In his poem "Tommy," Kipling describes the reasons for the frustration of a British red-coat during the colonial days. ... After commenting on the general relationship between the two groups, the speaker reverts to the poem's quasi-chorus and in it he states that a t peace time, the colonists question the morals of the soldiers by asking, ""Tommy, "ow's yer soul?" ... This duplicity makes the speaker feel used and makes the community appear dishonest. ... Furthermore, he feels sorry that the soldier suffers through this abuse. The parallelism he uses to conclude each stanza...

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• Grade Level: High School

The poem follows the iambic pattern (x) and the main structure is the iambic pentameter- five feets in each line-. ... The couplet is used as a turning point to tell us that immortal youth can be achieved for "my love-- the young man- by means of verses in his poetry. ... The purpose of the poem is clarity, simplicity and directness. DETAILED ANALYSIS In the 1st line the poet makes use of a recorded proverb of the age, "Time devours all things-. ... Lines 2 and 4 share the same idea - L2 The earth devours her own children in the sense that they all return to the dust and ashes of whic...

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• Grade Level: High School

Service writes this poem in a style similar to that of a resident of the Yukon in the time of the gold rush. ... The story that the poem tells is of true love for the Yukon. ... (lines 39-40) In these quotations, alliteration is used to emphasize the point that is being made. ... (lines 69-72) Service riddles this final passage, with parallelism, alliteration and mid-line rhyme to end the poem on a memorable note. ... Service's poem. ...

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The poet uses apostrophes: "O thou by Nature taught", or "O chaste unboastful nymph, to thee I call!" ... They believed that something, which is harmonious and simple, is beautiful. ... After that it disappeared from poetry after the gradual decline of Roman poetry. ... There are many devices used in the poem which strengthens its emotional character. ... There is also parallelism between 39th and 48th line: "Love, only Love" and "Thou, only thou". ...

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• Grade Level: High School

This use of paradox adds intensity to the sonnet and lays the foundation for the following quatrain. The first quatrain is like the silence before a storm; the way it is presented suggests that there is more to come. ... In a passage such as this, the distance between the composing author and the fictive speaker almost vanishes, as it is very easy to imagine that Shakespeare, a master of expression, would tell himself that a perfect ceremony of love could be invented. ... Furthermore, the verbal parallelism of the octet is replaced by an irregular line-motion as the persona's agitation ac...

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