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Poetry and Poets Term Papers and Reports |
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Compare And Contrast: "Dead Man's Dump" By Rosenberg And "dulce Et Decorum Est" By Owen
1154 Words - 5 Pages.... are playing the role of God, by coming and saving the soldier's from
death. Another reference to God in the same poem is when Rosenberg refers
to the "limbers," wheels of a cannon being pulled, carrying the dead as
"Stuck out like many crowns of thorns," symbolizing Jesus's crown of thorns
that he wore at his crucifixion. Finally they hear a sound, one of the
soldier is still alive. He begs the cavalry to hasten their search and
find him. The troops hear him and begin to come barreling around the bend
only to hear the dying soldier murmur his last screams. In "Dulce," the
regiment are tired and marching like "old hags" because they are fatigued.
As the enemy disco ....
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Analysis Of Bryant's "Thanatopsis"
570 Words - 3 Pages.... slumber in its bosom.” Instead of referring to death he uses
the word “slumber.” These connections continue in a number of places.
Other examples include lines 57 and 66. In line 57 he writes, “In their
last sleep the dead reign there alone,” and in line 66, referring to death
and burial, Bryant writes, “And make their bed with thee.” This connection
between death and sleep creates an intriguing metaphor which adds depth and
meaning to the poem.
By using this strange metaphor I believe Bryant wishes to suggest
his faith in an afterlife. While examining the differences and
similarities of death and sleep the reader is left with some very thought
provoking ....
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The Effect Of Poetry
486 Words - 2 Pages.... Dion understood this when she sang "Fly", a song that portrays the fear of those who are dying. They are often afraid of the unknown and of leaving others behind to live without them. "Fly" eases those fears and reassures everyone that everything will only be better.
Celine Dion sang this song in remembrance of her infant niece. She had no children of her own at the time and was very close to her niece, who died SIDS, and she expresses her feelings for the child very eloquently in the song.
In the song, she gives her niece permission to stop fighting and to fly above the clouds on an endless journey of happiness.
A friend of mine introduced me to this song while I ....
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Robert Frost's "Two Tramps In Mud Time"
491 Words - 2 Pages.... with his wood chopping:
"one of them put me off my aim". This statement, along with many others, seems
to focus on "me" or "my", indicating the apparrent selfishness and arrogance of
the narrator: "The blows that a life of self-control/Spares to strike for the
common good/That day, giving a loose to my soul,/I spent on the unimportant
wood." The narrator refers to releasing his suppressed anger not upon evils
that threaten "the common good", but upon the "unimportant wood". The appparent
arrogance of the narrator is revealed as well by his reference to himself as a
Herculean figure standing not alongside nature, but over it: "The grip on earth
of outspread feet,/The life ....
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The Differences In Fathers
2132 Words - 8 Pages.... image is that of the image portrayed in the poem of Theodore Roethke. Roethke’s simple poem intends to bestow a warmth and joyfulness in remembrance of his father. He intends to show us his endearment of this hard working man he called papa. The two poets use all the poetical elements too express their personal view of a father. Each share the same subject but use individual styles of poem structure, language, rhyme, tone, situation, and speaker to express their opinions. These differences allow us as readers to understand the authors intent and main idea of each poem.
The first obvious difference in each poem is the gender of the speaker. This difference may be reflected i ....
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Shapiro's "Auto Wreck": Interpretation
529 Words - 2 Pages.... out like blood is
abstract and bizarre. In addition to that metaphor, Shapiro writes:
"One hangs lanterns on the wrecks that cling
Emptying husks of locusts, to iron poles."
This rhythmical sentence paints a picture of locusts, grassÄ hopper like
creatures, clinging to a luscious green jungle of grass. Yet symbolically
this jungle is the twisted, black, and crisp auto wreck. This depiction of
the auto wreck is extravag ant and almost unreal. Using metaphors, Shapiro
portrays the fantasy-like auto wreck in which wildness is indispensable.
In addition to Shapiro's use of metaphorical phrases, he emphasizes
the lack of comprehension of the ....
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An Analysis Of Updike's "Player Piano"
625 Words - 3 Pages.... of air passing through the paper roll of a player piano. In the next
line, the word flicker is a phonetic intensive, closely associated with
word ‘flame'. Since the ‘flame' is a symbol of life and light, it gives the
reader a feeling that the piano is alive, further adding to the effect of
personification in this poem. In the last line of the first stanza, there
is consonance in "these", "keys", and "melodies". The repeat of the smooth
"s" sound in these three consecutive words evokes a feeling of rhythm or
harmony - pleasant sounds from the player piano.
The next stanza starts with an internal rhyme: "My paper can caper".
The simple rhyme suggests that the paper ....
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The Poetry Of John Keats
1473 Words - 6 Pages.... apparent in three of his most famous Odes: To a
Nightingale, To Autumn and on a Grecian Urn. In the Ode to a Nightingale,
it is the ideal beauty of the Nightingale's song - as permanent as nature
itself - in the Ode on a Grecian Urn, it is the perfection of beauty as art
- transfixed and transfigured forever in the Grecian Urn - and in the Ode
to Autumn it is the exquisiteness of the season - idealised and
immortalised as part of the natural cycle - which symbolise eternal and
idealistic images of profound beauty.
In Ode to a Nightingale, Keats uses the central symbol of a bird to
exemplify the perfect beauty in nature. The nightingale sings to the poet's
senses who ....
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