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In a time of deep unrest during Gerard Manley Hopkins’ life, a point in which he both loved, yet combated with God, he produced the poem “Carrion Comfort”. The title of said poem was not given by Hopkins, but rather by his friend Robert Bridges (Gerard Manley Hopkins). Nevertheless, the title stands as an overall outlook for the poem to come, for it provides a sense of conflicting imagery, as well as a sense of darkness. “Carrion” as defined by the Oxford English Dictionary is, “the decaying…

Even though Sarah Binks is an imaginary poet who died of young age and lived in the 19th century described in the book by the author, Paul Hiebert, her thoughts and ideas expressed mostly in her poems and stories greatly allied with today’s 21st century’s ideas and thoughts. One of her greatest works, My Garden, portrays one’s compassionate thoughts for nature and expresses the voices of the people who farmed and lived on the Prairies. This lyrical poem is written beautifully yet mysteriously…

The song, “Be My Escape”, by Relient K, uses one main poetic device to convey the story that the speaker is telling: metaphor. Throughout the poem, the speaker illustrates that they are locked inside a house. We are told that they know how to get out, because they know who has the key, however they are afraid of what lies beyond their safe walls out in the world. They initially think that they know what is best for themselves. Eventually they come to the conclusion that they must take the chance…

One of my very favorite places to go in my free time is the beach. A beach is a national geographic nature made landform that is near a body of water. It usually consists of loose particles, which are frequently made out of sand, gravel, shingle, pebbles, or cobblestones. The particles living at a beach are occasionally biological to the origins, such as mollusk shells or coralline algae. Beaches typically appear around areas along the coast where there is a wave or current activity (Wikipedia,…

attracted most attentions from researchers in Interlanguage pragmatics (ILP). Previous studies focus on the perception (Garcia, 2004) and the production (Pinto, 2005) of requests from L2 learners with different language levels. Burgeoning interests in interlanguage pragmatic development in recent years have resulted in the investigation of the relationship between second language proficiency and the sequence organization when making requests (Al-Gahtani & Roever, 2011). However, the participants…

E Yeon Chang (장이연) EN 540: Mr. Fornshell Shakespeare Teagle Love, As Seen in Shakespeare’s Sonnets Due to his eminence as a playwright, Shakespeare’s caliber as a poet has a tendency of going overlooked. Compared to his theatrical works, the Bard’s sonnets have been greatly under examined and, even when analyzed, critics often narrowly focus on whom the works are addressed to or their biographic implications. As interesting as Shakespeare’s lovers and himself were, it is just as riveting to…

Acquainted with the Night by Robert Frost is about depression. The poet describes his depression as night. Night is used as a noun and personified. In line 1, “I have been one acquainted with the night”, the poet personifies the night as a person he is aware or familiar with. The poet uses the word “one”, to symbolize he is not the only one who have acquainted with the night. Line 2, “I have walked out in rain-and back in rain” suggest the poet was traveling in the rain and that it must have…

Everyday, choices and decisions are given to people to be made. However, the choices and decisions made will always have a positive and/or negative outcome. The one making the choices has the responsibility for there to be a positive outcome. Robert Frost shows how choices could change our lifestyle with the poems created by him. In Robert Frost poetry, Robert Frost uses multiple literary devices to describe that life has multiple outcomes in order to illustrate that people have responsibility…

The struggle of life- its changeability, unpredictability, and man’s inability to block the blows of chance- is difficult, but how someone deals with life- whether they wither away and cry out in defeat or whether they stand tall, accepting the blows without a complaint- is completely up to them. In the poem “Invictus” by William Ernest Henley, one can see his determination to be strong, independent, and fearless. Though it seemed like he would be defeated, Henley chose to stand up and face the…

The simple, straightforward title of the poem “Mother to Son,” by the African-American poet Langston Hughes (1902-1967), finds both the speaker of the work and the person to whom her words are discussed. The very first line of the poem is typical of the rest of the work in its use of phrasing that is colloquial—that is, in this case, phrasing that implies one person speaking to another. Yet the phrasing is also colloquial in the sense that it is ordinary, unpretentious, and informal. By…