In the poem "Good Times" written by Lucille Clifton; the author reminisces on the pleasant days of her childhood. ... The poem uses simplistic terms to identify a complex dynamics of family and its" ups and downs. ... Repetition plays a major role in Clifton's poem of highlighting the significance of the happier times in her youth. ... The word good times in the poem also represents the negative aspects of her life such as "the insurance man is gone and the lights are back on." ... In the poem "Good Times", Lucille Clifton reflects on the happier days of her youth. ...

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Response to Emily Dickinson, Selections from " The Complete Poems" I found Emily Dickinson to be a wonderful poet. ... To be so full of creative energy to write thousands of poems is almost incomprehensible. Although we covered several poems during class I think this response would be better served to discuss one poem in particular. ... Written around 1861, 241 is in essence a poem about the realness of people. ...

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The poem "Wind" by Ted Hughes is a free verse following a quatrain pattern. It has a direct title which gives some idea of what the poem is going to talk about. The basic idea of the poem is a description of a storm by the narrator who is stuck in house during the fierce storm. ... The poem follows the effects of the storm on various objects observable from the house, starting with a metaphor comparing the house with a ship far out at sea at night and stuck in a storm. ... The poem follows a very well structured timeline beginning with the fact that the poet has already been facing t...

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Anne Sexton's poem "Cinderella" is based on the Grimm Brother's story of the same name. Though both are dark and cynical, Sexton brings a modern twist to the tale, infusing her poem with sarcasm regarding politics and generalities of today. ... At this point in the poem Sexton follows the Grimm Brother's storyline with, "But her big toe got in the way so she simply sliced it off and put on the slipper" (82-82). ... The only point in the story where hope is seen is when the dove is introduced into the poem and even that ends negatively. ... Sexton is filled wi...

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This is because it is a short poem that focuses in on the emotion of the poem, not the speaker or the event as much. Cullen shows how the happy feelings at the beginning of the poem change drastically to the hateful feelings at the end of the poem. ... Dramatic monologue is present in this poem as well, but the characters in which this ONE person is speaking to, is everyone who happens to read the poem. ... While reading this poem I felt as if this were occurring to me. ... The well-known theme in this poem was the issue of racism. ...

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The poem Jetliner is a poem that uses personification for the main part of the poem. ... The poem talks about the ways of comparing a plane to a jogger getting ready to start running. ... This poem uses similes and metaphors to compare these two objects. ... In the poem the poet brings the attention on whether the poem makes sense, meaning the jetliner compared. He asks about the way the poem says its main idea. ...

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This is though just the outerlayer of the poem, or the crust poem. ... This poem had a view lines with dark visuals. ... This poem to me is very unique becasue it is a very serious poem but it's done partly in rhyme. This to me is interesting becasue all serious poems now are done in pros. ... That's what is so great about poems. ...

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The poem, "Fog," by Carl Sandburg, and the poem, "Dusting," by Julia Alvarez, show literary elements including imagery, figurative language, sound, rhythm. ... The mood of this poem is kind of frightening, interrogating. ... There is also repetition of the word, "on," in this poem. ... The poem is a trimeter. Between these two poems, they contrast one another because they are two different kinds of poems. ...

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In the first part of the poem Shelley uses the dead leave to show the force of the west wind and its effect on nature as autumn arrives. ... In the second part of the poem Shelley changes from the image of the leaves to using the clouds to show the uncontrollable force of the west wind. ... In the third part of the poem Shelly uses the ocean and the vegetation that grows at the bottom of it to show how the wind affects everything. ... In the final part of the poem Shelley asks the west wind to "Make me thy lyre" and to take control and help him be creative to fulfill his inspiration. ... T...

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A poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley is called Ozymandias. ... This line of the poem is challenging the power of the king metaphorically. ... Bysshe has done this in this poem by challenging the power of the king. Due to the poet challenging the world around him it makes the poem romantic. ... A poem that also uses an exotic location is Kubla Khan....

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The poem that I chose to analyze is titled Incident written by Countee Cullen. I chose this poem because in so little words it says so much. ... This poem appealed to my emotions and moved me. ... The rhythm of the poem is almost like a nursery rhyme. ... I really liked this poem for many reasons. ...

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The explosion of the church becomes the climax of the poem and reveals the heartache associated with a death. ... It is apparent in Randall's poem that the mother is regarding the church in this manner. ... The poem illustrates the pain and distress the mother felt when the child was murdered. ... In this poem, many different ideas are shown. ... Through the poem, we feel a sense of family bond then betrayer on mankind. ...

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The poem by George M Cohan was different from the rest of the poems. ... The poem I thought was persuasive and if a person had read it before actually going to the war they would be more likely to go. The poem also talked about how they would go and fight till the end and would only return when it was over. ... All the poems except "Over There" were negative about the war. I think that many poets had negative poems because many people knew that war was not a pleasant situation. ...

