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“Whoever does not love, does not know God, because God is love,”(I John 4:8 NIV). George Herbert used this bible verse in his poem as a basis to establish the idea that God is love. Herbert, in the poem published in 1633 “Love III,” presents the concept of God’s love for all mankind, and His…
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Romanticism, particularly, gives the essence of aestheticism, highly subjective approach, emotional intensity and dreamlike or visionary quality. It was the “greatest single shift in the consciousness of the West” (Berlin). The poets belonging to that era maintained this quintessence and their poetry depicted the same qualities and ideals. The beautiful, creative and imaginative words written…
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I, being born a woman and distressed Those are the beginning words of a poem wrote by one of Americas most renowned poets, Edna St. Vincent Millay. Literarily avant-guard for her time, she was the recipient of a Pulitzer Prize for her works in 1925. Yet with trend setters such as Millay, why is poetry…
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Symbolism, irony, and alliteration are often used by poets in an effective manners to grab the reader’s imagination. Symbolism, irony, and alliteration were used in works by Etheridge Knight, Ted Hughes, and Galway Kinnell to captivate readers. Etheridge Knight’s, “Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminal Insane” used symbols effectively. Etheridge…
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Recently I attended a Lil Wayne concert and his music and performance captured my attention and gave me a greater appreciation for poetry. At the concert I noticed an overwhelming amount of marks on his body that did not seem to be cuts or bruises. Once I took a closer look I noticed his body…
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The poems “Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers” by Adrienne Rich and “Woodchucks” by Maxine Kumin, both have metaphors about animals. In the poem “Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers”, the Tigers are active, beautiful, and brave. Aunt Jennifer’s life has been hard and unhappy. “The massive weight of Uncle’s wedding band…”( Rich 7). In the poem “Woodchucks”, the animal is…
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Over the past couple of weeks we have been studying readings that pertain to Innocence and Experience. The readings that I have chosen to best represent these concepts are “Advice to My Son” by Peter Meinke and “Ex-Basketball Player” by John Updike, both readings deal with the Innocence and Experience of life. In the first…
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“I like a look of Agony,” by Emily Dickinson, uses literary devices to affect the reader. People normally have a fear of agony, but Dickinson uses literary devices such as imagery and personification to reveal her contrasting enjoyment of this usually disagreeable emotion. The opening line “I like a look of Agony,” could be interpreted…
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Various threads are needed to form one unique quilt. Similarly, a mother quilts together the best and diverse threads of life to form one unique identity in which a child lives with forever. In the poem “My Mother Pieced Quilts” by Teresa Palomo Acosta, the mother chooses the different aspects of the quilt, forms those…
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In Philip Freneau’s poem The Wild Honeysuckle, he is creating a metaphor for our life. Throughout each stanza, Freneau explains a portion of the cycle of life by comparing it to a flower. The first stanza portraying a child in the whom, growing and unharmed. The second stanza resembles the baby going through childhood. The…
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The Immortality of a Dead Cat
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Sacrificing Relationships in a Valediction: Forbidding Mourning, The Love of My Life, and Eveline
Justice and Revenge in Shakespeare’s Hamlet
Imagery in “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”
Hilda Doolittle as a Modernist Poet
Harold Pinter’s Traditional Views on Language and Communication
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