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    The speaker of the poem is a narrator because they describe a marginalized group of people who are given temporary permission to have a voice. This is done through the use of poetic devices, imagery, and allusions to past outrages in order to elucidate a picture in which hypocrisy, ignorance, and complacency all combine to form a piece of propaganda. With a title that reads like a postcard, conjuring up a scene: Black soldiers posing in a photo-op for the press. “From: To:” is at its core, a…

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    view. Another way of looking at this poem is in a figurative point of view. This poem has tackled the issue of the typical stereotypes regarding women in general women's body image. It can be said that Emily has written this poem in question of her poetic expertise and skills. Apparently, Emily has enclosed this poem to her poetry mentor named Thomas Higginson, together with a different poem, in order to get his feedback upon her new freshly written poems. At it turns out, she begins the letter…

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    Intertextual Theory that all literary works ultimately relate to each other in some form or another. Metzger, in this particular essay, commented specifically on Keats’ poem, “Ode on a Grecian Urn”. After careful evaluation, Metzger established that, “Keats insisted on his right to enlarge the neoclassic canon of ‘great masters,’ to test him. When he turned to experimenting with the Pindaric ode, he evolved both his own stanzaic form and his own repertoire of topoi by testing literary models,…

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    from talking about temperature to their fiancé’s death to the description of the sloth within a couple of sentences apart. While “The Professor of Longing” by Jill Talbot can be defined as a hermit crab essay because it is in the form of a syllabus. Talbot takes the form of a syllabus and turns it into her own personal. It is a unique and unusual format, which…

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    ” The first principle of criticism that he asserts is to focus not solely upon what is unique in a poet but upon what he shares with “the dead poets, his ancestors.” This sharing, when it is not the mere and unquestioning following of established poetic practice, involves the historical sense, a sense that the whole of literary Europe and of one’s own country “has a simultaneous existence and composes a simultaneous order.” A corresponding principle is that no poet or artist has his or her…

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    Another reason is because of rhyme because it attracts the reader’s attention because it keeps them reading the poem. This anger seen through these poetic devices, towards Australians doesn’t just start on the last few lines it lasts the whole way through the poem starting strong and ending strong 4, Dan Davis represents Australians in a negative way in this poem as This poem describes modern, past…

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    he topics he discusses. His work stands out against those of his contemporaries as he transforms the rigid form of Elizabethan romance poetry by confounding the conventions he was expected to adhere to. To demonstrate the ways Shakespeare subverted the poetic norms of his time I will be using Sonnets 18, 116, 129 and 130. However Shakespeare did not completely disregard the customary forms of Elizabethan…

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    Poem: A Comparison of Literary Forms Reflecting on this week’s literary readings, as well as your own reading experiences, identify at least one major similarity and one major difference between the forms of the short story and the poem. How do the differences between these literary forms affect how you read and respond to them? In your response, include an example of at least one poem from this week’s readings. Describe the connections between (a) the poem’s form and/or use of literary…

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    Preforming Arts

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    The preforming arts are a form of creativity that must be expressed in front of an audience. These performances are typically accompanied with music, dialog, acting, or a combination of these. Some examples of performing arts can include; musicals, concerts, plays, movies, etc. All of these are created for the enjoyment and pleasure of the viewer. The shared experience of the performing art is what differentiates it from other art forms, which can be created and never shared. The performing arts…

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    reason as to why poems are very attractive and popular is the form and technique of language. This makes the poem well written and attractive to read. In this instance the poet uses great sentences which are concise and succinct, this makes the rhythm of the poem appealing towards the audience. Along with concise sentences, the poem has the use of accuracy as well. The sentences are inclusive of the great description which uses poetic…

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