A Review Of Dudley Randall’s “Ballad Of Birmingham”
.... African Americans and whites. African
Americans were often the target of hate crimes and prejudice.
The theme of the poem is not directly stated, it is to be
understood by its audience. The poem tells the story of a young girl who
asks her mother if she can participate in a Freedom March on the streets of
Birmingham. Her mother refuses to let her go due to the fact that there is
a high risk that the march is potentially dangerous. Instead of a march in
the streets, the mother suggests that the dau .....
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Dickinson's "Because I Could Not Stop For Death" And "I Heard A Fly Buzz When I Died"
.... is highly probable that this grave is the woman's own. It is also
possible the woman's body already rests beneath the soil in a casket. If
this is at all accurate, then her spirit or soul may be the one who is
looking at the "house." Spirits and souls usually mean there is an
afterlife involved.
It isn't until the sixth and final stanza where the audience obtains
conclusive evidence that "Because I Could Not Stop For Death" believes in
an afterlife. The woman recalls how it has been "...Centuries- a .....
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Analysis Of “The Vietnam Wall”
.... and the tears brought to our eyes by
the sting of an onion. By use of this comparison Rios has given the reader
an everyday event that describes the uncontrollable up-welling of emotions
one experiences when visiting the wall. Rios uses this technique frequently
and effectively throughout this poem.
“The Vietnam Wall” tells the story of the poets visit to the Vietnam
War Memorial in Washington D. C.. Rios takes the reader with him on his
journey down the wall explaining each detail as he goes fr .....
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Shakespeare's Sonnet 18
.... are the most famous of Shakespeare’s works. Sonnets are
lyric poems made up of fourteen lines and sound more like a song without
musical instruments than a poem. Sonnet 18 is one of the most admired of
his collection. It is a beautiful romantic love poem written to compare
summer to his love’s beauty. A beautiful piece of imagery is used in
lines1-3: “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou are more lovely
and more temperate. Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May:”
Shakespeare cle .....
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Beginnings
.... beginning a course of study. The poet is telling the
novice to build on what she has learned in the past, to continue to set
her goals high and to open herself up to help from a higher being, which
may be herself, her father, a mentor, or God, to help her achieve her
goals.
Booth is saying in this poem that the first lesson one needs to learn in
life is that we must prepare ourselves for the future. In doing so, we
must rely on a “higher being” for support, because we are not capable of
surviving on our .....
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Frost's Home Burial
.... and forces her to describe what she is looking at
when she continually gazes out the window. She is offended by his lack of
understanding of what she is viewing and the conflict unravels.
It seems as though they both have been grieving the loss of their
child differently. Any feels her grieving is superior to her husband’s.
His anger emerges as he feels that she must be sadder than he is. It is
obvious at this point that they haven’t cried together and allowed
themselves to vent as a couple. It tu .....
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Comparison Of "Speaking Of Poetry" And "966"
.... not be enough
to out wit the father for she still would end up smothered. Bishop says
Othello is a barbarian and that he would have killed her any way, “For
though Othello has his blood from Kings his ancestry was barbarous, his
ways African his speech uncouth.” Dickinson implies how impossible their
relationship was in the simple phrase, “Overlooked I all-”, this I
interpret as how she ignored her senses. She knew it wouldn’t work yet
chose to ignore her better judgement.
Another thing that stands .....
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Analysis Of Langston Hughes'"The Negro Speaks Of Rivers," "I, Too," And "Mother And Son"
.... rains of troubled times, have
added to his river, his soul, and helped make him who he is. Without these
times, both the good and the bad, he would not possess the beauty of who he
is, knowing the limits and possibilities of his body and soul.
In "I, Too," Hughes portrays utmost assurance and serenity. He
accepts the ways of today, but has faith in a change for tomorrow. He does
not offer much complaint; he goes his own way abidingly, but knows that
this is only temporary. He knows, without question, .....
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Analysis Of Plath's "Daddy"
.... show that the speaker has reached a resolution after being kept under a man’s thumb all her life.
In lines 71-80 the speaker compares her father and her husband to vampires saying how they betrayed her and drank her blood--sucking her dry of life. She tells her father to give up and be done, to lie back" (line 75) and in line 80, she says, "Daddy, daddy, you bastard,
Plath’s attitude towards men is expressed in this passage through her imagery of the villagers stamping and dancing on the dead vampire .....
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The Second Coming: Analysis
.... “The centre cannot hold,” signifies that the obedience to God has lost its value. Even though there may be more than one interpretation, the metaphor points up one socio-religious theme that society has lost order and in turn lost faith in God.
The second metaphor conveys Yeats’ idea that anarchy has taken over. The metaphor begins with “The blood-dimmed tide is loosed," suggesting that the purity of the soul has been corrupted by the destruction that accompanies chaos. Yeats uses the second line of .....
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“The Birds” By John Updike
.... subject in which there is no proof and which many also believe. The two are very separated in their ideals because they both have a completely different set of beliefs. They are both very mysterious things that lack conclusive proof. Updike’s experience at the end is somewhat religious because he is completely awed by something so mysterious (the birds).
Next the author’s organization of the poem also contributes to the climactic ending. In each stanza the author describes one specific part of his ex .....
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John Keats
.... toured the north of England and Scotland in the summer of 1818, returning home to nurse his brother Tom, who was ill with tuberculosis. After Tom's death in December he moved into a friend's house in Hampstead, now known as Keats House. There he met and fell deeply in love with a young neighbour, Fanny Brawne. During the following year, despite ill health and financial problems, he wrote an astonishing amount of poetry, including `The Eve of St Agnes', `La Belle Dame sans Merci', `Ode to a Nightingale' and .....
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“I Had Been Hungry, All The Years”
.... richer people, who would (in most cases) have more money then her. Also because wine is curious, in flavor as well as in its bubbly ways, as money is to those that do not have it.
In the second stanza it seems she speaks of what she was thinking as she touched the “Curious Wine” “’Twas this on Tables I had seen” tells of how she had seen wealth often, so her hunger was not for the unknown but the inexperienced. “Windows” tells of how she knew the wealth. She saw it but never touched it, she viewed it bu .....
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A Pregenerative Soul’s Fear Of Life
.... As a result, she questions others as to how they cope with their mortality.
The responses of those she asks ubiquitously stress the importance of service. The Lilly tells Thel that she rejoices because God, who as the Clod of Clay says, “loves the lowly,” comes to her with a promise that, even though her life seems small and insignificant, she is not forgotten. She serves the lamb in nourishment and her perfume spreads across the grasses. Because of these and other services, she will someday “flour .....
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Confessions In Rhyme: Poetry Analysis
.... the Rebellion, all reactions that became one. Everyone wants revenge!
Rebellion
The captain worked them day and night
for he had no mercy,
because of this they had a fight
though hungry and very thirsty.
In that fight two men had died
or at least it was thought to be
when they found out one was alive
they went on happily.
They tricked the captain and two of the crew
into thinking that Zachariah was dead,
but all that was thrown overboard
was some cloth in a hammock bed.
Because the captain thought h .....
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