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14 Line Sonnet Reflection By: Hunter Reynolds
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AUDRE LORDE Audre Lorde was very well known in the African American community. Her poetry was published often during the 1960?s and included in black literary magazines. She was also politically involved in anti-war and feminist movements during this time. Audre Lorde based her poetry on differences including the contrast between certain groups of women. She was against feminism and racism she felt that her writings gave African American women a voice towards the community. COPING It has rained for five days running the world is a round puddle of sunless water where small islands are only beginning to cope a young boy in my garden is bailing out water from his flower patch when I ask him why he tells me young seeds that have not seen sun forget and drown easily.
Alan Ginsberg
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Allen Ginsberg is one of the most powerful authors I?ve ever read in my life. Through his anger and his emotion, he captivates the reader and literally draws them in no matter what the peril he is describing. His myriad of prose varies from beautiful to heartbreaking creating a large genre of poems to choose from him. Ginsberg is an author who makes you feel guilty about yourself, he tends to point fingers and blame people for different problems surfacing in America. This causes a more personal connection between you and the author, no matter if you have varying views on society or not. I really enjoy Allen Ginsberg?s work and find it quite entertaining.
Oh Captain, My Captain
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O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done; The ship has weathered every rack, the prize we sought is won; The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting, While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring: But O heart! heart! heart! O the bleeding drops of red, Where on the deck my Captain lies, Fallen cold and dead. O Captain! my Captain! rise up and hear the bells; Rise up?for you the flag is flung?for you the bugle trills; For you bouquets and ribboned wreaths?for you the shores a-crowding; For you they call, the swaying mass, their eager faces turning; Here Captain! dear father! This arm beneath your head; It is some dream that on the deck, You've fallen cold and dead. My Captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still;
Glossary of Poetic Terms
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Glossary of Poetic Terms Allegory A symbolic narrative in which the surface details imply a secondary meaning. Allegory often takes the form of a story in which the characters represent moral qualities. The most famous example in English is John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, in which the name of the central character, Pilgrim, epitomizes the book's allegorical nature. Kay Boyle's story "Astronomer's Wife" and Christina Rossetti's poem "Up-Hill" both contain allegorical elements. Alliteration The repetition of consonant sounds, especially at the beginning of words. Example: "Fetched fresh, as I suppose, off some sweet wood." Hopkins, "In the Valley of the Elwy." Anapest
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The expression of an idea in such a way that more than one meaning is possible |
“Enough. Hold, or cut bowstrings.” (I,ii,7/19) |
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Repetition of a word, phrase, or clause at the beginning of word groups occurring one after the other. |
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Fork In the Road
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Katherine Marshall Dr. Dave Hirschy Composition 2 Section 10 Due 5/29/13 Brockton M-Th 8-10am Fork in the Road Robert Frost?s ?The Road Not Taken? is not really about a walk in the woods. It?s about what path he took in his life. Throughout life, we have many decisions, or ?roads? we must choose between. Whether or not we took the right one, wrong one, easier one, or harder one, is determined by us as we look back on the choices we have made, or which ?road? we chose.
Short Analysis of Sonnet 130 by William Shakespeare
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Sonnet 130 by William Shakespeare My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips' red; If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun; If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head. I have seen roses damask, red and white, But no such roses see I in her cheeks; And in some perfumes is there more delight Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks. I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound; I grant I never saw a goddess go; My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground: And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare, As any she belied with false compare. This poem is a Shakespearean sonnet with fourteen lines and a rhyme scheme of ABABCDCDEFEFGG.
How To Analyze Poetry
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Have you ever tried sitting down to analyze a poem for your English class? and instantly thought the author was talking in a foreign language? We have all been there at one point or another in our studious careers. You read the poem a thousand times yet nothing sinks in. You circle random ?literary devices?, hoping the teacher will give you credit for trying anyway. Don?t be that person anymore! Analyzing poems is actually a simple activity which can easily turn into a fun endeavor the more you practice. Just follow these straightforward steps and suggestions, which my own English teacher swears by. 1) Read that poem at least three times.
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