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Explore the isolation and resilience of the characters in W H Audens ‘Refugee Blues’? In this essay I will be analysing the poem ‘Refugee Blues’. This poem was written by W H Auden. This poem was written in the year of 1939, 1939 is the year World War 2 started. In this essay W H Auden talks about how the Jewish where in a state of isolation and had no where to go. W H Auden did an excellent job in showing how the Jewish were dehumanised. In this essay I will be exploring how the characters…

In the movie, McFarland, one of the main characters, Damacio, wrote a poem about his passion: running. His poem brought people to tears and was a powerful way to express his feelings toward his hobby. Similarly, Walt Whitman wrote the poems “O Me! O Life!” and “O Captain! My Captain!” to express how he was feeling when he wrote each poem. “O Captain! My Captain!” is an elegy written in remembrance of Abraham Lincoln. However, according to Shenandoah Literary, “O Me! O Life!” represents how…

In all three poems from Percy Shelley, he brings up that you can learn from things that you typically wouldn’t think you can learn from. He points out that you can learn from ruin cities, to wind, to even birds singing. Each of his poems has a message behind them whether it is not to be so full of yourself and stay humble or even learning from a bird that is singing a song. Throughout all of Shelley’s poems, Ozymandias, Ode to the West Wind, and To a Skylark, Shelley wants to point out that no…

In the poem “After Apple-Picking” by Robert Frost there is a complex message as most poem or works of literature do. In this specific poem there is a message of death or the thought of death and how the narrator feels about how his life was lived and when his own personal end will come. As he thinks his life was to repetitive and not as he wanted it since he is just a simple apple picker. In the pome Robert Frost mentioned “Long ...Or just human sleep” (Apple-picking 42) as the “Apple Picker”…

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge is divided among 4 sections: crime, punishment, forgiveness, and penance. In the beginning of the poem, Mariner stops three wedding guests; however, only one of them stays to listen to his story. It is a story about Mariner’s salvation journey. First, he commits a crime. Mariner’s crime is killing the innocent Albatross. Albatross is symbolize for hope and good luck. Albatross also has a strong Christian symbol: a white bird like The…

The poem “One Art” by Elizabeth Bishop effectively suggests that an individual’s experience with the loss of a beloved person may develop the feelings of sorrow and disaster which are tremendously challenging to accept and overcome. Through the use of irony and a sophisticated and convincing tone, Bishop showcases the speaker’s lack of self-confidence through her mental breakdown approaching the end of the poem. Additionally, Bishop’s use of symbolism and eloquent imagery further exaggerates the…

What Is Your Question, Prufrock? As one begins to read T. S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” one gets the sense that Prufrock is having a dramatic monologue with someone else, which is based on the beginning sentence “Let us go then, you and I” (1). There are three characteristics of a dramatic monologue, one of which is the specific individual expressing thoughts at a specific point in time. Secondly, the monologue is directed to a listener who may not be specifically addressed.…

Robert Frost was a professor, a American poet and a four time Pulitzer prize winner who is responsible for many popular works including “Nothing Gold Can Stay”, After Apple-Picking”, and “The Road Not Taken”. Frost is known for publishing many books made up of collections of poems and one of his most well-known works “The Road Not Taken”, is one of Frost’s most familiar poems. In the poem, Robert Frost looks at the choices one has in life, how one decides which choices are better, and what are…

The poem opens introducing a long and dark street. The speaker walks through the street clumsily, stumbling around due to the darkness. He hears his feet on the stones and the leaves, but also hears someone else behind him. The person behind him is doing everything the speaker is doing, but when the speaker turns around, there is no one there. The speaker can’t see or make out anything, only his footsteps. He follows the endless street around its endless corners, and says that no one…

Who am I? One of the simplest and most common questions a person asks, yet it may be the hardest question to answer. The sheer complexity of it is enough to discourage anyone from even attempting to find an answer. Despite that, many will embark on a journey to discover themselves, whether it’s a twenty-one year old recent graduate who doesn’t know what they’re doing with their life, a man in his eighties whose contemplating the life he lived, or a young girl who has been sheltered away in a…