... sentimental. It is almost like there is no personality. This poem is entirely blank verse. During her vacations she traveled with her family to Europe and to America west. In 1891, as a proper young lady from a wealthy family, she had her debut. She was invited to a numerous parties, but did not get a ... fast, one after another." Amy makes it clear that image does not matter at all. When I go away from you The world beats dead Like a slackened drum. I call out for you against the jutted stars And shout into the ridges of the wind. Streets coming fast, One after the other, Wedge you away...

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... their experience, without interfering with it, and retaining a perspective on it), and of course the theme of hetero and homo-eroticism (sounds like an orgy one wouldn't care to see). "Drum Taps", another poem collection written from Whitman's reaction to the Civil War, speaks about the futility and ignorance of men pitting themselves against one another in the poem "Reconciliation" ("For ... my enemy is dead, a man divine as myself is dead"). The sequel to the "Drum Taps" collection ("Sequel to Drum Taps") contains the famous eulogy on the Civil War president Abraham Lincoln; "O Captai...

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... astounding visual and tactile imagery that only someone with intimate knowledge of the land could write: Tanagers embarrassed by their flashiness and pelicans whose delight it is to clown; who coast for fun on the strong tidal currents in and out among the mangrove islands and stand on the sand-bars drying their damp gold wings on sun-lit evenings (Bishop ... another interesting facet to it as well. It was probably based on an actual event. Bishop grew up in the fishing community of Nova Scotia, and eventually moved to Key West, Florida. She often enjoyed fishing in the Florida Keys. Th...

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... depression began. However, coming from a wealthy family with a large estate, this problem was of no relevance to the Lowell family. However, the bombing of the U.S. battleship in 1989, off the coast of Maine did stir up some excitement for most of the people who resided in New England. During her time, the first Model T Ford was produced along with the first ... -House Hill," there are several brief examples of assonance: "blue bay beyond" found in line two, as well as other shorter examples: ("shrill and sweet" / "cool, and candid"). However, the sound structure is not the most vitally ...

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... " and later on states how "sweet" it is "to hear their chatter." These two comments being in sheer opposition to each other, showing how she is trying to make herself sound like a "good mother" to this man. Many women feel as if they have to prove themselves to everyone - and Gwen Harwood has picked up on this idiosyncrasy of the female ... is very upset to find when she wakes that nighttime is almost there. It is dusk, and cold. I kneel to pick frail melancholy flowers among ashes and loam. The melting west is striped like ice cream. While I try whistling a trill, close by his nest our ...

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... the silence of the night, 75 How we shiver with affright 76 At the melancholy menace of their tone! The iron bells, heavy and slow, make a sound that is gloomy and is connected with the sound of a funeral. (Napierkowski 50) These bells, the poet explains, are being rung by the ghosts, and the king of ghouls who are happy about the deceased ... through mythological representation of the underworld. In the underworld of Hades, Death rules. Garofalo 3 1 Lo! Death has reared himself a throne 2 In a strange city lying alone 3 Far down within the dim West 4 Where the good and the bad and the ...

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... that this is what Prestatyn is actually like: unspoilt and pure. The poem goes on to describing the palm trees at Prestatyn and the coast. This is described as, a hunk of coast, a hotel with palms'. This hunk of coast' suggests manliness and the palm trees also suggest an erotic type of Eden. This gives the reader the illusion that Prestatyn will be the ... ...

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... is constructed of pairs of rhyming couplets and written in quatrains. A strong and appropriate rhythm is created through the use of stresses and unstressed syllables. The pattern results in a primitive "drum beat" that is apt for a tiger in a forest. The creation verbs "twist", "dare", "burnt", and "seize" foreground the danger and daring of the creation act, while the place of creation ... ...

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... she can't do anything about it. Reading "Metaphors" aloud is pleasing to the ear like any riddle, but there are also awkward moments that sound like they don't quite fit. From the beginning this poem seems playful in tone stating, "I'm a riddle in nine syllables," as if the ... the word 'fat' in line six, which doesn't seem to coincide with the sounds surrounding it. The reader obtains a sort of wiggle within the sound when reading this poem, but it's not an easy or steady flowing wiggle. It's one with uneven jolts at random times, much like that of a ... pregnant woman walking. W...

