She is also a highly cultured person. ... In one of Angelou's poems, "Unmeasured Tempo", she talks about a person's life. ... By the time a person gets old enough to have a spiritual realization of who they are their body is already declining (Angelou 11). ... She first talks about her mother being this perfect beauty who was polite and adored. And then it talks about a person who catches her eyes who seems to be her son and then she associates him with his father. ...

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The first aspect of interest is Keats" development of the cruel reality of the world that surrounds the speakers. ... The song of the nightingale represents all the beauty in the world, because each person supposedly experiences something as pleasant and simple as the song of a bird. ... Also, to fully appreciate and realize the beauty one must know pain first. ... One can only realize and truly enjoy this perfection and beauty if they first have experienced the sorrow and pain of their own struggle or that of others....

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The third decade of the twentieth century brought on more explicit writers than ever before, but none were as expressive as Anne Sexton. Her style of writing, her works, the image that she created, and the crazy life that she led are all prime examples of this. Known as one of the most "confession...

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As his first writing made a little impression on people, his second collection flew off. ... In "We Wear Masks" he is speaking of the masks the slaves or any person wear to hide their faces from the embarrassment of not only being slaves, but being treated the way they were by their owners. ... He was the first black American poet to gain this national praise, although white and black writers before him have used it also (Laryea 108). ...

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His poems were also often in first person. ... In Frosts poem "Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening" (Literature and Its Writers, 807), Frost writes about an experience in the first person, of a man on a journey, who stops by a some woods. ... The first thing Frost mentions is the woods. ... In his poem, the Road Not Taken, Frost once again uses first person to tell the story. ... Who hasn't seen a forest, either first hand, or in a book? ...

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In the first poem, the child dreams of salvation; a child's nave hope of something better. ... The first picture printed in color and the second in black and white. ... The singing is not joyous as in the first poem. ... That good and evil can reside side by side in a person and that a person may even have some control over how evil festers and grows. ... This poem is written in the first person whereas "The Tyger" is not making "A Poison Tree" more personal and more challenging. ...

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In Old English, each line is divided by a pause, and the stressed syllables in the first half-line alliterate with those in the second half-line. ... The two main points of view are those of the third-person narrator, who stands outside the story itself, and the first-person narrator, who participates in the story. The first type always uses third-person pronouns such as he, she, or they, while the latter narrator also uses the first person I. ... In the plot of a drama, conflict occurs when some person or force in the play opposes the protagonist. ... In the plot of a drama, conflict occu...

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The first fourteen sonnets encourage a young man to get married and have a family. ... In the first line of sonnet 130, Shakespeare does not use a comma to imply a caesura. ... A person can visualize all of these images. ... There is more to a person than physical appearance. A person can find love in the spirit of the person and the heart and mind are more important than physical traits. ...

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The first method is that the sections beging and end as sentences (at the end of the first 3 lines there are commas, but at the end of the fourth line of the section there is a full stop.) This is method is present in the first three sections. ... The first section of the prologue sets out the scenario. The first line of the prologue reads "Two households, both alike in dignity." ... Mutiny means to revolt against your own kind, going against the person who is in charge, I think that this could suggest someone in one of the families going against the person in charge. ...

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First, she will address you in a tongue so secret she must close her mouth on yours. ... However, if a person is truly in love with you, they will not see you as a terrible person; but as the same person they fell in love with. ... Finally, Paterson mentions the love a person can have for their mother, or the person referred to as mother in an individual's upbringing. ... Sadly, he must bid the person goodbye. ... Love can build a person up and tear a person down, unfortunately. ...

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A person's perspective is based upon their background, previous experiences and culture. ... The poem uses a metaphorical idea of a person inside a room with a closed door, with the speaker trying to convince them to open the door, to make a change. The tone used in the first phrase of the first four stanzas is commanding telling who ever is in the room to "go and open the door". ... This is what causes the first change. ... I have realised that change is not a simple issue, but rather, it is made up of many components, that generally affect every person and thing involved. ...

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The obvious basic meaning is that the poem is about a person's choices in life. ... First of all, it is likely that the narrator in the poem was actually Frost. ... The "average" person would probably have just stuck through Harvard the first time around, graduate and then chosen a more stable career. ... Once, while traveling, a person (Frost) came to a fork in the road and could not decide which path to take. ... Frost's grandfather first tried to convince him to stop writing and later worried about him and his life. ...

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Oh, I kept the first for another day! ... In "The Road Not Taken," the speakers" tone and setting help illustrate the struggle a person goes through in their lives to pick the right road to travel. ... In the first verse of the first stanza, Frost says, "Two roads diverged in a yellow wood," which is seemingly a very important part of the poem. ... This is exactly what he does when he looks down the first road, at the end of the first stanza. ... This poem supplies the reader with a situation that each person has to face at least one situation in their lives. ...

