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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* Allusion – A brief reference to a person, place, thing, event, or idea in history or literature * Allegory – a narration or description usually restricted to a single meaning because its events, actions, characters, settings, and objects represent specific abstractions or ideas. * Alliteration – the repetition of the same consonant sounds in a sequence of words, usually at the beginning of a word or stressed syllable. * Apostrophe – an address, wither to someone who is absent and
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In the “Boy at the window” by Richard Wilbur the theme is feelings others pain. Three elements that are identified in the poem are imagery similes and personification. The poem opens up with a young child staring out of a window with pity for a snowman that was left out in the cold. Who had no one to take care of him! He felt if you were loved you should be taken care of. The poem explains how the child felt and he could even cry for that when the poet claims that the small boy wept when he saw
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calcutta university, m.a [1st class] 4. WHAT LITERARY DEVICES ARE USED BY SHAKESPEARE TO PUT FORTH HIS IDEAS IN SONNET-130? IS HE COMPLETELY ANTI-PETRARCHAN? [16] 1st part The language spoken and written of great romances is often poetic, passionate, and filled with metaphors of beauty and devotion. In short, the language of love is the language of exaggeration. William Shakespeare ‘s most powerful description of love is when he satirizes this method of writing and in so doing instead
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Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end; Each changing place with that which goes before, In sequent toil all forwards do contend. Nativity, once in the main of light, Crawls to maturity, wherewith being crown’d, Crooked elipses ’gainst his glory fight, And Time that gave doth now his gift confound. Time doth transfix the flourish set on youth And delves the parallels in beauty’s brow, Feeds on the rarities of nature’s truth, And nothing stands but
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Through the detailed descriptions of the blackberries and the simple act of picking them the poem reflects on the course of life and the inevitable passage of it, from a joyful childhood and youth to a devastating senescence giving it the theme of justice of life. In Seamus Heaney “Blackberry-Picking” the author compares the plain act of picking blackberries to the unstoppable cycle of life. The whole poem is an extended metaphor that compares the act of picking blackberries to the process of life
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What is kenning? A kenning (Modern Icelandic pronunciation: [cʰɛnːiŋk]; derived from Old Norse) is a type of circumlocution, in the form of a compound that employs figurative language in place of a more concrete single-word noun. Kennings are strongly associated with Old Norse and later Icelandic and Anglo-Saxon poetry. They usually consist of two words, and are often hyphenated. For example, Old Norse poets might replace sverð, the regular word for “sword”, with a more abstract compound such as
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O•Auden suggests that in times of war, when death is threatened, the need for self-preservation is stronger than personal loyalties. •He suggests that war makes people corrupt, and breaks even the strongest bonds (ie, marriage) - Indeed, it seems that the husband is keeping the wife calm and in place so that she can be captured but he can escape. •He suggests that people who create war or pursue the capture of others are evil/immoral. The rhythm generally is used to imitate the marching soldiers
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TASK 2: Second Blended Learning Task John Keat’s Ode To A Nightingale features the themes of nature and its beautiful qualities, as symbolized by the nightingale, and the pain of leaving it, as symbolized by death. I choose the first three stanzas because its draw my attention to keep on reading this poem. The first stanza shows us that the poet feels two different feelings which is pain as we can see in the first line “My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains”. He also feels joy and happy
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