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... influential writers of the Romantic Period whose work is characterized by his use of imagery and symbolism. Such examples can be found in his poems such as "Ode to the West Wind,"" "Hymn to Intellectual Beauty,"" and "Ozymandias."" In Shelley's view, "the poet is a dreamer, a visionary- who uses these dreams and visions to "persuade men to shake off the chains of ... his "dead thoughts" (63), which through an apocalyptic destruction, will lead to a rejuvenation of the imagination, the individual and the natural world. Shelley begins his poem by addressing the "Wild West Wind" (1). He qu...

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... to children put into these awful circumstances. Blake uses many literary elements including the explanation of thematic issues, visual and rhythmic structure, sound devices, and figures of speech to help the reader develop a clear understanding of The Chimney Sweeper. The Chimney Sweeper is a narrative ... 156". Alliterations in the fourth stanza are in the last two lines, "leaping, laughing" and "shine in the Sun" "Ibid., p. 156". Assonance is the primary sound device in the fifth stanza where there are many words containing short "o" sounds such as: "upon," "sport," "told Tom" which is...

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... harboured by schoolmaster Pugh, who wants to poison his bickering wife. The dialogue has a lyric quality and Thomas uses a complex pattern of sound devices such as assonance and alliteration, and the musical blending of a multitude of voices. One good example of the use of assonance is ... in fall' and figs', big', black' and balloons' and steam' and screaming' probably chosen to create aural appeal and to make the passage sound more violent. her ears fall off like figs, is a simile as figs fall of trees and is intellectually appealing. Thomas uses similes throughout 'Under ... And bri...

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... . A pun is a play of words. It exploits the multiple meanings of a word, or else replaces one word with another that is similar in sound but has a very different meaning. Puns are sometimes used for serious purposes, but more often for comic effect. Analogy is the comparison of two things, ... figure with which he is familiar, thus helping to explain something difficult. Onomatopoeia refers either to words, which resemble in sound what they denote, or to words that correspond in other ways with what they describe. Hiss," for example, when spoken is intended to resemble ... , bang, bam, p...

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... author's diction, in the way he or she chose to use the words "ache" and "blow" rather than "hurts" or "breathes." The sound of the words coincide with their meanings to provide the reader with a much more realistic perspective of how much pain she's really in. "Ache" has a much stronger connotation ... , the feelings associated with them are worlds apart. "First ice cracking in phoned phrases." The word "crack" in this line has a strong "c" sound, almost resembling the sound that one's voice makes when it cracks from crying or from the cold, giving the poem onomatopoeia. This author's t...

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... and the title's significance are all elements to deem important when demystifying a poem. I used to lie with an ear to the line For that way, they said, there should come a sound Escaping ahead, an iron tune Of flange and piston pitched along the ground. But I never heard that. Always, instead, Struck couplings and shuntings two miles away Lifted over the woods ... a slant rhyme with the last word of the third line, "tune." These two words do not have the same vowel sounds but they share the same ending consonant sound. The second and fourth lines, sound/ground, have a true rhyme becaus...

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... battles which ended in horrific consequences. As everyone was a volunteer in 1914 to 1915 Posters, magazines and poems helped to recruit young soldiers making war sound fun and heroic, classed as propaganda. Poets such as Harold Begbie and Jessie Pope used their pro-war poems, which helped to sustain war effort ... would- be young recruits needing answers. The title is repeated in the first stanza. Who's for the "game?" is a metaphor for war making war sound like fun, trying to remove any fear for the would-be recruits. Jessie Pope recognises that if she compares war to something young m...

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... 14) and "battered on one knuckle" (My Papa's line 10). This description gives the visual of a very robust and strong, idol for the poet as a child. The poem makes it sound like this dance is a frequent happening and a happy experience for the child who wants to hang on to his father even though the procedure of the waltz is rather rough ... is a smoothness formed in the reader's mind. Here, it represents the woman's body and her movements that catch the narrator's eyes. The placement of these words is strategic, emphasizing the sound and feel of the poem as well as the softness of her d...

