...Poem Analysis University of Phoenix/ENG/340 Team C Poem Analysis Natural Beauty The language used in this poem is a form of apostrophe as the team addresses a landscape painting (Thiel, 2005, p. 30). The team also used synthesis in the poem, associating an image perceived by our senses with one we have perceived before (Thiel, 2005, p. 31), e.g. a visit to a beach in the summer time. Personification, human characterizes to something nonhuman, was also used “The wind rustles through the grass, adding its voice to that of the waves (Thiel, 2005, p. 30). Metaphor is also used, “the sand sparkles like diamonds”, a comparison in which something is directly described as being something else (Thiel, 2005, p. 33). The words of the poem start out with a state of mind, the word, “tranquility”. This word is powerful in the context of the work; it sets the rhythm for the rest of the poem. The remaining sentences of prose builds on the serenity associated with tranquility, letting the reader get the feel of the painting it describes. As the poem draws to a close, it goes out as it came in, simply. It starts with, “tranquility” and ends with, “captivating”, the person experiencing the painting has observed all of the sights and sounds depicted in the painting and ends up transfixed by the whole experience. William Wordsworth said that poetry is, “the spontaneous overflow of feelings” originating from, “emotion recollected in tranquility”, (Woods, 2002, p. 1). The first stanza...
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...“Where Mountain Lion Lay Down with Deer”: A Poem Analysis (1973) Leslie Marmon Silko wrote this poem, and she is known for her lyric treatment of Native American subjects. Born in 1948, Silko is of Laguna Pueblo, Mexican and Anglo-American heritage. The poem can be paraphrased with the line, “when I go out into nature, I see that Native American culture and nature itself is being forgotten and destroyed.” Silko portrays a beautiful day in nature, with vivid imagery through the entire poem to add effect and enrich the beauty of the words. Throughout the poem, words and lines such as, “silently” and “returning” are indented to show the progression of the speaker climbing up and down the mountain. It is like she is stepping back in time to a forgotten place. In the fourth line she states, “I smell the wind for my ancestors”, to portray a search for her culture that is fading away. The line “where mountain lion lay down with deer” is very significant. It shows that past or present, things coexist and change each other. Three lines stating, “It is better to stay up here watching wind’s reflection in tall yellow flowers”, follow it. This shows that she would rather be enjoying the exquisiteness of nature. The imagery makes you think of beautiful flowers, swaying in the wind. The three consecutive lines “The old ones who remember me are gone”, “the old songs are all forgotten”, “and the story of my birth”, portray that with time, things are forgotten which should be treasured...
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...“The Beauty of Nature” The poems The Tyger by William Blake and Work without hope by Samuel Coleridge seems to relate to one another. The characters of these two poems lack appreciation of the beauty of nature that is around them; whether it is because of their constant questioning or emotional issues. These two characters seem to have something that holds them back from appreciating the true beauty in life. A close analysis of The Tyger and Work without hope allows us to examine human nature and lack of appreciation for the true beauty in life. In the poem The Tyger, Blake incorporates religion and creation. He is constantly questioning God, from the beginning of his poem all the way to the last line of his poem. “What immortal hand or eye could frame thy fearful symmetry?” (p.498) this quote by far is the most significant line in this poem. He not only uses it in the first stanza, but he also ends his poem with this quote. A tiger is referred to as being evil. Readers of this poem should be aware that the word symmetry means the quality of being made up of similar parts. If the tiger is evil and is made up of similar parts of its creator, does that mean God is both evil and good? Blake leaves his readers to question whether or not God is truly pure. “And what shoulder, & what art, could twist the sinews of thy heart?” (p.499) Due to this quote, there is no doubt that Blake leaves his reader to ultimately question the establishment of a higher power. He cannot fathom how...
