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    Above Tintern Abbey, by William Wordsworth is about a man returning to a place in nature with his sister to see how he has changed as a man, and grown to take things in instead of moving at such a fast pace. The poem uses examples of Alliteration, Assonance and Consonance throughout the work. Alliteration is the repition of initial constant sounds. In the peom he uses, “That in this moment there is life and food For future years”. The F sound in the sentence is the constant sounds used. What he…

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    further understand and develop a deeper meaning to the poem. In this poem Kennedy effectively used the poetic devices of assonance, simile, and rhyme to both portray the significance of a nude woman, such as the one depicted in the artwork, descending a staircase, and to offer insight into the aspects of the painting that are not explicitly observed. The author uses assonance in the first line of the third stanza when he describes the woman as “one-woman waterfall.” Throughout the poem the…

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    challenges, supports, and at times refutes Salman's essay. Through the use of repition and rythym, achieved by alliteration and assonance Scott Sanders manages pathos to his advantage. By doing this he gives the reader a sense of pride. For example on line four through line six, he uses alliteration with the repeating s sound at the end of almost every word. He also uses assonance in -ism endings,…

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    wealth as a result her life was not a smooth climb to where she is now, quite the opposite she is poor and has to fight and climb the treacherous stairway to achieve her goals. Langston Hughes stresses the importance of determination by using assonance as exemplified in lines nine through eleven with the use of the words ‘a- climbin/ reachin’/ landin/ turnin/goin, they convey a journey to the top of the staircase notwithstanding all the difficulties and uncertainty (“…goin in the dark/ where…

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    Caged Bird by Maya Angelou is a sublime poem which illustrates a caged bird and a free bird. The poet’s purpose is to tell people about racism but she is not pointing at racism directly, she refers to a caged bird to describe racism and restriction. Maya Angelou was an African American who was born on the 4th of April 1928. In 1937 there was lots of racism towards them and in 1969 when she was 41 years old she decided to create this poem to tell people about racism and trauma to try to stop…

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    avoid his dad and not arguing with him Stanza 3: the speaker recognizes that the dad does thing for them, the speaker is recognizing the things the dad does for them and the family alone Assonance: The repetition of similar vowel sounds in a sentence or a line of poetry Underline examples of Assonance in your poem. Alliteration: The repetition of consonant sounds, especially at the beginning of words. Circle examples of Alliteration in your poem. Give two examples of Imagery. What do…

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    This is shown in the song “The Start of Something New” and the poem “Love Song” because both have equal poetic devices including repetition and the tone, but some differences in poetic devices including literary devices, assonance, and consonance. Many articles can back up that songs and poems or different. For example, on stated that poems are more difficult to write with all the poetic devices that are going to be used. Also, with poems being compared to song, just without…

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    The Russian poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko once wrote, “Translation is like a woman. If it is beautiful, it is not faithful. If it is faithful, it most certainly not beautiful.” It should come as no surprise to any reader of this quotation that Mr. Yevtushenko has been married four times--in fact, he is known in the literary world for his numerous affairs. However, despite his own personal demons, Yevtushenko makes an interesting point: literal translation is never beautiful. In translating from one…

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    Telesha Amarsingh English 126 LM2 Professor Stapleton 10 March,2015 Looks can be Deceiving Money can never buy happiness.As Franklin D.Roosevelt once said,”happiness is not in the mere possession of money;it lies in the joy of achievement ,in the thrill of creative effort.”People pretend to be someone that theyre not to impress and look superior to others.Being wealthy doesnt mean anything if you are not happy.Edwin Arlington Robinson is the author of “Richard Cory.”This ironic peom is…

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    Poetry Analysis of “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost is made up of four stanzas of five lines each, and has iambic rhythm. By using symbolism, literary elements, and rhyme scheme, Frost is able to make readers think about choosing between diverging paths in a wood, and he sees that choice as a metaphor for choosing between different directions in life. “The Road Not Taken” has four stanzas of five lines. The rhyme scheme is ABAAB, which means it is an…

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