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Poetry
In "The Last Dollar," one impression of the mother is that she is completely dedicated to maintaining the well-being of her children. This is shown clearly in the first stanza of the poem when the...
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Poetry
In order to get a better understanding of those particular lines, I recommend looking at the previous few lines that lead into them. You may give them your love but not your thoughts, For they...
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Poetry
Simonne Stellenbloom is the Graduate Development Officer within the Environmental Leaders Programme at WWF-SA, according to her biography on the World Wildlife Fund website. The poem "To the still...
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Poetry
This powerful narrative poem expresses the speaker's first rebellious act. She introduces the subject as if in reply to the question: "What was your first political act?" In reply she states what...
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Poetry
Marge Piercy's poem "Breaking Out" examines the moment in which a young girl pushes back against the oppressive and violent patriarchal values that dictate her upbringing. The poem begins with an...
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Poetry
The poem "Five Ways to Kill a Man" by Edwin Brock consists of five stanzas, each discussing ways of killing people common in specific historical periods. It takes the form of a dramatic monologue...
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Poetry
Both Wilfred Owen's "Disabled" and Robert Frost's "Out, Out--" are poems about the loss of life as it has been. While the boy in Frost's poem completely loses his life, Owen's young man loses his...
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Poetry
Language: The poem reads more like prose than poetry and is a eulogy to the speaker's uncles. It is clear that the poet has done this deliberately. He uses mechanical engineering jargon throughout...
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Poetry
Death is a topic for many a poet and the individual's approach to this topic ranges from flirtation to metaphysical contemplation to fear and even rebuke. Here are some suggestions. One way to make...
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Poetry
Lyric poetry has three academically recognized features that are usually stated as emotion, imagination and melody. Friends, behold!In a sacred mannerI have been influencedAt the gathering of the...
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Poetry
There is no doubt that people are often the products of their age, and poets such as those mentioned certainly exhibit characteristics of the literary movement in which they lived or about which...
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Poetry
In poetry, a "foot" is a measure of syllabic meter and stress that includes two syllables. Let's do as you requested and separate the feet within this excerpt from the poem with bold vertical...
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Poetry
To fully understand this line, one needs to look at the context in which it is used. Firstly, the poet, Jonathan Swift, was an Anglo-Irish satirist during the late 1600s and early 1700s. He is most...
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Arts
I would classify Rainier Maria Rilke's poem as a Petrarchan sonnet. Some Petrarchan sonnets consist of two quatrains (stanzas with four lines) and two tercets (stanzas with three lines), which is...
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Poetry
Romantic poetry was written by European and American poets beginning around the turn of the nineteenth century and lasting till approximately mid-century. As a literary movement, Romanticism was a...
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Poetry
The central message of the poem is that while people die, their memories never do, and it's up to the survivors to decide what to do with those memories. When the narrator passes the site where his...
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Poetry
Lavinia Greenlaw's poem focuses on the transfer of written communication through the ages. The poem displays a chronological structure wherein each stanza explores the sequential development in...
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Poetry
In the poem, the narrator presents her feelings about growing old in a humorous and upbeat manner. She portrays the idea of growing old as a period of great freedom. During her sunset years, she...
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Poetry
The second, fourth, and seventh lines make use of end rhyme (rhymes: see, me, company), and the sixth and eighth lines do as well (rhymes: dead, dread). Lines nine and eleven also rhyme (rhymes:...
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Poetry
First, you might want to begin by demarcating the boundaries of your discussion. Most poetry has little to do with social reform, and many theories of poetry emphasize either the way in which...
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Poetry
No type of poem is inherently superior. Various types of poem can be well or badly written within the context of their own genres and audiences. Alexander Pope, for example, wrote a two-line poem...
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Poetry
In the seventh stanza, we learn that Sir Ralph the Rover "felt the cheering power of spring." The good weather improves his mood, and he's happy to enjoy a sunny day on the seas. In fact, the...
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Poetry
The main theme of the poem "Clown's Wife" by Johnson Agard is that appearances are not always what they seem. In this six stanza poem, the reader is privy to the wife’s thoughts about the two...
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Poetry
Setting refers to the time, place, and environment in which events in a piece occur or unfold. As such, it also includes aspects such as a historical period, timing, geographical location,...
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Poetry
This is a great question! There are definitely many benefits to studying poetry for many groups of people. Here are some: 1) Language learners can greatly benefit from a concentrated immersion in...
