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Giovanni writes in the second stanza how if she cannot have something, but already has something good she should be content and not upset. However, if she should always want more than what is given to her. She is saying often times people become so content with what they have they stop dreaming and wanting more. In life always ask for more always strive for something you may never get, but still dream and aspire to be more than what you have. According to Giovanni, in Line 9 of Choices she says…

One poem that is more subtle about it is “Later in Belleville: Career”. This poem shows the complete change of a person’s life through art - or the lack of it. In the first two stanzas, the speaker says, “Once by a bitter candle / of oil and braided / rags, I wrote / verses about love and sleighbells // which I exchanged for potatoes; ” (1-5). These first five lines show how she is in doubt and depression. The speaker uses words…

In “Still I Rise” by Maya Angelou, the speaker’s identity is slowly developed throughout the poem so that we are not completely sure of the speaker’s identity. The speaker is a black female that while she is speaking for herself, she is also speaking for an entire population of people just like her. People like her who are determined to rise above the historical oppression saying, “Leaving behind nights of terror and fear/ I rise/ Into a daybreak that’s wondrously clear/ I rise…” (lines 35-38).…

In the first stanza, the speaker’s state of mind is incomparable, as “There is no happiness like [his],” conveying his initial literary obsession’s desperation for the written word. However, the second stanza signifies a shift in preoccupation, towards the librarian, whom is observed by the speaker as having ‘sad’ eyes, as she finds herself experiencing a tormenting ordeal resulting from the chaos of the library. Corresponding to the shift in the second stanza, there is an establishment…

The writer uses more complicated words in this stanza such as perne and gyre. The poet is talking with the sages “Consume my heart away; sick with desire”(21). He wants the sages to purify his soul from the sickness he has. It is a metaphor where the writer asks the sages to teach him how to listen to…

of the word “I.” For example,” Or whether I go among those I like best, and that like me best.” 3. A. The appearance of this poem is in long lines with the first stanza being the biggest, the second one smaller, and last one smallest.…

This poem of twenty four lines is divided into four stanzas of sestets. The poem follows the rhyme scheme ABCABC. In the last stanza, many of the rhymes are feminine—daughter, mother, water, other. The erratic rhythm of the poem is sprung rhythm, designed to imitate the rhythm of natural speech. It is comprises of feet in which the first syllable is stressed and may be followed by a varying number of syllables which are unstressed. Rhymes and near rhymes in this poem maintain a pattern, which…

main stanza presents the speaker, a young man who has been constrained by conditions into the unsafe control of stack sweeper. The second stanza presents Tom Dacre, a kindred stack clear who goes about as a thwart to the speaker. Tom is vexed about his present situation, so the speaker solaces him until the point that he nods off. The following three stanzas describe Tom Dacre's to some degree prophetically calamitous dream of the stack sweepers' "paradise." Be that as it may, the last stanza…

In the first four lines of the first stanza, the speaker is excited that they accomplished their missions through hard “weather’d” and wants to celebrate with his Capitan. “O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done;” () We assumed that the “ Capitan” is a metaphor for Lincoln because, a Captain is a leader and the poem was written after the assassination. “The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting,”() Whitman great imagery details makes us to connect with the glory, cheer…

the others is the snowman’s. The fist stanza in the poem is the young boy’s point of view. “Seeing the snowman standing all alone..” “The small boy weeps to hear the wind prepare…” these are bot examples of the boy’s point of view. He is sad that he has to stand inside away from the snowman. He’s sad that the snowman can’t come in and play in the warm house. The boy doesn’t understand that if the snowman comes inside that he will melt. In the second stanza it’s the other way around. It’s the…