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John Donne’s “Lovers’ Infiniteness” is a part of “Songs of Ourselves Volume 2, Part 1”, which is an anthology based on the themes of love and family. This poem consists of 3 stanzas each consisting of 11 verses. With the use of metaphors, imagery and partial rhymes, John Donne’s poem depicts a forlorn lover, who believes that one must love wholeheartedly, with nothing left behind for yourself. The first stanza’s first two verses depict an immature, greedy lover, who demands everything for…

life gives you. The poem does not really have anything to do with the bible because it isn't particular religious theme. The only thing is the use of the word commandments and the ten stanzas. In the first line of the poem ‘People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered./Love them anyways.’ In this stanza you can can almost pick up the hopeful tone of this poem. In the line he the moral is that people can be basically just absolute worst. But the speaker says you should love the no…

The subject is being compared to the gods of Roman mythology, and Sidney even goes so far as to call her smooth, mild, and fair. The other stanzas of this poem follow this same pattern, the poet praising the traits of his subject and comparing the traits to those of precious stones such as opal and sapphire, as seen in the third stanza. This was not an uncommon thing in the sixteenth century, even Shakespeare is known for comparing a woman to “A midsummer’s day” in one of his more famous…

Name Professor Course Date One Need Not Be a Chamber by Emily Dickinson The poem indeed has a lot of relevancy to the lives of people in comparison to other poems. The use of metaphors and the precautious use of diction that meets all the purpose in conveying messages of how one is not capable of escaping from his or her mind but instead has an opportunity of escaping the people's presence (Dickinson 1). From this poem, Emily communicated messages more tangibly through the description of…

by using descriptive words to paint a picture to the audience. In Maya Angelou’s “Still I Rise” each stanza contains imagery that lets the audience fully understand how Angelou feels about those who are trying to knock her down. Angelou addresses the hatred she has received and explains how she still continues to get back up. While Angelou’s poem is an encouraging message for everyone, each stanza looks specifically at the people who have mistreated her in the course of her life. These people…

Musee des Beaux Arts “About suffering they were never wrong (Auden).” Auden’s poem is about suffering and how others ignore it unless they are affected by it. Musee de Beaux Arts is an Ecphrasis poem, which means that it is a poem describing a scene or a work of art, written by W. H. Auden. This poem has ample literary devices used in it, such as allusion, enjambment, imagery, and juxtaposition, which is when two things are placed close together to cause a contrasting effect, all of these…

subject to changes around them then could represent solitude very well. In the second poem, “Keeping Things Whole” (Strand, 1980) was done in a first person perspective and it demonstrate the theme of loneliness as eternal solitude. In the first two stanza: In a field I am the absence of…

11). Similar to "A London Thoroughfare. 2 AM" where the tone of the poem is bleak and depressing, "London Rain" also starts off dreary where in the second stanza his "wishes turn to violent// Horses black as coal-// The randy mares of fancy, // The stallions of the soul- // Eager to take the fences// That fence about my soul." This stanza uses a lot of horse racing imagery where the poet seems to want to break free. This implies a sense of dissatisfaction on where he is in life, and how much…

In the poems “Fern Hill” by Dylan Thomas and “in-Just” by e. .e cummings they focus largely on the concepts of growing up. The concept of losing one’s innocence is shown in both of these poems through the realizations in the last stanzas. That is when both of the authors realized that the innocence has been lost and things are not as they once thought that they were. Both of the authors told stories of their past to exemplify this, both poems I believe are written from the perspective of an…

intriguing and easier to follow. Housman also wrote it with an AABB rhyme scheme, which made the poem more attractive to read and analyze. The first stanza is written in the past tense about an athlete winning a race. The second stanza is when a turning point occurs. “Shoulder-high we bring you home” (“Athlete” 6) is a mirror image from the first stanza, but has a contrasting meaning. The athlete is now dead, so they are carrying him shoulder-high (in his casket) to his “home,” as in his…