... strong images of pain and injury that the tumbleweed was thrown against a fence, a kind of prison from which it is difficult to escape. So the tumbleweed and the poet are both thrust against the barbed wire of life. This is another metaphor for the poet's difficult life. The poet and the tumbleweed are stuck in a painful, difficult situation. They are prisoners of their surroundings, helpless. “Like a riddled prisoner.” The words riddled prisoner are used to give us a powerful, painful, picture of the lost and hopeless feeling of the poet. He feels great pain at his situation, feels that there is no way out. He is hanging there on the fence, exposed for everyone to ...
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... became more vocal with the use of protests and further publication of controversial and/or anti-government materials through his publishing house, New Directions. By using poetry, Ferlinghetti was able to reach a vast audience including those whom he was criticizing. Through his poetry, Lawrence Ferlinghetti blatantly and subtly criticized the American democratic system and politicians. In 1957, Ferlinghetti received his first national attention. Ferlinghetti was arrested and brought to trial as the publisher of a collection of obscene poetry, Howl and Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg (Alspaugh 1148). Eventually he was cleared of the charges of “publishing ...
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... the turmoil of all this. His true affection for Ophelia found no bliss. He could never share his thoughts, Revenge made him overwrought. All this pain caused him to plot, He made the plan to end his lot. But this scheme avenging death, Took also Hamlet’s last breath. Hamlet should have taken heed, And become king indeed. He never had a chance in Shakespheare’s plan, A tragic hero, just another great dead man. ...
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... going to that place, that whole junior high school lion." That meant going to that place was like a lion. That is what makes this passage a metaphor. The fourth passage is a simile. The passage said that everything had changed. That it had changed so fast like the tablecloths magicians pull from under stuff on the table but the gasp from the audience makes it not matter. The passage was comparing going to junior high school to a tablecloth the magicians pull because junior high school was a big change to the boys. The gasp! from the audience meant the change did not matter because in the long run everything will be O.K. The fifth and last passage is a personi ...
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... light." With the use of rhyming tonight, in line 2, and light, in line 4, it adds to the clarity and smoothness of the poem. Poetry, which can incorporate rhymes into the body of the poem, makes the poem catchier and easier to remember. Rhyme also displays a writers creativity and intelligence to be able to pull up words which rhyme. The use of paradoxes in Dickinson's poems is another technique which she takes advantage of in order to make her poetry interesting and enjoyable. Paradoxes are contradicting subjects or statements Dickinson demonstrates her use of paradox in several poems, the most notable being "Much Madness is Divinest Sense." In this poem I ...
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... By describing the creation of a picture or ornamental love-knot, the poet is able to limit the multitudinous meanings found by the reader, allowing the poet to further implicate his or her beliefs and situations. Thus, the use of physical artifacts provides a freedom to express that which the characters in each poem lacks in their lives. Though unable to grasp the images that they create, each character in the poems gains a sense of self awareness. These utopian moments expressed by the creations are frozen, images that surpass the lives of their creators and remain intact with meaning. Through the utilization of physical artifacts, Aunt Jennifer and ...
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... stanzas for an additional line. This portrays the ongoing war between life and death. The old man went back and forth between life and death as the stanzas' last lines switched back and forth. In the end, the two last lines join together as the old man and his son accept that death is a part of life. Next, the references to "good men," "wild men," and "grave men" display the three basic stages of life: birth, life, and death. In stanza three, the stanza pertaining to "good men," the portion "the last wave by" depicts the old man's generation as fewer and fewer still live. The color symbolism of the "green bay" lets us know that the speaker refers to the youn ...
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... these people's respect come in response to Hrothgar's generosity to everyone. This generosity can be seen towards Beowulf, when the king gives his thanks for the heroic deeds of the warrior. Hrothgar rewards Beowulf with priceless material as he says to the warrior, “You shall lack no earthly riches I can offer you.” The people of the land also trust their king, who holds a strong belief in God. In the scene where Hrothgar celebrates Grendel's death, he holds the monsters hand as he says, “Let us give thanks at once to God Almighty for this sight.” The followers of the king both respect and trust their ruler, and through his generosity and strong trust in good, ...
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... number 1 and the singular indefinite article, 'a'; the second line contains the French singular definite article, 'le'; 'll' on the fifth line represents two ones; 'one' on the 7th line spells the number out; the 8th line, 'l', isolates the number; and 'iness', the last line, can mean "the state of being I" - that is, individuality - or "oneness", deriving the "one" from the lowercase roman numeral 'i' (200). Cummings could have simplified this poem drastically ("a leaf falls:/loneliness"), and still conveyed the same verbal message, but he has altered the normal syntax in order that each line should show a 'one' and highlight the theme of oneness. In fact, the whol ...
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... and focused more on simpler subject matter. Description of the countryside filled the pages of a pastoral poem. The serenity and quiet experienced by the shepherds in the hills of Arcadia, was put into words. The present state of humanity was seen as an Iron Age in which humans have become degenerate. There are three main kinds of pastoral that can be identified in different works. The classical pastoral begins with a conception on man and on human nature and locates it in a specific type, the shepherd, the simplicity of whose life is the goal toward which all existence strives. The shepherds remain first and foremost emblem of humanity, a general rather than a sp ...
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