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... in some perfumes is there more delight Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks. I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound. Lines 7-10 continue on unto the next line without breaking into the next line. Shakespeare also uses end-stopped lines throughout the sonnet. Lines 1-6 and 8-9 are end-stopped lines. My ... wires, black wires grow on her head." The words "white", "why" and "wires" are all words that begin with W. The use of the letter W also creates assonance repeating the vowel sound "ay" or "I" with the words, "white", "why" and "wi...

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... tested its limitations as if he were an experimental composer, who might rearrange chord progressions and add or remove harmony in order for it to sound vivid and interesting. One of his major innovations was a new metrical form, called "sprung rhythm." In sprung rhythm, the poet counts the ... sealed in wild waters- to be blunt, the fate of the nuns on board the ship is sealed! This close linking of words through sound and rhythm complements Hopkins's themes of finding pattern and design everywhere as is done in music, through transitioning riffs and melodies, variation, key ... his poe...

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... the rhythm is the same as in one to show that they are retreating and galloping back to safety Throughout the poem Tennyson uses rhyme to make the poem sound exciting for example "Theirs not to make reply,theirs not to reason why,theirs but to do and die". All these lines rhyme and makes you bounce along ... and metaphors, For example "jaws of death" and "mouth of hell". He uses this to make the poem more dramatic and over the top, he makes it sound more scary, but they were not literally in the "jaws of death" or in the "mouth of hell". He puts this in to make the poem ... sound more...

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... serve to slow the rhythm and pace the poem snf force the reader to dwell on each word. Many of the images seem to picture Autumn at rest: "sitting careless, .. sound asleep, drows"d, keep, .. steady, .. with patient look"- while the real world events referred to actually involve the harvest, a time of the year when people have to work hard and get ... four lines are all extensive ("more", "bees", "cease", "cells"), and they are all followed by either commas or full stops, increasing the length of the sounds further. Keats used other sound devises in the poem. There is repetition in the ...

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... battles which ended in horrific consequences. As everyone was a volunteer in 1914 to 1915 Posters, magazines and poems helped to recruit young soldiers making war sound fun and heroic, classed as propaganda. Poets such as Harold Begbie and Jessie Pope used their pro-war poems, which helped to sustain war effort ... would- be young recruits needing answers. The title is repeated in the first stanza. Who's for the "game?" is a metaphor for war making war sound like fun, trying to remove any fear for the would-be recruits. Jessie Pope recognises that if she compares war to something young m...

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... . It is "closed" by a frame, which aims to point out that the poet is equal to God. This poem is built on rhetoric questions, which make the poem sound more dynamic and as controversial as the nature of the human soul. To prove his point, William Blake uses different means of expressions. The epithets throughout the poem are contradictory ... ; implies that the creator of the tiger is even more dreadful than the creature itself. That questions the nature of God. Whereas the last two lines of the The Lamb sound like refrain and the phrase "little lamb" signifies the innocent character of t...

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... ;, the "smell of ploughed up soil" and "landscape big and bare" which is reminiscent of a fresh, virile environment reinforced by the alliteration of the plosive 'b' sound. These images contrast sharply with the graveyard which, "Hangs on Highgate Hill "of soaked Carrara-covered earth for Londoners to fill". Betjeman juxtaposes the vibrancy of his ... , perhaps by rendering him deaf. He also uses the finality of decay to bring us back to the pun on "deaf" in the title. Being unable to hear sound, death for the Betjeman's father is the ultimate form of deafness. For example he says in...

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... in the structure. The rhythm of the poem is pounded with alliterative strokes and it seems to echo the act of creation, it also enhances suspense and the 'lub dub' sound it provides echoes that of a heart beat. In the first stanza Blake uses powerful jungle imagery. "Tyger Tyger burning bright, In the forests of the night: What immortal hand or ... thy fearful symmetry." As can be seen, the poem is packed with alliteration, even in the first stanza. This is evident in the repetition of the T and B sound in the first line, and the F sound in the last. But what is more striking is the dir...

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