Strophe Essays

How do the techniques of symbolism and metaphor convey ideas in the poems 'Marrysong’ and ‘caged bird?' The poems Marrysong and Caged bird by Dennis Scott and Maya Angelou adopt the techniques of metaphor and symbolism to effectively communicate the main ideas in these two poems. A number of differences can be explored in regards to the poems’ theme and tone, but similarities through the poems’ techniques.The first poem has a theme of unpredictability and is about two partners who don't have a

1. What does the example of personification in the first stanza of “Hanging Fire” reveal about the speaker? In the first stanza of Hanging Fire, the speaker says “my skin has betrayed me.” This reveals that the speaker is unhappy and insecure with her skin, and probably the rest of their body. 2. Reread lines 1–7 of “Hanging Fire.” Based on these lines, what inferences can you make about the speaker of the poem? From these lines, we can infer that the author is an insecure teenager, who worries

Poetry Essay Shamyra Thompson Liberty University Poetry Essay Outline “A Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost Thesis: In the poem “A Road Not Taken”, Robert Frost shares how sometimes in life one has to make decisions rather they’re good or bad. However there are consequences following one’s decisions and choices. One can use their second chance by looking forward and choosing to take the right paths in life. I. Mood & Theme a. The poem’s author, Robert Frost, focuses

While both sex and sibling behavioral issues aren’t often related to cooking, both Elaine Magarrell and Sally Croft are able to integrate these themes into their poems. In both of the poems “The Joy of Cooking”, by Elaine Magarrell, and “Home Baked Bread”, by Sally Croft, the authors use different types of imagery and figurative language in order to convey a completely different idea through the art of cooking. Both authors use rather explicit ideas and themes in their writing, and use remarkable

that P1 understands the anchored feeling is real and valid, he stresses that he needs to do something about it. Strophe 22 focuses on his wife not changing. His attempts to influence her to change herself did not make a difference. He wanted her to change herself but he could not make it happen. He concludes that she would not do anything to change and resolve frustration. He then (in strophe 23) shifts his focus to himself doing something about the situation. In other words, the agent of change changes

“Parting is such sweet sorrow,” William Shakespeare writes in Romeo and Juliet, one of his most famous tragedies, as the two titular leads bid farewell to each other until their next meeting. The sorrow of the two characters are described as a sweet kind of lament, and truly, only those who in love become privileged to experience this sorrow, but is it only sweet because they both know for a fact that their longing will only last until they next lay eyes on each other? Would parting, then, still

• Summarize the poem by stanza. If your poem does not have stanzas, divide it into sections where it would make sense. Also, you may have to use a dictionary to understand the meanings of some words or do research for historical context. -Stanza one, we understand that figuratively the speakers lover are always near. The speakers feels it at all times, saying that he carriers her heart. No matter where he goes or what he does, his lover's presence is always near and has a big influence over his

New Beginnings Published in 1975, the book Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow is a story of the oppression of different social groups whether it is immigrants or other races. The novel takes place during the period of American history called “The Gilded Age”, coined by the author Mark Twain in 1873 in his novel The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today, referred to gilding, or the application of gold to different surfaces which manifested the homes of the American elite, such as Cornelius Vanderbilt, imitating the homes

The first time I was introduced to Romanticism in this course, I thought that I would be reading a lot of love poems and novels. But soon enough I realized how wrong I was and understood the real concept of Romanticism. It is a movement of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries that reacted against the rules in literature, philosophy, art, religion, and politics at that period. Romantic writers meant to break out of what was usual and write about the things that no one dared to talk or write about

Preventing the death of a son and saving the life of a highly esteemed hero are choices that most would make, except for the King of Gods - Zeus. In the Iliad, Zeus does not wish to make those decisions, but is compelled to do so out of his sense of duty. Before being a father and warrior, Zeus was above all the leader of the gods. This means that as the head of the Olympians, Zeus has to be impartial in order to keep the peace of Olympus, which causes him great misery at times. Zeus’ duty as the

