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into my mind when I read the title was that the poem must be about someone dear who has passed away, and how life has been affected from how it used to be when the person was alive; thus, the title, “Before She Died”. The author uses a set of five couplets and ten lines in the poem. Also, it appears that the author has overemphasized emotions through the course of the poem following the use of a stylistic device called, hyperbole. The author made clear use of hyperbole in the lines, “When I look…

MEHJOOR AND HIS POETIC COLLECTION: Mehjoor was a resident of Mitragam- Pulwama is the most celebrated flower with deep fragrance from the poetic garden of Kashmir, popularly known as “Shair-e-Kashmir”. His splendid strands took Kashmiri poetry to new horizons. He is highly honored for introducing new style, themes, thoughts and subjects in Kashmiri poetry. He embodied subjects like development, revolution, patriotism, love, joy, nature, beauty in his poetry. He talked about progress of…

cyclical but man's love is momentary. The tone is conducive in the development of her idea of dejection in love. She uses a sad,dejected, mournful and melancholy tone to contemplate her failure in love. There is a dramatic change in the tone in the couplet as she changes from "pity me not" to "pity me". She uses a resigned tone to show that she has accepted the end of her…

Husband,” by Anne Bradstreet represent both her love for her husband and the Puritan beliefs of love between a married couple. “To My Dear and Loving Husband” are organized into three quatrains composed of four lines each or two sets of rhyming couplets. The poem uses iambic pentameter throughout and occasionally breaks it to emphasize shifts or important ideas in the poem. For example, the line, “The heavens reward thee manifold, I pray,” breaks the pattern to signify a change from the…

Even though both Plutarch and Suetonius talked the life of Caesar, they have different perspectives and show a different Caesar in their work. For example, both of Plutarch and Suetonius talked about Caesar’s affair with Cleopatra, Pharaoh of Egypt. But the way they described it was different. Plutarch Caesar has a detailed description of how Cleopatra captivated Caesar with her beauty and wisdom and relate her to the war on Egypt. She “stretched herself at a full length inside a bed…

Macbeth’s soliloquy in Act 1 Scene 2 portrays the beginning of his moral downfall and his dynamic characterization. Macbeth begins to feel his guilty conscious as he questions himself seeing a “dagger, which I see before me.” The powerful dagger is when readers first see Macbeth’s powerful imagination. Macbeth’s imagination in this soliloquy foreshadows his dramatic and dynamic character throughout the play. Macbeth recognizes that indeed the “dagger of the mind, a false creation” is brought up…

“The form I most enjoy writing is the sonnet or sonnet-like forms, where you have a - you know, three stanzas or two stanzas that lead into a concluding couplet”- Sherman Alexie. In the sonnet, “The Unnaturalists” written by Albin Soni, the literary elements simile, personification, and metaphor are present and used to suggest that things are never as they seem. Firstly, Soni used the literary element simile to compare buildings to a king’s crown. Soni’s quote “The buildings stand as high as the…

Shakespeare’s 17th century sonnets are loved by many, but perhaps also seen as a bit controversial for its time by some. This controversy is particularly prominent in Shakespeare’s 18th sonnet, also known as “Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?”, which was published in the quarto SHAKE-SPEARES SONNETS in the year of 1609. The controversy has had many wondering: Was Shakespeare gay? The reason for this controversy can be found in one of the sonnet’s themes. Shakespeare’s admiration of an…

Anne Bradstreet was an Early American poet who lived in the 17th century. She wrote the poem Here Follow Some Verses upon the Burning of Our House, July 10th, 1666 after her house burnt down. Jonathan Edwards lived in the 18th century. He was a pastor and theologian known for his powerful sermons, the most famous being Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God. These two authors shared many similarities and differences in their writings. Bradstreet and Edwards were both puritans and expressed their…

Stafford switches from four-line stanzas to a little couplet which gives us a feeling of something missing (reflecting on the loss of the dawn). The end words do not exactly rhyme in the poem instead, Stafford makes the lines tie together and not tie together at the same time. For example, the words don 't…