the poem (Angelou 11). ... There are a lot of literary devices used in this poem. ... This poem doesn't have a lot of literary devices. ... Angelou uses literary devises like similes in the phrase, "He's so much like his daddy when he cries" (Angelou 18). ...

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Metaphors are one of the more important literary devices Frost uses to support the main theme of the poem, which is making a choice. ... Frosts use of tone helps us better understand the meaning and theme of the poem. ... The tone in the fourth stanza truly shows us the meaning of the poem. 1. ... Secondly, metaphors are one of the more important literary devices Frost uses to support the main theme of the poem, which is making a choice. ... Like the poem people face decisions that seem to have two perfectly good options. ...

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In the poem "i thank You God for most this amazing,"" E. ... Cummings uses such literary devices as symbolism, imagery, allusion, and syntax to show that the speaker of the poem has just experienced a rebirth.The speaker is thanking God for allowing him to see life in a new light and to be reborn again for a fresh start.By using these various literary devices, Cummings is able to show the extreme gratefulness the speaker in the poem feels because he has found a new outlook on life. ... Cummings' use of structure and syntax contribute greatly to how the poem is interpreted.The most...

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His experimentation within language and forms brought a rapid change in literary tastes. ... The poem's speaker Prufrock, seems to be addressing his possible lover. ... In this paper, this poem will be examined from two literary theories. ... The simplest goals of Marxist literary criticism can include an assessment of the political 'tendency' of a literary work, determining whether its social content or its literary form are 'progressive'. ... Reading Prufrock through Marxist Lenses Prufrock can be described as an exploration of the Marxist idea through different poet...

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Owen uses other literary device such as smile to describe the soldiers for instance when he describes them struggling to put on their gas masks. ... The tone that Owen uses is unchanged throughout the poem. ... Just like Owen, Jarrell shows the horrific aspect of war in his poem and he is giving us an insight into war. ... The use of literary devices by authors in "The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner","Dulce et Decorum Est" and "The Things they carried" is instrumental in emphasizing their points. Through different methods and devices that are used, the main idea is the same tha...

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Some of the satiric devices are humor, irony, invective, mock-enconium, grotesque, comic- juxtaposition, mock epic/heroic etc. ... They are just add-ons to the larger scheme of things in the poem. ... With the help of the use of the device of Irish bard, Dryden explicitly states the true nature of Shadwell. ... Mac Flecknoe doesn't utter a word throughout the poem. ... "The combination of literary allusion and obscene innuendo give Mac Flecknoe its characteristic tone. ...

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Alexander Pope has long been considered one of the greatest satirists that English literary tradition has ever seen. ... Pope tells us that with the aid of certain devices he will explore this theme, and it is at this point that we become acquainted with the "machinery" of the poem. ... This is only one of many striking examples of Pope's use of bathos as a device to aid his satire. ... When we read this poem in its entirety, it seems clear that whilst the original purpose of the poem may hold true, Pope certainly viewed his poem as an "adventitious vehicle for satire" . ... As I h...

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Literature also makes up a unique reading styles because of the different literary terms and rhetorical devices that it possesses such as simile, metaphor, imagery and many more. ... Allusion is a reference in one literary work to a character or theme found in another literary work. ... Style is the manner of expression of a particular writer, produced by choice of words, grammatical structures, use of literary devices, and all the possible parts of language use. ... Two things I have acquired from this class are that there is more to literature than just plays, poems, and nonfiction stories....

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The first draft of "Thanatopsis," his most famous poem, was written when he was 16 years of age, and he was only 27 years old when his first published volume, Poems, appeared in 1821. ... Emily Dickinson- Heralded as one of the most gifted American writers, Emily Dickinson authored nearly 2,000 poems. ... In 1917 her collection Renascence and Other Poems was published. ... There, in 1925, his literary skills were discovered after he left three of his poems beside the plate of American poet Vachel Lindsay, who recognized Hughes's abilities and subsequently helped publicize Hughes's wo...

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Later authors like Sappho and Sophocles build on these literary devices in a blending of oral and literate cultures. ... These epithets assist the orality of the poem by giving the narrative more detail and imagery. These epithets also aid the presentation of the poem by acting as available lines in the singing of the poem. ... Beyond the structure of the poem, however, perhaps Homer's greatest device is the use of simile and metaphor to create images that were clear to his illiterate audience. ... Homer shifts reality to make the poem more memorable and to indicate an important part ...

