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This poem elaborates on a boy’s first experience of being in love with girl. This poem has one speaker, who is unknown. One can assume that Gary Soto is referencing himself. The speaker is carefully remembering certain details like, "newly planted trees,” & "a few cars hissing past" because these memories must have impacted the. I am assuming the speaker is an older man, recollecting his youth. The poem has two conflicting settings, the first one is the place where the speaker is physically in,…

Schönberg chose a poem from Waller im Schnee for his first setting of George’s poetry. He might have been inspired by Ansorge’s cycle “Waller im Schnee”, Op. 14, No. 5, excerpts of which were performed together with parts of Schönberg’s Opp. 2 and 3 in a concert at the Ansorge-Verein on 11 February 1904. The poem is the fourth in George’s cycle, where it follows a set of three descriptions of wanderings, including “Die steine die in meiner strasse staken” and “Mir ist als ob ein blick im dunkel…

Idea: Grief is soul destroying Poems: Sylvia Plath's Mirror and W. H Auden's Stop all the Clocks Although the poems 'Mirror' by Sylvia Plath and 'Stop all the Clocks' by W. H Auden reflect different experiences of grief, they both convey that its repercussions are devastating. Plath's extended metaphor focuses on the pain of aging, whereas Auden's elegy explores the grief of the physical loss of a loved one. The idea of overwhelming grief is evident in the beginning stanza of Stop all the…

When I compared Joe’s Odyssey songs to Homer’s Odyssey books, there seems to be a 1:1 correspondence between most of the songs and the books. When I took a look at each song individually and compared it to the corresponding books, Joe emphasized certains aspects of each book and turned them into lyrics. The lyrics emphasize the certain aspects about the book to tell the poem as a whole. He tries to highlight certain aspects from all 24 books to turn the Odyssey into his own version of the poem.…

Many sonnets display an essential message regarding the concept of love. However, they all relay a variety of different themes that can be interpreted in many ways. Sonnet 30 and Sonnet 130 are prime examples of this type of nature. Sonnet 130 consists of the poet listing out his lover’s imperfections and mocking the said imperfections. On the contrary, Sonnet 30 portrays the confusion and the curiosity of the poet. He constantly wonders how his lover can deal with him and vice versa due to…

When comparing and looking at the two poems “Graded Paper” by Mark Halliday and “Learning to Read” by Frances E. W. Harper, you can see that the two are different in many ways. They are two poems from two very distinct time periods. The diverse elements and styles that are used in these poems make them unique in their own way. But, while they have different forms, subjects, word choices, and themes, their overall tones, while not exactly the same throughout the poems, can be seen as similar in a…

Ditika Gupta Kanika Dang English midterm literary analysis paper 3rd November2015 Depiction of love in “The Notebook” and “A Walk to Remember” Nicholas Charles Sparks is an American writer and novelist. Ten of Sparks’ romantic-drama novels have been adapted to film. In the novels “The Notebook” and “A Walk to Remember” Sparks explores the endless cycle of love that transcends the eternal cycle of time. His works depict the eternity of love. “The Notebook” and “A Walk to Remember” are…

The poems “Dulce et decorum Est” and “The letter” are written by Wilfred Owen during WW1. Owen started writing these poems when he suffered an injury during the war and had to go back to England to recover. These poems have a similar message about war as Owen seems to give a firsthand experience about war in these poems which draws the reader closer to Owen. In the poem Dulce et Decorum Est, Owen presents war as violent, inconsiderate and simply pointless. He uses a variety of different…

Mushrooms Poetry Analysis A quiet revolution: perhaps oxymoronic sounding upon first glance. However, this poem paints a picture of a story about exactly that, doing so through a subtle metaphor and simple but powerful visual imagery. Though a poem about the oppression of a group of people, it does not tell a story of despair. Quite the opposite, speaking instead of an uprising of a different sort, of hope as modest as mushrooms themselves. Mushrooms may seem at first like a very peculiar…

Poetry is often written with some hidden meaning within the poems themselves, this meaning often coming in multiple layers of depth, in order to suggest or prompt an ideology, value, or action to an audience. Such cases often being seen in English Romantic Period poems and novels; these works of literature often having themes about the power and beauty of nature and how humans are just a small part of a bigger picture created by god. Though some authors take it to a step beyond such themes; an…