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Poetry & Poets · 4,150 words
- "The Black Cat," which first appeared in the United States Saturday Post (The Saturday Evening Post) on August 19, 1843, serves as a reminder for all of us. The capacity for violence and horror lies within each of us, no matter how docile and humane our dispositions might appear.
- By Martha...
Poetry & Poets · 112 words
- Mother, any distance greater than a single span
requires a second pair of hands.
You come to help me measure windows, pelmets, doors,
the acres of the walls, the prairies of the floors.
You at the zero-end, me with the spool of tape, recording
length, reporting metres, centimetres back to...
Poetry & Poets · 1,337 words
- "Porphyria's Lover" is an exhilarating love story given from a lunatic's
point of view. It is the story of a man who is so obsessed with Porphyria that
he decides to keep her for himself. The only way he feels he can keep her,
though, is by killing her. Robert Browning's poem depicts the...
Poetry & Poets · 533 words
- Then two poets who are similar are Edwin Robinson and Paul Simon. They wrote about people of whom they were envious. This was their way of coping with their impoverished lives.
Simon and Robinson were both unhappy with their socio-economic status. Examples of this can be found in both Simon's...
Poetry & Poets · 809 words
- Compare and Contrast: "Strange Fruit" and "Telephone Conservation": Theme of
Danny Connolly 11.3
The two poems that I am going to compare are "Strange Fruit" and
"Telephone conversation" which both feature racial prejudice.
The first of the two poems that I will study is "Strange...
Poetry & Poets · 171 words
- In several literary works, there is an underlying tension between the parents and their children. One example of this parental conflict can be seen in Anne Sexton's '.' The poem details the sentiments of a child who has lost both of her parents within a very short period of time...
Poetry & Poets · 543 words
- In the piece by Updike describing his experience with the birds, the organization, syntax, figurative language all contribute to the readers concluding response.
Updike uses syntax to add drama to the poem and to lead up to the bold ending. In the last stanza the first line only contains two words...
Poetry & Poets · 305 words
- by Audre Lorde
I am fourteen
and my skin has betrayed me
the boy I cannot live without
still sucks his tumb
in secret
how come my knees are
always so ashy
what if I die
before the morning comes
and momma's in the bedroom
with the door closed.
I have to learn how to dance
in time...
Poetry & Poets · 651 words
- Write an account of a poem which deals with an unusual or unpleasant
aspect of life. Show clearly how the poet uses such elements as effective
words and vivid images to create something memorable.
The poem "Gunpowder Plot" was interesting as its title holds three
meanings. The author could ...
Poetry & Poets · 104 words
- ...
Eye halve a spelling chequer
It came with my pea sea
It plainly marques four my revue
Miss steaks eye kin knot sea.
Eye strike a key and type a word
And weight four it two say
Weather eye am wrong oar write
It shows me strait a weigh....
Poetry & Poets · 547 words
- The epic poem of 'Beowulf' presents the characteristics of two
heroes, Beowulf and Hrothgar. During this Anglo-Saxon time period,
Hrothgar rules as the king of his Danish lands. However, this king faces
many problems due to the disturbances of a monster known as Grendel. As an
Anglo-Saxon...
Poetry & Poets · 1,908 words
- That you cannot make someone love you. All you can do is be someone
who can be loved. The rest is up to them.
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That no matter how much I care, some people just don't care back.
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That it takes years to build up trust, and only seconds to destroy
it.
I've learned -
That it's...
Poetry & Poets · 2,161 words
- A. E. Housman's "To an Athlete Dying Young," also known as Lyric XIX
in A Shropshire Lad, holds as its main theme the premature death of a young
athlete as told from the point of view of a friend serving as pall bearer.
The poem reveals the concept that those dying at the peak of their glory...
Poetry & Poets · 152 words
- was a major poet of the Victorian period known for mastery of dramatic monologues. He is best known for "The Ring and the Book" and 'The Pied Piper of Hamelin' dramatic lyrics. He also wrote plays. Browning was married to Elizabeth Barrett, also a famous poet. was...
Poetry & Poets · 768 words
- In Maya Angelou's, "No Loser, No Weeper," one of her many poems, she describes the emotional state she endured growing up in the 1920's during the Depression, by using tone, diction, repetition, rhyme, and figurative language. Because of the suffering that she has endured as an African American...
