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Poetry Report Mandalay by Rudyard Kipling
... soldier fell in love with Burma and a native girl. This poem has many powerful words. In the first stanza Kipling is talking a peaceful place, where he can look lazily at the sea. The soldier seems a little egotistic. He thinks this Burma girl is thinking ...
Analysis of Spring offensive, by wilfred owens, with respect to how it demonstrates the theme that war is useless
... Wilfred Owens focuses on the uselessness for war. There is a striking contrast between the first and last few stanzas, as in the beginning all is calm, slow and pleasant. From the 5th stanza onwards, there is a sudden change from the serene environment ...
The Return Home
... London as a peaceful, calm, almost heavenly environment. Wordsworth's sonnet, " London, 1802 ", focuses on London's digressive condition upon his return from Paris. In the octave, he calls out to John Milton ...
"hawk Roosting" Analysis
... stanza the hawk says that "The sun is behind [it]" (Hughes 348). We can therefore deduce that the sun is behind him for real but it can also mean that the sun is with him, that the sun approves what the hawk does and thinks ... Poetry ... poem is a very good poem ...
On My First Sonne and Mid-Term Break
... stanza, we discover that the poem is about a funeral. In the third stanza ... poetrie'. At first it appears that the author is talking about poetry, but looking closer and finding the true meaning. His 'best piece of poetrie ... thinking about the funeral at the moment. He is thinking ... instead of my dead ...
Similarities and differences between the poetry of William Wordsworth and John Keats, as outstanding representatives of the two generations of English Romantic poets
... death with Romantic serenity, the contemplation has led him to accept death in its imminence and reality ; in the poem he has turned to the hope of a fair and gentle passing. When he died Keats gave promise of becoming the greatest poet ...
"Futility" Wilfred Owen
... contrast with the hopefulness of new life in the 'fields half-sown' of the soldier's former life. The poem starts positively, with the hope that the move into the sun might be reviving for the soldier. Owen juxtaposes the tranquillity ...
The Use of Language in the Work of Seamus Heaney
... poet is attempting to portray to the reader. This is seen in much of Seamus Heaney's poetry, particularly in 'Death of a Naturalist' and 'Blackberry Picking', where Heaney's prolific use of figurative language communicates, and enhances, the meaning of the poems ...
Robert Browning's - Porphyria's Lover - Browning's dramatic monologue successfully captures the essence of a damaged and obsessive personality. Do you agree?
... thinks is natural to what the responder may see as natural which shows how out of touch he really is. The alliteration in the line "Blush'd bright beneath my ... entirely himself is the use of third person. As the rest of the poem is written in first person a line written in third person such as "when ...
"The Eagle" by Tennyson, Lord Alfred - Explication
... Poetry for Students). Line 2 of the poem uses the phrase "close to the sun." Physically speaking, the eagle is nowhere near the sun. In fact, the sun ... stanza ...