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...Poem Analysis In the poem “ Dulce Et Decorum Est” by Wilfred Owen illustrated many form of suffering that could be found World War I. It is easily understood since, World War I involved a tragic war situation and the poem also has a very exclusive sound to it. A lot of supreme use of imagery, metaphors, and diction, he clearly shows that war is terrible and horrific. The poem takes place on a cold day outside. The poem is telling you about the hard ships that the soldiers went through. The poet is displaying the pain into the readers face. The pain of this piece is the main ingredient. This is something that poet saw and experienced which created serious atmosphere for the poem. The truth involved in it is what makes the poem so powerful. It is written truthfully and from the heart using numerous metaphors and similes as well as other poetical delivery and methods. The tone of the poem seems to be very agile and harsh. A metaphor is the comparison of two unlike things (Oed). The first metaphor can be found in the first line, "Bent double, like old beggars under sacks"(line 1). Beggars on the street that slouch under sacks are usually curled up and are bent or crooked. This metaphor is comparing the soldier to the beggars and reveals that the soldiers are two times as crooked and bent as the beggars because they are really tired. The next metaphor is "coughing like hags"(line 2)....
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...The Sentry CEL Key Words Set in the trenches of the First World War, Wilfred Owen’s powerful war poem, ‘The Sentry’ tells of the poet’s horrific experience during an offensive into an enemy trench. The poet paints a vivid picture of this horrible situation, and Owen’s skilful use of poetic techniques such as onomatopoeia and alliteration underlines his message that there is nothing glorious, or noble, about war. Owen is obviously scarred by the experience, and the purpose of the poem is to remind the younger generations of the tremendous, sordid suffering the men endured. During an enemy attack. Owen and his fellow solders are caught in an enemy trench, attempting to shield themselves from German explosions. Shells are raining down on the trench, and eventually, after one of the explosions, a sentry is thrown back into the trench, blinded by the force of the blast. Too busy at the time to do more than briefly examine the sentry, Owen finds that later he cannot rid his mind of the horrific images of the suffering of the soldiers. Owen vividly describes his experience using a variety of poetic techniques. For example,the devastating noise and conditions of war are reinforced by the use of onomatopoeia. Owen regularly refers to “whiz-bangs”, which are light shells. He uses the term mainly to demonstrate the noise of the shell squealing through the air, before eventually exploding. Owen also speaks of shells which, “Hammered on top.” This indicates the relentless...
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...1590’s, to the fashion for sonnets, he moved closer to the cultural and literary dominance of the court’s taste—to the fashionable modes of Ovid, Petrarch, and Neoplatonism—and to the need for patronage. Although the power of the sonnets goes far beyond their sociocultural roots, Shakespeare nevertheless adopts the culturally inferior role of the petitioner for favor, and there is an undercurrent of social and economic powerlessness in the sonnets, especially when a rival poet seems likely to supplant the poet. In short, Shakespeare’s nondramatic poems grow out of and articulate the strains of the 1590’s, when, like many ambitious writers and intellectuals on the fringe of the court, Shakespeare clearly needed to find a language in which to speak—and that was, necessarily, given to him by the court. What he achieved within this shared framework, however, goes far beyond any other collection of poems in the age. Shakespeare’s occasional poems are unquestionably minor, interesting primarily because he wrote them; his sonnets, on the other hand, constitute perhaps the language’s greatest collection of lyrics. They are love lyrics, and...
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...“To Autumn” It has been postulated that John Keats composed his poem, “To Autumn” after a stroll he had on an autumnal evening near the town of Winchester in Hampshire England. This poem is an ode in which Keats adeptly uses formal language, highly vivid and effective images along with the use of personification to describe three different aspects of autumn: its fruitfulness, its labour and its ultimate decline. Undoubtedly, Keats poem, “To Autumn” is a subtle and sophisticated one. Evidently, the title of the poem is different from that of other odes. Normally, an ode’s title begins with, “Ode to…” which provides a hint to certain characteristics of an ode; that is, being dignified and serious. However, the title of Keats, “To Autumn” suggests a less formal form of poetry and hints at intimacy. The level of intimacy is evident especially in the first stanza of the poem in which the sun and autumn is seen conspiring to bring about fruitfulness. Additionally, on the surface the poem seems like a mere description of the main characteristics of autumn’s human and animal activities, but can be interpreted as much more than that. Keats “To Autumn” consists of three stanzas corresponding to the classical divisions of strophe, antistrophe and epode. Each of the stanzas has eleven lines with variable rhyme scheme. The first stanza has a pattern of ABABCDEDCCE, while the second and third stanzas have a pattern of, ABABCDECDDE. However, there is uniformity in the first four lines of...
