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lethargy What your fathers died to gain?”’. This paints them as evil and corrupt, much like how Owen paints Abram and therefore the older men as evil and corrupt. This shown when Abram ignores the angel’s request and the old man “Slays his son, And half the seed of Europe, one by one.” It is also shown in his name. In the Bible Abram’s name was changed to Abraham,…

later reveals, “But I have promises to keep” (14). He seems that he has many things to do, so he must continue his journey on; even though the house in the village would be nice to stay at. Frost uses the elements of rhyme and rhythm and imagery to create this poem. We see how rhyme and rhythm is used in the poem, as the last word of the first, second, and fourth lines of each stanza…

The poem’s rhyme scheme begins simply with an ababcb pattern but gets more complicated as the poem progresses, repeating rhymes within a line (known as internal rhyme) and ending with the pattern abcbddbb in the last stanza(cite). The repeated use of the end rhymes “sea,” “Lee,” “we,” and “me” offer a link from stanza to stanza throughout the poem (Shmoop Editorial Team). Repetition of…

all the day long because her mind could see all the lovely things which she could not see with her eyes’” (Maskal 138). He inspired so many with his poems and one of which is “Don’t Quit”. This poem is narrated in Apostrophe format, has a couplet rhyme scheme, has a specific diction choice, impacts readers, and can reach all kinds of people. John Greenleaf Whittier has had experience in the writing poems. My Ebsco source is about Whittier’s life. He was born in 1807 and passed away in 1892.…

“pride” in first line rhymes with “side” in the second line, and “glow” in the third line rhymes with “foe” in the fourth line. In addition, there are many examples of alliteration observed. “Passion” and “pride” in the first line, “stormy” and “sister” in the second line, “from” and “firmament” in the third line, and “face” and “foe” in the last line are all examples of alliteration in the first stanza. Finally, there is an example of assonance, consonance, and full rhyme altogether in “torn”…

is eight lines in each stanza of this poem. A sonnet is two eight lines stanza put together that have a sing song rhythm to them in which this poem does. The rhyme scheme of this poem is one that starts with the first four lines of the poem all rhyme then it changes to every first and third line rhyme and every second and fourth line rhyme. This is the pattern for the rest of the poem. The types of literary elements that this poem uses are personification. Kipling makes triumph and disaster seem…

The speaker contrasts the concepts of dark and light throughout the entire poem. His description of the woman is being the best of both the dark and the light. The speaker exemplifies this with “One shade the more, one ray the less, / Had half impaired the nameless grace” (Byron lines 7-8). In this he states that to change one shade or to take away one ray would damage her indescribable beauty. Also the idea of dark and light making up her beauty are found in “Which waves in every raven…

Wordsworth and Coleridge: Stylistic Distinctions with Spiritual Resemblance In Lyrical Ballads 1798, it is easy to distinguish the poems composed by William Wordsworth from the ones composed by Samuel Coleridge. This is not out of their divergent views, but rather, a result of their characteristic poetic styles and distinctive writing subjects. Coleridge himself gives an account of this: These are the poetry of nature… composed of two sorts… It was agreed that my endeavours should be directed…

Emily Dickinson is that greatness can come from those who you would least expect. Emily Dickinson was born in 1830 to Edward and Emily Dickinson. She had two other siblings. Emily Dickinson was the middle child. Her brother was about a year and a half older. She also had a sister who was three years younger than her. Emily’s father was a well known lawyer during…

During the early years of the twentieth century, the United States propelled itself into The Great War after Germany resumed unrestricted submarine warfare. Approximately thirty-seven million people became casualties of the war whether wounded or killed in support of their nations marking The War to End All Wars a traumatic event for a majority of the world. For some, this experience was far worse than for others, and this war introduced the global populace to what is known as shell shock.…