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love song of j alfred prufrock explic

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T.S. Eliot?s acclaimed poem ?The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock? , engages the use of metaphors, imagery, allusions, and other figurative language devices to explain the story of a man called J. Alfred Prufrock, who is having trouble asking a question to his lover, who in this case, is the reader. This poem in its dreamlike setting provides the reader with a mysterious and dark tone of voice. The poem begins in a peculiar yet symbolic fashion with a quote from Dante?s classic Inferno. A man Dante meets in Hell, whose sin is lying to God, false counsel, speaks the quote. Although this quote is somewhat meaningless to the reader in the beginning, its significance becomes prominent later on.

poetry explication - love song of j aflred prufrock

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T.S. Eliot?s acclaimed poem ?The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock? , engages the use of metaphors, imagery, allusions, and other figurative language devices to explain the story of a man called J. Alfred Prufrock, who is having trouble asking a question to his lover, who in this case, is the reader. This poem in its dreamlike setting provides the reader with a mysterious and dark tone of voice. The poem begins in a peculiar yet symbolic fashion with a quote from Dante?s classic Inferno. A man Dante meets in Hell, whose sin is lying to God, false counsel, speaks the quote. Although this quote is somewhat meaningless to the reader in the beginning, its significance becomes prominent later on.

poetry explication - birches

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?Birches? by the renowned Robert Frost tells the whimsical tale of a man reflecting on his childhood and his current life. Frost?s use of imagery and metaphors allow the reader to better understand his message and the tone of the poem overall. The reader is able to fully grasp Frost?s message of how the simple enjoyments of life are enough. The title ?Birches? is the main theme of the poem: birch trees. The branches of a birch tree often peel, making it easy to swing from their peeling bark. The speaker at the beginning says that he likes to imagine- some boy?s been swinging them (line 3).

Notes on Wilfred Owen's Poems

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Wilfred Owen Poem Analysis Notes Maundy Thursday Summary: During Maundy Thursday (a Christian holiday that commemorates The Last Supper), the speaker watches men, women, and children go up to the altar to kiss the cross. The speaker does the same. Poetic Devices: Religious imagery crucifix, cross, ?Body of the Christ,? creed, server-lad (shown before the cross because people are the more important religion, especially the common person) the speaker?s disenchantment with religion Sonnet Slight volta at line 9 when the speaker begins to reference himself Switch in rhyme scheme from Shakespearean to Petrarchan Breaks the meter in ?brown hands? and ?warm live hand? --> because the hands have more emphasis than the cross because again, people > religion

Analysis of Wilfred Owen's "Anthem for Doomed Youth"

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Wilfred Owen?s ?Anthem for Doomed Youth? explores the theme of the pity of war. Throughout the sonnet, the narrator wonders what kind of service there could be for those that die in battle, only to come to the conclusion that there is no funeral for those that are herded into war. Owen takes the reader through the battle-front and then the home-front, contrasting the chaotic battlefield of the octave (ridden with cacophonous sounds and breaks in the meter) with the calmer, but more solemn sestet which shows the effect of the soldiers? deaths on their loved ones ? suggesting that this poem is much less an ?anthem? than anything else.

Analyzing Poetry

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I: Critical Analysis of Poetry Discussion Questions to Determine Theme of a Poem 1. What is happening in the poem? 2. Why do you think the author wrote this poem? 3. How did the poem make you feel? 4. Did the poem remind you of anything? 5. What big idea was the poet trying to get across to the reader? 6. What do you think the theme of this poem is? The process of analyzing a poem

the_book_of_songs

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Shijing (The Book of Songs) is the earliest collection of Chinese poems including 305 poems of the Zhou Dynasty (1122-256 B.C.). It was originally called Shi (Poems) and Shi Sanbai (Three Hundred Poems). It was the Confucians of the Han Dynasty who gave it the name Shijing. It is also called Maoshi (Mao Poems) because it was by the hand of Mao Heng of the Han Dynasty that Shijing was passed down to the present time. ?

Key Terms to help on AP Literature exam

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9/3/13 8:55 AM Abstract something that discusses intangible qualities like good vs evil, and seldom uses examples to support its points A cutting from a larger work That was abstract- that was intangible Academic describing style, this means dry and theoretical writing accent in poetry referring to the stressed portion of a word accentual verse system of verse in which accents are used to determine the length of lines of poetry number of syllables is not important acronym a word formed by using initials, like MADD or NASA Ad hominem A logical fallacy that is an argument against man, an attack on person?s character rather than a rebuttal to his or her actual opinion Ad populum

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