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Papers on Poetry and Poets
Alexander Pope's "The Rape Of The Lock"
Number of words: 558 | Number of pages: 3.... her to watch out for man because he will try to take her chastity. When Belinda awoke she thought deeply about what was said to her in her dream but then she forgot all about the lesson when she started to think about Baron. This is the gaining of wisdom aspect of the epic poem.
The greatest aspect of an epic poem is the quest and the battle. Pope uses both of these in a quite different manner in his poem. Baron is questing for the love of Belinda and his trophy a lock of her hair. This quest engulfs Baron’s life. All he can think about is conquering Belinda. Baron’s quest finally ended when he finally used a speci .....
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"Dover Beach" By Arnold: Irony, Images, And Illusions
Number of words: 477 | Number of pages: 2.... sea meets the moon-blanched
land” and “With tremulous cadence slow, and bring...” uses an auditory
sense. “Come to the window, sweet is the night air,” can apply to both
senses. Sweet can mean angelic or precious to qualify to be an visual
image, or it can mean almost like a melodious tune.
Illusions are used in this poem as deception for the girl that the
man is trying to hold a non-romantic conversation with. A theory is
portrayed in this poem by Plato, the world is an illusion. In many case
this that falls true. In the first stanza of the poem , the surrounds of
the two people is discussed. Words like calm, tr .....
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Analysis Of "13 Ways Of Looking At A Blackbird"
Number of words: 571 | Number of pages: 3.... blackbird and him
himself metaphorically being the blackbird. He makes this connection even more
clear in the fourth stanza when he says that “A man and a woman Are one. A man
and a woman and a blackbird are one." In the sixth stanza he goes back to being
the poet observer as he watches the blackbird fly by his icy window. Again in
the next stanza he goes back to the point of view of the blackbird wondering why
the men of Haddam only imagine golden birds instead of realizing the value of
the common blackbird. At this time, he makes the connection that in seeing and
knowing the blackbird it becomes a part of himself. When he says .....
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Poe's Literary Vengence
Number of words: 1277 | Number of pages: 5.... Forutnato to his step- father. Martha Womack quotes from Kenneth Silverman's book Edgar A. Poe: A Never-Ending Remembrance. "Allan much resembled Fortunato being a rich man, respected, admired, beloved, interested in the wines, and a member of the Masons." Womack goes on to quote from Silverman's book "Even the Allan name can be seen as an anagram in Amontillado." In the second paragraph of the story I feel this is where Poe expresses how he dealt with his father's estrangement. Montressor says "It must be understood that neither by word or deed had I given Fortuanato cause doubt my good will. I continued, as m .....
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Ballad Of Birmingham
Number of words: 1087 | Number of pages: 4.... speaker is allowing the reader to make a mental picture of one
specific march in Birmingham (Hunter 17). But, you know as well as I, that with
peace marches and rallies comes violence and hostility. This is exactly what the
little girls mother is afraid of, this is why she will not let her go to the
march. It also seems weird that her mother is so sure that going to church,
instead of going to the march, will be the best thing for her. (Hunter 19-20).
Typically, a church is to be a very safe and sacred place where no-one would
imagine a bombing or any other type of violence to happen. What is ironic about
this is that going to c .....
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Sonnet 71: Forget Me When I’m Gone?
Number of words: 446 | Number of pages: 2.... speak the poet’s name. This repetiveness of forgetting the poet would really make the audience feel guilty, and make the audience feel obligated to mourn, which is the poet’s true intentions in writing this particular poem.
This poem does contain some imagery reinforced by alliteration. The words, “surely sullen bell”. The sullen bell is a form of auditory imagery. It simulates bells chiming at a funeral service at a church. The bells are really the only vivid imagery used. The lines after that contain little to none. However, the vivid imagery of the bells becomes even more impactful since it stands alone in t .....
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Maxine Kumin And Her Poetry
Number of words: 484 | Number of pages: 2.... These similes show what she sees and feels.
“The Longing to be Saved”, is a dream, where her barn catches fire. “In
and out of dreams as thin as acetate.” She visualizes herself getting the
horses out, but they “wrench free, wheel, dash back”.
In, “Family Reunion”, she writes that “nothing is cost efficient here”.
Vegetables are grown on the farm, and animals are raised to be killed. “The
electric fence ticks like the slow heart of something we fed and bedded for a
year, then killed with kindness' one bullet and paid Jake Mott to do the
butchering.”
“Waiting for the End in New Smyrna Beach, Flor .....
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Wasted Dreams
Number of words: 35 | Number of pages: 1.... .....
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Sonnet 18
Number of words: 612 | Number of pages: 3.... hot weather magnified because it is coming from heaven and the seasons are changing. Shakespeare has taken the idea of a warm breezy summer day and twisted it into a sweltering day with the sun beating down on us.
However, in the lines after the destruction of a nice day, he twists things back by the comments he showers on his love. He tells us that his love's beauty shall remain the same at all times, "…thy…shall not fade"(ll. 9). He places an exclamation on that line by using the word eternal. It gives us the feeling that her beauty is one that will last until the end of the earth. Shakespeare then goes on to speak about .....
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Analysis Of Lorca’s Lament For Ignacio Sanchez Mejias
Number of words: 2210 | Number of pages: 9.... because he occasionally juxtaposed seemingly unrelated ideas and realistic and nonrealistic images causing an uncanny, dreamlike effect on the reader. In addition, he included numerous symbols in this poem to represent a certain idea or mood that he was trying to create. Also, the poem contains a musical quality, which appeal to the reader’s senses. Next, this poem contains characteristics and ideas, which are indigenous to southern Spain, especially in Andalusia, where Garcia Lorca was born. Finally, Lorca makes it clear that the main theme of this peom is the death of his friend, Ignacio Sanchez Mejias. He attacke .....
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