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  • Comparison of Two Poems Written by Federico Garcнa Lorca

    Comparison of Two Poems Written by Federico Garcнa Lorca

    Comparison of two poems written by Federico Garcнa Lorca. BIOGRAPHY Federico Garcнa Lorca was born into an educated bourgeois family in Fuente Vaqueros, in Andalusia, Spain, in 1898. His mother was a teacher and his father a rich farm labourer. He read literature and music at Granada University and in 1919, at the age of 21, he published his first book, Impresiones y Paisaijes, that was inspired by a trip around Spain that he took

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    Essay Length: 6,457 Words / 26 Pages
    Submitted: April 9, 2010 By: Stenly
  • Discuss Slessor's Use of Imagery I at Least Three Poems

    Discuss Slessor's Use of Imagery I at Least Three Poems

    Essay Question: Discuss Slessor's use of imagery i at least three poems. Slessor's complex poems use many types of imagery, his imagery is one of his artistic techniques which defines him from other poets in Australia. One could say that his powerful words paint a picture for the reader but as they say, seeing is believing. Slessor uses many types of imagery however death, time and water are the main ones. He uses these in

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    Essay Length: 677 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: April 9, 2010 By: Monika
  • Compare Two Poems by Wilfed Owen

    Compare Two Poems by Wilfed Owen

    Compare two poems by Wilfred Owen, showing how they reflected contemporary attitudes to the ‘Great War’. Refer closely to language and poetic techniques. World War 1 broke out in 1914. At the beginning of the war, there was a great feeling of patriotism and enthusiasm. Young men were eager to join the armed forces, as they thought the glory and heroism of war would be enjoyable. Fighting in France was expected to be an exciting

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    Essay Length: 1,522 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: April 12, 2010 By: Mike
  • An Poem Analysis of Hearing That His Friend Was Coming Back from the War by Wang Chien

    An Poem Analysis of Hearing That His Friend Was Coming Back from the War by Wang Chien

    In this poem, the poet describes a contemporary war which was more intense than those in the old days and the hopelessness for soldiers to come back from the war. When the speaker got the news that his friend, who saw service in that war, was coming back, he was then in an emotional conflict between the eagerness to see his friend returning from the war and the worry about if his friend was still

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    Essay Length: 1,452 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: April 12, 2010 By: Monika
  • Comparing Poems from Different Cultures

    Comparing Poems from Different Cultures

    Comparing Poems I am going to be talking about their methods that the poets use to explore the connection between people and the places in which they live in. The poems that I am comparing are Hurricane hits England and Presents from my Aunts in Pakistan. In Hurricane Hits England the techniques used are personification, she says “Talk to me oya” here referring to the hurricane as a person, she is doing this to try

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    Essay Length: 773 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: April 13, 2010 By: Artur
  • Compare and Contrast Wordsworth's Poem Composed upon Westminster Bridge with God's Grandeur

    Compare and Contrast Wordsworth's Poem Composed upon Westminster Bridge with God's Grandeur

    Ў®Composed Upon Westminster BridgeЎЇ and Ў®GodЎЇs GrandeurЎЇ are both traditional poems written in the romantic era which looks upon changes that need to happen and looks away from those to the places which havenЎЇt been affected by the misery of the world. Ў®Composed Upon Westminster BridgeЎЇ is a typical romantic sonnet expressing WordsworthЎЇs love for the beauty and amazement of London. This is in much contrast to Ў®GodЎЇs GrandeurЎЇ in which Hopkins expresses his feelings

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    Essay Length: 940 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: April 14, 2010 By: Janna
  • September 1913 and Easter 1916 Poem

    September 1913 and Easter 1916 Poem

    September 1913 and Easter 1916 Poem Throughout many of his poems, W.B Yeats portrayed important aspects of Ireland’s history especially around the 1900’s when Ireland was fighting for independence. During this time, Ireland was going through an agonizing time of struggle. The Employers’ Federation decided to lock out their workers in order to break their resistance. By the end of September, 25,000 workers were said to have been affected. Although the employers’ actions were widely

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    Essay Length: 316 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: April 18, 2010 By: Andrew
  • Explication of Poem for Black Boys

    Explication of Poem for Black Boys

    Nikki Giovanni’s “Poem for Black Boys” is a poignant literary work that addresses several issues concerning the young black male in America and the conflicting views taken by members of the African-American community during the Civil Rights Movement with an inclination towards the peaceful movement perpetuated by the likes of Dr. Martin Luther king, Jr. and his non-violent contemporaries. Giovanni’s use of allusion, imagery and the sardonic humor of the speaker blend effortlessly to denounce

