...The poem, “They Flee From Me”, by Thomas Wyatt, concerns a man and his tenuous relationship with not only women, but a special woman in particular. Wyatt compares the man’s efforts to seduce women to animal imagery, more specifically imagery of a deer. In order to establish this metaphor, Wyatt associates the behaviors of a deer to the actions of a woman. In the opening of the poem, the speaker remarks how the women flee from him, but at one time they did in fact seek him. In the man’s bedroom, the woman, whose feet were naked, would stalk around the room, indicating the intimate nature of their encounters. The speaker of the poem notes that he has seen the women gentle, tame and meek, at times. Despite this, the women are now wild and...
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...Essential Information G, Jordon. "You Fit Into Me by Margaret Atwood." PoemHunter.Com - Thousands of Poems and Poets. Poetry Search Engine. 20 June 2006. Web. 24 Mar. 2011. <http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/you-fit-into-me/>. Content Summary “You fit into me” may be perceived as very brief, but the four lines have such a deeper meaning and can be interpreted in numerous ways depending on how you view things. Overall, you fit into is about a relationship between a women and a men. Throughout the poem the speaker is describing her experiences in this relationship. Her relationship can be viewed from either a negative or a positive perspective. The first two lines “you fit into me like a fish hook” can be interpreted of a wonderful relationship that the speaker feels that her and her lover are compatible for each other. On the other hand, from a negative stand point a fish hook can be looked as a sharp and unpleasant object. It can also be about a relationship that was once perfect but feeling as if you can’t live without the person. Another theory that can be supported is that the speaker in the poem is in an abusive relationship and the pain she goes through, but yet she seems to still believe that the relationship is going well, because she’s holding on to the past and what was once good and hurts her not to be with her lover. Response to essay I consider both theories support that the poem is about a relationship that has once been perfect between a...
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...Poetry could help me deal with those meaningful concerns in many ways, whether directly or indirectly, since I believe that the aim of poetry is to expose crucial circumstances in one’s life through writing. Having a good understanding and perception of what the poet is saying in his poem can help me relate the poem to my life or circumstances. Furthermore, finding the poem directly related to my situation at the time was imperative in helping me answer those meaningful concerns bothering me. Additionally, translating the poem the way that I perceive it would help me uncover minor details that could be missing; likewise creating my version of the poem can easily help me relate it to what concerns I may have in my life. Looking at the title...
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...Rizal’s Writings El Filibusterismo by Jose Rizal El Filibusterismo is the second novel written by Doctor Jose Rizal and is a sequel Noli me Tangere. El Filibusterismo means “Reign of Greed” in English. Noli Me Tangere Noli Me Tangere is a Latin word which means “Touch Me Not”. Rizal described in details the sufferings of his countrymen under the Spaniards in this novel. To Josephine Rizal wrote this poem for Josephine Bracken, an Irish woman who went to Dapitan to have her father George Taufer treated for an eye problem. To the Philippine Youth At the age of eighteen years of age, Rizal won first prize for his poem “To the Philippine Youth” in 1879. Our Mother Tongue “Our Mother Tongue” is a poem originally in Tagalog written by Rizal when he was just eight years old. Mi Ultimo Adiós (Original Version) Here is the original Spanish text of My Last Farewell penned by Rizal during his last hours on December 29, 1896. My Last Farewell or Mi Ultimo Adios was the last poem written by Jose Rizal but his friend, Mariano Ponce, was the one who gave the title to this poem. To the Flowers of Heidelberg Jose Rizal wrote “To the Flowers of Heidelberg” on April 24, 1886 while he was in Germany and felt a deep longing for his family and his country. Memories of My Town In “Memories of My Town”, Jose Rizal spoke of his childhood days in Calamba, Laguna recalling his happiest memories of the place and the people. My Retreat Jose Rizal describes...
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...The tone of both poems are very similar, In Still I Rise, one can picture Mya Angelou standing tall, chest poked out, and head hung hide reciting each line clearly and powerful. The entire poem shows a person’s empowerment and self-worth. Angelou shows her confidence in the line, “Does my sassiness upset you? Why are you beset with gloom? Cause I walk like I’ve got oil wells pumping in my living room.” Brooks is also a woman who is very proud of her roots and heritage. However the tones are different. Angelou’s tone is of a person who is confident and triumphed. A person who knows exactly who she is and has no problem with letting the entire world knows. In Brooks’ poem she is trying to instill confidence into someone. The poem reminds me of someone’s grandmother talking to a person who is kind of lost in this world and is not completely sure of their selves. In the stanza “I could not have told you then that some sun would come, somewhere over the road, would come evoking the diamonds of you, the Black continent-- somewhere over the road. You would not have believed my mouth.” Both poems are very unique. In Still I Rise Angelou uses a unique rhyme scheme. She starts out with a line that that does not rhyme with anything, but line two and four always rhymes. An example of that would be “you may shoot me with your words, you may cut with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, But still, like air, I’ll.” There isn’t any rhyme scheme in the poem “to the Diaspora”...
