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even admitting to have done something wrong, even though the poem does not reveal the precise misconduct, it nonetheless discloses an act of apologizing in line 12 therefore we assume the writer was wrong, “….even after apologizing immensely”. In stanza 4 the writer uses paradox, “So here I am alive, yet dead inside” (line 13) to reveal the depth of her suffering. Here the writer juxtaposes life and death to emphasize the impact of her suffering caused by the break up; for something that was…

fascination and inspiration evoked by the juggler’s performance. Imagery was proven to be one of the most prominent poetic elements within the poem, emphasizing its importance in the revelation of the speaker’s change. At the beginning of the poem, in stanzas one and two, the imagery was much different from the rest of the poem. The imagery appeared to be much weaker, and did not excite the reader as much as it had later in the poem. Wilbur used examples of imagery to set a very mellow tone,…

The poem “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost contains four stanzas of five lines. Each stanza has a rhyme scheme of ABAAB. The poem begins by saying the problem and setting that a traveler comes to a fork in the road during the fall. Frost shows the reader that the season is fall by the color of the trees’ leaves, “yellow wood.” In the first two stanzas, Frost takes the role of the traveler and begins to explain both paths. One path being full of nature and beautiful while the other looking…

Louis” Amy Lowell describes two places that are of significance to her. The poem sets up a contrast between two places: St. Louis (first stanza) and the speaker’s home. The striking difference, our attention turn to, is in the landscape. She sets up the contrast between flat and a hilly terrain. St. Louis is not her home, and she says so in the second stanza, “But it is not mine”. St. Louis is flat. By repeating flat and calling it a long sight we can tell that it was a monotonous sight. She…

math problems in her head to analyze her height to the diving board and the amount of water in the pool as mentioned in this stanza, “they’ll plunge in the deep end, she’ll subtract her height from ten feet, divide it into hundreds of gallons of water.” As the girl gets out of the pool, she knows that the girl is looking at the boys and recognizing their appeal as in this stanza, “she will see their eyes, two each, their legs, two each, and the curves of their sexes, one each.” By the speaker…

Emily Dickinson is well known for her unusual poems, however during her life she wasn’t famous till after she passed away when her family started to find 1000’s of her poems stuff in tiny spaces all around the house. Dickinson’s writing wasn’t well understood during her time, she had a uniqueness that was ahead of her time; she had an amazing use of symbols, capitalism, themes and tones in her writing which make reading her poems so intriguing. While growing up she wasn’t the average women, she…

Poetry is special for some people because it brings out their vulnerability and emotions. A poem is usually filled with certain thoughts and feelings dreams that come from one’s heart. Each poem will have a different meaning to each person, but their message is left to the reader's own interpretation. In poems, there are philosophical snapshots that are poet captured to showcase life, love, experiences, and lessons that help view the world in which we live. Many of these philosophical snapshots…

behind London, England’s structured and genteel exterior. Repetition is a strong presence within the poem, and undoubtedly draws attention to most of the main ideas the speaker attempts to convey. When reading the first two stanzas, the expectation is that the last two stanzas will follow the same structure – a cycle of the same misery-inducing words coupled with new characters and locations. The repetition is effectively used to imply the importance of the chosen diction, such as the two uses…

herself back together in the earlier stanzas of the poem, rather than another individual trying to piece the girl together. It is also slightly confusing why another individual - the very one who broke her - is trying now to piece her back together like ‘broken glass’. I recommend being more clear in communicating whichever idea you choose to go with by making sure that the idea is being conveyed in all of the stanzas of the poem, rather than only in the latter stanzas of the poem, in order to…

In “The Lonely Land”, A.J.M Smith says “This is a beauty/of dissonance,/this resonance” (23-25). By this quote, he means that even though the land is not perfect, there is something to be found under imperfection such as something beautiful. Dumont repeats, “this land is not” three times throughout the poem to make sure the readers understand that the land is not to be taken advantage of. In both of the poems, the land is more than just a place to live. “Not Just a Platform for My Dance”…