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Beat! Drum!” made me feel like something bad was to come. The Theme of “Beat! Beat! Drum!” was that war was going to happen, everything is going to change and bad things are rising up. In the first stanza the poem talks about no happiness or piece shall be had through the people. At the end of each stanza the poem talks about banging drums and blowing the bugles. Both of these are symbolized to show war is coming. The Raid of Harpers Ferry was the event inspired by this poem, taking place in…

descent into a state disconnected from previously faithful self. It is apparent that he longs for his prior innocence and devotion to God. The poem can be divided into two distinct parts; the first stanza recalls the first of his two “mortal paths” which was the innocence of his youth. In the latter stanza, he reminisces about the grandeur of missed opportunities and wasted time while look towards the bright future instead. The tone and imagery of the first paragraph is flowery…

have a connection where love isn 't stereotypical, it 's strange and different to what most people know love to be. The structure in general is haphazard but every stanza, including the single lines, have an end stop. This is because love is deep, crazy and strong, when you throw yourself in it is intense and this is shown by the full stanzas, the single lines are the less intense, calmer parts of love. 'Mean Time ' is similar as it has disjointed sentences so that the reader can relate and…

tone in the first stanza, “And forth in sorrow and fear and pain, / Showed me suffering in a hundred ships,” (lines 3-4). The narrator’s life is difficult and sometimes this difficulty causes him pain and suffering. “The Seafarer” transitions to a more excited and surprised tone in the second stanza. “And how my heart / Would begin to beat, knowing once more / The salt waves tossing and the towering sea!” (lines 33-35). The juxtaposition of the first stanza’s desolate tone and stanza two’s…

Structurally, it is written in quatrains (four lines each) with seven stanzas; but also, with an extra two between six to nine lines. The poem has a high extent of organisation. The last two stanzas changes because it seems like there is a change of subject, character, place or time in the two stanzas. Also, we see the repetition of the word “rise”, which reminded the reader of the resilience she has in herself. The a, b, c, b rhyming…

Shalott” is a ballad about, as it may be argued, the confined nature of women. Composed of nineteen isometric stanzas presented in four parts, the poem…

metaphor, diction, and symbolism. The poem describes baptism, conversion from wickedness to righteousness, recognition of the Spirit and finally understanding God’s love. The poem uses metaphor to illustrate the religious journey of the speaker. Each stanza incorporates parts of religious foundational doctrine as the speaker discovers the changes that…

about the theory and understanding of nature and life. The first stanza, she talks about in the poem about how “I liked as well to see”. She wanted a clearer vision of what she sees before. She couldn’t see, but having to use her feelings can really notice the truth. Everything is seen imaginary to her like “As other creatures, that have eyes”. She uses them as creatures because she is different from anyone else. The second stanza, they can see the infinite sky and…

own death as she would any other event in her life. She is not writing about her physical death, but rather a lack of life. Dickinson’s “It was not Death, for I stood up” is a contrast between her depression and the potential of death. The first stanza of “It was not Death, for I stood up” sets the tone of the poem as somber and questioning. Dickinson writes about an experience that feels like death but is not. The first two lines “It was not Death, for I stood up, / And all the dead lie down”…

structures this lyric poem to feel like a journey. He uses four stanzas of five lines each in a progressive unveiling of thought about an uncertain future, and culminates in the nostalgia, the title suggests, for the road not taken. The first stanza begins the extended metaphor of roads and choices, or “Two roads diverge in a yellow wood.” The speaker’s vision of the future is impaired, by “the undergrowth”…