As literature evolved over time, different styles of writing emerged in response to societal changes that occurred in each individual writer’s lifetime. One style of writing that emerged in the early 1900’s was described as Imagism. This style of writing is in which a writer writes in a specific way that evokes an image within the audience’s minds. Two writers from this time period that wrote in the imagism style were William Carlos Williams and Ezra Pound. Williams became known for his imagism works
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Poetry is a place full of imagination and sometimes it is also full of bad grammar and poor punctuation and Edward Estlin Cummings is a poet with bad grammar. Edward Estlin Cummings or also known as E.E. Cummings was born in Cambridge Massachusetts in 1894. He went to Harvard University, where he then grew up to be a poet. How does E.E. Cummings use vision and hearing to create meaning is a question some people ask. E.E. Cummings creates meaning by using visual techniques and auditory techniques
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Throughout her poem, Crossing the Swamp, Mary Oliver explains the empowering journey she is taking from being a” poor dry stick” to becoming a “breathing palace of leaves,” in her personal swamp. The author uses devices such as tone to compare her to being a dry stick and the swamp being a safe haven continuously throughout the piece. Immediately starting off, Mary opens her poem by stating the simple word “Here.” this word is powerful in itself saying that she is there. She is in her own swamp
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In the poem, "Sympathy" by Paul Laurence Dunbar and the poem "Caged Bird" by Maya Angelou the theme is freedom. The authors writings are similar but not quite the same. These two poems are similar and different in many ways because they share the same theme but the authors convey differently. "Caged Bird" and "Sympathy are very similar poems. In both poems the man character are birds. "I know why the caged bird sings." (Dunbar 21) " The caged bird sings"( Angelou 15) Both birds are
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the valley of death. Tennyson uses syntax to create an irregular poem that does have some repetition. There are six stanzas but they all have an irregular sound pattern. However, there are places in the poem that the words at the end of the lines rhyme without having the same letter endings. For example in stanza two lines five through seven, the final words end with the “y” sound, “Theirs not
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Your state of mind while going through life is a strange thing; always changing based on the behavior of the people you associate yourself with. Usually, when people think about how they acted in the past, they find their decisions or actions a bit embarrassing. The speaker of poem George Bilgere seems to capture this way of thinking while also being thoughtful or even philosophical. The poem revolves around the thoughts of what appears to be a dazed early adult looking back on her previous escapades
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show how the marriage constantly changes and as a result there is no uniformity and things are rarely the same. The rhyming pattern is ABAB. The rhythm of the poem is slow and has heavy rounded sounds. Dennis Scott may have chosen this rhythm and rhyme to
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sane. In this poem Robert Frost uses a very effective rhyme scheme to keep a smooth rhythm. He uses a chain rhyme, rhyming the last word of the third line of each stanza into the next one. As we can see in the first stanza “Whose woods these are I think I know/ House is in the village though/ He will not see me stopping here/ to watch his woods fill up with snow” and in the following stanza all but the third line have words that rhyme with here. I also believe that “Miles to go before I
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Death is a topic rarely discussed in society, however, in the poems ‘To an Athlete Dying Young’ and ‘A Contemplation Upon Flowers’, death is openly portrayed as the natural, inevitable conclusion to life. They depict how death should be accepted and in some instances commended. Though death is the main theme in both poems, it is reflected from different perspectives. In the poem ‘A Contemplation Upon Flowers’ by Henry King the comparison of the life of a simple flower is made to the life of a
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“sometimes it’s a muscle/Sometimes courage or at least hustle/Sometimes a core or center, but mostly it’s/A sound that slushily fits/The meters of popular songwriters without/Meaning anything”. Though the word is equivocal, many use it simply for end rhyme or to maintain a specific pattern. Later on, as the speaker’s anger about the word’s misuse grows, the poem’s beat of rhythm begins accelerating by removing punctuation like periods and commas. This technique is meant to simulate a quickening heartbeat
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