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of solitude. As the ‘old man platypus’ is a lonely creature. Other themes that was conveyed in the poem is happiness. Evident which states of ‘The old man platypus’ being happy is shown in stanzas 2 and 3. The poem display ‘The old man platypus’ for having a wife, son and a daughter. As it was stated in stanzas 3 “With his wife and his son and daughter”, assuming that of ‘The old man platypus” for being happy for having a family. Others evidence that was shown in the poem was “Safe in their…

I wonder if this line would better be placed as the first line of the fourth stanza as it seems to better flow into that picture. S5, L1 - I would recommend changing "press" to "pressing" so that the present tense is maintained in this line, as it is in the rest of the poem. Your choice of Poseidon and Medusa as the two main “characters”…

won your town the race.” And line 5, road all runners.” Second through the fifth stanza, Housman uses metaphor as a figure of speech. He uses metaphors on: Line 8, “Stiller town”, he compares the cemetery to a town. Line 10, “Fields where glory does not stay”, compares the glory to a person that leaves the field. Lastly, line 13, “Eyes the shady night has shut”, compares the fame to an athlete. In those stanzas, Houseman explains why the athlete is thought to be “smart” to die young before…

metaphors, repetition, and allusion throughout the poem. The use of metaphors throughout the poem shows the reader how much Plath feels trapped by her own father. For example, in the beginning, stanza, Sylvia describes her father as a big black shoe and her, a white small foot…

characters in the poem increases the reader’s understanding of just how gloomy the speaker really perceived London. In the second stanza, “In every…” is repeated in 3 of the 4 lines. Each of those lines is about fear and being upset; discussing the cries of men, of infants, and of voices. The entire structure of the poem is also very repetitive. There are four stanzas and each one has four lines. The repetition emphasizes the meaning and helps the…

one. She achieved this by adding some very meaningful lines such as one that states " . Another quote from the poem that creates a mood is " Over the mountains, on that northern shore,Resting their wings where heath and fern-leaves cover " ( Bronte, stanza 2, line 2 & 3 ) this is describing a memory about how her thoughts use to hover around his grave but they don't anymore because she is starting to move on. These two quotes from the poem relate to conflict because it is explaining to us that…

Readers notice that it is the woman who ‘stalks’ in his chambers rather than the man possessing this predator like quality. In stanza two the poet recalls his experience with a specific woman; we see the constant use of caesuras in this stanza which adds to the excitement of the poet as he breaks off each line as if he is overwhelmed by this memory. The poet appears to be enchanted by this woman as he recalls ‘And she me caught in her…

demonstrating Blake’s own thoughts on childhood innocence and society’s corruption. The two poems both describe realistic infancy and are juxtaposed to reveal the distinct contrast between joy and sorrow. ‘Infant Joy’ and ‘Infant Sorrow’ both comprise two stanzas however the rhyme schemes are completely different. ‘Infant joy’ follows the rhyme scheme of ABCDDC whereas ‘Infant sorrow’ uses a more predictable and basic rhyme scheme of AABB. The complex and unpredictable rhyme scheme…

wording when some of the lines are repeated to fit that specific stanza of the…

setting, theme, scene, narrative, image and symbol. It is often referred as “a scientific approach to literature,” because it advocates methodical and systematic readings of texts”. In this case, the structure of poem titled the Hymn of Apollo has six stanzas with 6 six lines each, about the lines, the number of syllables round between eight and eleven, being ten the most frequent number of syllables; in every single line the pattern of repetitions creates a meter of five feet known as…