English Assessment Poems: Clothes, It Will Not Change The poem "Clothes" by Elizabeth Jennings portrays the change of fashion and clothes over the years and the future. ... With the other poem I find that I don't see any pictures but rather think about what the poem is talking about. ... In the first poem the author uses a simple ABCB rhyming pattern. ... The second poem differs from the first one quite a lot. ... Like the first poem it flows very nicely but due to a lack of paragraphs it is not quite as snappy, so one would rather read it slowly, also to take in everything the po...

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A Married Woman's True Love Brief excerpt of the poem: It is true love because I do not resent watching the Green Bay Packers Even though I am philosophically opposed to football, It is true love because If his mother was drowning and I was drowning and he had to choose one of use to save, He says he"d save me. ... Literary Response: It is a modern poem written by a married woman, and every single word in the poem reveals her deep emotion inside about her husband and her family. ... The poem emphasizes on one topic that what the author's true love is. ...

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In poetry, love is the theme of a poem, which is a common use of a device for all poetry. This method allows us a sense of the speaker perception while writing these poems. ... One poem discusses the love for his beloved who didn't show her love back to him. ... Both poems though describe love as unconditional and passed up. ... Although both poems have their difference, they do have similarities too. ...

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In this poem, Emily Dickinson is expressing her way of recovering after someone or something she loved is no longer around. She divides the poem into two perspectives: those of her heart and of her mind. ... In the last stanza of the poem, Emily is addressing her heart, "asking" it to let her know when it is successful in getting over the warmth, or physical closeness, of the loved one. ... In this poem, it seems Emily feels that the heart is stronger than the mind, in the sense that the heart will grasp fond memories and emotions, making it harder for the mind to forget. ... This poem contain...

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Anyone who has experienced a break in a relationship that results with a broken heart can empathize with John Donne's poem "The Broken Heart" after some thought. A somewhat bitter poem, Donne fills the verses with similes and metaphors that compare love with the uncaring yet destructive items he chooses. Specific comparisons made in the poem show how the author sees love as it treated him. ... Many poems are flowery, romantic poems on how love makes the world beautiful, but Donne says, "They come to us, but us Love draws./ He swallows us and never chaws." ... War and illness also play...

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The poem "When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be" by John Keats, is about life and death. ... I personally found the poem to be very deep and extensive and by this I mean that as soon as I read it, I felt as though I had stepped into another world like when he stated, "Never have relish in the faery power/ Of unreflecting love; -then on the shore/ Of the wide world I stand alone, and think/ Till love and fame to nothingness do sink" (lines11-14). ... There are many personifications found through out the poem like "night's face", as well as metaphors such as "chance-hand" and "world&#x...

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In this poem, Anne Bradstreet says that she values the love of her husband more than gold. ... The last two lines of the poems read, "Then while we live, in love let's so persevere / That when we live no more, we may live ever." ... If Anne Bradstreet had lost her husband in the fire, the poem may not have been as calm and tranquil. ... She expressed how much she cared for him in the previous poem, and would have been very upset to have lost him in the fire. 5. From this poem, I have learned that Bradstreet's life was full of hard times that she had to get through. ...

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Sylvia Plath was an American poet who wrote many brilliant, yet controversial poems, including her well-known work, "Daddy." ... In the poem "Daddy," Plath felt a distance between her and her father. This is because Plath's father, the protagonist in this poem died when she was eight years old. ... Throughout the poem, she expresses the feeling in a very contradictory and confusing way. ... Next is where we can see her obsessive feeling towards her father is potrayed throughout the poem. ...

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Despite this, the tone of the poem seems bitter. ... The Turn of the poem, when we realize he is scared, is when Drayton talks about love dying as if it were a person. ... The tattoos in the poem can be compared to the permanent committed love she wishes she could attain. ... The turn in the poem comes in line thirteen "Such permanence is terrifying.... I feel that both of these poems are good poems. ...

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Written from a first person point of view, Teasdale makes it clear the poem is personal to her. She starts her poem with, "I am not yours, not lost in you, Not lost, although I long to be"" (1-2). The information within those two lines establishes the theme for the entire poem. ... The final stanza of Sara Teasdale's poem becomes more cheerful and in some ways changes tone. ... The two lines also very shrewdly ends her poem on a positive outlook. ...

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What is a carpe diem poem? ... Everything in this poem screams carpe diem poem. We have also read Rich's poem "Living in Sin" which is just the opposite of Marvell's poem. ... Another difference between the two poems is that Marvell's poem is broken into three different paragraphs, each with a different idea while Rich wrote his poem with one paragraph and the poem is basically the same idea throughout the whole thing. ... That is another difference in the style between a carpe diem poem and an anti-carpe diem poem. ...