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    Essay Length: 803 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: April 20, 2010 By: Yan
  • Poetry Explanation on Wordsworth’s Poem I Wandered as Lonely as a Cloud

    Poetry Explanation on Wordsworth’s Poem I Wandered as Lonely as a Cloud

    "I gazed-and gazed-but little thought" Alex Nelson's Poetry Explanation on Wordsworth's poem "I Wandered As Lonely As A Cloud" Imagine walking through a field in early summer, around an aqua blue lake that is in the shape of a giant egg. You discover a field of daffodils that is flowing in motion like a grand "dance" full of elegance. This area is full of sublime that can only be fully appreciated by a poet. William

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    Essay Length: 838 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: April 21, 2010 By: Monika
  • Poem

    Poem

    Underneath her bracelets, Her arm tells a tale. Of all the bloody nightmares, Inside a girl so frail. Everyday she wishes, For her pain like scars to fade. And everyday she wishes, Her life will turn a brighter shade. God must keep those wishes, Locked in an impossible cage. Wishes impossible to grant, She is impossible to save. All the days she lives, She wishes them away. Hating the life she leads, Dying more every

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    Essay Length: 348 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: April 24, 2010 By: Anna
  • Pieces of Adrienne Rich: She Lived Throughout Her Poems and Changed Her Writing to Express Herself

    Pieces of Adrienne Rich: She Lived Throughout Her Poems and Changed Her Writing to Express Herself

    Pieces of Adrienne Rich: She lived throughout her poems and changed her writing to express herself. Adrienne Rich is a writer that decides that she doesn’t want to be another victim of the stereotype that is put on women (of her time.) In her writing days, the only method used to write was the “man’s” method. Though in the beginning of her career she wrote in that style, she changed her method of writing

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    Essay Length: 563 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: April 25, 2010 By: Mike
  • Robert Frost Poems

    Robert Frost Poems

    Compare and contrast ‘Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening’ and ‘Birches’. The poetry of Robert Frost often embraces themes of nature. ‘Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening’ and ‘Birches’ are not exceptions. Frost shows the relationship between nature and humans in both poems. In the poem ‘Birches’, the narrator sees trees whose branches have been bent by ice storms. However, he favors a vision of branches that are bent as a result of

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    Essay Length: 905 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: April 26, 2010 By: Monika
  • Poem

    Poem

    The poem consists of three stanzas and it is formed on quatrains. In the first stanza the black man talks about the fear that he would not have a good harvest because the wind or birds could take the seed away. Actually the action of “planting” is metaphorical and means that this black man has fears for the future, which seems disappointing to him. That is he “plants” his labor for a better future. In

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    Essay Length: 705 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: April 29, 2010 By: Mike
  • Grammarwocky Poem

    Grammarwocky Poem

    The Nightmare Down in the cragsap, one gloupy night, A hooterling rose drorp and loud. Stampedes of beasts arose in fright, And hoof beats shook the ground. A nymphetic man took a brisk night stroll Into the cragsap of darkest bane. Worphling melodificously unbeknownst That his life would soon be slain. The winzze, it roared, The trees were maimed. Death bringers soared. As appeared the drunne untamed. With daggerstings of blood, hooves of steel,

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    Essay Length: 303 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: May 1, 2010 By: Jessica
  • Poems Helen

    Poems Helen

    Edgar Allan Poe and Hilda Doolittle use diction, imagery and tone to offer two distinctly different views of Helen of Troy. Poe gushes over her beauty and Doolittle demonizes her for “past ills”. In the Edgar Allan Poe poem the speaker is an admirer of Helen who is professing his love. His tone is one of wonder at her perfection and beauty. With Poe’s diction you can imagine Helen’s majestic beauty. He describes very aptly

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    Essay Length: 303 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: May 1, 2010 By: Jessica
  • How Do the Writers Present Aspects of Childhood in the Three Poems You Have Studied?

    How Do the Writers Present Aspects of Childhood in the Three Poems You Have Studied?

