It can be seen as a rather dull expression, as prose is what's normally expected when one picks up a book. However, the book Ludlow, by David Mason, surprises and entices the reader with its non-traditional style of writing, as Mason writes in poetry, which compliments the book better than classic prose style could. The first thing that writing in poetry adds to this book is extra emotion. ... The mesa sounded like a beaten man, pinned down and beaten senseless in the night the way it sometimes happened to a scab" (Mason, 2). Mason describes the mine explosions with a simile, &quo...

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Sidney Colvin notes in the book John Keats: His Life and Poetry "in the light of the tragedy to come its two first quatrains now seem to thrill with prophetic meaning" (259). ... In addition, the poem uses both iambic pentameter, "My fancy to its utmost blisses spreads," (10) which brings natural sound and trochaic pentameter, "O Darkness! ... John Middleton Murry states in the book Keats and Shakespeare: A Study of Keats" Poetic Life from 1816 to 1820 "it is not a reply to his own question: "Why did I laugh?"... The phrases, "high-piled book," and "rippen"d grain," show the poets" renouncemen...

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• Grade Level: High School

"Poetry is a form of imaginative literary expression that makes it's effect by the sound and imagery of it's language ("Poetry")." ... In Boston, Poe published his first book, Tamerland and Other Poems. ... Afterwards Poe published a second volume to his book, naming it Al Aaraaf. ... A couple of years later Poe's third book, Poems, was published. ... The next year he released another book, A MS. ...

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It relies on the book The Moon Seems to Change by Franklyn M. ... The lesson plan is a general idea of what can be done with the book and experiment. ... Most subject content areas use rubrics to decipher a students understanding of the material, while some just use sounds. ... The lesson plan uses the book "The nightgown of the Sullen Moon" . This picture book is a terrific choice to engage a child's imagination. ...

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Comparing Frost's "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening", "Birches", and "The Road Not taken" Robert Frost was an American poet that first became known after publishing a book in England. ... During a snowstorm, sound does not travel very well. ... The only sounds that are mentioned in the poem are the bells on the horse's harness and the wind. ...

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This flag was able to move into 196 different combinations which could be worked out using a code-book. ... Sound When reading the poem, it is very hard to get into the rhythm, as there is no rhyme. ...

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The poem goes on telling us about when they heard the distant tapping of the horses an example of this " we heard a distant tapping on the road " The author is using onomatopoeia to recreate sound. ... Genesis was the first book of the bible and recounts the creation of the world. ...

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But in another sense, his life was so short, so contradictory to itself that the words, the Life of Robert Burns sounds like cruel irony; as sad, shadowed, and disoriented as it was (Electric Scotland). ... In 1777 the Burns family moved to a farm at Lochlea, where Robert wrote most of the poems that appeared in Poems Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, his first book of poems (A Tribute). ... When not working he could be found with a book in his hands or a pencil and pad (Burns, Robert 709). ...

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The jaw becomes a barbed wire of concentration camps and the repeated "ich" of the German language recalls the sound of the engines carrying the Jews to the camps. ... "Meinkampf" is a book written by Hilter. ...

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In the first stanza the repetition of the internal syllable "oo" appears six times; "book," "foot," "room," and "wood." This sound appears only once in the second stanza; "swooping." ...

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In the everyday sound of a bird chirping and singing, a writer was captured, and from such a simple moment of pleasure a profound work of art was born. ... The question of whether or not historical background, personal experience, and family life, come out through a poet's writings first came to me after completing the poetry section of my literature book. ...

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• Grade Level: High School