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Theodore Roethke in his poem “My Papa’s Waltz” tries to describe the relationship between the parents and children.The relationship that is portrayed in this poem is especially between a father and a son.Through imagery, this poem gives the impression of hardship as well as love between a son and his father. Imagery usage in poetry as a literary device is used to create vivid details dealing with one’s sense of sight, taste, smell touch and sound. Theodore Roethke imagery in his poem “My Papa’s Waltz”

Taylor Swift’s Shake It Off was released as the lead single from her record-topping album 1989 and became a smash hit across the world. Written with the help of Max Martin and Shellback, Shake It Off is an uptempo pop song that is in the key of G Major at a tempo of around 160 beats per minute. Vocally, Swift’s range in the song spans two octaves from G3 to G5. The rhythmic beats leave an impression on any music lover. The song begins with boisterous drums pertaining to the idiophone family that

David Lehman is an artist that speaks for the modern generations in his poetry collection “When a Woman Loves a Man.” In addition to producing his own works he teaches his craft at NYU and the New School in their graduate programs. While his prior-mentioned collection includes an entire section of love poetry, it is impossible to simply categorize Lehman as just a love poet because he is also a life poet. Considering that this work was produced and influenced by the tensions of post-9/11 New York

Out of all the readings assigned in the first four weeks of the semester I selected to write my midterm paper on Sonnet 18, by William Shakespeare, not only because I have admired Shakespeare’s works since I was in high school, but also because this particular sonnet appealed to be the most interesting poem we have read till now during this semester. Sonnet 18 is abundant with imagery and metaphors, but ultimately what sets it apart from the rest of the sonnets is its simplicity and the amount of

Gerard Hopkins “Gods Grander” is a poem illustrating a person concern over how the environment is being treated in the world. The narrator in the poem dislikes, how the world is being treated because of the human race not respecting or caring for the environment. The narrator wants the world to be treated with respect because God created the world with love and care. The poem introduces several literary elements like symbolism, imagery, and alliteration. The three literary elements help prove that

Heaney often wrote, in his poems, about his childhood in the countryside. Two good examples of this are Blackberry Picking and Follower. In these you can see the human nature of children and how adult look back on their past. Heaney shows this though the structure, imagery and language in the two poems. Firstly, in Blackberry Picking, Heaney uses the structure of the poem to tell us about human nature. For example, the slow familiar rhythm of the iambic pentameter creates a reflective tone where

Sonnet 31, written by Sir Philip Sidney, is a sonnet that examines the range of emotions felt by a man that has been rejected by a woman. The poet explores the theme of rejection by using aspects of form, structure and language. These include form, tone, punctuation, enjambment and pathetic fallacy. One of the ways Sidney illustrates the motif of rejection is by form. The rhyme scheme in the octave of the poem follows a pattern of ABBAABBA, which shows that it is a Petrarchan sonnet. However, the

Harwood’s poetry are valued texts because they explore challenging ideas of nostalgia and mortality. Discuss this statement in light of your understanding of the poetry of Gwen Harwood. Gwen Harwood’s mournful laments Mother Who Gave Me Life and Father and Child explore the challenging ideas of nostalgia and mortality to provide valued texts. Harwood’s elegy Mother Who Gave Me Life nostalgically explores the confronting concepts of the unavoidability of death and past bleak memories. Harwood

"On his Blindness" by John Milton John Milton was a great writer and one of the few who was recognized in his own time. His name stands out in the history of English literature mainly for his two works, Paradise Lost and Paradise regained. In 1651 Milton became blind, yet he continued to write and his daughters would take dictation. The poem On his Blindness, by John Milton is an Italian sonnet which addresses the Christian perspective of how to accept ones disabilities. The

Sonnets are rhymed poems consisting of fourteen lines, it is divided into two different lines, the first eight lines making up the octet and the other last six lines being the sestet. The Shakespearean sonnet however differs from the Petrarchian sonnets and the Spenserian sonnet, it ends with a rhymed couplet and follows the rhyme scheme. Therefore, the octet and sestet structure can be unconventionally divided into three quatrains with alternating rhymes concluding in a rhymed couplet. Till present