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...always push me to read more and always do well on my writing assignments and review them over and over again so they would be the best of my ability. Back then I never really understood why they would make me do all of this, but now that I am a bit older and understand how important these traits are, I understand why they did this. I’ll never forget my English teacher my junior year of high school, Mr. Stanizzi. He was the most inspirational teacher I have ever had in my life. He genuinely loved his job and made English class fun, and fascinating. By this time I thought for sure that no teacher was ever going to change my opinion on writing, but he proved me wrong. There was something he did while teaching and analyzing poems that really struck my interest. Every week we would have a period just focusing on either writing our own poems or analyzing them. There was one particular poem that I was extremely proud of and showed Stanizzi the poem. He was shocked that I wrote such a good poem. He liked my poem so much he read it to the class for an example and he still reads it to his classes to this day. At this moment I realized that I actually enjoyed writing poems and that people actually enjoyed reading them. Since then I have genuinely enjoyed reading, analyzing and writing poems. Before this I looked at doing all of this as almost a chore, or a punishment of some sort but now that this has happened I have a completely different perspective on poems and how much...
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...MORPHOLOGICAL AND ON THE SYNTACTIC LEVEL 5 9 6 SEMANTIC STRUCTURE 10 CONCLUSION 8 11 BIBLIOGRAPHY 9 12 WEBLIOGRAPHY 9 II © swopdoc.com Document uploaded/downloaded by Lala Seyfullayeva lalicka-22@hotmail.com at 21:07 CEST on Monday May 4th 2015. © Copyright protected material from swopdoc.com - Propagation or publication is prohibited by law 1 Prayer before Birth I am not yet born; O hear me. Let not the bloodsucking bat or the rat or the stoat or the club-footed ghoul come near me. I am not yet born, console me. I fear that the human race may with tall walls wall me, with strong drugs dope me, with wise lies lure me, on black racks rack me, in blood-baths roll me. I am not yet born; provide me With water to dandle me, grass to grow for me, trees to talk to me, sky to sing to me, birds and a white light in the back of my mind to guide me. I am not yet born; forgive me For the sins that in me the world shall commit, my words when they speak to me, my thoughts when they think me, my...
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...people who have otherwise found themselves together by chance. It is described as the most natural, emotional feeling because it is outcome of love due to family ties. Fatefully, it is the strong point what makes it the most defenseless. The affection is “built-in” and as a consequence people expect it. Prologue This poetry anthology is a collection of poems, which shows the people's view of love. As I am a hopeless romantic, I chose this topic. I think the journey that life takes us all on is one filled with many adventures. I believe to truly live life to the fullest would be to love. If a person can say that he or she has never truly been loved or loved someone then he or she has never really lived. The feeling of love is so euphoric. The closeness and love that a truly spiritual person has for God or any other religion is a “gift-love”. The love a mother feels for her child is a “need-love”. There are other types of love: Affection, Friendship, Romantic, and Unconditional. I wanted to bring together poems that would reflect all types of love. I rearranged those poems the poems by the type of love it is a reflection of. I...
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...reputation and image as one of the greatest, but also one of the most eccentric poets of all time. The reader gains great insight into her imagination through the medium of her poetry. She conveys moments of utter elation in poems such as “I taste a liquor never brewed to profound experiences of utter despair and depression in poems such as “I felt a funeral in My Brain”. What distinguishes her the most for me is her gift for figurative language, imagery, metaphors and similes. She had the ability to immerse herself in English literature and produce beautiful, ravishing and beauteous material through the medium of aesthetic language. Her archetypal flood subject was immortality and she often wrote about death. For me, the most thought provoking evocation of immortality and death, is her poem “I felt a Funeral in my Brain”. Dickinson’s poems on the Hereafter are probably among her best known. She was clearly deeply interested in the process of dying, and returned to it again and again in her writing. In this poem, the poet seems to have died sometime in the past and is now looking back or reliving the experience. “I felt a Funeral in my Brain and Mourners to and fro, Kept treading-treading - till it seemed that Sense was breaking through” The poem parallels and is inspired by an actual funeral service. This inspiration is evoked by the most striking aspect cohering with Dickenson’s original approach to poetry; style of writing. Economy of expression. There is a certain...
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...Assignment 1: After reading all of the poems to myself and in different ways when I’m reading “We Real Cool” I feel like a thug siting on the street corner talking to the other kids around the area. Making it feel like those kids are expected to follow in the story tellers footsteps. This poem reads with more of an arrogant tone and seems to try and make themselves feel more important or cool in the tone they read the poem. I also think this poem could be read to people who are possibly even in jail, or in a support group for something, like a way to express that making trouble, skipping school, causing problems and drinking isn’t worth it in the long run. “Here a Pretty Baby Lies” is such a sad poem and I can see this read more as a lullaby to children. As almost all lullabies are, they are generally about something sad like “Ring Around the Rosy”. The seems to start as parents singing a lullaby to their baby, by the end of the poem you can tell that the baby is not alive and that he or she is now buried in the ground. This might not mean an infant or toddler, this poem could even relate to a 50 year old dying and the parents singing lullabies to them as well. Just because they may be older does not mean that they are still not their ‘babies’. Everyone deals with sadness and upset in a different way and the parents in this poem are able to cope with the loose of their baby by singing lullabies. “Daffodils” seems to me like it could be a children’s book. It could be read...
