... Highlight outstanding words or phrases. - Make brief notes about context (specific situation surrounding a setting). How this fits into the scope of the overall text. - Why was this passage chosen? - Make brief notes for characters (who? why are they important?)/plot (entire story/text)/theme (main ideas)/tone/ mood/feeling/atmosphere)/structure (punctuation/ etc.)/diction (use of language)/ ... echoing motif. What's the connection between form and content? Idea structure. Shift in tone point of view. - Diction/Syntax: Describe effects and success, your impressions. - Word Choice: Chose...

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... problems and tensions. Also the author use the theme and literature to define their poems. The Poems that I chosen for comparing are Miss Rosie by author Lucile Clifton and Mother to Son by author Langston Hughes. Miss Rosie and Mother to son are alike but different in vernacular, author is life time & tone, metaphor ... , Theme and Genre, etc? The vernacular or native language that authors used in these two poems are kind of uneducated, in Miss Rosie author ... American, they both had tensions in their life, both of them was anger, and sad { pg# 231, 233}. They differences are that aut...

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... Absalom-Monmouth- and Shaftesbury-Achitopel- and describes a view associated with symmetry as in Milton's "Paradise Lost-. This poem is a great achievement for its author, where Dryden uses a satirical and argumentative verse to debate on public affaires in the form of verse satire. He was a political poet -Anglican at ... things- on the occasion of recalling when Roman Catholic went through problems from the time of Elizabeth II and then says "when the chosen people grew more strong the rightful cause at length became the wrong-.This example identifies him with the Anglicans and Torie...

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... compare and contrast two poems from the Age of Realism and the Romantic Era. The first poem I have chosen is The Lotos-Eaters by Lord Alfred Tennyson, and the second poem I have chosen is On First Looking into Chapman's Homer by John Keats. In comparing the two poems one can notice the use of iambic pentameter, which was first innovated by William ... emotionally attached to the story given to him or her by Lord Alfred more so than that of Keats. The hidden meanings woven into the works of that of a Romantic author can deter one from allowing their emotions to bond with the words. By re...

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The Essence of Man In William Wordsworth's sonnet "The World Is Too Much with Us," the author's techniques enhance a feeling of not only hopeless despondency, but also forlorn dejection. Wordsworth presents first humankind's existing botched ... to its once flourishing relationship with nature, ultimately becoming more true to our own quintessence. Wordsworth's diction enhances a feeling of melancholy. For example, the author recognizes the vast potential for humankind, but the all too common mentality of "getting and spending" clouds the once perceptive outlook of humanity. The appetite ... ...

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... see it and he is transported again and again through association back to the sublime. Wordsworth relies heavily on his belief in the power of association. He believes that the "Author makes a formal engagement that he will gratify certain known habits of association" and in a state of excitement, these chains of association breakdown (574). In "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" Wordsworth reflects ... flowers toss their heads "in a sprightly dance." Before the reader can pass judgment on Wordsworth for leaving the realm of "flesh and blood," it is necessary to look at the author. When Words...

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... life's dimensions. Weir shows it in shots of students standing on desks to view a new perspective. More importantly though is when they stand on their desks later showing they have chosen it for themselves versus being told to do so. It's also shown in the readings of poets like Thoreau, and Whitman who are named quite a bit. They look at life ... the most absurd ways such as how this film shows the "heart" of an artist without really knowing it-the author, the actor, and the educator. Yes, the educator is an artist in his task to mold minds to think. The author is an artist in his use ...

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... expressions. Thus, defining poetry is not an easy task. According to the "Dictionary of Literary Terms- poetry is: - metrical writing; - writing, that formulates a concentrated imaginative awareness of experience in language chosen and arranged to create a specific emotional response through its meanings, sound and rhythm. Poetry is the deepest expression of thought and feeling. It includes the full gamut of all human ... poetry are the words that together leave us a little wiser after we have read them. (1996) Kamieñska reminds that poetry is also a question of experience to which an ...

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... imagery, figurative language, extensive metaphors, and many other examples of important literature. With the literary composition that many songs contain, an English class is incomplete without a proper outlook on the chosen examples. Many musical and lyrical geniuses have been born into this world and it would be unfair to the students to not allow them to be enlightened on many generations ... musical lyrics are the exact same that would be used to analyze a poem or short story. By breaking apart a song verse by verse you can try and understand what the author is expressing just as a ...

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... expressions. Thus, defining poetry is not an easy task. According to the "Dictionary of Literary Terms- poetry is: - metrical writing; - writing, that formulates a concentrated imaginative awareness of experience in language chosen and arranged to create a specific emotional response through its meanings, sound and rhythm. Poetry is the deepest expression of thought and feeling. It includes the full gamut of all human ... poetry are the words that together leave us a little wiser after we have read them. (1996) Kamieñska reminds that poetry is also a question of experience to which an ...

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... other parts of human sufferings that one may know, even a person who has never experienced war. The reader's emotional and physical reaction towards this poem will support how effective the author's use of imagery is in this poem. The images "drunk with fatigue," and "coughing like hags," states that the men are in deep tiredness and sick with "cancer." Stanza two ... and struggle of a man dying in gas. The pain and misery which flowed through his body constantly as he plunged at Owen. One of the most powerful words that was chosen was "gargling". Simply the pronunciation of the word on...

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• Grade Level: High School