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evil – prophet still, if bird or devil!” shows how the speaker’s tone changes, reflecting the speaker becoming more angry and frantic. Poe uses exclamation points and dashes, which create a faster pace and the impression of heightened emotions. Similarly, Browning uses punctuation to show a change in emotion. “Sir, ‘twas all one!” uses an exclamation mark to show anger at the Duchesses attitude, and this display of a strong emotion causes untrustworthiness. Browning also uses dashes…

The poem Verses of the Death of Dr. Swift, D. S. P. D. was written by Jonathan Swift to tell what he believed his friends and foes would say about him after he died. This poem was originally written with the intention of being published after he had died, however it was published while he was still alive. Swift uses iambic tetrameter and many instances of caesura to stress the meaning and feeling of his poem. In lines 147-164, Swift writes about the moment he, the Dean of St. Patrick’s, Dublin,…

Romantic period poetry refers to poetry written within ‘an international artistic and philosophical movement that redefined the fundamental ways in which people in Western cultures thought about themselves and about their world’ . By critically dissecting Blake’s ‘London’ (1794) and Wordsworth’s ‘Composed upon Westminster Bridge’ (1802) , this essay will explore the ways in which the romantic poets employ formal devices to shape the meaning of their poems. Although both poets are describing…

In Wit , a Pulitzer Prize winning play by Margaret Edson, the audience witnesses Vivian Bearing’s journey, and hopeless battle with ovarian cancer. Edson uses a soliloquy as a tone used to reveal the feelings and emotional state of Vivian. She uses the soliloquy to give Vivian a chance to express how she is feeling and what she is thinking in every part of the play. By using the soliloquy, Edson manages to cite sympathy, rather than pity, in the audience by showing the constant struggle that…

Looking at Bill Watterson’s Calvin and Hobbs, I would argue it is a modern version of Juvenal satire in terms of both being able to criticize everyone while still claiming any reader or listener as an informed audience. Each of Watterson’s comics presents a specific attitude or trend in individuals which is directly criticized by Calvin and or Hobbs much the same way Juvenal went around blatantly confronting individuals during his time. Both go after everyone and anyone with the comics…

cannot help but think that Agent Scuzzy has something to do with this.... She and her flying liquid discharges.... The naughty smile on Agent Scuzzy's face is proof enough for the Assistant Director. She winks at him, a come-hither look, as an exclamation point to confirm his suspicions. Agent Scuzzy has no shame. The room is semi-dark—the blinds drawn tight except for slivers of light that peeps through. A dancing hula girl sways to and fro on top of the disorder splayed out in disarray over…

---tubes! For sixty-five dollars a month I give up all that I dream of doing and being ever! (Scene 3: 23). Here William uses metaphor to compare the warehouse to a tube, which illustrate Tom’s hatred and annoyance towards a shoemaking life. The two exclamation marks indicate that Tom was extremely angry to hear Amanda thought…

Human nature has always preyed upon worldly nature for creative inspiration. It is human nature to fashion oneself as a god, creating worlds and influencing thought by one stroke of a pen. In a writer’s creation, worldly nature is a necessary component of his imaginary world. Whether nature is praised or cursed by an author, a human’s only opportunity to control nature lies within ink and paper, which explains why nature is such a prevalent theme in literature. Coleridge, Wordsworth, and Pope…

Culminating Activity #1 The theme of the poem “The Tyger” by William Blake is about evil and reveals that the origin of evil can come from that of good as well. Blake is able to use diction to his advantage, as the narrator asks what made the Tyger’s heart beat. Blake wants the narrator to be unhappy with that person as he calls their hands and feet “dreadful”. The, he shifts to calling them hammers, chains, and anvils. This use of diction gives the tone a slightly darker edge to it. Blake is…

“The world is mud- luscious and puddle - wonderful” (E.E. Cummings). Edward Estlin Cummings was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1894. He was a painter and a poet and he studied in the University of Harvard, where he was fascinated by two schools of art Impression and Cubism. How does E.E. Cummings use vision and auditory to create meaning?. E.E. Cummings creates meaning in his poetry by using visual techniques and auditory techniques. To begin with, E.E. Cummings creates meaning in his…