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The poem that I have studied is ''Dulce Et Decorum Est'' by Wilfred Owen. The poet is trying to depict the reality. of war through this poem. The poem begins with a description of a group of soldiers retreating from the front lines of the battlefield. They are exhausted and are,''Bent double like old beggars under sacks ''. The poet used a simile to convey the ragged wretched state of the soldiers. They are''Coughing like hags''. The once clean, strong, handsome, young men are being compared to…

When comparing and looking at the two poems “Graded Paper” by Mark Halliday and “Learning to Read” by Frances E. W. Harper, you can see that the two are different in many ways. They are two poems from two very distinct time periods. The diverse elements and styles that are used in these poems make them unique in their own way. But, while they have different forms, subjects, word choices, and themes, their overall tones, while not exactly the same throughout the poems, can be seen as similar in a…

the author in provoking his idea with clarity. Firstly, the entire poem is an extended metaphor symbolizing the importance of one’s decisions. The use of metaphors assists in clarifying the process of decision making. In stanza 1- 4, Frost compares the process of…

can be categorized by the patterns of its lines, meter, rhymes and stanzas. The Sestina is also considered a “fixed form”, like the Villanelle, but a little more challenging than the Villanelle and also does not rhyme. Examples of the villanelle and sestina forms are Dylan Thomas’ “Do not go gentle into that good night” and Elizabeth Bishop’s “Sestina”. Dylan Thomas’ “Do not go gentle into that good night” consists of six stanzas,…

feelings and thoughts because it is not possible to predict how productive someone can be; perhaps, they can do remarkable things if they were allowed to. The speaker might be a black slave due to the description given on the first verse of the second stanza “I am the darker brother”, and his tone is bright, optimistic, cheerful and confident. In addition, the poem seems to reflect the end of oppression period because the speaker emphasizes the fact that the reality will change very soon, so it…

bird and falling into the depressing thoughts of him being alone and the questioning of what happen in the afterlife. The bird from the story helped create an image of his questioning and consistent thought towards his lover Leonor. In the seventh stanza the character meets the raven for the first time. “Open here I flung the shutter, when, with many a flirt and flutter, In there stepped a stately Raven of the saintly days of yore; Not the least obeisance made he; not a minute stopped or…

The final stanza draws down from the compression and peak feeling of the previous stanza, keeping the sense of the old woman’s liveliness, however in the kinaesthetic verbs “drawing,”, “opening.” “grow”, “puts on,” “arranges” and “places.” The juxtaposition of the actual and active of the first line and the abstract “years,” or “time” as a burden and measurable, maintains blood-heat for the poem while the placing of opposites : “Grow less and less” quickens the pulse a little, as the reader…

like a river. There are two different alliterations in the traditional poem. In the first stanza, the words light, latticework, like, and leaf have the same “L” sound that is being repeated. In the second stanza, the words cicada, sends, sawing, and song have the same “S” sounds in them. There is no alliteration in the free verse poem and there is one long stanza while the traditional poem has many short stanzas.…

It looks just like snail sticking to the nibung. In this stanza, the use of identical rhyme is obviously seen in every last line. The sound effect emerged gives an oceanic tones impression. Further, this stanza also leaves a sense that ‘pancang nibung’ is humans’ spirit to keep struggling the life. Gusto is a foundation which controls human movement. If the foundation is strong enough…

A-B-C-B rhyme scheme in the second stanza and continues it within the third and fourth stanzas. Something to notice is that this distinct rhyme scheme is not maintained throughout the final stanza, nor is it introduced in the first stanza. If the pattern had been placed in the unconventional stanzas, the second line should rhyme with the fourth line, but this is not the case as “fro” (2) does not rhyme with “through” (4). This exception is also applicable to the fifth stanza, as Dickinson ended…