... is forced into submission by the notion of her deceased father, the black shoe in this instance. This commonplace simile, combined with the diction of 'black shoe; and 'poor and white' contributes to sense of suffocation in the poems opening stanza. The 'poor ... the repletion of the oo sound again significant in its contribution to the theme of victimhood and continual patriarchal domination. Finally, Plath uses aggressive diction to analogise Hughes to 'a vampire', a fairy tale character likely familiar to her audience. In this case, Hughes, the vampire &apos ... 's...

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... human joy. Simple settings and the ordinary language of conversation that reground feeling and expression in the basic and human replace the previous studied aesthetics of British poetry. The diction of the ballads is representative of the simple and impulsive aspect of tone and judgement in the stories. Their poetry resulted not from contrived and manufactured narrative incidents but ... weird stories whilst implementing the archaic register of a traditional ballad. Meanwhile, Tintern Abbey effectively incorporates Wordsworth's preoccupation with nature and the mechanisms of memory in a...

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... Canada, which amplifies their own personal voice. This is evident in the 1997 poem "Moving," by Shahriar Shahriari. Shahriari skillfully uses vivid diction, awakening tone and the use of rhetorical devices in his poem to showcase his immigrant voice and feelings through his literary work, showing the struggle ... how it made him the man he is today. Initially when reading "Moving", by Shahriar Shahriari the use of his vivid diction which sticks out and portrays his view of moving to another country as an immigrant. His use of language intensifies his feelings of moving ... to another co...

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... of the flexibility of the English vocabulary and creating a heated and moving poem. He further emphasizes his direct approach in his translation by means of his diction. The mystery of the poem is gone in the way Reavey directly states what is occurring in the poem, with the absence of double meanings and ... in different ways. The author's talent in this particular translation is in his or her ability to express full thoughts in few words. The author's diction becomes the most imperative tool in his or her translation since the right words are required to express the image and feeling th...

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... line, which is the major metrical line in English called an iambic pentameter. The rhyme scheme is: ABBA ABBA CDCDCD. The language of the poem is old English, very high diction, very formal. The syntax in many sentences is marked syntax, and in 7 sentences one can find an enjambment, some are stronger then the others. The poet is creating an effective ... more specifically, the question "Why do sinners" ways prosper?" is a question almost every religious person is asking at a certain point in his religious life. Through strong enjambments, parallel comparison, formal diction and poetic ...

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... use of these devices. This poem is very effective because of its use of the mechanical and emotional parts of poetry. Owen's use of precise diction emphasizes his point, showing that war is a horrible and devastating event. Through figurative language, a poem can give the reader the exact feeling the author ... poem expresses strong meaning and persuasive argument of the dark side of war and is an excellent example of powerful writing. The author's use of excellent diction helps to clearly define what the author is saying. (Fulwiler and Hayakawa 163) Powerful verbs like "guttering", "cho...

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... these devices. This poem is very effective because of its excellent manipulation of the mechanical and emotional parts of poetry. Owen's use of exact diction and vivid figurative language emphasizes his point, showing that war is terrible and devastating. Furthermore, the utilization of extremely graphic imagery adds even more to ... how there are disturbing tales that the troops will never be able to tell without remembering the extremely painful experience. The poem's use of excellent diction helps to more clearly define what the author is saying. Words like guttering, choking, and dro...

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... these devices. This poem is very effective because of its excellent manipulation of the mechanical and emotional parts of poetry. Owen's use of exact diction and vivid figurative language emphasizes his point, showing that war is terrible and devastating. Furthermore, the utilization of extremely graphic imagery adds even more to ... how there are disturbing tales that the troops will never be able to tell without remembering the extremely painful experience. The poem's use of excellent diction helps to more clearly define what the author is saying. Words like guttering, choking, and dro...

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... is very honourable, and glorious. As both poets have different opinions about war, in fact, almost opposite opinions, each poet uses different types of diction, figurative language, imagery, sounds, and tones to achieve his purpose. In The Soldier, Rupert Brooke uses both fluid and long, yet well-linked ... and "But limped on, blood-shod." The tone and atmosphere used and created by the two poets are also different, with each of them using diction and poetic devices, thus creating a tone and atmosphere to put across their point. For The Soldier, Rupert Brooke, uses a tone of controlled...

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... of only unsophisticated words because the infant has not yet learned how to speak, which recalls of the theme innocence. The blissful, enthusiastic tone of this poem derives from the diction of words such as "sweet joy" and "pretty joy". An apparent pattern in "Infant Joy" is the repetition of phrases – " 'What ... ;a fiend hid in the cloud" (Line 4), which shows the ingratitude of the parents towards the life of the newborn. Not only do the two poems have different perspectives and diction, they are also constructed differently. Although both poems have two stanzas, the rhyme sch...

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... ;stone." However, upon further research, one can see that Angelou's uses of references are actually very strong and hits the heart. These two lines are an irregular use of diction, suggesting that this person's soul is lost. The protagonist's life could potentially be upside-down and she is stuck in an alternate universe where "water" is in fact ... from Gaelic mythology, or a "heart" being of "stone". In the bigger picture when an individual really tries to visualize, this is just an enchanting use of diction. The "money the millionaires can't use" represents the happiness they can't bu...

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... corruption and the renewal of innocence. The poet's choice of syntax exhibits his personal renaissance by breaking away from classical structure and creating a more natural formation. Furthermore, Kavanagh's sense of diction helps the reader to construct his own vision of the life-giving, baptismal waters of the canal and its verdant surroundings. Lastly, the brilliant images created between the lines of ... nourishing one's spirit. The syntax of "Canal Bank Walk" assists the reader in following the persona's spiritual journey from salvation to resurrection. Through the use of potent, p...

