Poem Analyzed: Niggerlips, by Martin Espada Upon simply glancing at the title of the poem, intrigue immediately draws the prospective reader into reading it - and in my case, analyzing it. ... This content of Espada's poem is further enhanced by the way he uses language. ... While staying concise, the poem surprisingly provides stunning imagery. ... Espada did not incorporate a lot of rhyme into his poem either. ... The pace of Espada's poem is very much dictated by the syntax and line breaks. ...

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English Assessment Poems: Clothes, It Will Not Change The poem "Clothes" by Elizabeth Jennings portrays the change of fashion and clothes over the years and the future. ... With the other poem I find that I don't see any pictures but rather think about what the poem is talking about. ... In the first poem the author uses a simple ABCB rhyming pattern. ... The second poem differs from the first one quite a lot. ... Like the first poem it flows very nicely but due to a lack of paragraphs it is not quite as snappy, so one would rather read it slowly, also to take in everything the po...

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Comparing poems Different poems appeal in different ways and some are not really comparable. ... What is the poem about? ... Rhyme Do the poems rhyme? Rhyme can carry a poem along. ... Dylan Thomas The poem's voice Lastly, you need to think about each poem's voice. ...

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His poem is a parody of "This is Just to Say" by William Carlos Williams. ... The poem consists of four stanzas of three lines each. ... It is not like most poems. ... It's funny how Koch's poem comes off. ... I never knew people did parodies of poems. ...

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The translation of this poem has been very difficult since it has a definite rhyme scheme and by trying to maintain the scheme in the translation I might alter the meaning of the poem. ... At the age of ten he started to translate poems from Latin and at age 12 Lope wrote his first play. ... The work of translating the poem, took me a while, since I had to look real hard inside my head for words to rhyme and all types of words so that I could get the sense that I was not damaging the meaning of the poem and yet also I still think I missed some of the meaning to the words. ... I think it was b...

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In his poem "Lullaby" (Auden 29), there is a clear focus on the expression of love. ... The poem is without a doubt directly spoken to one specific person. This implies that the beloved is the addressee in the poem. ... From line 3 to 6 the poem comments on beauty that burns away, in the course of time. ... The appearance of the poem; its metrical basis and rhymes, conforms to the ide...

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Compare and contract William Blake's poems "The Tiger" and "The Lamb". ... The poems are based on the world of a child. ... This poem appeals to the child in us. ... The poem is written as if addressing a child. ... This is a very powerful poem. ...

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Few lines in the poem set a silence and dreamy atmosphere. ... The rhythm exaggerates the seriousness of the poem. ... The rhyme scheme of the poem is aaba/bbcd/ccdc/dddd. ... Besides that, alliteration is also used in Frost's poem. ... As for Frost, the whole poem symbolises a journey in the woods. ...

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American Poet Robert Frost's well-known poem, "Stopping by Woods in the Snowy Evening," relates the story of man riding alone in the wood in a horse-drawn sleigh on a snowy evening as he reflects on his life. ... At first reading, on the surface the poem's message is simply a man's journey in the countryside. ... Moreover, rhythm in the poem is smooth with a consistently regular rhyme scheme in all four verses is as follows: aaba/bbcb/ccdc/dddd. ... Frost's four-stanza poem reaches its climax in last stanza when he has a vision of how he will spend the rest of hi...

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The two poems being compared are both love poems. Poem one is On My First Son by Ben Jonson . ... Poem one depicts the saddest part of love; the loss of love, whereas poem two depicts the joy that can be found in love. ... Poem two contains all of these elements which makes it a fixed form poem. ... The speaker of poem two is a man in love. ...

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A reader may be able to find many interpretations to the poem. ... However there is more to this poem than its title suggests. There are two main themes to this poem. ... The poem is naturally spoken in the way that one would do normally. ... The poem uses such simple language that the general end feel once the poem is read is quite ambiguous and that it might take more than a few reads for a reader to understand what the poem is saying. ...

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In this poem, nature is trying to get back to man, as "The deer had come for me". ... Also, the fantasy style poem brings about a strong contrast with the style used in the more recent poems of Hughes and Heaney, who have chosen to use more realistic representations in their poems with the boy and the man, and the rat and the deer, and therefore demonstrates how these poems might have been based upon real-life events. ... The only referral to this poem as being modern is where the man is in the car. ... In each of these poems, different circumstances bring together man and nature. ... The d...

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Both poems have two very different perspectives on their settings. Also, the speakers in each poem have very diverse attitudes. ... In the poem, "The Ecchoing Green" from Blake's Songs of Innocence, there is an overall happy tone throughout the poem. ... Finally, the contradictory rhyme schemes in "London" and "The Ecchoing Green" provide further proof of these poems being companion poems. ... It gives the reader a sense of contentment while reading the poem. ...