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...start as my development as a writer. I have found out the process of writing a poem is not straightforward, but it is engaging. By examining published contemporary poems, such as “The Clan” and “Spitting Image” in class, I have a better understanding about genre conventions of contemporary poems. It also allows me to apply these techniques in my own poetry writing. I used figurative languages in my first line “The clouds are like cotton”, which is similar with “my mother like a small bird” that Kara Van de Graaf has written in her poem “Spitting Image”. The use of a simile not only could give the reader a better understanding of an object or a point of view, but also could make the poem more interesting and engaging. It helps to grab the reader’s interest and allows them to paint a picture in their minds. These are the reasons why I used a simile in my poem. Another genre convention that my poem has in common with “Spitting Image” is that there are both enjambments used. For example, I wrote “The crocuses on the ground / twinkle in the wind.” and “There is another rainbow / fade away into diaphanous satin,” as enjambments which enable to establish a sense of urgency by propelling the audience forward through the poem. Furthermore, the using of enjambments also creates a fast rhythm for my poem. Additionally, I also applied auditory, olfactory and tactile images as another genre convention in my poem. The lines “The skylarks cheep and sing / echo along sweet and tangerine blooms...
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...experiences can all result in having undertaken a journey. Shaun Tan and Robert Frost have each explored these ideas in their texts The Arrival and The Road Not Taken. In Robert Frost’s poem The Road Not Taken, Frost conveys his perspective on the journey through the use of a variety of language techniques. Journeys involve choices, which can slightly or significantly alter the paths we take in life as the poem consists of two roads which metaphorically represent choices. “ Two roads diverged ... and that has made all the difference” demonstrates how the author has learned to take responsibility for the choices he has made in life and is content that choices make who we are. Robert Frost uses several techniques such as metaphors, repetition and symbolism. Repetition displays the character’s frustration towards making choices and symbolism shows the unseeable end to this path being taken. The main technique used is metaphor as the whole poem represents the journey of life and the choices that are a part of it. The journeys in life we take can lead to choices that change our life forever. Throughout a journey an individual must make a variety of choices. The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost clearly shows the composer’s thoughts on making choices throughout a journey. In the first stanza of the poem it says, “ Two roads diverged in a Yellow wood”. Frost has made use of a metaphor to convey that there are multiple paths which can be chosen in life. Colour symbolism is also used to...
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...The Schoolboy – Close critical analysis “The Schoolboy” is a poem about how education systems hinder youths from behaving naturally. For example, in this poem, the boy “love(s) to rise in a summer morn, When the birds sing on every tree”. However, he has “to go to school in a summer morn” and this “drives all (his) joy away”. Hence, from here we can see that societal norms destroy the innocence of youth as they repress their souls with so-called education. By doing so, the author is telling us to spend our time doing things that we enjoy doing instead, as the sole purpose in life is to have “joy”. The poem is written in six stanzas with five lines in each stanza and has a rhyme scheme of ABABB. The number of syllables in each line also varies throughout the poem with some having six syllables and others having eight, nine or even ten syllables. However, the last line of each stanza is always shorter than all the other lines in its stanza. Thus, further emphasising on the message that life is short and that we should do things that brings us happiness and not simply conform to the conventional ways of society. There are also two transitions in the poem with the first one happening between the first and second stanza and the second transition happening between the third and fourth stanza. The first transition serves as a result from the change of mood that the persona has when he first woke up to a very pleasant day where “the skylark sings with” him to “sighing in dismay” where...
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...Analysis of Emily Dickinson’s Poem, “There’s a Certain Slant of Light” In Emily Dickinson’s poem, “There’s a Certain Slant of Light”, the speaker portrays “the slant of light” negatively, suggesting the light is loneliness, sorrow and despair that causes depression (Line 1). I will argue my point by showing how Dickinson uses literary devices to illuminate how depression is the potential demise of the soul. Imagery Dickinson uses imagery sets the stage for loneliness, despair and depression by writing, “There’s a Certain Slant of Light- Winter Afternoons” (Line 1). Here, the speaker asserts that the image of winter’s late afternoon is gloomy, cold, and dark suggesting loneliness. The speaker also asserts that the image of the light is nothing more that depression creeping in, similar to the way late afternoon light does then all of a sudden “it“ is dark like death. The nest 2 lines “That oppresses like the Heft of Cathedral Tunes” further suggests that the light causes a sorrow or heaviness that oppresses the soul like the drudgery of pipe organ music can (Lines3-4). Paradox Dickinson uses a paradox when she writes,”Heavenly hurt it gives us” (Line 5). The use of the world heavenly would make one think initially of peace. When the world hurt is used after it, the likely explanation becomes clearer. The speaker suggests the slant of light which Dickinson throughout the poem refers to as “it”; hurts more than one can fathom. The next three lines back this theory...
