Analysing the poem ‘Valentine’ ‘Valentine’ is a poem where all of its stanzas are an extended metaphor. For example, “I give you an onion” symbolises the famous vows used in a wedding ceremony-“I give you this ring”. The extended metaphor is about the characteristics of an onion fits the notions of love. Throughout the stanzas it uses the conventional symbols of love such as “red rose, “lover” but then creates a negative image about the words that may at first seem impossible to create a negative
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Often regarded as a poet associated with rural New England, he wrote poems whose philosophical ideas transcended any region of the country. North, East, West and South, no matter where the person came from, Robert Frost could communicate through poetry. Although his verse forms are traditional, he was a pioneer in the poetic use of the vocabulary and variations of everyday speech. He was able to conjure emotions that most people would not talk about in public (death, the loss of a loved one, man’s
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the loose girdle of soft rain." Part Three: Poetry: Page 295 This specific line created a lovely visual of someone loosening their belt to see how much rain they can catch in their pants. This line is an example of a metaphor as well as personification. I believe the author is trying to ask how much room will there be for memoirs. He compares the rain to a loosened belt allowing room for growth. "And liable to melt as snow." Part Three: Poetry: Page 296 This specific line emphasis how
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Comparison of Characters All three poems have powerful characters all three portraying raw and strong emotions, towards the reader signifying similar emotions and purpose being displayed. When analysed carefully, you can notice a lot of identical techniques used by the different poets. For example all three use some type of form of rhyme, half-rhymes or even rhyming couplets, this works especially well in ‘Hunchback’ for example ‘rockery […] hunchbacked in mockery’ this emphasis the point of
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states that comparing his beloved’s beauty to a summer’s day is not a correct comparison. Shakespeare’s choice of words and imagery provides the reader with extensive ground to diverge between two genres of poetry. It is unclear whether sonnet 18 is a love poem or it is in fact a poem about poetry, the poem is expansive in its meaning. The sonnet is structured in an argumentative form whereby the first quatrain introduces and idea, the second quatrain discusses the idea and the final quatrain expresses
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winter night We enjoy some hot chocolate Near the warm fire Leaves blowing in fall. The calm breeze blowing my hair. Leaves falling off trees. Senryu Sketching The world melts away. I listen to my music, And express my mind. Poetry I constantly think. I express all my feelings. A beautiful poem. Cinquain Syllable Cinquain Calm wind blowing my hair. A wonderful cool breeze making the trees sway all around. Calms down. Parts-of-Speech Cinquain Snowflakes White
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September 3, 2014 “Poetry Makes Nothing Happen”? By Julia Alvarez Poetry is almost everywhere you look. Teachers use songs and rhymes to teach young children. Mothers sing lullabies’ to their children to calm them. To some people, sitting in a corner and reading a book is the best part of their day. Julia Alvarez writes about the effect that poetry has on our lives in “Poetry Makes Nothing Happen?” I believe that Alvarez is correct in saying that poetry is important, and that poetry affects people’s
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On the 13th of March 1879 Gerard Manley Hopkins, a curate at St Aloysius’ church in oxford at the time took an afternoon stroll in the country side, a place he had been cherishing since he started studying in oxford many years before. He had found that all the bountiful poplars lining the side of the river near Binsey had been cut down. Oxfords countryside had always been very close to Hopkins heart, leaving him distressed at the thought that the effervescent beauty of the countryside had been destroyed;
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War has been, and always will be a harsh reality within every single society today. In “War is kind,” by Stephen Crane is a horrific poem which contrasts between the reasoning of war, and the experience of war. The poet uses several language devices such as irony and setting to help me understand a main idea of War being anything but kind. In the poem, the poet has 5 stanza’s- These of which he has set out extremely confusing but of which convey the idea of War being horrible. The odd numbered
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adaptations of Petrarchan love poetry. By turns witty and tormented, it is a lightly disguised and no doubt fictionally embellished treatment of Sidney’s thwarted love for Penelope Devereux, sister of the Earl of Essex. The most likely date for the composition of the Defence is 1580–82. Like Sidney’s other writings, it circulated only in manuscript during his lifetime, and was published by two separate printers in 1595 under the titles Defence of Poesy and Apology for Poetry. It is one of several English
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