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Maya Angelou's “No Loser No Weeper”
Number of Words: 705 / Number of Pages: 3
... a dime, I wish I was dead”(Angelou 12), we gather that something as small and worthless as a dime would make Angelou wish that she was dead. This remark signifies that the trauma in her life just bought thoughts of suicide. According to Compton’s Interactive Encyclopedia most suicides oc-cur when the bonds between an individual and society are broken.
She also explains how she lost a “doll once and cried for a week ,the doll could open her eyes and do all but speak”(Angelou 12). This part of the poem reminded us of an incident that happen to her when she was 8 years old. A friend of the ...
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Dulce Et Decorum Est: Analysis
Number of Words: 1155 / Number of Pages: 5
... serves to emphasise the solemn and serious content, and the irony of “the old lie,” of the title.
In stanza one, Owen describes the soldiers as they set off towards the army base camp after a spell at the battle front. His use of similes such as “Bent double, like old beggars,” and “coughing like hags,” help me to depict the soldiers’ poor health and depressed state of mind. Owen makes us picture the soldiers as ill, disturbed and utterly exhausted. He shows that this is not the government-projected stereotype of a soldier, in gleaming boots and crisp new uniform, but is the true illustration of ...
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Siefried Sassoon And Counter-Attack
Number of Words: 333 / Number of Pages: 2
... July 1917 published a Soldier's Declaration, which announced that "I am making this statement as an act of willful defiance of military authority, because I believe that the war is being deliberately prolonged by those who have the power to end it."
Sassoon's hostility to war was also reflected in his poetry. During the war Sassoon developed a harshly satirical style that he used to attack the incompetence and inhumanity of senior military officers. These poems caused great controversy when they were published in The Old Huntsman (1917) and Counter-Attack (1918). He published many more later on suc ...
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An Analysis Of "To A Friend Whose Work Has Come To Triumph"
Number of Words: 424 / Number of Pages: 2
... realize a
difference her defying her father made.
The final line of the poem has a comparably different tone than the
first 13 lines. The last line, "See him acclaiming the sun and come
plunging down while his sensible daddy goes straight into town.", seems
more mocking of Daedalus' flight. It seems that Sexton feels that
Daedalus' flight was a wasted chance and was in no way adventurous. She
might also be comparing her friend to Icarus, seeing as he too failed his
initial task but accomplished something greater on a global scale. I
believe Sexton thought that Icarus' flight was not foolish or ...
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E. E. Cummings
Number of Words: 1519 / Number of Pages: 6
... the Green” as well as any other of Cummings poems, it necessary to remember that he is best understood when approached on his own terms. In trying to understand meaning in his work it is necessary to avoid simple linguistic interpretation and focus on what the deeper meaning is.
In “Once Like a Spark”, he uses the charcters and calls them strangers. While using this name he is in fact stating certain things. Firstly, he is addressing the theme. This theme is corralated in Cummings trancendental view that only through experience are people aware of things around them. In lines 2-5 it reads, “ ...
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Shakespeare's Sonnet Number 126: Critique
Number of Words: 598 / Number of Pages: 3
... crying about his social ostracism
in line two. In an attempt to clarify for himself why he is in such a state he “
troubles” heaven with his “bootless” or useless cries. But as the poet has made
clear heaven turns a deaf ear and no response is forthcoming. Again he becomes
introspective and curses his fate. This first quatrain has given us an image of
a grown man “down and out” if you will, who is accepting no responsibility for
his life's station.
By the second quatrain the poet has taken to wishing he were more hopeful.
He wants to be more popular with his peers and he desires the literary ...
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Blake's "London": An Analysis
Number of Words: 648 / Number of Pages: 3
... is to say the emotions , are
pulled this way and that by the influence of others. Even the soul,
according to predestinists, is limited by the supply or lack of divine
grace. Not so the mind; it is the only part of the individual which may
truly be said to be free.
Weakness is also illustrated in the repetitions in the first and second
stanza:
" I wander through each chartered street,
Near where the chartered Thames does flow,
And mark in every face I meet
Marks of weakness, marks of woe,
In every cry of every man ...
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Theme Presented In The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner
Number of Words: 499 / Number of Pages: 2
... of the albatross, his luck suddenly changes.
His luck indeed seems to change, and the Mariner experiences the
punishment that comes with the moral error of killing the Albatross--
isolation and alienation from everything but himself. Then, the
"Nightmare," the life in death, kills his crew. He is lost at sea, left
alone in the night to suffer, and he has detached from his natural cycle.
The Mariner proclaims his misery when he says: "Alone, alone, all, all
alone, Alone on a wide wide sea! And never a saint took pity on My soul in
agony." To the Mariner, nature has become foreign. ...
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The Use Of The Color White In Frost's Poem "Design"
Number of Words: 917 / Number of Pages: 4
... being white. Witches have traditionally been ugly people wearing all black, the color that represents darkness and death. By saying that the white spider and the dead moth are like ingredients of a witches brew is actually putting those two objects on a lower level of existence. Ingredients in witch brew are usually despicable items that are not worthy of any human being.
Frost talks about the spider on a white heal-all holding up a dead white moth. A heal-all is a flower traditionally known for its healing capabilities, but in this poem it is acting as a boxing ring for the spider and the ...
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Poetry: The Sky Is Filled With Laughter
Number of Words: 118 / Number of Pages: 1
... out to play
The sun was hidden for many days
But once again the sky turned blue
And all the little children came out
To play, with the sky so blue
With its pretty picture of laughter
Haiku
I went on a walk
And saw all that I can see
From flowers to trees
The grass was bright green ...
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