“The Hand That Signed the Paper” consists of four stanzas that harshly mock the cold and unfriendliness present of politics and conflict. In my opinion this poem is about war, revealing the speakers disgust for political leaders overall. The poet makes audience feel as though the hand that signed the paper is worthless or despicable. These overpowering figures with in the poem seem to be important and arrogant for putting themselves in a powerful, life or death situation. The first stanza is notifying…

Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s epic poem "Ulysses" is composed as a dramatic monologue, consisting of four stanzas each of which frankly discuss the speakers current situation and yearning for adventure. The use of iambic pentameter provides a sense of fluidity to the speaker’s voice. The speaker reveals himself to be the protagonist of the poem with the opening line “It little profits that an idle king” (1). The use of the word “idle” offers the first clue as to one of the main themes of the poem. Tennyson…

Comparative Stylistic Analysis of a Poem Submitted to: Mrs. Daisy O. Casipit Submitted by: Lovely Anne B. Unquida (BSEd3-3) October 2013 Easter Wings by George Herbert Lord, who createdst man in wealth and store, Though foolishly he lost the same, Decaying more and more, Till he became Most poore: With thee Oh let me rise As larks, harmoniously, And sing this day thy victories: Then shall the fall further…

essentially a memorial poem written by Alfred Lord Tennyson following the death of his dear friend from Cambridge University, Arthur Henry Hallam who died young and unexpectedly in 1833. First published in 1849 sixteen years after his death it chronicles the emotional and intellectual process of mourning and grief as the poet questions his faith in God, nature and the changing society over those sixteen years. T.S. Eliot is in fact quoted as saying that it is a long poem ‘made by putting together…

Cole Anderson Mr. Bertelsen English III 9 November 2016 Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God Jonathan Edwards uses figurative language in his sermon, “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”, to help convey his ideas. The entire sermon is preaching that the people of his congregation have made God very angry. So angry, in fact, that He is preparing to send them all to hell if they will not repent. His use of figurative language helps the audience feel the sermon more, and take it to heart instead…

Illustrated in the poems The Lady of Shalott and Ulysses by Alfred Lord Tennyson, The Door by Mir slave Holub and The Girl in Times Square, a novel by Paulina Simmons. Change gives us roots; continuity gives us branches letting us stretch and grow to reach new heights. Living as we know it wouldn’t exist if change didn’t occur. This ability to continue changing is the only true security we have. This is illustrated in the poems ‘The Lady of Shalott” and ‘Ulysses’ by Alfred Lord Tennyson, ‘The…

Lord Byron began writing Don Juan in 1819 and did not stop writing the cantos until his heartbreaking death in 1824. By the time of Byron’s death, he had written 16 cantos and left an unfinished 17th. In the first canto, the reader finds out about Don Juan’s parents and goes on to talk about how Don Juan and his mother’s friend, Donna Julia, fall in love with each other and have an affair. This particular poem is not like many poems seen before. Lord Byron wrote this poem, to follow the satirical…

To analyze a poem stylistically, we can analyze the poetic device, which is usually deviation and foregrounding, that the poet used in the poem. The term foregrounding refers to an effect brought about in the reader by linguistic or other forms of deviation in the literary text (Leech, 1985).In poem, devices of foregrounding and deviation are always used to draw reader’s attention and impress the readers. In the aspect of deviation and foregrounding, there are some perspectives on the nature of…

Christopher Marlowe’s poem “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” is widely understood to be a combination of pastoral and carpe diem poetry that invites its subject, with the incentives of gifts and paradise, to join its speaker in a natural utopia—it embodies the trend of poetry and invention through pastoral imagination. In comparison, Walter Ralegh’s “The Nymphs Reply to the Shepherd” is on the side of reason and philosophy, widely recognized as a refuting reply that uses Marlowe’s own structure…

held the position of King. To David and the people following The LORD at that time, namely the ancient Israelites the passage would have meant for them to have faith in the lord, the shepherd’s of that time especially would have been able to connect with the Psalm as it is written by David, a former shepherd come king. For us as Christians today it can be used as a healing prayer, to restore confidence and strength in the lord, knowing that he is always beside us as our healer and our guide.…