    Within all of the three poems we have studied, UA Fanthorpe’s half past two, DH lawrence’s Piano and Stephen Spenders, there are aspects of childhood being described and conveyed. However each poem conveys them in a different manner, but there are some similarities as well. Firstly I will talk about what each poem is about and what attitude and themes they possess compared to the other two. In the poem half past two by UA

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    Essay Length: 1,331 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: May 2, 2010 By: Stenly
  • Techniques of Feliks Skrzynecki Poem

    Techniques of Feliks Skrzynecki Poem

    Feliks Skrzynecki Stanza 1: • Attribute to Felik’s dignity and stoicism in the face of loss and hardship. • Personal/Possessive pronoun “my”-final relationship • “Gentle”-tender adjective • (warm feelings, loving affection) • ‘Kept pace only with the Joneses of his own mind’s making’ • Colloquialism • Alliteration of ‘M’-‘Mind’s making’ (Has his own values, individual-sets his own standards) • Initial picture of a man detached from the world that surrounds him-shows immigrant isolation but also

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    Essay Length: 535 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: May 3, 2010 By: Mike
  • The Poem Storm Warnings

    The Poem Storm Warnings

    In the poem, “Storm Warnings” the organization is very important to the fluency of the poem. In the very first line the reader starts to get a feeling of the literal meaning of the work. In saying, “The glass has been falling all the afternoon” one learns that a barometer is falling, hence bad weather is on its way. The allegory, symbolic representation, that “glass” is a barometer is because later in the poem, the

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    Essay Length: 494 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: May 6, 2010 By: regina
  • Society’s Witch - a Feminist Analysis of Poems by Anne Sexton and Alice Fulton

    Society’s Witch - a Feminist Analysis of Poems by Anne Sexton and Alice Fulton

    Society’s Witch A Feminist Analysis of Poems by Anne Sexton and Alice Fulton Stephanie Lane Sutton Society has always had a perverse fascination with women who bend the ideas of what a woman should and shouldn’t be: in ancient Greece, those who would not conform to misogyny would be made eternal in literature as the Medusas and Circes; colonial Salem was turned upside down by accusations of sex magic from young girls toward one another;

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    Essay Length: 295 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: May 8, 2010 By: Andrew
  • Poems

    Poems

    Sex drugs, rock and roll Speed weed and birth control Life’s a bitch Until you die So fuck the world And lets get high. Life’s like a dick When it gets hard Fuck it. I never thought I’d find myself The day that I found you Plans for only one of me are future plans for two soul mates in the universe that make the world surreal for when I’d given up on dreams you

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    Essay Length: 1,582 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: May 13, 2010 By: Fonta
  • Poem

    Poem

    There is this friend that is so much a part of me, that I feel alone just thinking about the thought of her not being there. There is this friendship that is based on so much that nothing could ever dissolve or even threaten it. There is this friend with whom I share so much history that one fight or misunderstanding rolls off nearly instantaneously, because one issue is so insignificant. There is this friendship

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    Essay Length: 363 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: May 18, 2010 By: Edward
  • Seamus Heaney Two Poems

    Seamus Heaney Two Poems

    Poems From Different Cultures -A Comparison of Two Seamus Heaney’s Poems At this moment in time I am studying two poems by Seamus Heaney. Seamus Heaney was born in 1939 in County Derry, Northern Ireland. He grew up on a farm and was one of nine children. He is well educated, having achieved a first in English at Queen's College, Belfast. He remained in Belfast and became a lecturer at St Joseph's College and later

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    Essay Length: 1,487 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: May 22, 2010 By: Fonta
  • Bring out the Indianness in the Poem by A.K. Ramanujam

    Bring out the Indianness in the Poem by A.K. Ramanujam

    A.K. Ramanujam, born in India in 1929, was a famous linguist, poet & translator. His first book of poems "The Striders" was published inn 1966. A second volume "Relations" appeared soon. Most of his poems have their origin in recollected personal emotion. They deal with the poem memory of his relations & ambiguous freedom that life confers. The theme is made clear in one of his translations from Tamil: "Like a hunted deer on the

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    Essay Length: 311 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: May 24, 2010 By: nikitha
  • Poems

    Poems

    Sex drugs, rock and roll Speed weed and birth control Life’s a bitch Until you die So fuck the world And lets get high. Life’s like a dick When it gets hard Fuck it. I never thought I’d find myself The day that I found you Plans for only one of me are future plans for two soul mates in the universe that make the world surreal for when I’d given up on dreams you

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    Essay Length: 1,582 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: May 25, 2010 By: Jon
  • Rap Poems

    Rap Poems

    Nowadays, ain't no body what they say they are; A buncha middle aged men callin themselves politicians But really a buncha pussies jus makin more oppositions Sayin they got hope for the people So what they do, they got permission America: it's the people's rights World wars like mosquito bites Got the oil but can't stop the itchin Can't stop the vanity; the power brought insanity Never realizin that words are the true nuclear weapon

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    Essay Length: 700 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: May 26, 2010 By: Steven

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