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Poetry & Poets Essays and Term Papers
Sonnet 43In Sonnet 43, Elizabeth Barrett shows all the ways in which she is capable of loving someone and how great and strong love truly is. She presents all the possible ways in which she can love someone and also she presents the strength of the love she feels.
She begins by asking a question "How ...
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An Interpretation of William Blake's "The Chimney Sweeper"Paul Fernandez
Professor Wadhwani
English 102
27 February 2012
An Interpretation of William Blake's "The Chimney Sweeper"
In William Blake's poem "The Chimney Sweeper," we are given a glimpse of the harsh realities surrounding child labor which affected England in the late XVIII and early ...
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American MeA) Read “American Me” by Maria Miranda-Maloney.
B) The character in “American Me” is a Hispanic male that crossed the border into the United States. Miranda-Maloney uses many factors to develop her character. We know the character in her poem is Hispanic, as she uses racial aspects within ...
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Literary ElementsThe Devil and Tom Walker
Tom Walker is a man who loves and cherishes money more so than his wife. One day, he ends up talking a walk in a swamp and starts a conversation with the Devil, who in the story is referred to as “Old Scratch.” The devil ends up striking a deal with Tom Walker. Old ...
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Diction in There is no Frigate like a BookDiction Essay
Diction is used as a style of speaking or writing as an independent upon choice of words. Diction refers to the means and the manner of expression ideas. In the poem, “There is no Frigate like a Book,” Emily Dickinson uses a graphic style of speech to argue that poetry has a ...
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If The PoemThis analysis of If by Kipling is a decoded version of what the poet wants to convey through his didactic words. In the first stanza he shows his readers the ideal way to act during times of acute crisis. The poet asks his readers to make themselves strong enough such that they can take ...
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The Send-OffWilfred Owen's poem-`The Send-Off'- is also one which focuses on the senselessness of war and futile conflict. The poem shows the reality of young soldiers going to battle; we know this because in the first stanza there is a sense of pressure developing. "Down the close, darkening lanes they sang ...
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Seamus Heaney's Requiem for the Croppies and PunishmentWith reference to two or more poems by Heaney, discuss how ideology and aesthetics function in these poems.
Seamus Heaney is an Irish poet who has received the Nobel Prize in Literature "for works of lyrical beauty and ethical depth, which exalt everyday miracles and the living past." [1] His ...
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Barbie DollReview of Literary Works
Channon Sommers
Western Governors University
In review of the Marge Piercy's poem the "Barbie Doll", the author describes the battle young ladies experience dealing with their self image as it relates to the world. The running theme throughout the poem illustrates how ...
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How Much Wood, Could a Woodchuck Chuck, if a Woodchuck was a Tiger?Steven Sikes
Professor McGinn
English Comp 2
21 March 2012
How Much Wood, Could a Woodchuck Chuck, if a Woodchuck was a Tiger?
Tigers are proud and dominant, while woodchucks are small and meager, more bothersome then beautiful to look at. Although both could be considered pests to some, ...
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Reflections on 'I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings' by Maya AngelouReflections on 'I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings'
Maya Angelou
Simone Choy
554944
Monday, February 6, 2012
The title of the poem, I know why the caged bird sings by Maya Angelou, is a curious one. It pre-supposes a question and the title of the poem suggests an answer. This is a ...
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Harlem ExplicationHarlem Explication
In the poem Harlem by Langston Hughes, the narrator is asking what happens when dreams are pushed to the side. Throughout the poem, the narrator gives many answers to this question that could be true. One of the answers that stick out the most and catches everyone’s ...
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Some Keep the Sabbath Going to Church - A Limited AnalysisLori Shourds
Eng. 111-889
Prof. Powell
4 April 2012
Some Keep the Sabbath Going to Church - A Limited Analysis
When I read Emily Dickinson's "Some Keep the Sabbath Going to Church" I almost immediately saw metaphors leaping out at me. I know that with a metaphor, the actual word and ...
