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    The Narrow Road to the Deep North is a collection of poems written by Bashō, one of the most famous Japanese poets. To understand the inner workings of his poems it is necessary to not only analyze one but to also examine the cultural themes present in Japanese culture and the poet’s life. Art is laced with the culture of its author. Therefore, examining classical Japanese poetry is impossible without understanding the prevalent themes of the time, one such motif is mono no aware (物の哀れ) or…

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    Thomas Stearns Eliot, famously know as T.S. Eliot, was born on September 26, 1888 in St. Louis Missouri, the youngest of six children. His father, Henry Ware Eliot, was a successful business man and his mother, Charlotte Eliot, was a teacher, but after her marriage she began to write poems and submit them to newspaper. T.S. Eliot was educationally advanced due to his mother being a teacher and as a teenager he produced eight issues of his own magazine called “The Fireside”. The magazine…

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    The Wander Poem Analysis

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    The Wander is an Elegy-style poem that depicts the suffering, exile, and memoirs of an anonymous narrator who refers to himself differently according to what part of his life he is sharing; a "Lone-dweller", an "Earth-stepper", ect. Although it is commonly believed that there is only one narrator, there is still a lot of debate on whether or not there was only one narrator throughout the poem or if there were several. The Wanderer is believed to have been created around the 5th or 6th…

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    The stanza derived from Matthew Arnold’s “Dover Beach” is representative and reflective of the loss of faith in 19th century, Victorian England. In the stanza, “The Sea of Faith” a metaphor for the retreat from religious ideologies. Throughout the stanza Arnold is referring to this metaphor, as when he states that it “was once, too, at the full, and round earth’s shore.” I think that the poet is claiming that the religious beliefs that he and others have had were once very important to them. The…

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    In Robert Pack’s poem “An Echo Sonnet: To an Empty Page”, the narrator is uncertain about what comes with death. He worries about his future and what may happen to him. As the narrator asks questions into the emptiness, he finds answers in the echoes of his voice. Robert Pack uses literary devices such as rhetorical questions, selection of detail, metaphors, juxtaposition, and connotation to construct the meaning of his poem. Beginning in the first quatrain, the voice is very anxious and…

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    Camille Bruce Mr. Evans English 12, Period 3 3 January 2018 Poem Summary The poem “The Hollow Men” by T.S. Eliot talks about the struggles of the men/women in a special world. These people are called hollow men and ultimately represent many of the people in the real world. Eliot is trying to show the similarities of the hollow men to the people in the real world by saying they are lacking certain things such as happiness, love, and hope. The first section of the poem talks about the…

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    Sasha Maharaj has used a personal tone to convey emotions underlying her feelings about relationships in the poem, “Worthless’’. In this essay, I disclose how poetic devices, diction, syntax and other language functions have been utilized to reveal feelings/emotions of the writer in regard to relationships. Taking into account the title of the poem, one cannot put a figure on what or who is worthless. Nevertheless, it is known that worthless is an adjective; meaning something that has no use or…

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    This essay will be a critical assessment of The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser. It is a direct response to the text itself and will examine the concerns, idioms as well as styles of early modern writing. The poem is the first epic poem in English, written around sixty years before Paradise Lost. Evidently, the epic is a focus on the theological virtues of Christian faith, yet Spenser could not resist including classical mythology and legends in the books. Moreover, the poem is said to be a…

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    What is the function of the trope of the fall in literature? In W.H. Auden’s poem “Musee des Beaux Arts”, the trope, abiding by convention, illustrates a metaphoric fall. In his poem, Auden refers to both mythology and the bible to convey the suffering of man and humankind, exemplified through the tale of Icarus. Though Auden succinctly addresses the suffering of humankind, Auden most notably highlights the fallen nature of bystanders to said suffering. In his poem, Auden uses both rhetoric and…

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