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    Looking Out From Within: An Analysis of "To Althea From Prison" Richard Lovelace was charming, handsome, and affluent. He embodied the disposition that any woman could fancy during his time, but outwardly that was all there was to him. If you were to ask around you would be told that he was well-off and distinguished and seemingly that was where his persona had stopped. So the question posed becomes, “why would a man so forgettable, be remembered for such a long period of time?” The works he…

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    however, they do follow a steady metrical pattern. The first and third lines of each stanza is made of four feet. For instance, the first verse would be, “Be-cause| I could| not stop| for Death”, which is an iambic tetrameter. However, the second and fourth verses of each stanza follow an iambic trimeter. Dickinson also integrated capitalized nouns and dashes so that readers would pause and be guided to the next line. The structure of the poem makes the meter undulating so that it is soothing…

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    Poetry: There is no near simple way to define poetry. Poems can be written in too many different forms and styles, on too many subjects and emotions, and with too many different subjects and emotions, and with too many different motives to describe in a single definition. Likewise, poetry cannot be defined by the way it looks. We think that poetry is a work with short lines, rhythm, perhaps some rhyme, and a lot of white space, yet many poems do not follow this formula. Poetry is different from…

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    Interpretation of poetry is fundamentally up to the reader and what each individual takes away after reading the piece of work generally varies. To me, “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost is truly a delightful poem that dramatizes the conflict in dealing with life’s choices and consequently the repercussions thereafter. During the poem the speaker comes to a fork in the road, which is an extended metaphor that is comparable to a major decision that he must make in his life. There are many times…

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    qualities such as rhythm and repetition, it often portrays both ideas and feelings in overwrought but simplistic terms. The dominant meter of the ballad stanza is iambic, which means the poem's lines are constructed in two-syllable segments, called iambs, in which the first syllable is unstressed and the second is stressed. As an example of iambic meter, consider the following line from the poem with the stresses…

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    Jabberwocky- Inherency approach Firstly the presentation of the extract certainly looks like a poem, as it is constructed of seven stanzas in iambic tetrameter but the final stanzas only have three feet instead of four. Somebody said that when it looks like literature then we tend to treat it like literature. ‘Twas brillig, and the slithy toves’ (line 1) are words that are not familiar to the reader. Humpty Dumpty stated that ‘Brillig’ means four o’clock in the afternoon, when it’s time to boil…

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    The way that William Wordsworth wrote changed people 's thinking and revolutionized the romanticism of literature. William Wordsworth began writing poetry at a very young age. At the age of 16 Wordsworth composed a poem entitled The Pog: An Idyllium. (Wu, 1). When his mother died, he was sent to a grammar school which helped improve his poetry skills. His enthusiasm for the French Revolution took him to France again in 1791, where he had an affair with Annette Vallon, who bore him an…

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    The Passionate Shepherd to His Love is a pastoral poem that romanticises country life in order to persuade a woman to run away with a shepherd. This poem is written by Christopher Marlowe who uses the usual form of iambic tetrameter. Most lines contain eight syllables, which are used to create a familiar and repetitive rhythm that could be easily compared to the repetitive nature of rural life. At first glance, this seems to be a romantic piece of poetry describing the idyllic life the shepherd…

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    The Victorian society was not divided simply horizontally by class, it was also divided vertically by gender. In both texts we are exposed to gender ideals The importance of a woman’s identity during the Victorian period was unquestionably measured in accordance with her sexual status. The existence of the fallen women was a concept that was prevalent during the Victorian period and is largely connected to sexual purity and an irrevocable loss of innocence. In both Goblin Market and Mary Barton…

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    “The Road Not Taken” is a poem written by Robert Frost reflecting on a personal experience. He talks about the time when he was to make a difficult decision. With all the evidence gathered, it almost seems as if he regretted the outcome of his decision and he is curious as to see whether the other choice could have been better (or not). This is a very intellectual poem that may leave readers in suspense. For first-time readers, you would never be able to tell if Frost actually regretted taking…

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