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Comparison And Contrast Of William Blake's Poems

... a hollow reed, And I made a rural pen, And I stain'd the water clear, And I wrote my happy songs Every child may joy to hear. Introduction (Experience) Hear the voice of the Bard! Who Present, Past, & Future, sees; Whose ears have heard The Holy Word That walk'd among the ancient trees, Calling the lapsed Soul, And weeping in the evening dew; That might controll The starry pole, And fallen, fallen light renew! ...

Number of words: 2744 | Number of pages: 10

The Flea: Analysis

... of their blood has been mixed. The second stanza proposes that sex before marriage is all right Thou know'st that this cannot be said A sin, nor shame, nor the loss of maidenhead, Yet this enjoys before it woo, And pamper'd swells with one blood made of two, And this, alas, is more than we would do.(5-9) This stanza also says that the flea enjoys the mixing of blood which is referred to as sex. It is the authors comment that they have intercourse within the flea but that is more than the two of them do together. Saying to her that ...

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Imagery In Mathers' "Black Marigolds"

... of flowers to convey her presence. "She with young limbs as smooth as flower pollen." This suggests her tenderness and delicate manner. She seems to omit a certain glow and gentleness that he cherishes. A single touch from her "flower soft fingers" makes him feel alive, and whole. She was torn from his life, but he feels blessed for even experiencing that love. The poet refers to her as "The whitest pouring of eternal light." She was like a small shaft of light pouring into the dark room of his life. A reoccurring image is found ...

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Tony Harrison's Poetry And His Relationship With His Parents

... Therefore this double sided life style is reflected within his poetry, which is often coarse yet emotional. The indelicate side of his poetry reflects the life with his father and general Leeds background, this is reflected in his in his poem “Book Ends II” “You’re supposed to be the bright boy at description and you can’t tell them what the fuck to put!” This is the general reflection of the poets family life, behind these two lines there is great love, for both the mother and the poet, yet the father is unable to show this ...

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Analysis Of The Poem "The Soldier" By Rupert Brooke

... things that evoke feeling in people. It helps to create an image in the poem of a man who is very brave and would do anything for his country. The character in the poem reinforces the meaning because he truly believes in his country. He describes England in his ninth line by saying, "And think, this heart, all evil shed away." These are the words of a man who truly believes that his land is the greatest of good. Images in "The Soldier" are extremely strong and persuading. One image is the line "Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways ...

Number of words: 487 | Number of pages: 2

Housman's "To An Athlete Dying Young"

... analysis helps to determine the purpose of the poem. The first stanza of the poem tells of the athlete's triumph and his glory filled parade through the town in which the crowd loves and cheers for him. As Bobby Joe Leggett defines at this point, the athlete is "carried of the shoulders of his friends after a winning race" (54). In Housman's words: The time you won your town the race We chaired you through the market place; Man and boy stood cheering by, And home we brought you shoulder-high ...

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The Theme Of Death In Poems

... doesn't take her quickly. He drives her past things that the narrator had not taken the time to notice in a while. The narrator watched as he drives her past a school, where children are playing, and then on they go past fields. She sees the sun go down, and the carriage driver past the sun, but she realizes they weren't passing the sun, it was passing them; time was passing by, past her life. Her life has now past her by, and she is arriving at her final destination, which was her grave, yet she describes it as her house. In the end she ...

Number of words: 817 | Number of pages: 3

For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/ When The Rainbow Is Enuf: Style And Theme

... the combination of a unique style and riveting content Ntozake Shange sends a message of hope and pride to her fellow black women in her work For Colored Girls who Have Considered Suicide/ When the Rainbow is Enuf. First of all, Shange writes in the form a choreopoem. A choreopoem is a piece of work that is written as a poem but is intended to be acted out on stage sort of like an opera. It is constructed in such a way that it flows just as well on paper as it does on stage. She either writes in all capital letters or all lower case letters ...

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Ballad Of Birmingham

... would be the one who would want to got to the march to free her people, not the child. In the poem "Ballad of Birmingham", by Dudley Randall, written in 1969, Mr. Randall uses tone and irony to describe the events of the mothers decisions, and as well as her concern for her child's well being. In the first stanza irony is used in order to make reading the poem more interesting. The situation in this first stanza is also very important. The little child is in a desperate situation and wants to help better the lives of the African American ...

Number of words: 1087 | Number of pages: 4

Poetry: Always And Forever

... Something better, For this you will always be special. I love you more than anyone will ever know, If there was a word to describe my love, Surely it would only be spoken by God, For no other person could love you more than me. In my heart I carry you and the essence of love, In its pure and simple form. All I have to offer you is me and my love, Though both are simple I promise they are true. Even as I write this, I think of how to describe to you. ...

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Andrew Marvell, "To His Coy Mistress"

... must have been expressing them sarcastically. The speaker's arguments become more graphic and less genteel as the poem progresses, as he appears to become increasingly desperate. The references to spirituality in the first section seem to disappear in the second section's focus on lust (the loss of it in death) and the third section's focus on intercourse. The third section does contain the "philosophical" proposal that, as lovers, the couple will turn the tables on time, but it's not clear if this idea is, again, empty rhetoric. A variati ...

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Crossing Brooklyn Ferry: One And The Same

... same recognition with their own similar accomplishments. The suggestion that Whitman offers as a means of becoming distinguished, or obtaining an identity, is to live a life of self-satisfaction. The persuasive devices in "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry" successfully communicate Whitman's own theory of breaking the molds of society by living as a self-satisfying individual. What makes one person's life different from the next? Whitman leaves the apprehension that the distinguishing characteristics are few. Whitman informs the audience that he ha ...

Number of words: 867 | Number of pages: 4

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