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...?The Trees Winter trees laugh at humans because of their “inability to shed the clothes of past seasons.” Clothed in pretense, humans choose to hide their weaknesses and imperfections. They would rather carry the heavy burden of covering up their imperfections than embrace them and achieve freedom. 2. I think “past seasons” refer to the weaknesses, imperfections, and losses of human beings. Saturday 1. A Saturday for the speaker is spent doing household chores and taking time to relax. The speaker takes a bath, washes the pans and plates, and spends idle time sitting by the window. 2. On a Sunday evening, the cars that spent relaxation time in the countryside return to the city to bring their passengers back to work/school again... Trees...
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...audience, risk falling into the “empty existence of air” in order to achieve any kind of greatness, for if the poem risks nothing it also achieves nothing, no beauty, and no artistry. Ferlinghetti makes this point a bit ironically, as it is intended to be a bit of a jab at the Beat poets, poets who, to Ferlinghetti’s mind, risk nothing in their poetry, instead choosing to hide behind a mask of postmodern cynicism and dispair. The Beat poets, in Ferlinghetti’s opinion, do not walk the rope at all, but instead play their gullible audience, capitalizing on an immature dedication to anarchy and a disillusionment with a government that would draft Americans and send them to a war that they did not believe in. In “Constantly...
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... “Travelling through the dark” This is a poem of compromise. A poem depicting a conflict between compassion and duty. A poem depicting the conflict between sacrificing one’s time or ignoring the situation and moving on. Travelling through the dark, the car comes across a dead deer, which was female and pregnant. The narrator of the poem finds himself in a compromising situation. A situation open for him to ignore the circumstances and move-on, yet the compassion he has for others hinders this immediate action. While travelling on a narrow road, the man finds that the doe is dead, but certainly just few hours past, since it was still hot, on the underside, where the belly was big, indicating that the doe was pregnant. The man has... “Travelling...
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...Edgar Allan Poe and Close Reading Response to “The Raven” and “The Lake” Born the year 1809 in Boston, MA to parents who separated during his early youth, Edgar Allan Poe grew up with a natural passion for writing and profound thoughts despite financial crisis and personal conflicts with the guardians who took custody of him until the stage of full independence. Though reared to become involved in corporate matters by the Allans, his foster parents, Poe had been more inclined to engage himself in the literary endeavor of writing poetries and short stories that depict themes of horror and mystery. It serves as an interesting piece of information to learn that Poe regarded poetics with a value significantly higher than the...
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...? Analysis of Love Lyrics in Poetry and Song Both the song by Guns and Roses, November Rain and Love Poem by John Frederick Nims are written about love. However, they both take a different viewpoint and the narrators are very different in age and the relationship is different. In the song, the singer is trying to convince the object of his love to reassure him that their love still flourishes and she will stay. This is confirmed by the other two songs in the trilogy and some comments by Axl Rose in interviews, as fans discuss ("Guns N' Roses - November Rain Lyrics | SongMeanings."). In the poem, the narrator is speaking to the love of his life and identifying the things he loves most about her, secure in a long term relationship... regular,...
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...it all together, it is seen that both the poems compared above are based on the same themes: death and worthlessness. Both the poems are based on different ideas, but talk about human misery, pain, insignificance of human life, and obscurity. Death, in itself, is a very powerful yet dark aspect of human existence; and, when it is talked about in the form of poetry, it becomes such a strong bearer of murkiness that the reader cannot find himself a clue about what causes human life so worthless and ominous. The above mentioned poems are typical examples of this aspect of human existence; and the poets have brought forward the theme in a very lucid manner. Works Cited Kennedy, X.J., and Dana Gioia. Backpack Literature: An...
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...Edited (in the modern English language) Psalms 137: Super flumina by Myles Coverdale By the waters of Babylon, We sat down and wept When we remembered the old Zion
As for our harps, we hung them up upon the trees that are there.
Then they that led us away captives,
Required of us a song and melody in our heaviness:
Sing us one of the songs of Zion.
How shall we sing the Lord's song in a strange land
If I forgot you, o Jerusalem,
Let my right hand be forgotten.
If I do not remember you,
Let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth.
Yes, if I prefer not Jerusalem in my mirth.
Remember the children of Edom, o Lord,
In the days of Jerusalem, how they say:
Down with it, down with it, even to the ground.
O... (in the modern ...
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...Nelma Ferreira March 28, Poetry Reflection “Any healthy man can go without food for two days - butnot without poetry”.
- Charles Baudelaire
Poetry is a soothing tool with the help of which one can calm down one’s disturbed soul. I am also in love with poetry and poetic diction, and this love pulled me to attend a poetic session in the Rice University. Here is my perspective about some of the poems I listened to, when I attended an event in the Rice Gallery at the Rice University on March 7, 2012.
As I understand it, the poem, ‘Lost in Space’, by D. Trinidad Hanks, mentions the link between how gymnastics play in front of us, and how they lead their emotional lives....
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...Bruce Flohr ENG 104 March 30th War as a Theme in Two Poems from World War I War is as old as mankind, and so is poetry, so it should come as no surprise that war is often used as a theme in poetry. Usually of course poetry was used as a way to make war seem attractive to young men who would fight for their country. But starting in World War I there was a greater movement towards anti-war poetry as the young men who went to war were often more educated and felt very shocked by it. This contrast can be very clearly seen by comparing Wilfred Owens "Dulce et Decorum Est" with Edward Thomass "This is No Petty Case of Right or Wrong," both of which were written during World...
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...Topic: Poetry: "I have been a stranger in a strange land" and “Exit” of the University
Topic: Poetry: "I have been a stranger in a strange land" and “Exit”
For Rita Dove dance and poetry are alternative beats of the same heart. These are the two segments of art that are nearest and dearest God. The words like ‘bliss’(2), ‘exquisite’(5), ‘happiness’(8) ‘maddening perfection’(22) etc. indicate the spiritual bent of mind of the narrator, apart from the title of the poem, “I have been a stranger in a strange land,”(1)which is quoted from Exodus 2:22. “What was bliss but the ordinary life?”(2-3) is a...
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