... God - the eternal perspective, and, to a less extent, about pleasure, learning and art. Metaphysical poems are lyric poems. They are brief but intense meditations, characterised by striking use of wit, irony and wordplay. Beneath the formal structure (of rhyme, metre and stanza) is the underlying (and often hardly less formal) structure of the poem's argument. Wit and conceit were both aspects ... have forms and traditions placed on it. -Sawcy pedantique wretch, goe chide/Late school boyes."œ Apostrophe: The persona asserts his confidence and superiority in a dramatic and quinessential...

• Word Count: 7662
• Approx Pages: 31
• Grade Level: High School

... numerous degrading references made about white Americans and their inane view of life. From the safety of a typewriter, Alvarez declares war on all those that are not like her. The irony almost reaching humorous, that it is the unmistakable definition of literary racism. In an article for a black publication, Essence, Alvarez asks the question, "Had I been unconscious of racism until we ... a life lost to confusion in How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents and The Other Side / El Otro Lado. It is shameful that an English professor cannot see to the irony that lay so heavy in her belly....

• Word Count: 2799
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... its starting point, becomes 'impersonalised' by the tradition in which the poet works; and third, his use of quotations from and allusions to other poets' work for reference, parody, irony, and a sense of continuing intertextual communication and community. Difficulties are created by Eliot's frequent allusions to other literatures, languages, and cultures. Many of these references are difficult to follow, require ... ...

• Word Count: 10566
• Approx Pages: 42

... appellation for his own works because in the language of nineteenth century book-publishers, 'grass' was used to denote works of minor value. This expression of humility and self-irony diverts from the idea that Whitman, looking for connections with nature, is describing himself as a sort of genius, a superior being, demiurge of incomparable works. In fact, the title highlights his ... ...

• Word Count: 2619
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... , for example, the majority of  The Canterbury Tales  shows that Chaucer was a master of the forms of poetry of his day. The references to the classics and the touches of irony and humor also mark Chaucer's ability. The Book of the Duchess  as a Chaucerian Consolation   According to medieval dream theory and its classification system, the dream experienced by the poet in ... ...

• Word Count: 5753
• Approx Pages: 23
• Grade Level: High School

... could call daughter. The unacceptable claim "a man is king in his own castle" gives license to men like Linda McCarriston's father to heap abuse and violence on his family. The irony here is in the royalty metaphor as her father had no castle or kingdom but was a simple working class man. McCarriston often uses castles (large, fortified, imposing buildings) in her ... ...

• Word Count: 3020
• Approx Pages: 12
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... could call daughter. The unacceptable claim "a man is king in his own castle" gives license to men like Linda McCarriston's father to heap abuse and violence on his family. The irony here is in the royalty metaphor as her father had no castle or kingdom but was a simple working class man. McCarriston often uses castles (large, fortified, imposing buildings) in her ... ...

• Word Count: 3020
• Approx Pages: 12
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... that "Sandburg was a top-notch poet" to the opinion that "his outspoken ideology prevented him from being a poet at all" (Niven). In closing selection of Cornhuskers, "Shedandoah", Sandburg reveals a gently irony of the phantoms of soldiers who died in past battle of earlier wars (Niven). Sandburg's favorite and greatest poetry book came along in 1936. The People, Yes is a collection of ... ...

• Word Count: 2533
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... feelings in the minds of most women, however the speaker cleverly lures them back within his grasp through the vivid descriptions of his intensely romantic fantasies in lines 3-20. The irony extends itelf in these lines, for although he just finished admonishing his lady for her squandering of valuable time, the ensuing 18 lines of rhyme ! give virtually no heed to ... ...

• Word Count: 2776
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... butter' The poem begins by described how the 'adverts face all ways and block'. This suggests that modern advertising dominates urban areas and is impossible to escape from. Larkin uses irony in the phrase 'screen groves with custard' to represent how the adverts temporarily allow people to forget the reality of their own lives. However, the screen is also a surface and ... ...

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... the bird will leave him the next day, just like his hopes, luck, have done so before. No other similes were discovered, as were no metaphors either. Hyperboles, paradoxes, and irony were not found either. Poe also uses personification and symbolism in "The Raven."" Personification is used when Poe describes the curtains in his room as sad and uncertain: "And the ... ...

• Word Count: 2508
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School

... "poured it (his colour) down shell holes till the veins ran dry". This is a powerful metaphor linking the artists paint to the soldier's blood. The next stanza starts with tragic irony at the fact that he used to enjoy having a "blood smear down his leg" after football, but now he has no leg to wound. This leads on well to the ... ...

• Word Count: 2724
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: High School

... . The manner in which affairs are bringing about the downfall of the microcosm reflect a much greater problem, that which is corrupt within the macrocosm. Undeniably, an immense feeling of poetic irony is experienced by audiences at this point. Again, we may view this romantic depiction of Denmark as a euphemistic depiction of a universe in turmoil. Finally, characters create a notable sense of poetry ... ...

• Word Count: 2581
• Approx Pages: 10