They are ordered in movement of technology starting off with the oldest way of transferring news and ending up with the modern way of spreading news used in our days. ... Because this was very slow, it was mainly used for important information, which is suggested by the last two lines of the first verse. " while the head / had to listen, the heart could wait". ... The verse still suggests that it was quite a hard way of transmitting news, as it "still took three men with all their variables". ... The second verse also consists of long sentences, but still divided up into 3 sentences. ... T...

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The body of this essay started one paragraph ago, when I started to discuss what I had mentioned in my introduction. ... Do not strand a quotation between two of your own sentences; it might drown out there and take your ideas down with it. ... If I see an essay that has obviously been printed from a computer, but that essay is full of spelling mistakes, I will be suspicious about the care you have taken with your essay because all word processors have spell-check programs. ... All that is really necessary here is a restatement of your thesis and some concluding words that give the reader a ...

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The man says that he must go because he had duties and obligations to do before he can rest. ... At the start of a poem, a family enters their cabin to find that it has recently been used. ... The sentences are all declarative, all facts. ... "The Elk" begins with a bold declarative sentence "In winter the poachers had used the cabin... "The Elk" is longer, two paragraphs the first with 16 lines, the second with 26, however the longer poems seems to require less contemplating. ...

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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). ... Keats accepts the unavoidable death; as a result, fears start to fade away. ... In the poem, Keats laughs because he is being sarcastic about approaching death. ... This sentence "Then to my human heart I turn at once," (4) stresses on human heart because Keats asks his own heart. Also, the sentence "ever must I moan," (7) accents ever because Keats repeatedly asks himself questions. ...

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Ozymandias is wrote in a sonnet because Shelley wants to be very expressive and enable him to explore the differences between art and political power. ... At the start of each poem there is rhyme on alternate lines. ... The start of Richard Cory starts with a lot of royal imagery "sole to crown, imperially.... At the start of Ozymandias, it is the only time Shelley talks in the poem and in the one that one sentence it illustrates that England was clearly at the heart of the world during this time. ... "When he," is repeated three times in three consecutive sentences. ...

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When all of these emotions are wrapped up in sentence be it together or apart it is defiantly a beautiful thing. ... Summer is chosen because it is the loveliest and the most pleasant season. ... Starting from the ninth line Shakespeare shifts his tone with a great passion: "Thy eternal summer shall not fade." ... In the next three lines the poets assurance becomes even firmer with promises that his beloved will neither become less beautiful nor even die, because she is immortalized through his poetry. ... It is amazing that something so powerful can come in the form a sentence, in just a fe...

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In verse seven the author starts to develop his actual feelings about his father and grandfathers" line of work as it is incorporated into his life. ... He claims it as a squat pen because it doesn't add to the size and greatness of his fathers" tools, the spade. With the last sentence the author restates that he wants to be a writer with the statement "I"ll dig with it". ... But he still looks back on the days as though he misses them when he worked with his father. ... But then by the end of the poem he starts to have a realization within him that writing is his farming and comes...

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"Your Attention Please", by Peter Porter The first five lines of this poem are in one long sentence. ... The rest of the poem is a different structure, and there are lots more jerky sentences. ... A party starting soon". ... "Each night I ask the lord to get on with it. ... The man in the poem has a fetish with blood, and death. ...

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You find out that it does not start as you expected because the title indicates the poem to be set in a mid-term break but actually it starts at the end of the college. ... He should be in normal lessons with the other pupils. ... It shows big as Big (with a capital letter) to emphasize the word. ... The poem continues in the same sentence and so makes the time go faster. ... Paler now," (lines 16-18) In stanza five the sentence never finished so the poem carried on from stanza five. ...

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In the first stanza, we're greeted with a "lantern that wouldn't burn" (1), which Frost could have used to foreshadow that the poem, or 'night' is not off to a good start – and that things will get infinitely worse from here. ... However, in comparing the second stanza to the third, the third one is broken into two sentences. ... In the first sentence, it signals the conclusion of the story told up to that point, where "the ponderous beast" (9) has been killed. ... The automatic connotations that we associate with the word 'crack', is...

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The last sentence looks like an interrogative sentence, however it also gives us the certain answer about the environment around him. ... After reading this whole poem carefully, the structure that writer used was clear and logical, from seeking the temple, then felt emptiness and appeared motions that finally made him to sit still and started study himself in some extent. ... Since the poem was writing in spring, because of the natural the trees grow new leaves, the flowers bloom and the grasses grow tall. However, the state will not back to the old time, the families will not happy anymore b...

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With the other poem I find that I don't see any pictures but rather think about what the poem is talking about. ... The poem starts and finishes by describing something which we, the reader, are in a way free to make up our minds about. ... The questions may also be there simply because they keep the rhythm and rhyming going. ... It is also not quite as easy to understand, because the sentences are often rather cut off. ... The End --- 1072 Words By: Kevin Lang, Year 10 GISS started on the 7.9.03 finished on the 8.9.03 ...

