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use of repetition at the end of each stanza - “rode the six hundred”. He did this to emphasise how no-one left the rest of the cavalry when they had to fight for their country while knowing that they were most probably going to die. This would make the reader feel both sympathetic for the situation that the six hundred soldiers were put in (a choice between life and death), and proud that they…

The word “rage” is used to encourage one to roar and battle during the final hours of one’s life. The stanza ends with Thomas comparing death, to the “dying of a light”. The second stanza brings in the mindset of a perceptive man, where he knows that “dark is right”, however they do not heed their words because they have “forked no lighting”, and they too fight “that good night.” (Thomas 4-6)…

choice, literary devices and the tone of each of the poems. First of all, in ‘Because I could not stop for death’, Dickinson personifies “Death” as a welcoming and kind person who is taking her on this ‘journey’ from life to afterlife. In the first stanza, the word “kindly” is used to juxtapose with “death”. Usually, Death is personified as a evil and scary character. In this poem however, Death is personified as a courteous and gentle guide, that is bringing her on this voyage towards…

Places” is a somber, introspective journey through a barren landscape choked by the smothering presence of snowfall. Although the poem begins with a lens trained on the surrounding landscape, the narrator’s thoughts eventually turn inward by the final stanza as the narrator compares the current frozen landscape to the vast desert of isolation and loneliness within himself. Frost utilizes repetition to both emphasize the rhythm of snow and night descending and to underscore the sensations felt by…

in a state of isolation and resilience in the poem ‘Refugee Blues’. This poem has a clear structure, you can see there is a pattern because every stanza has three lines every time. The first two lines of every stanza talks about the situation. The…

touched the other fraction, that is; her partner and this is revealed through the phrase, “but I guess he just had enough of me”. Once again is stanza 4 the writer alters the syntactic order of words-hyperbaton, “All I know, my best, I have tried” line 14, just to make an emphasis that she in actual fact tried to save the relationship. Again in this stanza the writer’s despair comes into light, the writer is feeling completely hopeless and seems to have admitted to being worthless. This is…

but it is all just in his head. He admits that there is “no space, no birds, no farm”. (24) The speaker wants for someone to be there at the farm, but “both ends will be home” (23) and it will all be just wishful thinking. In just the first stanza, the reader can clearly see the details of the farm the speaker is talking about. It starts out by saying, “A telephone line goes cold/ birds tread it wherever it goes”. (1-2) A vivid image is painted of a line that does not have a reply on the…

of the second stanza it says, “The cold waters…” (Shulman). This is very similar to the poem because the tossing, cold, water scene is clearly visible in the painting, where you can see a rough river full of ice. (Leutze “Washington Crosses the Delaware”) Then, in the first line of the third stanza the poem also says, “Ah, he stands - sailor crew went going…,” and in the next line, “…this general watches rowing.” (Shulman). Finally, in the first…

repetition adds a rhythmic aspect that can be seen throughout the poem. Finally, the last major point that should be noted in the first stanza is the capitalization of the word “Sense” (153) in line 4. This means…

innocent image – that of a child playing cops and robbers.) This contrasts with the images used in the final two lines of the first stanza. The speaker states the ground was “consecrated” by the juices of the blackberries. They were made holy and sacred by the same juices which made the speaker a criminal. This is a contradiction that persists throughout every stanza of the entire poem. Purity and innocence are conflated with shame and guilt in order to portray the complex emotions that the…