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In Robert Frost’s sonnet Acquainted with the Night, the speaker finds himself questioning the greater triumphs of darkness and light. Throughout the poem, the speaker goes on a journey of self-discovery, but finds loneliness on his walk. The speaker goes on to contemplate life and his place within society. It is of common knowledge that Robert Frost often dealt with complex depression due to many events in his life. Frost’s father died when he was just a boy and only two of his six children…

nihilistic views after the death of his lover are expressed in Stanzas One and Four. In the first stanza, the speaker uses the muffling of sounds as a metaphor for his detachment from reality after his lover’s death. In the fourth stanza, the speaker’s illogical demands to disrupt the natural phenomenoa reveals that the death of his lover devastated him and that the world is no longer meaningful to him. The metaphorical commands in these stanzas reveal that the world after the death of the…

Wilfred Owen was a war poet who enlisted in the British army in 1915 and began writing poetry after meeting Sassoon at the ‘Craiglockhart War hospital in Edinburgh’ (1). Anthem for Doomed Youth was one of the poems which was written with Sassoon’s help; he helped Owen transform his poetry and encouraged him to publish his poetry. In Owens’s preface, he wrote his ‘subject is war, and the pity of war.’(2)Owen presents death in the poem Anthem for Doomed youth by using vivid, strong and bold…

The author 's change of tone within stanzas shows itself best through his diction. The use of words like “clutch” tend to give the reader an overall darker tone than words like “grasp” and clutch makes the author feel helpless, as if they can do nothing in the “clutch” of the world; Furthermore…

The poem I choose to analyse in my essay is Travelling through the Dark by William Stafford. The poem presents a man under an uncomfortable natural world environment. Apparently, man versus nature is the theme of this poem, while it also mentions the modern life technology, and why it is affecting the nature world. But majorly it focuses on the theme of man and nature, which is an attractive in the views of the humanity and the nature. The poem uses a conversational style to express the theme.…

story of a naïve boy who through the futility and horror of war leads him to take his own life. The composer uses a contrasting and development of stanzas to show the change of character the soldier experiences. Sassoon creates an image of war as negative and scarring through the use of metaphors, tone, alliteration and juxtaposition. Within the first stanzas an image of a happy, young and perhaps naïve boy who ‘’grinned at life in empty joy…whistled with early lark’’ is presented, this…

his tone through the use of metaphors and symbolism. Housman's use of metaphors create a subtle irony, making dying young seem like a good thing. In his work, the metaphors are concentrated on the comparison between night, doorways, and death. In stanza four, the speaker mentions, "Eyes the shady night has shut / Cannot see the record cut" (Housman 13-14). Housman's use…

The final DD really makes the rhyme stand out and makes each stanza sound completed. When the DD comes around, the reader understands that a transition is occurring. This rhyme scheme adds an energetic tone to the poem. It discusses many positive and lovely attributes of the world and it gives the reader this feeling…

diction, and overall theme of “My Papa’s Waltz”, I found a much darker meaning to this thought provoking poem. Roethke’s choice of structure has an interesting meaning in this poem. It contains four stanzas and is written as a quatrain, four line of stanzas with a rhyme scheme. The rhyme scheme for each stanza is abab; its meter is iambic trimeter. The structure is meant to make the poem read like a waltz. The three feet are meant to mimic the one-two-three pattern in the dance. This is…

belief that life is predestined, which makes the audience question how their lives should ultimately be viewed. Repetition is a key tool that the author utilizes to emphasize the idea of having a predestined life. The first and last lines of the first stanza are constantly being repeated throughout the entire work. Roetheke says, “I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow, I learn by going where I have to go” (Roetheke 1,3). If life were predestined, then the outcome and experiences of his or…