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Papers on Poetry and Poets
Education Of Ee Cummings
Number of words: 1714 | Number of pages: 7.... 2.lone consonants forming a sort of rhyme themselves
3.trees & agains; (whi) & sky; te, rees, & le
b.falling of a leaf
1.the whole poem's syntax
2.line and word spacing
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3.Images
a.comma after sky and trees
b.black against white
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1.Theme – differentiate b/w perception and conception
2.Syntax
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b.terseness, primary lang., and unclear syntactical
relationships
c.motion à .....
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Beginnings--The Idea
Number of words: 824 | Number of pages: 3.... to do with his beloved? Maybe she's uncommon ("rare"). Maybe she should be treated with courtesy and gentleness. Maybe she's young, or young to love (innocent), or just new to him.
So translating the images takes quite a bit of time and thought to figure out what meanings probably fit the poem's context and to reject those that probably don't.
Eventually, readers probably try to work out a complete paraphrase of the poem--realizing that they are stripping the meaning away from the crafted wording of the poem for the sake of putting it in terms they can understand.
Given all these preliminaries, readers eventually try to captu .....
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Criticism Of "The Sick Rose"
Number of words: 894 | Number of pages: 4.... Thus, as a word, worm is meaningful only in the context of flower,
and flower only in the context of worm" (41). After Riffaterre's reading and in
terpretation of the poem, he concludes that "The Sick Rose" is composed of
"polarized polarities" (44) which convey the central object of the poem, the
actual phrase, "the sick rose" (44). He asserts that "because the text provides
all the elements necessary to our identifying these verbal artifacts, we do not
have to resort to traditions or symbols found outside the text" (44). Thus, "The
Sick Rose" is a self-sufficient text.
Hazard Adams takes a different approach to readi .....
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Poe's "The Conqueror Worm": Deeper Meaning To The Poem
Number of words: 760 | Number of pages: 3.... four states "an angel
throng, bewinged, and bedight in veils, and drowned in tears." Poe is stating
that a group of angels is going to watch the spectacle put on for them, although
they are already drowning in the tears from plays before. The orchestra that
plays for them is another set of characters that have meaning. They represent
the background in everyone's life by "playing the music of the spheres." A
third set of characters that show hidden meaning is the "Mimes, in the form of
God on high." They denote the people that inhabit the earth. Poe describes
them as "Mere puppets they, who come and go at bidding of vast forml .....
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The Works Of Edwin Robinson And Paul Simon
Number of words: 490 | Number of pages: 2.... I could be Richard Cory..."
Robinson and Simon dealt with subjects that were close to their hearts. What they wrote about were their uncontrollable feelings. For Robinson the feeling was described, in lines 5, 6, 7, and 8, as ,"Minniver loved the days of old when swords were bright and steeds were prancing. The vision of a warrior bold would set him dancing..." Simon expressed his frustration in lines 10, 11, 12, and 13: "...The papers print his picture almost everywhere he goes, Richard Cory at the opera, Richard Cory at the show, And the rumor of his parties, and the orgies on his yacht, Oh, he surely must be happy with .....
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Shakespeare's Sonnet 18
Number of words: 521 | Number of pages: 2.... than a poem. Sonnet 18 is one of the most admired of
his collection. It is a beautiful romantic love poem written to compare
summer to his love’s beauty. A beautiful piece of imagery is used in
lines1-3: “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou are more lovely
and more temperate. Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May:”
Shakespeare clearly ables the reader to picture a beautiful woman whose
beauty can not be taken away by any means. The reader, by reading on, can
than picture flowers blowing in a breeze.
Sonnet 18 is very typical of his writing style. Romantisicm runs
rmapid as a theme in many o .....
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The Flea: Analysis
Number of words: 815 | Number of pages: 3.... strong faith and is ethically bound to abide by the principals of her religion. His argument is to put down the religion by saying even the flea is mixing our blood, so why shouldn't we? That suggests that the flea is one of God's creatures and so it should follow the principals of God as well because it was created by God, so the mixing of their blood isn't wrong.
In the third stanza Donne's girlfriend is on the virge of killing the flea and he says let it live. To him it represents their union as man and woman. He is scared that she will sin when she kills the flea because it would be killing part of each of them and the f .....
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Maya Angelou's “No Loser No Weeper”
Number of words: 705 | Number of pages: 3.... dime, I wish I was dead”(Angelou 12), we gather that something as small and worthless as a dime would make Angelou wish that she was dead. This remark signifies that the trauma in her life just bought thoughts of suicide. According to Compton’s Interactive Encyclopedia most suicides oc-cur when the bonds between an individual and society are broken.
She also explains how she lost a “doll once and cried for a week ,the doll could open her eyes and do all but speak”(Angelou 12). This part of the poem reminded us of an incident that happen to her when she was 8 years old. A friend of the family raped her. She then mentioned .....
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A Prose Analysis On Milton's "Sonnet XIX"
Number of words: 1109 | Number of pages: 5.... buried his single talent instead of investing
it. At the lord's return, he cast the servant into the "outer darkness"
and deprived all he had. Hence, Milton devoted his life in writing;
however, his blindness raped his God's gift away. A tremendous cloud
casted over him and darkened his reality of life and the world. Like the
servant, Milton was flung into the darkness.
Line seven, "Doth God exact day-labor, light denied?" describes the
limitations and burdens of a person who has lost his sense of place in life.
Obviously, Milton is making a reference to his blindness in relation to
line seven. Line seven implies that onc .....
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Upon The Burning Of Our House July 10th, 1666
Number of words: 578 | Number of pages: 3.... realization about what is happening and says a quick prayer to God to save her comfort, and what, at the time, she considers her “life”. As she leaves her house in stanza three, taking one last look she realizes that all that was giving to her from God and now he takes what belongs to him. Stanza four and five show how she does treasure the material things, as does most people. Her thoughts and feelings expressed in these two stanzas show how she knows she is going to miss the trunk, chest and all else that lies in the ruins, that was destroyed in the burning flame. She shows great sadness when she dreams of all the things .....
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