... image he is creating. The opening stanza begins with "she was Sanyo oriented . He was Rank Arean bred". This describes the backgrounds of the characters through the use of metaphorical descriptions of televisions. The meeting of the two characters is from a broken/faulty television, which leads to the female inviting her male companion home. The poem follows a pathos scenario where the ... watch a "simple" sunset questions the intelligence of viewers of television, and ultimately like Dawe, suggests that the contemporary socially should re-evaluate what we seek content and direction fro...

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... are re-arranged to evade and exploit our usual expectations. This technique proves effective, as it also reflects the unexpectedness of the allegories and descriptions that are to follow. We as readers are used to hearing women being compared to objects of beauty, but it is not very ... he portrayed of women is challenged and undermined throughout "Thoughts After Ruskin". The poem was written in the late twentieth century, and the traditional lyrical descriptions of women, as merely objects of beauty to be admired, may not always be considered as compliments. Here we see a twentieth cent...

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... are re-arranged to evade and exploit our usual expectations. This technique proves effective, as it also reflects the unexpectedness of the allegories and descriptions that are to follow. We as readers are used to hearing women being compared to objects of beauty, but it is not very ... he portrayed of women is challenged and undermined throughout "Thoughts After Ruskin". The poem was written in the late twentieth century, and the traditional lyrical descriptions of women, as merely objects of beauty to be admired, may not always be considered as compliments. Here we see a twentieth cent...

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• Grade Level: High School

... can recognize profound family affections, eloquent landscapes, and vigorous social concern" (Vendler 2). One of the ways that Heaney holds the attention of his readers is through "powerful symbols" and striking descriptions (Vendler 2). Vendler goes on to say that symbols and images are not enough to make a poet memorable. The poet must also convey these images with the proper words. Heaney uses ... him," not the theme of the poetry (Vendler 6). This is what makes many of Heaney's works so powerful. The reader is able to feel Heaney's emotions when reading about his descriptions and mem...

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... ;lined slippers," and, "silver dishes." Both speakers in these two poems are attempting to seduce their lovers through the use of unnatural objects and a lot of the descriptions are focused on superficial elements so arguably that is again saying that Marvell, Marlowe and other poets had no true experience of what an ideal pastoral life is like. Despite ... the artificiality depicted harshly in the first two poems of Marvell's, it would be wrong to say that pastoral poetry is entirely artificial. Majority of the settings and descriptions highlighted within pastoral poetry are extremely n...

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... characters in the poem we see that the poet has given a lot of attention to detail in describing the actions of "the Visitor" i.e the piano tuner through these descriptions we can also see that the tuner is very experienced as even though he is blind he can make out the notes just by touching the strings and knows how ... presented poem and even though it doesn't have a specific rhyme scheme it still maintains a tempo and rhythmic flow like how a song does. The piece is very well written and the descriptions are very elaborate "The dusty wires he touches, row on row, quiver like bowstri...

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... of the Brooklyn Dodgers team, and frequently celebrated this interest in her verse. Her work is descriptive and reflective, rather than lyric or dramatic, and it often gives minutely detailed descriptions of landscapes, animals, or objects. K. Wallace Stevens- Viewed the poet as a person who found harmony in the world's chaos. His first published work, Harmonium (1923), contains some of his best ... Poem 4. Rhyming poems (topic of choice) 5. Two poems about nature/ love 6. Poem using the senses 7. Poem using literary devices 8. Story poem 9. Own choice 10. Own choice B. Original Prose 1...

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... (the sun, coral, snow, and wires--the one positive thing in the whole poem some part of his mistress is like. In the second and third quatrains, he expands the descriptions to occupy two lines each, so that roses/cheeks, perfume/breath, music/voice, and goddess/mistress each receive a pair of unrhymed lines. This creates the effect of an expanding and ... moving on with life after the dead are gone because they both knew that the afterlife would be joyous and eternal. In Shakespeare's sonnet 130, the poet rejects the false descriptions of women. Instead he describes his mistress" beauty...

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... the things that that imagination can accomplish. The unicorn is described in full detail including their gold horns which show the beauty of being young. The use of these vibrant descriptions allows for a contrast between the marvel of the unicorn and the sad mood that has been set. The theme of this poem is to live life to the fullest and ... attempts to learn how to be like a child, to use imagination and curiosity and to make things that are normally ignored, new and exciting. The poem uses a lot of strong descriptions such as the "celestial gibberish" of child speech and the "purple...

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... . In Fra Lippo Lippi 1855 he fused painting, history and religion into a demonstration of , and argument for, realism in art. Set in Florence of the Renaissance it tells of a licentious monk known for his naturalist style of painting. The other monks are shocked at his realistic portrayal of the human body because they see the function of religious painting as spiritual ... ...