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In 1867 Arnold wrote his most famous poem "Dover Beach". ... The image of the sea is seen throughout the poem. ... At the beginning of the poem it starts off "calm"(1). ... This point is also the climax of the poem. ... On one hand some might call "Dover Beach" a love poem. ...

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However, in "I Am Offering This Poem" by Jimmy Santiago Baca, he is expressing his love by similes through this poem. ... Jimmy Santiago Baca uses similes in his poem to express his feelings that are from his heart, offering this poem as a sign of love and affection. Jimmy Santiago Baca uses a lot of similes, comparing his poem to objects that should be held onto. ... Because you can't actually use the poem itself to keep you warm in the winter, can you? ... Comparing the poem to that, tells us that when we're lost use his poem to direct you to some destination. ...

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Robert Hayden's poem "Those Winter Sundays" is shorter but have a similar subject. ... Both poems are very short and the interpretation the meaning depends on reader's perspective. ... The reader is missleaded by the title expecting to find a poem about loving father. ... The poem is so moving and it has a great meaning packed in few words. ... Word choice is very realitic which give more universal meaning to the poem. ...

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The first stanza of the poem expresses the poet's strong passion to his beliefs. ... In this poem, Wordsworth gives the readers a mental image of how beautiful nature can be. ... Throughout the poem the position of the moon is expressed. ... " and the use of an exclamation mark at the end of the poem. ... By looking at the poems tone, image, and diction, it can be seen that William Wordsworth poem "Strange Fits of Passion have I known" is that of a romantic one....

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The theme of love appears to be simple, but is actually complex in Browning's poem. "Porphyria's Lover" is not a sensitive love poem; it is a poem that shows what love can sometimes do to people. First in the poem, the speaker describes feelings of somewhat fear of heartache or heartbreak. ... The speaker of the poem basically remains unidentified. ... The third B flows with the poem, yet appears slightly out of the ordinary. ...

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Three of her poems are: For my Daughter, Woman to Man and The company of lovers. Centre on themes such as love, time, birth, death and the purpose of life in these poems. ... When I read this poem I was amazed at the growing embryo and what would happen to the child as it develops. ... When I was reading this poem it was saying to me that love and companionship was important. ... One example from the poem for antithesis is meet and part, which shows brevity of their relations and fulfillment. ...

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Poems can touch a person's heart like nothing else can even come close to. ... The most captivating of all poems are love poems, especially when they are telling you of how beautiful you are. ... Poems have been around since the beginning of time, just as language, just as life. ... Not only did they write poems to God but also to one another. ... Poems also come in many forms, the obvious love poem, poems of despair, envy, thankfulness, paranoia, and any emotion known to man. ...

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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. ... This poem by Whitman does not have free verse because he continues to use rhyme as "I" throughout the poem. A structure element that this poem does have is catalog, which is expressed in the sense...

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Also through those years have helped her wrote many beautiful poems. ... In affectionate and slightly exasperated poem, Christina likens him to a buzzard and a mole. ... With the poems of deaths was when Christina was in her years of illness and sadness. When those years of illness she wrote poems comparing herself to deaths. ... To read about her poems and her life is very interesting. ...

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Both poems are presented as lists. ... Soliliquy of the Spanish Cloister is a poem of immense hatred and rage. ... The poem is arranged as a pair of lists, each with its own function. ... Every line of the poem reveals this fact. ... When read aloud, the words of the poem flow musically off the tongue. ...

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Shakespeare wrote poems of admiration as well as poems of suffering because of love and separation. ... Sonnet 18 is a poem of admiration and glorification of Shakespeare's lover. ... Sonnet 18 is a poem that glorifies the subject and his or her beauty. ... Instead of being a poem of admiration, Sonnet 97 is a poem about the separation from this person he loves. ... Sonnet 18 is similar to many love poems because it is flattering. ...

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She incorporates life into her poems through different types of poetic expression. She also uses unique punctuation and capitalization to express the feeling in her poems. ... Eventually Emily began to write poems in her letters to her friends and relatives. ... She was the type of writer that you have to read her poems repeatedly and intently. ... In Dickinson's poetry, connotations are used throughout all of her poems. ...

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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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"These Envoys" In reading of Michelle Boisseau's poem "These Envoys", walking in hand is light and love. ... The poem also gives the reader a message of love. Boisseau starts the poem with "Billet-doux" and end with love. ... This expression arrives through the poem of how the speaker wakes up at 5 A.M. to pick up the newspaper. ... In accordance, the speaker also starts the poem with these two elements; light and love. ...

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