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A Summary and Analysis of Peter Katel's Child Poverty: Are Out-of-Wedlock Births the Root Cause?... Introduction Although the US economy is one of the most stable economies in the world, in retrospect, it still suffers from the gripping hands of poverty.... Throughout the years, the US has struggled against the increasing financial and educational division between the rich and poor....
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Understanding the use of patterns, intonations, meter, and versification will help the reader understand what the writer was trying to convey.... poetry is a form of communication that writers use to tell a story.... The poetry of Emily Dickenson and Walt Whitman will be used as examples of usage of poetic devices.... Poets use all sorts of cues to get their poetry to speak beyond what the words alone can do.... All are used to heighten the patterns in poetry....
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Thomas Hardy's poetry is permeated with the religious skepticism that grew predominant through the course of his life.... His early works, such as the poem "Hap," serves as a precursor to the rise of both science and psychoanalysis, while such later poems as "The Convergence of the Twain," written about the sinking of the Titanic in April of 1912, shows the definite influence of both these studies....
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The Second Coming" (1919) by William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) has been one of the most celebrated works of Modernist poetry and the poet efficiently makes use of the Christian imagery concerning the Apocalypse and the second coming of Christ in order to allegorically portray the atmosphere in post-war Europe.... The poem "The Second Coming" by WB Yeats belongs to the Modernist poetry and the poet has been effective in incorporating the various poetic techniques of the Modernist poetry....
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All the couplets followed a similar rhyme scheme and meter throughout the poem.... The Arab poets became aware of the fact that the traditional qasida form consisting of fixed meter and rhyme was not sufficient to express the harsh realities of life.... Where English poetry under Eliot's influence moved with a steady pace, the Arabic poetry made a giant leap unleashing itself from the age-old Arabic classical poetic model, the qasida, whose form, structure and pattern were laid down in the seventh century and were older than the religion Islam itself (Loya, 1971)....
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3(b) The meaning of this poem is brought out through the poet's use of literary devices such as alliteration, imagery and meter.... It is also reinforced by the meter of the poem because the line is so short.... This works with the meter to suggest the type of motion to be expected....
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The stanzas do not have uniformity in terms of rhyme and meter as the first stanza has 13 lines, the second has 15, the third has four, and the last has six.... ” there has been a slight deviation from the traditional meter with the use of varying rhymes but certain sounds recur such as the ‘o' and ‘e' sounds.... Thomson William Gunn or more commonly known simply as Thom Gunn is one whose poetry, much like his own life, can be described as an epitome of migration at its finest....
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William Butter Yeats is one of the main 20th Century English language poets and his poetry has ensconced him at the place where numerous of his contemporaries failed to reach.... His prevailing symbolic poetry differentiates his concepts of driving understanding of his poems… Yeats used the diction, which is an important aspect in his writing....
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