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    particular poem is amongst the world’s most read and taught one. The four stanza poem has inspired and stirred many minds in the world. The young minds immediately connect to The Road Not Taken as it represents them while taking unknown decisions. The poem is narrated by a speaker who is thinking of the past and the decision he has to take while travelling through woods one day. Stanza I –…

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    emotions of grief and conveys the impression that the queen cannot speak of these feelings except on paper. Each stanza has its own separate theme, for instance, the first stanza explains how the queen is feeling, the second stanza talks about how those feelings have affected her life, and the final stanza describes the queen’s desire to move on from this pain and suffering. Every stanza has a basic rhyme scheme of “ABABCC,” with no variations, and each line has a meter of iambic pentameter. The…

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    constructed in stanzas and is analysed through its literary features which include style, rhyme, repetition, metaphor, and syntax. The poem is about a man weeping in the streets of Sydney, a meaning readers can only grasp through applying the features mentioned accordingly. An Absolutely Ordinary Rainbow is a poem constructed of ten stanzas. The first stanza is six lines long, the longest stanza in the entire poem. The following eight stanzas’ after that are each five lines long. The final…

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    The Arctic Fox Analysis

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    I paid close attention to the syntax. Sometimes I found individual stanzas would fare better if repositioned in the poem. For example, in "Arctic Fox," I rearranged, stanzas 1,2 with 3,4 respectively. Due to the change of stanzas, the syntax in the beginning and middle ultimately changed, therefore, creating a new language and strengthening the beginning and intermediate of the poem. In addition to the modification of these stanzas, I found the syntax “Arctic fox’s” end “killing me” to be rather…

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    to be noticeable. Nye wants the reader to thinks about what changes in their life and what does not change. The imagery in Naomi Shiha Nye's poem "Trying to Name What Doesn't Change" shows that the only thing in life that is constant is change. Stanza 1 gives a detail of an image from a child perspective who has watched the same train track for 3 years, and it reflects how change is the only thing in life that is constant and how it takes time for people to notice change. "Roselva says the…

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    Suppressing Senses

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    time, his love would last and her beauty would not fade. In the third stanza, he feels happy for the trees on the urn that they will never shed their leaves; happy for the melodist because he will forever play songs forever new; and happy for the lovers that their love will last forever, unlike mortal love which only brings frustration. He sees a sacrifice on the urn and asks about the people coming to it in the following stanza. However the town of these people remains silent and no one can…

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    The Clock Poem Analysis

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    symbolism of a "crack in the tea-cup" (43), once useful, but eventually gets old and decays. Additionally, the speaker reminds the lover that one day he will have "A lane to the land of the dead" (44) with his love alongside him. Throughout the twelfth stanza, the speaker starts referencing nursery rhymes and begins presenting them in a more sexualizing way, by saying "the Lily-white Boy is a Roarer,/ And Jill goes down on her back." signifying a shift from childhood to adulthood, or innocence…

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    implies that death is imminent. Despite the poem’s portrayal of grief and defying death, Dylan Thomas incorporates literary devices to convey that even after the endeavor against the inevitable, there is a renewal and light after death. In the first stanza the narrator is advising…

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    Fishhawk Poem Analysis

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    poem is labeled as a “romantic folk song”(p.1322), the good use of literary elements, syntax, and language added a bit of tint to the love story. The author used a series of literary elements throughout the poem. The first sentence of the first stanza, “The fishhawks sing guan guan” marked a significant start to the poem. Spring seems to be a season when animals, birds, and humans are awaken and start to become more active.…

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    “only nails the eye.” Dickinson words this so that ‘nails the eye” is supposed to be some leisure task. Stanza eight starts off with Dickinson listing other kinds of grief such as grief because of envy, grief because of poverty, and a general sadness that some call "Despair." Then Dickinson hints at feeling exiled when mentioning feeling “Banishment in native eyes in sight of Native air.” In stanza nine, Dickinson finally confesses the comfort she feels by looking at the grief expressed by other…

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