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... the immense suffering and pain that soldiers must undergo. A helpless tone underscores the downtrodden and mentally feeble condition of the soldiers, who struggle to survive through an arduous battle. Ironic diction is employed to highlight the truth about war over the false impressions of its honorable status. The author beings by introducing the deterioration of the lives of the young and ... longer maintain the high energy and spirit they initially had. They are exasperated by the endless violence of war, which has quickly stolen away their innocence and youthful souls. Ironic dictio...

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... many mechanisms that Shakespeare has manifested in A Misummer Night's Dream is the unreliability of time, and how it has a tendency to lose its fluidity within a dream. Perhaps the structure and diction of the poem, which Duffy retains incredibly succinct, can be equated to represent the unusual mechanism of time in a dream, and how it seems to lose its normal gist of ... fluidity in the context of a dream. Duffy's distinctive spacing, meticulous diction and intermittent phrasing can be perceived to represent the intricate concept of time in the poem. Duffy ends the stanza in quite a su...

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... of poems is iambic tetrameter, an example being Marlowe's first line "come live/ with me/ and be/ my love." Next the diction used in the two poems is done so in the same manner; both formal and predominantly concrete. The concrete diction is used in such a specific fashion (i.e. "coral clasps"[Marlowe 18] and "river's rage" [Raleigh 6]) that it is quite easy for ... ...

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... in succession, nurturing a whole race of prose writers, poets, dramatist and philosophers. These people were to reform the literature of their time and to shape modern language, literary styles, poetic diction and verse. They also encouraged changes in social life as a result of the development of the social consciousness of people. An outstanding, pioneer contribution to present-day literature was made ... Eliot's first volume, Prufrock and Other Observations (1917). They believe that this publication marked the maturity of the 20th century poetic revolution, as the reformation of vers...

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... the world of the dead. Line eight is saying that the athlete is now a "townsman of a stiller town". Meaning he is a townsman of the dead. Lines nine through ten the diction begins to change cunningly from uncomplicated style to a more difficult style. The lines are not direct you have to read the lines more than once to figure what is The ... illustrates the athlete as a "smart lad" because he died at his peak. The narrator indirectly states, that people should follow the athlete and die at their peak too. Housman uses diction to create images for the reader. In the first stanza he use ...

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... the narrator in the poem was actually Frost. This can be inferred because the narrator took the road "less traveled by". This can also be said of Frost using different diction. Frost had an opportunity to graduate from Harvard twice, but each time turned it down until he was granted an honorary degree after excelling as a poet. The "average" person would ... better-known road and less influential - those who followed the other part left a better trail to follow. Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening is another influential poem. Frost uses good diction in giving it a very smooth transitio...

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... spirits of trees- and the "blue true dream of sky- that fascinate and enthrall the speaker.These phrases, found in the first stanza of the poem, show how Cummings uses diction, color symbolism, and imagery to relate to the idea of rebirth.The spirit of a group is the essential nature of that group, the basic feelings and ideas that it holds ... resurrection in a man who had previously lost sight of God in his life.The literary elements I feel Cummings uses best are allusion and structure.These, along with others such as diction, imagery, and syntax, succeed in showing the reader that th...

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... -war viewpoint is the same as that expressed in the poem Dulce et Decorum Est, written by Wilfred Owen, a soldier who fought in World War One. His excellent use of diction, figurative language, punctuation, and imagery convinces the reader that war is actually the disastrous series of tragic events he, as a soldier, had to go through. The poem's main theme, the ... a metaphor for the soldiers themselves, is very effective in giving rise to a sense of sympathy from the reader towards the soldiers. Another device used by Owen is a brilliant use of diction, as in the simile "like a devil's ...

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... correspond. For example, the vowel "o" in line 4 (long love's), vowel "I" in line 3 (sit.think), vowels "ou" in line 7 (Of Humber would .. .I would). I consider the diction to be romantic and mild; however, its archaic words and punctuations make its sentences fairly complex. In conclusion, Marvell's poem doesn't feature a speech made by the coy mistress; therefore he ... ...

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... towards the end of the 18th century in Europe with their joint publication Lyrical Ballads. Both Samuel Taylor and William Wordsworth conceived a new style of poetry in which nature and diction of the common man outplayed formal, stylized writing. This movement was a reaction to the Industrial Revolution, the aristocratic and political norms of the age of enlightenment, and the scientific rationalization ... ...

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... his work. Browning was especially known for his dramatic monologues that allowed him to develop techniques that played a big role in poetry. Some of those techniques were his use of diction, rhythm, and symbol. His contributions helped influence major poets of the twentieth century, such as Robert Frost, T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound (Schwartz). "Porphyria's Lover" is a great example of ... ...

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... focus on what the speaker sets out to achieve in the poem and how he accomplishes this. The stanzas will be analyzed individually, paying close attention to the notions of diction, figures of speech and rhetoric, tone and form. For the purpose of this discussion it is important to note Auden's sexual orientation; he was gay. Seeing the content in its ... ...

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... of rhyme may suggest that the maid does not feel particular joy in the way that her life going, as rhyme tends to go hand in hand with harmony. The diction throughout the poem contains very simple and curt sentences hinting at the maid's either sexual frustration or the fact that she is aggravated and provoked by the humbling tasks that ... ...

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