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William Shakespeare's classical play "The tragedy of Romeo and Juliet" begins with a prologue. ... The first method is that the sections beging and end as sentences (at the end of the first 3 lines there are commas, but at the end of the fourth line of the section there is a full stop.) ... The next method that is applied is that each new sentence begins a different topic, moving the audience gradually through the storyline of the play avoiding confusion. ... These are used alternatively in the three sections, made of 4 lines so, for example the first line would rhyme with the third and t...

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Southern Vietnam didn't really like that, thus a civil war started. ... This president started pulling troops out of Vietnam. ... " This sentence stood out to me. ... They walk on past the farmer, with a gruesome detail of the man dying. ... As you can see, writers started composing terrific writings. ...

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Because the meaning of the original poem is unknown, one can't judge a translation on its proximity to the original. ... The poem possesses a specific rhythm where sentences end after completing a specific thought. ... " Reavey's style of writing creates a start-and-stop rhythm which one would expect to see in a bullet-point-list or an encyclopedia. ... The sentence "She wears earrings," just does not seem to belong in the poem. ... Since the original poem is unknown, once can't deem one translation superior in meaning or coherence with the original, but Kunitz&#x...

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The poet uses various poetic devices but the recurring use of enjambment suggests that the poet is having an outpouring of emotions and is not able to decide where to end his sentence. ... 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 wind again picks up speed and is now so powerful that the fields start quivering and the sky seems like it may vanish any moment with a bang. ... The poem follows a very well structured timeline beginning with th...

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The text is divided into four stanzas with four lines each. ... The thatcher is Heaney and through the use of straw he describes the way he writes his poetry: preparing and assembling each thought and idea and putting them first into words, then into a sentence, finally to make a poem. ... He arrives unexpectedly with few tools as necessities. ... The third stanza goes into more detail as the thatcher starts on his work and Heaney on his structuring the poem. ... I think this is because taken to a different level, he imagines poetry as something that you dig in for in your brain and once fo...

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This sentence is the key sentence in, "The Writer" by Richard Wilbur. ... At first I was confused because I thought that I had done something for them to "throw me out of the house." ... They decided that I needed to start to become my own independent person. ... I think that the reason why the starling was put into the poem was because the bird was going through the same things that the daughter was. ... The daughter must not give up because then she will never succeed....

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They resonate with the speaker's thoughts and emotions with the increasing removal from simple perception of details and a movement to more, full-blown details in the second stanza, as we will soon examine. ... What started as a simple description of a winter scene by a physically passive observer subtly develops into a kind of mindscape that implies a sort of vigil. ... The first sentence shows the speaker's mind encompassing huge spaces of land and sky into the frightening spectacle of theCentury's corpse? ... The second sentence emphasizes earthly shrinkage and aridness. ...

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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 obvious thing one can see by just looking at the poem is tha...

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In Verse One, Owen starts by explaining how he and the people around him are feeling. ... In this sentence, a knife isn't really 'knifing' them, so this shows that personification is used. ... Throughout this sentence, we can hear a repeated 's' sound. ... In Verse Five, we start to sense that the men are beginning to hallucinate. ... He writes, "Glozed with crusted dark-red jewels". ...

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The maid is living with an unhealthy obsession towards her mistress. ... The ambivalence in her own mind is what makes this poem particularly fascinating and mysterious to readers because it is relatively unclear what her intense feelings truly mean. ... It is indecipherable to the reader whether or not the maid keeps this secret from her mistress because she is secretly seeking a vengeance, or if it is because she cannot bare the idea of her mistress being linked with somebody else romantically. ... The enjambments draw the reader's eye from one line to the next in a basic run on sentenc...

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It started me thinking about change and how many people are frightened of changing themselves. ... The change of self occurs because the child is emotionally disturbed by the incident. ... His confidence is reflected by the long flowing sentences of the opening two stanzas. ... The main catalyst for the child"'"s change of self is the violent image of the father attacking the mother, with '"'gross violence'"'. ... The gentleness of the sun, in the final stanza, which comes to '"'wink and laugh'"' softe...

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At the time, Owen was put into a psychiatric hospital because the war had so badly affected him, broken his character. ... At least the men have something to look forward to, but then again maybe not, maybe the sentence has a double meaning, maybe "distant rest" is meant to be read further into and is a disguised synonym of the deaths that eventually the men will encounter. ... Also "shed" (as in "bloodshed") is likely to be a word that could be paired with "shod". ... The second stanza starts with the word "Gas!". ... There is a fish called the flounder, and because of it's blundering mo...

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Popular music is full of joy and movement, the blind man's face expression reflects this because he is smiling. ... Although in the beginning he is depicted as a frail weak man who is dependent on others, we can see an almost immediate change in his manner when he encounters the piano though he hesitates at first, the moment he finds the keyboard his hands start gliding over the keys doing what they are supposed to do confidently and gently. ... After the tuner has done his work, he requests someone to play, for which the man's wife gets up and starts playing the classical piece &qu...

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