Good commentary must include: - Clear organization - Understanding of literary techniques - Alliteration - Metaphors - she is snow - Onomatopoeia - words that are spelt in a similar way to the sound - Allegory - narrative using symbols - Euphemism - cold slumber (death) - Similes - white as snow (figurative language as opposed to literal language) - Oxymoron - silent scream - Hyperbole - Visual imagery - ... or a theme that recurs throughout a play, story or poem - Setting - Paradox - idea that cannot be understood but has a deeper meaning alienation Ability to explain author's use of techniq...

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... War. Both of these poems portray Owen's bitterness towards the war, but do so in very different ways. Owen developed many of his poetic techniques at Craig Lockhart Military Hospital, where he spent much of the war as an injured soldier, but it was only through the influence of fellow ... one of the greatest war poets to have ever lived. Arguably his most famous poem, "Dulce et Decorum Est", is a fine example of his narrative, first-person poems, written through his own eyes and based on his own experiences and views of the war. Using four clear stanzas, the poem ... scenes. "Anthem for ...

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... of people and events. This is done in an entertaining and yet effective way by manipulating images using a variety of powerful audio and visual techniques. This is clearly shown in the "Truman show" directed by Peter Weir and Damian Morgan's presentation "Have a Go". Both of these stories ... significant event for Christof as it shows how Truman and his father reunite. For Peter Weir these techniques help his audience perceive media as fake. Morgan tells his stories through poems in an oral narrative style. His overall aim in his two poems is to entertain and spread the message "Have ......

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... his life, the choices he made and the road he travelled. The Road Not Taken is a poem with universal relevance about a journey that every person takes. Here is a first person narrative tale of a monumental moment in the speaker's life - Frost can be considered the speaker. Frost is faced between the choice of a moment and a lifetime manifested in his poem. Frost presents ... road, the decision between the two paths, and the speaker's decision to select the road not taken. Frost effectively conveys his theme and meaning through the use of numerous techniques. These techniques include sim...

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... his life, the choices he made and the road he travelled. The Road Not Taken is a poem with universal relevance about a journey that every person takes. Here is a first person narrative tale of a monumental moment in the speaker's life - Frost can be considered the speaker. Frost is faced between the choice of a moment and a lifetime manifested in his poem. Frost presents ... road, the decision between the two paths, and the speaker's decision to select the road not taken. Frost effectively conveys his theme and meaning through the use of numerous techniques. These techniques include sim...

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... his life, the choices he made and the road he travelled. The Road Not Taken is a poem with universal relevance about a journey that every person takes. Here is a first person narrative tale of a monumental moment in the speaker's life - Frost can be considered the speaker. Frost is faced between the choice of a moment and a lifetime manifested in his poem. Frost presents ... road, the decision between the two paths, and the speaker's decision to select the road not taken. Frost effectively conveys his theme and meaning through the use of numerous techniques. These techniques include sim...

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... , Porphyria's Lover, by Robert Browning, is a relatively simple poem that uses easy rhyming and rhythm to tell a story of love, only with a psychotic twist in the lover as the speaker. A narrative poem that creates a tone of coldness and distance from the point of view of the speaker, but also moulds the reader's idea of Porphyria's lover being spoilt and whinging. This ... is quite different from what the central character in most other poems or any type of narrative story with an established narrator. Throughout the poem there is also other techniques such as personification and sugges...

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... in effect "moaning" to her. This personal treatment of the theme helps us appreciate it more as it shows the poet has a deep understanding. The poet uses the first person narrative ambiguously and speaks on two layers using the persona of the dead man to speak her own thoughts. The lines "I was much further out than you thought And not waving ... dead, it may have been occurring for a long time and people have just not been noticing. In "Not Waving But Drowning" the poet employs many techniques such as the use of persona and the first person narrative making the poem seem very personal ...

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... long. At the same time he was able to make his stories entertaining, meaningful, and often symbolic. Chaucer took his narrative inspiration for his works from several sources but still remained an individual poet, gradually developing his personal style and techniques. His first narrative poem, The Book of the Duchess, was probably written shortly after the death of Blanche, Duchess of Lancaster, first ... ...

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... in effect "moaning" to her. This personal treatment of the theme helps us appreciate it more as it shows the poet has a deep understanding. The poet uses the first person narrative ambiguously and speaks on two layers using the persona of the dead man to speak her own thoughts. The lines "I was much further out than you thought And not waving ... dead, it may have been occurring for a long time and people have just not been noticing. In "Not Waving But Drowning" the poet employs many techniques such as the use of persona and the first person narrative making the poem seem very personal ...

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Edgar Allan Poe in his poem, "Annabelle Lee" (869) uses various techniques to reveal his theme. It is largely his interest in examining a "spiritual passion that transcends human limits" which inspired Poe to write his poem (Johnson pg. 2). He does this by ... his poem, Poe uses persona to reveal his emotions in the form of a fairy tale. "It is his personal story of lost love which achieves its unique effects through its narrative voice"(Reilly pg. 2). His experience having losing his wife, whom he marries when she was only thirteen, has affected his personal life. It seems difficult for him...

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Poetic liturature consists of many techniques and styles which are used to express the Poets creative ability, but can also be used to send an underlying concern. Carrion Comfort has expressed not only the poets, Gerald ... of man in me..") Emotive language is used to show that he has not much to hang on to except hope, and having the choice not to committ suicide. The narrative then asked a rhetorcial question which is probably relatable to every reader of the poem. "why wouldst thou rude on me thy wring-world right foot rock? lay a lionlimb against me ... cross "my God My God" . This ties...

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... images through form, tone, and theme to help the reader to understand their feelings. However, Shakespeare and Frost use different techniques and style to get their different points across. Shakespeare speaks of love and romance with melody, where as Frost has a natural narrative flow that reads softly about solitude and death. Love and death are two inevitable things in a person's life. Shakespeare ... ...

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