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"The dark qualities of a Frost poem, however, do not necessarily determine that the poem without humor .. Frosts" poems are tricky out of a mischievous sense of delight". ... This poem does not rhyme. ... This is a rhymed poem. The setting of this poem is in the woods. ...

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Both poems are metaphoric and shouldn't be taken literally. ... First of all, in Gwendolyn Brooks" poem, A Song in the Front Yard, the speaker is the girl in the poem. ... In Thomas Campion's poem There is a Garden in Her Face, the speaker is not who the poem is about. ... The strict form of Campion's poem suggests the togetherness of the girl in the poem and the lifestyle she desires. The structure of the poems reflects the tone and ideas involved. ...

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After extensive research I have come across a poem that I believe to be "the best poem in the world.... There are many uses of symbolism in this poem which have important meaning. ... The use of metaphors and similes are very prevalent in this poem. ... Alliteration is used throughout the poem to add rhythm and flow. ... In addition to being a poem that flows effectively and is not only moving but also provokes emotion, Maya has made a poem that has numerous messages hidden behind the text. ...

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The speaker of the poem is a man who admires a certain woman's beauty. ... The structure of this poem is mainly a iambic tetrameter. ... Punctuation is used fairly normally throughout the poem. ... The tone of this poem is serious. ... However, in this poem written in 1814, the beauty conveyed is just as timeless as any poem itself. ...

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Her first publication was a poem in American Childhood Magazine in1930. ... The italicized introduction to the poem is "The Pool Players. ... She does an excellent job of having the poem flow off of the tongue effortlessly and makes the poem very simple to read. ... Such rhyme results in an even more effectual echo of meaning in the poem. ... The pattern of rhyming adds to the echoing of the theme throughout the poem. ...

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Imagery is also used throughout this poem. ... Alliteration is the final type of literary device used in this poem. ... Tense is one of the other factors that create this poem. ... Punctuation also leaves an effect in this poem. ... Although this poem is written from a mother's point of view, the message of this poem is still timeless for all. ...

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By having an a-a-b-b-c-c-d-d rhyme scheme, this five stanza poem repeats a sound that links one concept to the next, determining the structure of the poem. The poem ends with two separate lines from the stanzas which act as an epigram for the whole poem. ... The epigram or the last two lines of the poem, "Hatchet-killings ain't a crime Summertime is itchy time," sums the whole poem, justifying Nash's purpose throughout the imageries he depicts in the poem. Nash did not use a specific meter in this poem which gives a comical feel for the audience towards the entirety of ...

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I believe that Noyce is writing this poem for himself. ... Noyce shows despair in the poem, he feels hopeless, lost in the mountain. ... The poem is a free verse poem, with no apparent pattern. ... There are no stanzas in the poem, instead Noyce writes the whole poem in one single fragmented unit, to resemble the long and endless journey he is facing. There is no steady movement or rhyme throughout the poem. ...

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The extended metaphor of the poem as the author's child is carried through most of the poem. ... Rather than looking at the poem as a feminist manifesto I find its interest in the relationships depicted in the poem. ... The author cannot really enjoy his poem as she depends so much on it. ... Many harsh sounds are present in the poem (e.g. ... There are no divided lines and the poem is written in a singular stanza. ...

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My first response to the poem "Ballad of Birmingham," by Dudley Randall, was that it was very tragic and heartbreaking as the poem expresses the worries and fear that the mother has for her little girl. ... This is evident by the constant dialogue between the mother and the child throughout the poem. ... Both the poem and the newspaper article provide the reader with insight of the bombing. ... As I finished reading the poem "Ballad of Birmingham," I completely understood the fear that the mother had in the poem about allowing her daughter to go and march in the street...

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Marriage and the culture that supports it have effected the character in this poem greatly. ... The tigers obviously have a very significant symbolic purpose in this poem. ... Adrienne Rich expresses some feminist concern in this poem. ... The style and format of the poem is symbolic of Aunt Jennifer's reality. ... This poem expresses itself with a sort of confidence that is rare. ...

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The power that comes from this apparent simplicity is what makes the poem so striking. ... The rhyming scheme in the poem is very simple, taking the form of A, A, B, B, C, C and so on. ... The poems published in The Songs of Experience are somewhat simpler in the way that the speaker of the poem is the voice of experience, warning the innocence about the futility of life. ... The poem is made up of four stanzas of four lines, each having alternate lines rhyming. ... Reading his poems, one may think he has a very narrow vocabulary, but this is not the case. ...

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