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Later authors like Sappho and Sophocles build on these literary devices in a blending of oral and literate cultures. ... These epithets assist the orality of the poem by giving the narrative more detail and imagery. These epithets also aid the presentation of the poem by acting as available lines in the singing of the poem. ... Beyond the structure of the poem, however, perhaps Homer's greatest device is the use of simile and metaphor to create images that were clear to his illiterate audience. ... Homer shifts reality to make the poem more memorable and to indicate an important part ...

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The poem speaks through the usage of imagery. ... The development of the poem clearly shows the voice through which the poem is spoken, This poem was written as a final product showing how her presence provided for inspiration. ... Within the poem written by Lord Byron "She Walks in Beauty" there are many different poetic devices. ... There are also many poetic devices like alliteration , simile and internal rhyme shown throughout the poem. Thus making of this poem...

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Analysis of figures of Speech and Poetic Devices. ... The poem is a metaphysical poem expressed in a romantic form, so it could be easily categorized as a love poem. The title addresses who the poem is from and who it is being addressed to. ... The dominant poetic device is its metrical system. ... The writer uses a poetic device known as polysyndeton to conjoin phrases in close succession in line 29 and 30, ("And your quaint honor turns to dust, And into ashes all my lust....

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After his graduation in 1837, he started attending meetings with Transcendentalist's, whose ideologies most significantly influenced Thoreau's literary work. ... Thoreau's profession as a writer started in June 1840, when in a new journal called The Dial, the first of many of his poems and essay's were published. A total of thirty-one of his essays, poems, and translations were printed. ... He employed a variety of literary styles and devices such as an easy pace, metaphor, imagery, mysticism. ... " Without question, Walden is Thoreau's best literary accomplishm...

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Similarly, Carol Anne Duffy's poem Love, penned for her novel-length poem Rapture published in 2005, comments on the unpredictability of love's nature; an immortal, white-winged dove incapable of subjugation. ... In lines 1-2, Duffy presents somewhat of a literary crescendo. ... Perhaps the natural element in the poem could be an allegory for the addressee of the poem, and that he/she too embraced death as the leaves adored the wind. ... The device could be interpreted to reaffirm the preceding line that "[he/she] [is] everywhere", even in the hollow spaces that are interwo...

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The structure of the poem itself is an example of comic irony. ... This creates a lyrical, jaunty rhythm, contrasting with the dark themes and sensory imagery of the poem. ... The notion of a cruel omnipotent God, is present in both poems. ... The relationships depicted by both Betjeman and Smith in their relevant poems are used with powerful effect. With the use of various literary, language and structural devices they both explore and portray the inevitability and finality of death....

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"Throughout this work, Keats intended to use the immortality of his poem to teach and admonish future generations. ... This poem "contrasts the timeless world of the urn with the upside-down hourglass that is human life (Shmoop). ... Wigod summarizes it well by saying "The principal tension in the poem comes from this awareness that what he most enjoys in life -- warm, youthful sensuousness, love and beauty -- must be spontaneous and fluid, ever-changing, if they are to retain their special vitality and charm. ... Jorge Luis Borges once stated that his first encounter with John Keats was the ...

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Margaret Atwood lures her audience in the poem "Siren Song" by utilizing many literary devices and techniques, which ultimately trick the reader into thinking that she will reveal something beneficial and the "song that is irresistible" (2-3). ... The genre of the poem is narrative. ... This allows the poem to flow right through. ... The poem is not actually going to be beneficial because the song is the poem. ... At this point in the poem the author has the reader lured into the poem and wants to tease the reader by using "fatal." ...

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A Norwegian painter named Edvard Munch, a very competent man he was and known as one of arts histories great and an American writer named Edgar Allan Poe which always has been a paradox in American literary history. ... Edvard Munch lived a longer life then Edgar Allan Poe, but both men were still became a big part of Art and American Literary history. ... Edgar Allan Poe has always been a paradox in American literary history. ... His stories, once dismissed as kind of gothic thrillers are now being analyzed for their self-conscious manipulation of narrative devices and their darkly view o...

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Marie De France, like Dante, has a distinctive literary form. ... Dante uses symbolism, characters and literary illustration, to impart his central message that the ultimate form of betrayal which stems from "love" (or, to the author, misguided romantic notion) is adultery. ... Petrarch's Quest for True Love and Spiritual Fulfillment The poems contained within The Canzoniere are spellbinding tales of love. ...

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