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Poetry
Juliet Wilson's poem "The Lost Dances of Cranes" reflects on the changeover from endangered species to the development of cities via construction cranes. In this poetic analysis, lines from the...
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Poetry
Sir Ralph's ship sank because it crashed onto the Inchcape Rock. As the ship filled with water, it sank. Every ship floats because the buoyancy force (the force that pushes up the ship) is greater...
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Poetry
The first question that is being asked is an opinion question. Answers will be different for different readers. As the question states, the main job is to provide justification for why you feel...
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Poetry
In the poem "What is Red," Mary O'Neill writes that if you have a slight cut on your hand, "Red squiggles out." If the cut is deeper, red blood would not squiggle out but might gush out in greater...
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Literature
This is an oversimplification, but the main difference between Neoclassicism and Romanticism is that the former emphasized structure, objectivity, and restraint, while the latter emphasized...
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Poetry
It is obvious that the poet has broken away from the conventional image one has of death as a dark force epitomized by a cloaked and hooded figure, carrying a scythe. Here, Death is personified as...
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Poetry
The central idea of the poem is expressed most succinctly in its last line: Spread the love... The peace will follow... Throughout the poem, the speaker focuses on the beauty of nature that he...
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Poetry
Reciting poetry can be a tricky task, especially when the chosen poem is long. Luckily, you mentioned your assignment is to recite I Have a White Rose to Tend, which is quite short. Translations...
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Poetry
According to the poem, the easiest way to kill a man is to deposit him somewhere in the middle of the twentieth century. This is a very interesting perspective, as the poet may be highlighting the...
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Poetry
The simile, 'docile as paper' is part of the extended imagery which the poet uses to refer to the city throughout the poem. The image one has of the city from whence the speaker came is that it...
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Poetry
"The Chimney Sweeper" is the title of two poems written by William Blake. The first was penned in 1789, and the second in 1794. Both deal with the interconnected problems of child labor and...
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Poetry
This is a poem about conflict over identity. This conflict arises when one group, defined here as an outside/anterior group that has claimed local authority, attempts to take ownership of another...
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Poetry
Poets often hope to have an emotional impact on readers and to write using language that will be remembered. In other words, they want readers to feel or respond in certain ways after they read a...
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Poetry
"Stick these words in your hair and take them to Polin and Manuai my sons: the ripe fruit falls and returns to the trunk - its mother." These are the first five lines of the poem "The Old Woman's...
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Poetry
Filled with pathos and poignancy, these lines exhibit a deserted mother’s agony and indignation. The old woman’s biggest grief is that her two sons, Polin and Manuai, are not by her side while...
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Poetry
The poem "An Ordinary Day" by Norman MacCaig is about how we observe things on an average day. It is also about how important the mind is in the interpretation of our daily reality. For example, in...
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Poetry
The speaker, the old woman, is dying and believes she does not have long to live. She sends a message to her two sons, Polin and Manuai, to come to her. We can assume they have left home, left the...
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Poetry
Included in what is, perhaps, a type of moral coercion, the dying mother's phrase sends a message to her sons that exhorts them to come to her death bed because of their filial duty. In "The Old...
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Literature
Some comprehension questions for the poem would be: 1. What are the things that are small to humans that must appear large to the fly? 2. What does each of the following look like to the fly: a...
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Poetry
“The Sick Rose” consists of two stanzas, with each stanza having four lines. Each stanza serves a specific purpose and central thought. The first stanza serves to introduce the reader to the...
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Poetry
The speaker is a very old lady, who wistfully longs for her sons’ return. Polin and Manuai are her sons, who are away from her when she needs them the most. She is about to die and has “little...
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Poetry
Metaphysical poetry usually attempts to discuss the abstract in concrete ways. Basically, it attempts to explain the unexplainable. That is why so many metaphysical poems focus squarely on things...
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Poetry
The good news is, 300 words is not very long, so your story can be very concise and simple. This is a beautiful poem you have to work with – a speaker attuned to the natural world, watching the...
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Literature
Poetry is a very personal way of creatively expressing your thoughts. You may prefer to use rhyme, or not, to use punctuation, or not, to make use of figurative language such as metaphor,...
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Poetry
English language poetry has changed significantly in the last 250 years. Before the dawn of the Romantic age in 1785, poetry tended to be filled with elevated diction, strewn with allusions to...
