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Papers on Poetry and Poets
Critical Analysis Of "The Eagle" By Lord Tennyson
Number of words: 186 | Number of pages: 1.... imagery is with sight and sound. For sight they are “
Close to the sun”, “Azure world”, azure mean the blue color in a clear
daytime sky. “Wrinkled sea beneath”, and “mountain walls”. The only one
that was imagery of sight & sound was “like a thunderbolt he falls”.
The figures of speech are “wrinkled sea”, which means the waves in
the ocean. And one simile is “like a thunderbolt he falls”, it is saying
how fast a eagle dives.
The poems theme is how an eagle can fly so high and dive so fast.
And how free an eagle is. I thought that this was a nice poem. I like the
way he uses the words. I thi .....
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The Poetry Of William Blake
Number of words: 619 | Number of pages: 3.... divine
intervention and how all creatures were created. The poem is nothing but
one wondering question to another (Harmon, p. 361).
"The Tiger" by William Blake describes the tiger as being an symbol
of evil. This is displayed when Blake says "What an anvil? what dread
grasp, Dare its deadly terrors clasp?" By repeating variations of the word
"dread" in the poem, he emphasizes the evil of tiger and the evil this
tiger possesses. The mighty beast is whole world of experience outside
ourselves, a world of igneous creation and destruction, faced with a
terrifying beauty (Harmon, p.360). This poem also contains the theme .....
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Differences Between 18th Century Literature And Romantic Poetry Seen Through The Works From Alexander Pope And John Keats
Number of words: 1307 | Number of pages: 5.... efforts by the difference in eighteenth century literature and
romantic poems, their descriptive natures and ideas they portray to the reader
through their writing.
Pope has written an eighteenth-century poem which he calls, "An Hero-
Comical Poem." This poem has exalted an over all sense of worthlessness for
common rules. The mentioning of Achilles and the ever-popular Aeneas, are
symbols of Pope's Gothic style. Pope speaks (almost) G-D like throughout, "The
Rape of Lock." Contrary to Keats, who is more down-to-earth with his sense of
realism in his writings. In the beginning of Keats romantic premise to life in
St. A .....
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Madness And Insanity In The Fall Of The House Of Usher And The Cask Of Amontillado
Number of words: 413 | Number of pages: 2.... manner of my friend I was struck with an incoherence -- an inconsistency...habitual trepidancy, and excessive nervous agitation...His action was alternately vivacious and sullen. His voice varied rapidly from a tremulous indecision...to that...of the lost drunkard, or the irreclaimable eater of opium" (667). These are "the features of the mental disorder of [the narrator's] friend" (672). Roderick's state worsens throughout the story. He becomes increasingly restless and unstable, especially after the burial of his sister. He is not able to sleep and claims that he hears noises. All in all, he is an unbalanced man trying to main .....
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Owen's “Dulce Et Decorum Est”
Number of words: 1871 | Number of pages: 7.... the fact that the gassed man was
"flung" into the wagon reveals the urgency and occupation with fighting.
The only thing they can do is toss him into a wagon. The fact one word can
add to the meaning so much shows how the diction of this poem adds greatly
to its effectiveness. Likewise, the use of figurative language in this poem
also helps to emphasize the points that are being made. As Perrine says,
people use metaphors because they say "...what we want to say more vividly
and forcefully..." Owen capitalizes greatly on this by using strong
metaphors and similes. Right off in the first line, he describes the troops
as being "lik .....
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Elizabeth Bishop And Her Poem "Filling Station"
Number of words: 971 | Number of pages: 4.... "grease-
impregnated". These words connect the [oi] in oily with the word following it
and heighten the spreading of the sound. Moreover, when studying the [oi]
atmosphere throughout the poem the [oi] in doily and embroidered seems to
particularly stand out. The oozing of the grease in the filling station moves
to each new stanza with the mention of these words: In the fourth stanza, "big
dim doily", to the second last stanza, "why, oh why, the doily? /Embroidered"
to the last stanza, "somebody embroidered the doily".
Whereas the [oi] sound created an oily sound of language throughout the
poem, the repetitive [ow] sound ac .....
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T.S. Eliot's "The Wasted Land"
Number of words: 1478 | Number of pages: 6.... their thoughts (Bergonzi 7, 50, Cuddy 30,
Mack 1743, Martin 41, Unger 8) .
Henry James influence on Eliot's poetry is evident in the Jamesian
qualities he uses. For example, the opening verse of The Waste Land ends
with the Jamesian note, "I read, much of the night, and go south in the
winter" (Mack, 1751). Although Lafourge, Conrad, and James were used as
sources for Eliot when he composed poetry, there is still a distinct
Eliotic quality whenever his work is read (Bergonzi 7, 50, Cuddy 55, Mack
1743, Martin 41, 97, Unger 10).
When Eliot began to compose The Waste Land, he used all the
different themes, t .....
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"Ode On A Grecian Urn"
Number of words: 725 | Number of pages: 3.... to our own experience. "The Sylvan historian, describes the panels on the urn that present ancient woodland scenes, they probably tell the history of a past way of life.
In the second and third stanzas Keats is talking about the music that is playing to the spirits, because he says "it's sweeter unheard." Also, that is must be young and very rich in love, because its love will never stop pursuit and will never fade away or leave. He is probably describing a love relationship between a man and woman who seem as if they have just met each other, because they are so happy. Another point he tries to contemplate is that the urn spe .....
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Sir Gawain And The Green Knight
Number of words: 556 | Number of pages: 3.... the
other in order to remain a whole, the narrative could be considered as a
What accompanies an appreciation for the seemingly sudden shift
from the typical romance at the end of the piece is the raised awareness
that the change does only seem to be sudden. Careful exlporation of the
plot, setting, and character descriptions illuminates several deviations
from the established convention of the ideal society existing within the
text. The effect is then a type of balancing act-- blah blah blah
The opening of the piece sets a fairly typical stage for an
Anthurian romance, giving relevant historical and geographical informa .....
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Poetry: Not Me
Number of words: 527 | Number of pages: 2.... His mother soon tired of the grades he brought home.
She made him study each day after school.
He was grounded from TV, and from the phone.
He was shut in his room and force-fed gruel.
His grades slowly improved, thanks to his mom.
Although he didn't thank her at the time.
He averaged all B's by the time of the Prom.
He imagined that God had dropped him a sign.
No longer requiring his mom's motivation,
He came home on his own and went straight to his room.
Reading Provided some mental relaxation.
He even read during lunch in the afternoon. .....
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