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... God who created the lamb. He refers to God as the one who: "Gave thee life and bid thee feed By the stream and o'er the mead: Gave thee clothing of delight Softest clothing wooly, bright: Gave thee such a tender voice, Making all the vales rejoice." The constant repetition of the word "Gave" emphasises the child's vision that life is a gift. The ... mentions his longing desire to restore this image, which is dominant in "The Lamb". In the first stanza, Blake uses imagery of a 'stream' and a 'mead' as well as "clothing of delight, softest clothing woolly bright.' This Pastoral imagery, a...

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... . In Fra Lippo Lippi 1855 he fused painting, history and religion into a demonstration of , and argument for, realism in art. Set in Florence of the Renaissance it tells of a licentious monk known for his naturalist style of painting. The other monks are shocked at his realistic portrayal of the human body because they see the function of religious painting as spiritual ... ...

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... innocence, serenity, a child, Jesus, or sacrifice. The poem compliments God for making such a beautiful being as lamb. Blake personifies the lamb as a naive animal that is pure like its "softest clothing wooly, bright,"" and has a "tender voice-. In the poem the lamb was asked if it knew who had created it. It was asked this question as it was so "meek ... thought, is so naive that it just may not even be aware of who or what created it. Who "gave thee life, and bid thee feed- and who "gave thee clothing of delight-. Blake discusses that the creator of the lamb also calls Himself a Lamb...

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... sense; yeah, gazing round on the wide landscape, gaze till all doth seem less gross than bodily; and of such hues as veil the Almighty Spirit" (p. 808, line 37-39). Coleridge's mention of "the Almighty Spirit" also indicates the poem's Romantic orientation. The fact that This Lime-Tree Bower was also written in a free-flowing conversational style also ... ...

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... finds it unnecessary to seek God for the problems humanity faces – the world, and its mortality and imperfections, bring more than enough comfort. (Lullaby n. pag.) In lines 37 to 39 the speaker says that his beloved will never experience any earthly harm. In times of draught, he will be fed, and the insults of humanity will always pass over him ... ...

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... notions of love, sex, women, and motherhood; each topic significant in its own way to the author. Sadly, this poem has come under fire several times due to its graphic descriptions of sex and a woman's anatomy. To some, the networking of words used by Paterson seems to suggest strong and graphic sexual imagery. Paterson used the phrase "by its tiny pulse ... ...

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... a symbol for the dancers illustrates a bias on the poet's point of view towards another social group that he considers inferior to himself, the observer. This can be seen as the descriptions of the observer appear more intellectual and positive in comparison to those of the dancers. As the speaker refers why he prefers to remain outside where his form of happiness ... ...

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... verses to culminate into vast, uncontrolled emotions. Liberated, as free verse may seem, Williams meticulously draws in two stanzas with uninhabited, succinct verses to differentiate between his first ideas of descriptions and his last stanzas of interaction. "In a well guarded arena of open water surrounded by/lesser and greater crafts which, sycophant, lumbering/and flittering follow them, they appear youthful, rare ... ...

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... by beautiful things and true friends (35-38). The honorable man's situation is unlike his gluttonous counterparts" who must be weary of their friends and need constant protection from harm (39-42). The poet embellishes upon the idealistic life of the needless man as if nature itself prefers men to behave in her suggested manner. She suggests that the heavens are ... ...

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... a child's view of the world" (Tremlett 150). As the poem continues, Thomas uses exaggeration to emphasize that it is a child's eyes through which the reader is looking as in such descriptions as "the hay / Fields high as a house" (19-20). Such lines as "I was prince of the apple towns"(6) demonstrates that the child sees everything as larger than life. Thomas" childhood ... ...

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... is emphasized further by the theme of darkness, night, and shadows that is carried throughout the poem. He says, "here there is no light, / Save what from heaven is" (38-39). On earth all he sees is the harsh reality of existence, and the only hope is the promise of an afterlife. He "cannot see what flowers are at [his] feet ... ...

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... rhyme. The poem also has two indications of internal rhyme in it, which occurs when the rhyming words appear in the same line of poetry, which is underlined in lines 39 and 40: "Men work together,"" I told him from the heart, "Whether they work together or apart."" They are also expressed in lines 3 and 4: The dew was gone that made his ... ...

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... ." (lines 19-21) The only indication of the boy is that he is "Wearing a poppy bruise on his left temple". It shows that something so small could kill a child. Other descriptions are in the boy's room. The poet describes it like the child is not dead but is just sleeping. This is how the family would like to see the boy ... ...

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... in the drama than anywhere else in Thomas. The Reverend Eli Jenkins remembers sadly the drunken father of his boyhood. Mr Waldo sings of his childhood. And there are wonderful descriptions of the children of the town tumbling out of school: Captain Cat at his curtained schooner's porthole open to the Spring sun tides hears the naughty forfeiting children tumble and ... ...

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... " he displays one attempt at conveying depression in a poem. It is the story of a lost love, no more than an infatuation that increased to become an amazing fantasy. His amazing descriptions in stanza seven almost lead you to believe she has passed away, or contracted some form of fatal illness. Yet the only disaster, is that she loses interest in him ... ...

• Word Count: 1388
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• Grade Level: High School