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        <title><![CDATA[Is there a poem called "The Empress of Nowhere " and if so who wrote it.]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Is there a poem called "The Empress of Nowhere " and if so who wrote it.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[ 
Denotation/Polysemy
A common misunderstanding in interpreting a...]]></title>
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Denotation/Polysemy
A common misunderstanding in interpreting a passage or poem is to look for meaning in individual words. On the surface this point sounds counterintuitive. After all, do not words convey meaning? However, some reflection will show that meaning is found in contexts, because the denotation or definition of words is broad. A brief look at any dictionary will make this point clear. For example, people would say that the word...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:20:02 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[How will the context determine which denotations and which connotations...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[How will the context determine which denotations and which connotations are relevant in a poem?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:14:50 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Martin Carter was Guyanese poet of mixed European origin who wrote right...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Martin Carter was Guyanese poet of mixed European origin who wrote right in the middle of the Wars and was also a life-long activist. He is known, primarily for his political poetry.
This poem however intermingles the personal and the political quite brilliantly. It is meant to be an ironic and sardonic love poem, which problematizes love in the time of such ruins--oppression, cruelty and surveillance.
The poem is addressed to the beloved...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 9 Nov 2009 23:00:26 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I need help on a literature essay on "The is the Dark Time of My Love".]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I need help on a literature essay on "The is the Dark Time of My Love".]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 9 Nov 2009 16:02:30 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Socio-linguistics is a developing field today. From the diction of a...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/poetry/q-and-a/how-level-diction-characterize-speaker-poem-113805</link>
        <description><![CDATA[Socio-linguistics is a developing field today. From the diction of a character, it is not very difficult to understand his class-identity. Remember G.B.Shaw's play Pygmalion? Add to it the pronunciation and tonality of speech and the process becomes simpler. Language is something that we learn through our social (micro or macro) experience and it is the social atmosphere in which a particular person is brought up that determines his diction....]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 8 Nov 2009 02:58:00 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[how level of diction characterize the speaker in a poem?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[how level of diction characterize the speaker in a poem?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 7 Nov 2009 21:16:42 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Certainly, the structure of a poem, such as a sonnet, an ode, or an...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Certainly, the structure of a poem, such as a sonnet, an ode, or an elegy, contributes to its dramatic effect.  Then, the occasion of the poem and the tone of the speaker contributes to the dramatic effect.  In Thomas Gray's "Elegy in a Country Churchyard," for instance, there is the sobering tone of the Latin motif of momento mori, "Remember that you must die." And, as the speaker traverses the graveyard and reads the unknown names on...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 6 Nov 2009 15:18:25 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Edward Thomas's poem The Owl tells the story of a soldier who escapes...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Edward Thomas's poem The Owl tells the story of a soldier who escapes from the battlefield, leaving his fellow-soldiers struggling with veritable death. After the tiresome journey down the hill, he is hungry, exhausted and cold in the freezing winter night and decides to have food, fire and rest at an inn. He enters the snug private place of comfort, completely cut off from the outer world, barring one haunting link that remains--the sad...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 6 Nov 2009 11:00:14 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Identifying the speaker and the occasion in the poem seems to me much...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Identifying the speaker and the occasion in the poem seems to me much like putting the poem on the stage, with an actor and a setting. This strategy turns printed words into public performance (at least in a figurative sense).
This strategy highlights the dramatic quality of at least some poetry, but there is a great deal of poetry (especially lyric poetry) that would be difficult to read as dramatic. The speaker and occasion are not always...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 6 Nov 2009 10:28:31 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Drama is all about a kind of dialogue between speakers. At bottom, it is...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Drama is all about a kind of dialogue between speakers. At bottom, it is literature as in the spoken words of characters. In a poem too, there is a speaking voice, which is generally called a 'persona'. His/Hers is the dominant perspective in the poem. Now identifying that voice means to ground it in a concrete situation that adds to the drama of it. There has been a great tradition of 'dramatic monologue' in English poetry from Donne to...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 6 Nov 2009 10:28:10 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[How does identifying the speaker and the occasion of the poem reveal...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[How does identifying the speaker and the occasion of the poem reveal the dramatic quality of the poem?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 6 Nov 2009 10:02:41 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Can you give me a critical analysis of the poem "The Owl" by Thomas Edward?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Can you give me a critical analysis of the poem "The Owl" by Thomas Edward?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 5 Nov 2009 07:47:02 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Lyric poetry is a broadly inclusive category, including sonnets,...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Lyric poetry is a broadly inclusive category, including sonnets, ballads, songs, odes, elegies, and rondeaus, among others, but three features that might distinguish it are emotion, subjectivity, and melody. Lyric poems are meant to convey the personal feelings (emotion) of a single speaker (subjective) and are often melodic as if they could be sung. The Greeks named lyric poetry so because it was meant to be convey the emotions of a single...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 4 Nov 2009 21:19:22 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What are three features of a lyric poem?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What are three features of a lyric poem?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 4 Nov 2009 12:20:07 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[i need the answer for the effect of repeat reference to my love in poem
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        <link>http://www.enotes.com/poetry/q-and-a/what-takes-place-poem-this-dark-time-my-love-by-112339</link>
        <description><![CDATA[i need the answer for the effect of repeat reference to my love in poem
 ]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 3 Nov 2009 18:26:19 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Let's begin by taking the poem piece by piece in order to figure out...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Let's begin by taking the poem piece by piece in order to figure out what it means:
"This is the Dark Time, My Love" --we can learn a lot by looking at the titles to poems.  "Dark Time" has the implication of danger, or trouble.  "My love" lets us know that the poem is addressing someone.

This is the dark time, my love, All round the land brown beetles crawl about The shining sun is hidden in the sky Red flowers bend their heads in awful...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 2 Nov 2009 21:10:14 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What takes place in the poem, "This is the Dark Time, My Love" by Martin...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What takes place in the poem, "This is the Dark Time, My Love" by Martin Carter?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 2 Nov 2009 20:53:15 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The poem "For My Mother (May I Inherit Half Her Strength) by Lorna...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The poem "For My Mother (May I Inherit Half Her Strength) by Lorna Goodison, who lives in Jamaica, tells the story of a young Jamaican soccer player who traveled for a match to Montreal, Canada. There he saw and was captivated by a blue-eyed Canadian young woman, who is the main character, who so enthralled him that he made sport with her instead making sport in the soccer arena.
Later, he sends a magnificent wedding ensemble in which to be...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 12:46:15 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In Boey Kim Cheng's poem to Wordsworth, he begins by saying in the first...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/poetry/q-and-a/summarize-report-wordsworth-by-boey-kim-cheng-104303</link>
        <description><![CDATA[In Boey Kim Cheng's poem to Wordsworth, he begins by saying in the first line, "You should be here, Nature has need of you".Then in the next few lines he describes some of the environmental problems in our comtemporary world, like pollution, smog, flowers that cannot function, few birds and a sky that is "slow moving". Then he speaks about Proteus. He says all hope for Proteus--the God of the sea-- rising is dead. He means all hope the sea(...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 19:37:37 PST</pubDate>
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