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I appreciate the fact that John Donne chooses to write a poem that has a combination of his own experience and an experience that relates to everyone. Donne, definitely, uses the poem to discuss his...
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The poem, “Is My Team Ploughing” appears to be a poem that provokes much thought into the reader. I believe there is a clear and defined speaker who is speaking to a particular audience with a...
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Gascoigne used the fishing metaphor very well in his poem. It is common for people to use the analogy of fishing when it comes to finding a mate. With this image prevalent throughout the poem, he is...
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I believe that Adrienne Rich uses words quite effectively. They create a flow that allows the reader to flow a puzzle or a maze. The last line “like a relentless milkman up the stairs,” this simile...
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“There is a Garden in Her Face” is a lovely poem, however, trying to uncover its meaning is not the loveliest thing. From first gist of it, I believe that the speaker depicts a girl that he or she is...
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This poem was well written, there were many ways in which John Donne was able to portray “The Rising Sun” with poetic devices and devices of the nature, such as personification and apostrophe. A thesis...
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Robert Frost’s poem, “Design” is a brilliant poem. The words and their meanings are crafted so well. Frost uses the image of a spider, this image of nature to explore into his feelings of God and His...
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I’m trying to get a gist of what exactly is going on in the poem. From what I have gathered, the speaker has died and he is angry. He wants to gain some sort of vengeance on a female murderer. This...
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A. E. Houseman writes this poem wonderfully. He uses an ABAB CDCD rhyming pattern that portrays a particular idea. His choice of words is very particular. Starting with the title, the word “rue,” this...
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I think William Blake’s poem is great. He rhymes the words in such a fashion that one is left feeling like a child. There is this innocence that he puts into his own writing that allows for the reader...
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I think Ted Hughes poem was well written and many people would enjoy it, however, I felt there were times where it was a bit too vague. There was the huge confusion of whether the home is actually a...
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Shakespeare does a great job of using the dialogue between these two and turn it into a sonnet. It starts off with Romeo proclaiming that Juliet is this wonderful shrine that he cannot even approach....
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Initially, I did not like this preface at all. It was nothing but this guy talking about how awesome America is and I could not take it. However, when putting myself in the mindset of the people who...
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The first section of The Waste Land starts off with a section called The Burial of the Dead. I think that this piece was beneficial to readers, because it gave an introduction that not only explains...
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Whitman believes in this idea that there is one self, but different parts to this self. However, all of these different parts are equal, similar to the idea of the holy trinity. Whitman believes that...
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