IPL -- Arts and Humanities -- Literature 189 resources Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day Information including pronunciation, definition and background about words from Merriam-Webster Subject: The Penguin Podcast Book extracts, author interviews and other information, including links to purchasing sites from Penguin Books, UK Subject: Literature; NPR: Book Tour Podcast Modern authors read and discuss their work Subject: Literature; PRI: Selected Shorts Podcast
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Marty Previtte Ms. Swails ENG 110 November 7, 2011 Player Chant Imagery and sound can be two important elements in poetry. The poems “Secretary Chant” by Marge Piercy and “Player Piano” by John Updike are examples of ways to effectively use imagery and sound to convey a message. Although both poems use sound and imagery, they use these elements in different ways. Updike uses sound and imagery to portray human characteristics in a nonliving object, while Piercy uses the same elements to mechanize
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“How Do I Love Thee?” “How Do I Love Thee?” is Browning’s most famous piece of literature. It is written in the form of a sonnet, which was inspired by William Shakespeare. The poet uses a specific rhyme scheme to make the poem more interesting and intriguing. Anaphora is heavily used as well. Browning repeats “I love thee” in eight lines. This poem has religious aspect, as well as love. Browning writes this poem for her husband (who was not her husband at the time). She wants to express her love
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Christopher Law May 08 TZ1 English A1 Unseen Paper 1 Poem- Hello Day – Worldwide This poem is about the poet imitating a radio announcement to express his desire for a worldwide Hello Day to break through social barriers, which exist in daily life. The title of the poem is ambiguous and at first sight absurd and provocative. ‘Hello’ has denotations of greeting and connotations of friendliness. The parenthesis help to establish the setting of the poem, which is possibly a radio station, where
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conten < “Hymn to Intellectual Beauty” “England in 1819” ------------------------------------------------- “Ozymandias” Summary The speaker recalls having met a traveler “from an antique land,” who told him a story about the ruins of a statue in the desert of his native country. Two vast legs of stone stand without a body, and near them a massive, crumbling stone head lies “half sunk” in the sand. The traveler told the speaker that the frown and “sneer of cold command” on the statue’s
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HUMA-215 Troubadour poems began during the Second Crusade in the Middle East. As women, especially those of noble birth, were becoming increasingly literate began a time in which the great oral poems of the first millennium were first written down (Sayre, 2013 p. 166). A trobairitz was a love poem that a man would write about the love he felt for a woman (usually unattainable because married or of a higher status) (Sayre, 2013 p. 166). Many of these lyrics or poems were of great intensity and
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Ethics - Linda Pastan In ethics class so many years ago our teacher asked this question every fall: if there were a fire in a museum which would you save, a Rembrandt painting or an old woman who hadn't many years left anyhow? Restless on hard chairs caring little for pictures or old age we'd opt one year for life, the next for art and always half-heartedly. Sometimes the woman borrowed my grandmother's face leaving her usual kitchen to wander some drafty, half imagined museum. One
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Critical Analysis of “The More Loving One” By W.H. Auden W.H. Auden’s “The More Loving One” is an intriguing poem that touches on the topics of love and humanity in the form of astrology. Auden uses a number of poetic devices to portray this message clearly to his audience. He doesn’t however write a direct translation of what he thinks of love but instead uses metaphors in order to challenge the readers’ imagination. Auden in this poem compares human beings to stars. This comparison can be
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the sonnets, Design and Putting in the Seed, by Robert Frost, every word in each poem takes on a powerful meaning enhanced by aspects of poetry such as form, rhyme, imagery, caesura, and metaphor. Both sonnets are very resembling in form, but are a far cry from being similar in meaning, emotion, effect, and essence. Frost soundly blends all of the aspects of poetry in these two sonnets to make them delightfully unique. The first sonnet by Frost, Design, is a very dismal yet captivating poem written
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Emperor of Ice Cream”. In a poem created to argue against the constant value placed on mere appearance, the not so rigid form perfectly exemplifies the authors view on the subject. While he used this almost airy method to imply that the true beauty of poetry lies in the freedom of expression the poet has, he does not completely ignore the idea of structure. When reading the poem it is clear that the poet designed it to get the reader to re-examine their own reliance on appearance. In an almost playful
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