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    was a life changing time for Nancy, so she wants to capture that moment by writing a poem. Poems are different than prose, which is our everyday writing. Poetry often uses fancy language to express a point while prose straightforward. Before Nancy began writing her poem, she drafted a few metaphors she wanted to include. Instead of writing in blocks of text like you would in prose, Nancy wrote in lines and stanzas. She used figurative language to highlight the appearance of the homeless…

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    Amy Lowell Influences

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    How did Amy Lowell shape contemporary trends in american poetry? A quote of Amy Lowell shows both her determined personality and her sense of humor: "God made me a business woman, and I made myself a poet." During her career that spanned only twelve or so years, she wrote and published over 650 poems, but she is most often recognized for her work to open American readers up to contemporary trends in poetry. "Poet, propagandist, lecturer, translator, biographer, critic . . . her verve is almost…

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    Myth, Music And Poetry

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    Additionally, there is an emphasis in articulated awareness of the social discourses that surround poetic composition. For social realities that already reflect prosody in rhythm and rhyme, poetry is an obvious tool for translation and understanding. Not just that, but as poets begin to compress and allude to social realities in their composition, they are continually training to write about affect, or the act of influencing or acting upon, be it about themselves or others (ibid.: 121). Where a…

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    Poetry Advice and Techniques (Pope, Aristotle, Wordsworth and Woolf) There are countless types of poetry that have been very successful in our history. All poets and writers have their own little twist on their work that makes it unique and original. Some poets or writers like to stick with one type of writing because it is what they are best at. For example, Pope and Aristotle have a similar type of way they like to write poems. They find it very important to stay within the lines and use a…

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    Revenge is a dominate theme throughout Edgar Allan Poe’s, “The Cask of Amontillado”. Poe uses symbolism and characterization to develop the theme of revenge that Montresor seeks on Fontunado. This use of symbolism and characterization illuminates the achievement of Montresor’s revenge with the ultimate sacrifice of Fortunado’s death. This revenge reveals a darker side of the human psyche. To reveal this darker side, Poe’s vivid descriptions of his characters allow for understanding of their…

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    SPEECH ACT THEORY ANALYSIS OF “THE KILLERS”BY EARNEST HEMINGWAY SUBMITTED TO :MAM SANA NAWAZ SUBMITTED BY : NOOR UL HUDA (113) SARA EHSAN (115) AYESHA ZAFAR (121) (GR) AMNA HAMEED (116) MEHWISH JABEEN (146) SUBJECT: RESEARCH METHODOLOGY UNIVERSITY OG SARGODHA M.A ENGLISH (SEMESTER 3) SPEECH ACT THEORY ANALYSIS OF “THE KILLERS” BY “EARNEST HEMMINGWAY” ABSTRACT This article aims at, to prove Earnest Hemingway as a writer of horror,…

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    “Conflict builds character,” as often said by authors, readers, and others alike-- but perhaps some authors build character through the use of conflict better than others, like Edgar Allan Poe (author of many, many short stories and poems but for the sake of this essay, “The Tell-Tale Heart” and “The Masque of the Red Death”) and Jack London (the author of Call of the Wild), for example. “The Tell-Tale Heart” is the story of a man who kills another, due to being bothered by the the other’s…

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    the inner workings of his poems it is necessary to not only analyze one but to also examine the cultural themes present in Japanese culture and the poet’s life. Art is laced with the culture of its author. Therefore, examining classical Japanese poetry is impossible without understanding the prevalent themes of the time, one such motif is mono no aware (物の哀れ) or simply aware, it represents the aesthetic of a haibun. The term itself was coined by Motoori Norinaga in the eighteenth century,…

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    Probably there are two reasons for this .Firstly she believes that poetry by men and women cannot be different secondly she does not make an issue of it , in spite of the trends emphasizing women poets. In the 1960s Jennings felt that being a woman poet was easier in America than in England and the same view was expressed by her in an interview to John Press. However the continuity with which she had been writing poetry and prose shows that she might have changed her view on the issue now. Every…

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    Tender Buttons clearly showed the profound effect modern painting had on her writing. In these small prose poems, Stein meticulously puts images and phrases together, often in surprising ways—similar in manner to cubist painting. Her writing, characterized by its use of words for their associations and sounds rather than their meanings, received considerable interest from other artists and writers. In fact like an artist, she is throwing random colours to paint an object as it is. However, in…

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