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The Hand That Mocked Them: An Analysis of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s “Ozymandias” The most recognizable of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s poems is “Ozymandias”, and yet despite this the poem is often discussed in terms disassociated from its origins. For example, few who have read the work know that it was conceived during a mere contest, one of the many staged between Shelley and a fellow poet (“Overview”). Even fewer can recall the poet’s name, Horace Smith, and his competing piece of the same name.…

society. “Dream Variations” beings with a regular meter, consisting predominantly of an iamb or anapest followed by an anapest. This regularity serves to develop a consistent rhythm of one or two unstressed syllables followed by a single stressed syllable, “To fling my arms wide / In some place of the sun, / To whirl and to dance / Till the white day is done” (1-4). The first and third lines, then, consist of an iamb followed by an anapest, as the second and fifth syllables of these lines are…

Essay on Hamlet To be or not to be (Act 3, scene 1, lines 56-88) Who would have thought that the words "To be or not to be" would stand the test of time? These six words have echoed through thousands of actors' mouths and a myriad of books have recited these famously written words from William Shakespeare's pen. His colourful words paint worlds and his complex characters bring out a broad spectrum of feelings in us - and at times he makes us question our lives. Shakespeare's renowned soliloquy…

sea. The reality was all too social, he knew; other men were pursuing him, but he had comfort in a pretense, and a rhythm at least for his feet. He walked / across / the land / until / he came / to the sea. A hexameter. Five iambs and an anapest was the beat he tramped…

An old man with a “long grey beard and glittering eye” (3) stops a wedding guest on his way to the wedding and tell his story. The speaker of the poem suggests that both mariner’s tale and the way he tells it, are so effective on the wedding guest that he cannot help hearing it and “listens like a three years old child” (15). Even though mariner’s impact on the guest as his receiver seems to be magical and mysterious, the poem’s impact on readers is not magical at all. In this essay, I will try…

figure playing the instrument it has its own feeling of making the sound through the device. The meter of the poem is describing in a regular tune, that compares in a creative and expressive matter like a human musician would do. It starts with an iamb followed by an anapest. The anapestic meter of the poem gives it a song of quality, as if the reader is actually listening to the player piano. Unlike the first stanza, the last four lines portray the different sounds a piano produce’s. It can…

“Annabel Lee”, written by Edgar Allen Poe, was published in 1849. This poem depicts the love story between two young people. Their love was deep and passionate. So passionate in fact that it caused the angels to become angry and jealous. Their love ended up being Annabel Lee’s downfall, as the speaker of the poem believes the angels sent down a wind to cause Annabel to fall ill and die. The last half of the poem describes the endurance of their love. What makes this poem so compelling is Edgar’s…

Iamb, a meter where a short syllable is followed by a stressed syllable, represents the normalcy of Pilgrim’s life before he was enlisted in the war. Trochee, a meter where the short syllable follows the stressed syllable, stands in place of the trauma…

The poems “Fog” by Carl Sandburg and “I wandered lonely as a cloud” by William Wordsworth share both similarities and differences. One similarity that both poems share are symbols. In Sandburg’s poem, the title “Fog” is a symbol within itself. The title hovers over the poem just like fog does in nature. That cat mentioned at the beginning of the poem symbolizes how the fog approaches “on little cat feet” and then sits on “silent haunches” before “mov[ing] on” (Sandburg 899). The fog moves in the…

Sonnet 130 is one out of Shakespeare 's sequence of love poems, 127-154. The sequence of poems has a subject centered around a woman named the"dark lady." In Sonnet 130 Shakespeare uses imagery, tone, vocabulary and the use of metaphors, to show that the traditional way of expressing love can cover up the real perception of love. To begin, Shakespeare was the third child out of six children. It took culture to determine Shakespeare 's date of birth although it is not concrete it is the most…