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Cremation Of Sam McGee” and the poem was published 1907. The first stanza of the poem stages a setting for the piece. The speaker makes it very clear that the poem takes place where the sun shines all day and all night, where men work very hard in search of gold. In this first stanza, the speaker addressing that this is a place where very strange things happen, and that he had to cremate a man named Sam McGee. The first stanza of this poem really gets the reader interested in the piece. The…

deployment of exclamation marks, as well as its prosody and conclusion illuminate the poet’s theme relating to the never-ending pain of loss. The poem illustrates its theme of pain through its diction and depressive language in all of its stanzas. Specifically, the first stanza sets itself apart, establishing a depressive…

by Dylan Thomas in 1952. The poem is divided into six stanzas, with a simple rhyme scheme of A,B,A,B etc. The poet wrote this poem at the time of his fathers’ death; so I believe that death has a large theme here. It also seems that perseverance in the face of adversity is a large theme because the poem encourages the reader to live life fully and with great passion; up to and beyond the point of death. This is evident right from the first stanza, second line, when the poet states: “Old age…

portraying the physical appearance of his father "cracked hands that ached from labor in the weekday"(line 4) as another manner of making the reader to feel a little more drama and sympathy for his father. Then, Robert Hayden close seal the first stanza with a simple, short and interesting line "No one ever thanked him" (line 5). This is one of the most important lines in this poem. This line certainly shows how lovely and carrying his father was for the family even though no one ever express…

separated into 6 stanzas. The poem does not have a specific form, but the stanzas seem to increase in lines as the poem is read. As the poem The poem is constructed like a guideline which makes it seem that the guidance starts out simple and as more guidance is given, the guidance is more descriptive and leads on to the most important idea. As the poem comes to an end, the stanzas begin to decrease in number of lines as if it is concluding in a simple but impactful way. The first stanza starts…

“rave” connotes a certain lack of control and almost irrational resistance to what comes to everyone. That being said, Thomas argues that resisting is preferable to that of simply waiting for death to come. Written for his father, Thomas’s opening stanza is a beautiful opening to the poem. He, in much more elegant terms, writes that one might as well spit in death’s face and live a full life rather than sit back and…

is not mentioned until the last stanza of the poem. However, O’Hara is in fact using these details as a way to subliminally express the impact of her death. “The Day Lady Died”, like Frank O’Hara’s other poems, is packed with details and imagery. In the poem, Frank O’Hara gives us a run through of his daily errands. He describes the scene around him using descriptive words like “the muggy street” and is very keen on including time in his details in the first stanza as he mentions, “It is 12:20…

actually be compared to the way the traveler tries to figure out what the woman is singing. Just like how I didn’t understand this poem at first it demonstrates how any form of art, even when it is misunderstood, is powerful and beautiful. The first stanza in the poem is written simply by the poet, he makes sure that he describes the woman as alone. He shows that the woman is alone which is describing how the woman is a work of visual art herself. She is also the one creating the sound that…

illustrates what the men and the women does for their living, “After the heat and the fumes and the footlights, / Where you dance and I watch your dancing” (11-12). The girl is some sort of dancer, and the men watches her perform. The first line of this stanza is set up for the end because it shows how the wind of the night and the love from a lover can cleanse a person of their rough day and how it can erase all the…

The second and third stanzas are the two that focuses on the two falling in love. Through placing enjambement here, Chua emphasises just how mindless the process of falling in love can be. In regard to the extended metaphor, humans perceive goldfish as mindless animals, incapable…