Theodore Roethke’s, “My Papa’s Waltz,” uses a great deal of imagery by using the metaphor of the word “Waltz.” A Waltz is a dance that has a step to every beat of the music, while in close proximities to the other dancer, there is not much change and it is in fact quite repetitive. Already we begin to form an image Roethke is trying to provide us by saying “My Papa’s Waltz.” His usage of the word “Papa” is quite informal compared to the word, “father.” It is only upon reading and analyzing the rest

Criticism of Craig Womack's Interpretations of Joy Harjo's Poems The earliest form of Native American literature is an oral traditional form. In the nineteenth-century, native author started to write Native American Literature. These writers write Native Literature in English because of the English taught in missionary schools. They write autobiographies and novels and combined their narratives with the Native traditional oral story or myth of their culture. When Native American Literature

Born on the island of Delos to the king of the gods himself and the lovely lady Leto, Apollon, more commonly known as the God Apollo, is easily one of the most salient of the twelve Olympian deities. Patron of the Delphi, along with a myriad else, the oracular Apollo is known far and wide throughout classic art, literature, and even in the modern day astral field of astronomy itself. Of light and truth, healing and plague, Apollo is both harmonious and contradictory at times, yet at his core, a bright

It is “foolish men” who fail to see that acute insightfulness is a vehicle for precise thinking. Nevertheless, the speaker shuns drawing conclusions about whether the creation of art contributes to, or ease madness, by attributing her speculations to theories others have proposed. In the final lines of the poem, however, she endorses the decision to explore dark corners of the mind and expand the limitations of the self by drawing attention to the affective dimension of the work, the beneficent effect

The Beauty in Nature A while back, maybe a year or so, I got the opportunity to go to outdoor science camp with my classmates. During my stay, I got to soak in the aspects of nature, like the running creek and fresh fallen snow, which made me develop an appreciation for nature. In Pablo Neruda’s poem, “Ode to enchanted light,” the speaker describes the beauty in nature, life, and light. In “Sleeping in the Forest,” a poem by Mary Oliver, nature is thought of as a place that’s shrouded in a mystical

sentence structure varies starting from Strophe 1, introducing the excerpt with “many the wonders but nothing walks stronger than man”. This simple sentence allows the main idea of Strophe 1 state itself in a quick and effective manner. After the introductory sentence, complex and compound sentences continue to Strophe 2. This variation slows the pace down making the reader look deeper into those sections. An example would be the last sentence of Strophe 1, which basically describes man being able

Josquin Desprez is known as the most inspirational and influential composers from the Renaissance period. He was born in Belgium and eventually moved to Italy, where he worked for powerful and important people. Desprez’s contributions were very significant for music, for example, his most popular composition was the motet Aver Maria...Virgo serena, in which the musical structure combines elements from the Medieval and Renaissance period. Hence, he employs these elements throughout the whole piece

Sophocles uses mockery to demonstrate the eagerness of mankind to blame that which harms us onto others in his play Oedipus Rex. We see the theme of faulty accusation while challenging the often occurring subject of the dominance of fate within greek literature, while continuing to reveal the danger of arrogance. Sophocles uses this denouncement of the gods as a guidance to take responsibility for what you can, to make and take responsibility for what you can do and look to yourself first for

Oedipus, a man fated from birth to kill his father and marry his mother, is the epitome of Aristotle’s tragic hero. The traits necessary to be a tragic hero are as follows: nobility and goodness, hamartia, hubris, peripeteia, anagnorisis, and catharsis. Prior to Sophocles’ play, Oedipus Rex, he saves the kingdom of Thebes from a sphinx, showing his goodness. This earns him not only the title of king, but also Iocaste as his wife. Right away, he demonstrates hubris by saying, “I know that you are

bodies into the ocean. This analysis can be seen in the verse thirteen, when he says: “Bones soldered by coral to bone”. This verse supports the argument that the sea holds the history, and that we know so little about it. With Sea is History’s first strophe in mind, I can say that to a moderate extent, history is biased. My reason of saying this is because as stated before, most of the history is submerged in our oceans. Therefore, there could be numerous events from what we have been taught that could