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The Beggar Woman' is a narrative poem which is slightly comical in places to provide light relief. ... It also personifies time in line 22 which helps Andrew Marvell put across how the subject of the poem is feeling. The third poem Rapunzstiltskin' has many connotations which show various viewpoints towards the underlying meaning within the poem. ... The poem has many connotations and is full of clichés for example line 9. ... It has a very serious message lurking behind this pre-feminist comical poem. ...

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"The Great Scarf of Birds" prepares the reader for the ending statement by means of flowing through diction, organization, and the figurative language laid out in the poem. In relation to the poem's ending, organization of thoughts and descriptions is key. ... The setup of the poem creates a flow in which the narration is used to lead up to a topic that ends the poem, the narrator's heart and the lifting of the scarf that covered it. ... In the figurative language used in the poem the writer uses an occurrence in nature to tell a story of a past experience. ... The speaker'...

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The most apparent feature in the poem is the writer's use of rhythm. ... Another important feature in the poem is the author's use of tone. The tone of the poem is set right from the beginning with the line "Do not go gentle into that good night." ... During the middle part of the poem, the author tries to find the good in death. ... This poem is an example of one person taking nothing for granted. ...

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The poem is using a blank verse form commonly used by the romantics. ... Characterization is used in the poem as a way for the reader to identify with the theme. ... The author uses that symbolism throughout the poem. ... Phillips" poem describes someone full of defiance which is typical in a teenager. ... In the poem, the author conveys the character physically leaving home through using the car. ...

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He didn't come into fame until 1842 when he published Poems after his "ten years silence." ... In poem 7 from In Memoriam, there are images of darkness and loneliness. ... In this poem he is missing someone that has passed away. ... In Memoriam is a collection of poems that all deal with the subject of death. ... This shows in the different tones in each of his poems. ...

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In Szymborska's "True Love" we find a warm, tender, and shocking poem. ... Even though this poem is easy to be read as one that attacks or a critiques true love, the tone, questions, and wording of the poem shows that the poem is one that displays true love in a very amicable sense. ... However, what makes this poem so intriguing would be the last lines. ... True love in this poem comes with many images. ... " These quotes switch the perspective of the whole poem. ...

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An interesting idea conveyed in a convincing way in the poem "Suicide In The Trenches" by Siegfield Sassoon, is the idea that war is bad. ... The poet also accuses the reader in the poem, as shown by the line "you smug-faced crowds with kindling eye". ... Another interesting idea conveyed is the idea of propaganda in the poem "The Send Off" by Wilfred Owen. ... One more interesting idea conveyed is the idea of irony in a poem. There is irony in the title of Siegfield Sassoon's poem "The Hero". ...

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Reading this poem brings with it many emotions. ... Lines 13-14 of the poem read "With tremulous cadence slow, and bring The eternal note of sadness in". ... On line 9 of the poem, Arnold writes "Listen! ... Lines 21-22 of the poem read "The sea of faith Was once, too, at the full, and round earth's northern sea". ... This can be explained further in the final line of the poem, "Where ignorant armies clash by night". ...

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The poem "Cousin Kate" depicts a story of a young cottage maiden caught up in the brutal temptations of love and passion that is later cast aside by a great lord of a greater social superiority. ... The power that men had in the Victorian period is presented through the relationships between characters in the poem, as the liberties that women had in this time were limited. ... Rossetti illustrates this poem in a first person narrative so that the narrator can address her questions and moan to Kate. ... One key element in the poem is the climactic points in which tension is built and reduced....

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In the poem "Chicago", Sandburg is able to identify the existence of both good and bad in the city of Chicago because of his reliability, his descriptions of the Chicagoans, and the way he structures the poem. Sandburg's portrayal of Chicago is effective because of the realistic and reliable view that is used in this poem. ... Sandburg also wraps up the poem with those same descriptions in the last stanza. The imagery created when envisioning the people of Chicago opening and closing the poem, holding the rest of the poem together creates the idea that the people are also what...

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The purpose of the poem, "Dulce et Decorum Est", is to try to explain to the public that war is not at all glorious. ... The death of the soldier in this poem is neither sweet nor becoming. He brings out this purpose by using imagery throughout his poem. ... In just the first two lines of the poem, the soldiers are portrayed as tired and sick. ... Unfortunately, the poem's purpose is slowly revealed. ...

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In this poem, we read about a son who is struggling with his father's impending death. ... The poem can be read in a couple of different ways. ... The second is the life cycle that the poem seems to represent. ... When reading this poem, the first thing that is noticed Thomas" the use of repetition. ... The structure of the poem seems to represent the cycle of life itself. ...

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