'Sea Fever' - Analysis
.... contain the common iambic meter found throughout the poem. "Sea Fever" may be categorized as a sea chantey due to its iambic meter and natural rhythm which gives it a song like quality. This song like quality is created through the use of iambic meter and alliteration. For example, lines three and ten contain the repeated consonant sound of the letter "w".
In line three, the meter becomes spondaic through the use of strongly stressed syllables. These spondees suggest the repeated slapping of waves against the bow of the ship. As a result, John Masefield creates an image of powerful ocean swells. In addition to the meter suggest .....
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Analysis Of Heaney's Punishment
.... society functions, both in ancient and present times. This us summed up at the end of the poem;
"who would connive
in civilized outrage
yet understand the exact
and tribal, intimate revenge" (Stanza 11)
Heaney here, writes that he does not only feel empathy and sympathy towards the "little Adulteress", but is also able to detach himself from his emotions and look at her death as a function of an ancient tribal system. The role which the bog woman played in her society is further elaborated to the role in which she would have played in contemporary society;
"When your betraying sisters,
cauled in tar,
wep .....
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What Is Poetry
.... wrote “Romeo and Juliet”? Poetry allows the reader to explore his own emotions and judge his own heart and desires because they have been brought to his attention by the poetry.
Overall, poetry is an outlet. It allows us to express the unfathomable thoughts that race through our human minds. The writer gains support from the reader. The audience, however, must be able to decipher the emotions the writer is expressing.
A poet can take a simple word and open new expressions giving the word a new beauty and new definition. In this excerpt from “A Definition of Love”, Jill Bourge takes a simple word and expands on .....
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Analysis Of Blake's "London"
.... of weakness, marks of woe" in "every face" he meets, he means that he can see how this commercialism is affecting everyone rich and poor.
Yet, despite the divisions that the word charter'd suggests, the speaker contends that no one in London, neither rich or poor, escapes a pervasive sense of misery and entrapment. The speaker talks of how in "every cry of every man" he hears the misery. Blake is once again reminding us that this is affecting everyone. As he goes on to comment on he can hear it in "every infants cry of fear", he is saying that even the babies know what is going to happen to them when they grow up and the .....
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Harwood's "Impromptu For Ann Jennings" And "Home Of Mercy"
.... leads the reader to believe that the women are independent and strong.
The opening two stanzas are very reflective of their times together.
"Sing, memory, sing those seasons in the freezing
suburb of Fern Tree, a rock-shaded place
with tree ferns, gullies, snowfalls and eye-pleasing
prospects from paths along the mountain-face"
The first stanza in particular describes the setting in wonderful imagery. From this we are able to create an image of the environments that Gwen Harwood and Ann Jennings lived in. Harwood also talks of her memories, and the fact that they are singing, which is a very romanticised way of .....
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Beginnings--The Idea
.... 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 capture the idea of the poem in .....
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My Interpretation Of Frost's "Birches"
.... I think this creates a vivid image for the reader. He goes on to say that once the branches are bent, they never return completely upright again, but they are so flexible that they never break. “You may see their trunks arching in the woods/ Years afterwards, trailing their leaves on the ground." These are some of the natural phenomenon’s that Frost mentions to explain the appearance of Birch trees.
Frost then goes on to offer a more fantasy-like interpretation that he knows is not the real reason for their appearance, but it is imaginative and creative. He imagines little boys could have caused this bending of the branches to .....
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Alexander Pope's "The Rape Of The Lock"
.... 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 special weapon to achieve his goal. He used shears to cut a l .....
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Comparing "The Chimney Sweeper" And "Songs Of Innocence And Of Experience"
.... in a profession where help is needed, because the child can not help himself, God has let him down since he has not released him and the other boys from their coffins of black. He reveals this to the reader in the last stanza of “Songs of Experience” when he makes his parents think that he is still happy. Therefore they forget about the boy and go “praise God & his Preist & King who make up a heaven of our misery”(p36 L 11-12). The three most important role models the boy has are not there and in his mind have left him in solitude.
Having stressed the point of religious imagery in the two poems and revealing how they changed .....
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Ceremonies In "The Waste Land"
.... stony. These words evoke an event that is without the cares of modern life- it is primal and hot. A couple of lines later Eliot talks of "red sullen faces sneer and snarl/ From doors of mudcracked houses" (ll. 344-345). These lines too seem to contain language that has a primal quality to it.
From the primal roots of ceremony Eliot shows us the contrast of broken ceremonies. Some of these ceremonies are broken because they are lacking vital components. A major ceremony in The Waste Land is that of sex. The ceremony of sex is broken, however, because it is missing components of love and consent. An example of .....
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Andrew Marvell, "To His Coy Mistress"
.... aspects of their relationship--the two go together. In this view, his high-flown speech (especially in the first section) expresses the extremeness of his commitment to her. From this perspective, the speaker's final proposal about the lovers' taking control of their own fate (taking that control away from time) could be meant sincerely.
Throughout the class discussions, it became clear that this poem offers a particular view of gender relations: Women are silent objects of men's desires, and men use their education and verbal skill to attempt to "conquer" (some people even said "acquire") women sexually. Even in the view th .....
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A Duke's Dominance Dooms Duchess
.... curtain, and only permits those to his liking to look at her. He states that in the past, those he has let see the fresco, have asked where such an expression on her puss originated. He goes on to admit that it was not him alone that provided her with such joy, but perhaps it was flattery from the monk that caused her cheeks to redden. She must have misassumed a statement from the monk as complimentary, and returned the compliment by blushing.
The duke describes his duchess as having a zest for life. She is able to find happiness in anything, and likes everything she sees. This angers the him because he wants to be her on .....
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