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...This poem as well as the author has left me in a confused state of mind. I enjoyed the poem, but I didn’t really comprehend it as well as some of his other work. I was rushed and confused when I picked this poem, I definitely feel like I picked a horrible poem for this particular assignment. It had its ups and downs, Henley is a fantastic writer, and I just feel as if I picked a poem that was way too short. The strengths of this poem was that, he expressed himself in a way where he felt completely relaxed, Henley has actually been through so much, ever since he was young he was diagnosed with a terrible disease that led him to the hospital for many years, his daughter, unfortunately had the same thing and passed away, with a mind so wise,...
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...The piece I’m Still Here is a great piece for many different reasons. One reason it is a great poem is because it has a good flow to it. In the poem there is many different example of rhyming. Goodbye and cry, sad and had, seek and speak, you and through, and hear and near are the different rhymes in the poem. Another reason I like this poem is because it is very well written piece showing someone’s belief of what happens when you die. This poem makes me wonder what will happen when you die and is there really spirits that follow you and listen to you? This poem also has a great theme of “death is not the last goodbye.” The poem shows a strong tone of determination and hopefulness. Determination and hopefulness are the tones because the author...
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...Making a Fist In Naomi Shihab Nye’s poem “Making a Fist”, she looks back on her childhood memories and her obstacles in life. She asks her mom how you know when you are going to die, and her mom says when you can’t make a fist anymore. Later in life, she continues to make a fist just as a reminder that everything is okay. In the poem, Naomi uses figurative language, different points of view, and an interesting title all to tie in the story. The speaker in this poem is a woman reflecting back on her life when she was seven, and reminiscing the moment. The poem starts off in the perspective of a seven year old girl in the back seat of her mom’s car, when she discovers that you are dying when you can no longer make a fist. The poem continues on and develops to be in the perspective of the same girl, but much older. She reflects on the times when things were much simpler. The woman has matured, and to that day she remembers what her mom told her. When she says, “I, who did not die, who am still living,” she is saying that she has overcome obstacles since she was young, and that she will continue to overcome them. I think that the girl in this story is Naomi, the author of the poem. I think this because Naomi is such a personal writer, and the way she is with words just makes it seem so realistic. I think that the only way she could get across such an amazing message is that if it happened to her. Although, this message that she is getting across can be perceived in many different...
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...they are less exposed to illness. However, he did not raise the Bronte children alone, he had the help of his wife’s sister, Elizabeth Branwell. Anne was very close to her siblings because they had little contact with the outside world, and together they went through many joyful moments. Anne and sister Emily had a strong bond and she influenced Anne’s writing because they wrote poems together. The Bronte sisters used poetry to express their feelings and thoughts. Within Anne’s poems “Farewell”, “A Hymn”, “My God! O Let Me Call Thee Mine”, “Weep not much”, and “In Memory of a Happy Day in February”, the reader can identify aspects of Anne’s radical character. Anne’s poems are considered controversial for the time period in which they were written because she talked about divorce and questioned God. People today can identify with her poems because today’s readers are more accustomed to the ideas portrayed through Anne’s writing. Everyone who endures life has the misfortune of experiencing death through the loss of a loved one and even though we deal with it in different ways we all feel pain. Anne’s poems were unusual to her time period because women were not supposed to have such radical opinions; however, it is logical that she...
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...Compare how voices are used in ‘Singh song’ and ‘check out me history’ ‘Singh Song’ and ‘Checking out me history’ are poem which explore cultural identity. In ‘Singh song’ a shopkeeper has recently married. He discusses how he would rather spend time with his wife rather than working. Throughout the poem we hear the voices of the discontented customers and his wife. In ‘Check out me history’ the poet tells the history of people that hasn’t been told. He feels excluded because his heritage has been discounted. Elements of oral communication in the poem, such as chanting and strong rhymes, emphasise how important voice and dialect are to a person who is learning about their cultural identity. In these poem both narrators are expressing their thoughts and feelings, therefore they’re written in free verse without any restrictions of rhyme. In ‘Singh Song’ shows that everyone in the poem is able to express all their feelings, particularly his wife who uses derogatory language towards his parents “making fun at my daddy” and “effing at my mum”. In contrast, in “Check out me history” uses a strict rhyming scheme of quatrains. This is used to reflect the confinements of the education system which adds the frustration of the narrator. The use of quatrains also make the poem sound like a nursery rhyme, as a result The language of the narrators reflects the characters and emphasises their culture. In ‘Check out me History’ the poet uses language from childhood. He refers to...
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