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Betrayed by NatureBetrayed by Nature
SparkNotes, a website that provides a study guide for poetry, gives a summary of the meaning of poems. But since poems are interpreted on an individual basis, reading the summary does not equate with the experience of reading the actual poem. Reading and analyzing a poem on ...
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Speaking PoetryPoetry As a Spoken Art
By Amy Lowell
Presented by A. Shirkhani
Amy Lowell is strongly influenced by Keats' poetry. Later on, her reading of the imagist poet Hilda Doolitle opened up a new direction for her work. As the result of association with the imagist poets such as Ezra Pound, she ...
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Frost at Midnight AnalysisIn this conversation poem, Coleridge is the speaker and the silent listener is his infant son, Hartley Coleridge. The setting of the poem is late at night, when Coleridge is the only one awake in the household. Coleridge sits next to his son’s cradle and reflects on the frost falling outside his ...
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Emily Dickinson's Because I Could Not Stop for DeathEmily Dickinson was born on December 10, 1830 in the quaint community of Amherst, Massachusetts. She lived a nurtured and reserved life in a puritanical, Christian environment. Emily has been characterized as reclusive which leaves the audience to see her as mysterious. In seclusion, Dickinson ...
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Robert Frost: Nothing Gold Can StayBill Glass
Nothing Gold Can Stay
Robert Frost
(3/26/1874 – 1/29/1963)
I. Nature's first green is gold,
II. Her hardest hue to hold.
III. Her early leaf's a flower;
IV. But only so an hour.
V. Then leaf subsides to leaf.
VI. So Eden sank to grief,
VII. So dawn goes down to ...
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Harry Potter PoemBY J.K. ROWLING
LENGTH: 223
ORIGINAL BOOK
ASSIGNMENT 1
HARRY POTTER thinks he's a regular boy,
And also his "parents" acts him as he was a toy.
He was always getting a lot of letters from no one,
Till Vernon got crazy and run away as far as japan.
But since HAGRID has arrived, his ...
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Goblin Market Literary AnalysisGoblin Market Literary Analysis
The tale Goblin Market can be viewed in various ways to better understand it. Several passages indicate that Lizzie is “Christ like.” Christ never sinned and made the ultimate sacrifice for humans, similar to what Lizzie did for Laura. She goes through pain ...
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Still I Rise"Still I Rise" Worksheet Key
40 points
Name: Maggie Palumbo
Instructions: Complete the worksheet after reading Maya Angelou's poem "Still I Rise."
1. List 3 similes from the poem:
But still, like dust, I'll rise.
Shoulders falling down like teardrops
But still, like air, I'll ...
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Emily Dickinson's Because I Could Not Stop for DeathShe's Dying...Or is She?
In the poem "Because I could not stop for Death," Emily Dickinson misleads the readers with a speaker who is actually speaking from "beyond the grave". Throughout the first stanzas of the poem the speaker is depicted as someone who is in the last stage of her life and ...
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La Belle Dame sans MerciCandie Daniel
Mr. Hinton
English Lit
13 June 2012
"La Belle Dame sans Merci" by John Keats
John Keats was a young, up and coming inspirational poet whose life ended way too soon. He evoked images as if you, the reader, were there to see it in person. He died from tuberculosis and I think ...
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Young PoetryCrying myself to sleep tonight
I’m so worthless it’s unreal
Night everyone.
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You know those nights.. when nothing makes sense
You break down crying
Freaking out because you don’t know what to do
Kick and scream because you don’t understand
Or even put a pillow over your head to hide ...
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"Out, Out" & "The Man He Killed"Dakota Parris
English 131
James Cox
June 14, 2012
"Out, Out" & "The Man He Killed"
No matter what road is taken or path chosen, death most often comes unexpectedly, unreasonably, and, most assuredly, unavoidably. Yet it is simple human nature to lament on might have been had ...
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