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In T. S. Eliot’s poem, The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock, the author uses many literary devices to create many feelings of regret. Using metaphors, tone, and imagery, T. S. Eliot creates a feeling that the man in the poem regretted not doing a lot of the things he should have done. In the poem T. S. Eliot uses metaphors to create a feeling that the man in the poem did meaningless things, such as, “measured out my life with coffee spoons” (Line 51). I don’t think he actually measured out his…

Suppressing senses in John Keats’s Ode to a Nightingale and Ode on a Grecian Urn Abstract: John Keats, as a pursuer of beauty, is well-known for his beautiful sensory language in his odes, but many of the odes intentionally limit the senses they inhabit. With particular references to Ode to a Nightingale and Ode on a Grecian Urn, this paper focuses on the reasons for suppressing senses and the methods of creating an abundance of believable sensation with limited senses. Key words: Ode to a…

Compare and contrast the way the poets explore the theme of discrimination in ‘Disabled’ and ‘Still I Rise’. Both poets portray the theme of discrimination expressing their memories about key moments in their lives. Owen faced World War 1 at a young age and saw enough pain and suffering for more than a lifetime. On the other hand, he still gained experience from this and shared the loneliness of discrimination with other people. Angelou, however was abused at a very young age which saw her…

The Pylons is a poem written in five quatrains of free verse, and describes the conflict between country and city. The titular object, pylons are a metaphor for technology, which the poetic voice believes to threaten to bring destruction upon nature and country. The concrete poem structures the stanzas in a way that, along with the black font, resemble pylons. There is no regular meter but the first and last line of each stanza sometimes end with full rhyme and sometimes pararhyme. The poet uses…

I wish that I own a vocal phonation to sing Narayan Gopal’s songs. I know I can’t sing. I have a deep note of voice sinking into the throat. When I want to throw out my voice to sing, I have my voice stuck in the larger soundboard of the adam’s apple. My voice is a low voice and it sounds a little coarse. When the vocal cords in the larynx vibrate, the vibration turns into a bass range, among the lowest range of voice of a male vocal tract. I have a strong desire sing, sometimes once in a…

28 September 2014 English Studies 178 Second-Semester Poetry Course JA Scheepers 18403255 Poetry Essay- The Sonnet SEMESTER ESSAY English Tutor group 71 @Katherine Morris Image reference: (Lemes) ENGLISH SEMESTER ESSAY A: The Sonnet “Every mood of mind can be indulged in a sonnet; every kind of reader appealed to. You can make love in a sonnet, you can laugh in a sonnet, you can lament in it, can narrate or describe, can rebuke, can admire, can pray.” - Leigh Hunt, “An essay On…

In Marjorie Pickthall’s “Adam and Eve” and Ani DiFranco’s “Adam and Eve” there are distinct differences and similarities. In contrast, Marjorie’s poem focuses on biblical imagery and beauty being found in trivial situations. In a different manner, Ani’s poem focuses on a personal account of day to day life, and depicts beauty as an illusion. Similarly, Marjorie’s and Ani’s poems mention a preference and desire for beauty. Firstly, Marjorie’s poem focuses on biblical imagery and beauty being…

In her villanelle, Lonely Hearts, Wendy Cope uses attributes and styles from villanelles to portray the speakers search for companionship. Each stanza uses repetition to convey a tone of desperation, the speaker uses descriptions to show his urgency and self-consciousness, and the last quatrain closes the poem and concludes how all the people come together in search of love. The author uses repetition to convey the meaning of the villanelle. In each stanza the lines “Can someone make my simple…

There are a lot of poems in the world. I chose two to compare, so we could see some different types of poetry. But exactly how would you compare them? The poems “Jabberwocky” by Lewis Carroll, and “Two Limericks” by Edward Lear are fairly different. We’ll be comparing these poems by three main points: alliteration, rhyme, and repetition. The poem “Jabberwocky” has quite a few alliterative occurrences, such as: “Callooh callay”. Or even “snicker snack”. Due to “Two Limericks” being so short, it…

The jolly tone juxtaposes the emotion of regret that is seen from stanza 3. This can be seen when the internal rhyme scheme of “Just so: my foe” is used to show that he is faltering because he feels both guilty and regretful. We as readers could infer that a jolly rhyme scheme is used in order to make fun of the Boer War as Thomas Hardy disagreed with it. Moreover, Lord Tennyson uses no structure in ‘The Charge of the Light Brigade’ to signify…