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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"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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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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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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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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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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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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As Emily got older, she started to challenge these conventional religious viewpoints of her father and the church. ... She did not agree witht he religion of her father, so he began to start censoring the books she read because they could potentially draw her away from his religion. ... This is when she started to live a life of seclusion. ... They also arranged her works with titles, rearranged the syntax and standardized Dickinson's grammar. ... Dickinson and Morrison both saturate every sentence with so much meaning that it can sometimes flood the readers thoughts to the point tha...

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The work of a Great American poet- Robert Lowell Robert Lowell was considered the greatest American poet, because his style created an eminent change in American poetry according to Ernest Hilbert. ... Hilbert also states in his Essay on Robert Lowell that because Lowell suffered from many disorders he then became dependent on drugs, and went through several marriages and non- stable relationships. But Hilbert also mentions that Robert Lowell started his career by adopting the styles of another poet known as T.S. ... Both Eliot and Lowell speak with a change in pitch of their voices, and a ...

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Mrs Midas' life and relationship with her lover have been changed suddenly and against her will, and all because of one thoughtless wish made by Midas.  ... She feels that because of this her partner, with his "Greek god" appearance, is straying away from her and towards women who are younger, "girls". ... In the last line Medusa instructs to "look at [her] now", which is ironic in reference to the Greek myth, as anyone she meets eyes with will turn into stone, but this also works as a compelling finishing sentence. ... However, in the last stanza Duff...

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We imagine the soldiers as being tired and due a break from the ceaseless fighting as they stroll towards their distant rest because the passage states that the men where "deaf even to the hoots of gas-shells dropping softly behind" and, "Drunk with fatigue". ... Their bodies are more or less disabled with everything they have had to put up with. ... Another image that points a clear illustration in our minds of the horrendous nature of war is in verse two when the pace quickens up and the sentences become shorter with the use of more exclamation marks to suggest to us of the extreme panic in...

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The majority of people believe that Romantism is connected with and limited by the topic of love. ... Such is the case with the poems The Lamb and The Tyger. ... Both poems consist of only one exclamatory sentence, each emphasizing respectively on the good and bad nature of Him and thus referring to the contrary states of human nature, because man is created on the analogy of the image of God. ... The poem reveals that the tiger is exceptionally beautiful and at the same time dreadful because of its capacity for violence. ... The associating with Genesis and the Creation of the world that foll...

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