Danny Ambalu 06/04/12 Interpreting the Un-Interpretable In Poulet’s A Phenomenology of Reading, he asserts that in a sense the reader, by reading and thinking about a text, creates the text. When the reader reads a text, his consciousness unites with the consciousness of the author, and their ideas combine and transform the text from a “dead object”, or objective words on a page, into a living, dynamic work. In other words, Poulet gives the reader license to provide his own reasonable interpretation
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Poetry Analysis “The Armful” by Robert Frost This poem written by Robert Frost is a very interesting piece that each and every one of us can connect to. Frost talks about problems and how it overwhelms him. This poem clearly states that he is struggling but then soon focuses on trying to better himself to achieve his goals and fix his problems. All in all, using the techniques or imagery, word choice, and tone in the poem "The armful", Robert Frost successfully composes a wonderful poem
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Walter De La Mare Commentary Draft: The Keys Of Morning “The Keys Of Morning” is a very mysterious and allegorical poem. In this poem every other line rhymes. In the first stanza there is alliteration: “Little Louisa lonely sat”. This sentence emphasises the words little and lonely so that it is obvious that Louisa is little and lonely. The first stanza is about how Louisa while doing school work looks out the window and sees death watching her in the sunshine. In this poem
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diGualco 2/11/2013 Poetry is unique way to express life challenges with a little rhythm and rhyme here and there. The way poems a rouse feeling and imagination is what makes them so resourceful. There are so many things about a poem that could have meaning. The perfect words for a poem could take imagination on a journey. The poem that caught my attention is “Mirror” by Sylvia Plath. “Poetry has a compressed quality; the language of poetry refines ideas and feelings
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A group of a few women born in the second decade of the century might together illustrate the diversity of the twentieth-century novelist's interests. Elizabeth Taylor (1912-1975), the author the novels The Soul of Kindness and Blaming, is a refined stylist whose swift flashes of dialogue and reflection and deft sketches of the wider background give vitality to her portrayals of well-to-do family life in commuter land. Some of her later novels are In a Summer Season (1961), and The Wedding Group
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Poetry Explication “My Papa’s Waltz” was written in 1948 by a man named Theodore Roethke. This poem is about a young boy who has to live and deal with a father who beats him, or as metaphorically stated in the poem “waltzes” with him. There is a lot of meaning behind the title of this poem. “My” implies that this is something he takes ownership of, “Papa’s” shows that he loves his father but there is something the father has going on or has to deal with, and “Waltz” is a metaphor for the rampage
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Lauren Hillstrom MW 2:30 12/17/12 Option A Final Paper: Remember “Remember” by Christina Rossetti is a sonnet written in iambic pentameter. Her poem follows the structure of an Italian sonnet, one divided into an octave and sestet. The author’s thought process is portrayed through the rhythmic divide of her poem. The octave rhyming ABBAABBA directly pleads a loved one to remember her when she is gone. Then the following sestet rhyming CDDECE creates a shift in atmosphere, where she realizes
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Identity The theme for this poem is Identity and it focuses on being independent and standing up for yourself. The poem Identity by Julio Noboa Polanco is a free verse poem that is made up of 5 stanzas. The theme of the poem is identity and the poet compares a flower to a weed saying that sometimes it’s better to take a risk in life and be different to everyone else rather than being rooted to the ground and stuck in the same place. The poem has a strong and defiant tone, as seen in ‘Let them
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With reference to at least three poems, analyse and interpret the strengths of W.H Auden. Loi Ianari Without question Auden is thought of as one of them most influential poets in the twentieth century. Through his words he was able to convey ideas, theories and comments on various controversial topics that affect our daily lives. The tone and content of his poems ranged from pop-song clichés to complex philosophical meditations and commentaries on the evolution of society. This assertion is clearly
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The Poet of Suburbia In 1930, the world welcomed a personality who during the course of his remarkable life, revolutionised and helped shape or develop the meaning and world of poetry. He was born in Geelong, Victoria and lived an early life that lacked direction and unveiled very little promise as a writer. However, despite what his earlier years may have shown, he stands today as one of the biggest selling, highly regarded and most influential of Australian poets. And yet again, successful
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