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The narrator is alone in the poem and speaks in the first person with the auditor being the reader. ... Few of the first words in each line are capitalized. ... They are fairly long sentences with the first one including two colons. ... Atwood chooses to make it clear that each reader is a different person and singles you out as being "the one." ... This is how each person gets captured, by thinking that they"re special and they might survive. ...

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All but one of the names of the poems in Spoon River Anthology were the names of the people, or titles these people earned, that the poems were focused on; that one poem, "The Hill," is the cemetery where all these people were buried and is the first poem introduce in Spoon River Anthology. ... Masters shows us these people inner thoughts and meanings and sometimes even in first-person point of view. ... The first two "morsels" are of two that differentiate two peoples opinion on free will and whether it exists on God's green Earth. ... Whether this person was real or not I believe Mas...

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Frost was expressing the belief that it is the road or path that one takes or chooses that makes one the person they are today and will be tomorrow. ... His choice helps show the type of person he was and his personality. ... He thinks he is an independent person, not afraid to strike out on his own. ... After taking this road he realizes that both paths are actually "worn the really about the same," indicating that an equal number of people have actually taken both paths, and he is not the first to go this way. ... "Oh, I kept the first for another day!" ...

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One can argue that it's herself she speaks of due to her being pregnant with her first child at the time of this poem's composition. ... Further inspection of the poem reveals the "I" is actually a person. By starting the poem in this kind of mysterious manner, this tells us the person sees themselves as a riddle. ... Once we as readers understand this poem is describing a state of pregnancy, we read the first line again and see Plath is unsettled. ... Now the first two have a smoothness that adds to the sway of this riddle, but the third puts a bump in the pleasing tone. ...

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The poem is clearly written to address a certain individual, due to its frequent use of the second person pronoun you' and has much in common with persuasive speech, as it is divided into a series of logical arguments in the first two sections and then a conclusion in the third. ... In the first section the voice the poet chooses to use (it is never clear if he speaks as himself or if the poem is intended as a satire) very traditional, romantic language and is complimentary throughout, such as My vegetable love should grow' and An hundred years should go to praise Thine eyes &#x...

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"Televista" is written in a first person story. ... The audience is again reminded of the fact that these individuals live through television, as they experience their first falling out over a TV program. "Their first falling out, took place over candid camera". ... This poem again is written in a conversational first person context. ...

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First of all, let us consider what Shelley declares in his essay "A Defence of Poetry": "Poetry, in a general sense, may be defined to be 'the expression of the imagination'" (par. 2). ... The speaker's command establishes distance between the poetic voice and what is portrayed in the first part of the sonnet; the poetic "I" is detached from the actions that the second person, "you", is told not to do. ... Notice how the volta of the sonnet stresses the transition between the sestet and octave, for it signals the move from proposition to...

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Apparently Hughes is trying to explain how a person that is trapped in this world may be able to disregard their dreams and deal with the fact with the use of simile, which is the comparison of to things using "like" or "as". ... Perhaps the dream brings you down like a heavy load, never letting a person accept their duties of life. ... Hughes was writing in the first half of the twentieth century. ... The poem suggests the inevitability of violence if racial cruelty is allowed to continue and A Raisin in the Sun first appears at the dawn of the Civil Rights movement of the 1960's. ......

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Within the first few lines of most of her poems we are struck with the graphic and distinct atmosphere of the whole poem. ... This first stanza is all about where the person is and what they are doing - it "sets the scene" for the rest of the poem. ... In this case, the person thinks it is morning when it is, in fact, late afternoon. ... The person then begins to remember things from her childhood, these being triggered by what she sees, "The melting west," the sunset, and the rest of the po! ... Her ability to set the mood and atmosphere perfectly within the first few lines of her poems is...

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In the first 7 lines the poet is asking many questions most people ask in their life, he is addressing God with questions about evil versus good in the world. ... is a question almost every religious person is asking at a certain point in his religious life. ... In the first nine lines the speaker calls God "sir" twice. ... One might call another "sir" usually when the other person is on a higher rank then him or when the situation is very formal. ... In the first two lines one can find a chiasm: "just, lord, if I contend with thee; but, sir, so what I plead is just". ...

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Langston Hughes, a highly renowned poet, is one person in particular whom was influenced by his writings. ... This means that the first two lines rhyme, along with the second and fourth lines of each quotation. ... Thw whole realm of the poem is established in the first four lines, taking the whole picture into consideration. ... The setting took place in the Harlem Rennaissance, after the First World War, in Harlem, New York. ... I can really sympathize for any person who had to live during this time period because I now understand how African Americans were constantly degra...

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Langston Hughes, a highly renowned poet, is one person in particular whom was 2 influenced by his writings. ... This means that the first two lines rhyme, along with the second and fourth lines of each quotation. ... Thw whole realm of the poem is established in the first four lines, taking the whole picture into consideration. ... The setting took place in the Harlem Rennaissance, after the First World War, in Harlem, New York. ... I am very grateful that I now live in a society where every person is treated equal so that there will be no more suffering and fighting for civ...

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