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...All DocsEdit Poem analysis #2 Corbin Casmey Poem response #2 “Blackberries for Amelia” by Richard Wilbur In the story, “Blackberries for Amelia”, the first stanza describes the blueberry bushes and how they grow in abundance. The second stanza is similar in the way it describes the blueberry bushes, but it describes for what the bushes look like; flowers, small and chalky white, some deep within the bushes and others covering the outside, some close and others far. The third stanza is where it starts to create depth. The first part of the stanza says, “As the far stars, of which we now are told that even faster do they bolt away” is talking about summer nights, and time in general, and how fast it goes. The second part says, “We shall have only blackness to behold” which essentially states that the speaker believes there isn’t much time left for him/her. The fourth stanza, is basically saying that although the speaker does not have a lot of time left, he/she will be there to see August and the blueberries arrive. Finally, the last stanza describes the speaker and the grandchild, most likely Amelia, going out and picking the blueberries together. I personally liked this poem and the simplistic story it told. In my opinion it was about the simple things. The speaker talked about the blueberry bushes and flowers is such intimate detail. He then described death in such a peaceful way as he had no fear of it. Then he speaks of how he has August to look forward...
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...Literature Through Time Literature depicts the morals of time it shift and morphs into less power in the divine and more faith in man. Stories began being written by monks and the clergy which in time turned into regular men with stores that focused on more secular matters. English literature fills up the gap between wars, between societal change, you can see time progressing, you can see our values and morals changing, you can see history passing by. In the beginning there was Bede, a philosopher, speaker of many languages, a man who looked around him and saw a world in peril that only God could save, a man full of faith. Time passes and we see Shakespeare, a genius, a man with a queen, a man who rallied against the common, Shakespeare was a man with deep loves and a strong voice. “The Story of Caedmon”, was written during a time when Christian religious dogma was primarily hagiography, “the telling of the life of virtuous men and women that represents what it means to be a good Christian.” These stories are used as a form of reflections on one’s life as to make it better in the future. Religious dogma needed to be made more accessible to the congregation which was widely illiterate, so the stories were written with easy points and then acted out so that the congregation would not only be awake and attentive, but so that these stories of morality and faith would really sink in. “Caedmon” is probably the earliest extant of Old English poetry, Bede tells about Caedmon, an...
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...Alicia Campbell English 101 9/9/14 Essay #2 Consumption The poem " Consumption" was written in these modern times within the past 5 years, so the influences of this work are apparent throughout the stanzas. The different emotions that stem from the basic human feelings was the catalyst for this writing. The author touch on five main emotions that are all too common in the present times. The world so wrapped up in social media, I feel I played a significant role. This poem seems more seeded in the darkness of the current society that we as people hate and love. Although we hate that, we love it and love to hate it. Okay so let's get started. I feel it appropriate to start with the least of the emotons. A waning force that's becoming more scarce...
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...segmentation algorithms for dermatological images or photographs use color information, either in a single channel or across three color channels, to find the lesion. Another approach to find skin lesions is to incorporate textural information, because normal skin and lesion areas have different textures. Textures include smoothness, roughness, or the presence of ridges, bumps or other deformations and are visible by variation in pixel intensities in an area. Features and measurements of a texture in an image are extracted and textures from different regions are compared. Stoecker[4] analyzed texture in skin images using basic statistical, such as the gray-level cooccurrence matrix. They found that texture analysis could accurately find regions with a smooth texture and that texture analysis is applicable to segmentation and classification of dermatological images. In this paper, we propose a segmentation algorithm based on texture distinctiveness (TD) to locate skin lesions in photographs . This novel skin lesion segmentation algorithm is designed to be used for images taken by a digital camera. The segmentation algorithm uses a set of learned texture distributions and their texture distinctiveness metric (TD metric). The representative texture distributions used to identify pixels that belong to the lesion and skin classes and to find the border of the skin lesion. The proposed segmentation algorithm is referred to as the Texture Distinctiveness Lesion Segmentation (TDLS)...
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