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    In Shakespeare's Sonnet 18, the relationship in lines 1-8 between the young man’s “loveliness” and “temperateness” when compared to a “summer’s day” can be connected through the times of the Elizabethan. When Shakespeare wrote his sonnet it was very common to write with the theme of love and often weather used to create moods. In this Sonnet, Shakespeare happens to be talking about a young man of great beauty and promising expression and affection. In this sonnet, he first uses the word “loveliness”

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    Sonnet 29

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    Sonnet 29 1. In the introductory clause of the sonnet, the speaker makes it clear that he envies those with “hope.” By this, the speaker means that he resents those who have a clear, bright future ahead of them, a future made possible by the qualities he goes on to describe. These qualities are friendships, skill in art, and power (lines 6-7), and the speaker makes it clear that he envies these people by explicitly stating that he desires what they have. 2. The turn of the sonnet

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    Ben Sparrow Ms. Finkelstein Honors English IV September 5, 2015 Beowulf is renowned as the oldest poem written in the English language, thought to be written over 1500 years ago this epic poem is still being heavily studied and compared to modern literature regularly. The protagonist, named Beowulf is a great warrior whose called to defend the Danes from the vicious attack of many monsters. Many would label this call to action as the start of his hero’s journey, although it isn’t an ancient concept

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    the berserker is beneath humanity as an animal, above it as a god, or both, he his cut off from all human community,” (Shay, 6). While death can be a very physical thing, it can also be symbolic of the loss of humanity. In the last chapters of the poem, Achilles’ rage becomes all-consuming and takes him over. Rage dictates all of his actions, and whether it is his god-like or animal-like characteristics being attributed to his rage, Homer and the soldiers no longer speak about him as a mortal. Achilles

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    Writing workshop Poem #1 Pressures They tell me I was put on earth for one reason But I was thinking of donating my ovaries anyway They are no use to me Let some other woman Flower the earth With children They look at me like I’m crazy Tell me I would live A life, without purpose They can shower me with contempt But I will still stand firm in my decision I was not put on the earth for only one reason I am not meant to be a mother For I am not the mothering kind Poem #2 Almost twenty

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    and lastly himself in the phrase "next to of course god america i". Most of the poem is in quotation marks, probably because it was from a public speech. This unknown speaker could well have been a politician or a soldier showing his patriotism and religious belief. It is a poem about patriotism and the war. The poem starts off with the speaker being someone that is a patriot and feels strongly about America. As the poem progresses it takes a different approach becoming very sarcastic. In this sarcasm

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    The words poem and poetry mean “to create or make.” There is a variety of different ways to create poems, and the more experience you have, the more ideas you will get on how to write them. The first poem in “Meeting Poem: An Overview” is Schoolsville and the poem moves from apparent reality to something beyond it. Poets provide their readers with thoughts on different subjects. For example, in the poem “Hope,” the author is describing how hope is available in everyday things and situations.

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    English Literature, Faculty of Al Alsun, Minia University An (Inter) textual Analysis of Two Poems from Nikky Finney’s Head off & Split (2011) Abstract Nikky Finney (1957- ) has always been involved in the struggle of southern black people interweaving the personal and the public in her depiction of social issues such as family, birth, death, sex, violence and relationships. An(inter) textual analysis of two poems from Head off & Split, “Red Velvet” and “Left”, reveals that she succeeded in

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    “Cousin Nancy” and “Morning at the Window” Poem Analysis and Exploration Cousin Nancy By T. S. Eliot Miss Nancy Ellicott Strode across the hills and broke them, Rode across the hills and broke them — The barren New England hills — Riding to hounds Over the cow-pasture. Miss Nancy Ellicott smoked And danced all the modern dances; And her aunts were not quite sure how they felt about it, But they knew that it was modern. Upon the glazen shelves kept watch Matthew

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    “Tableau” and “Incident” Poem Analysis Countee Cullen was a famous African American poet during the Harlem Renaissance in during the early 1900´s. She wrote two famous poems called “Tableau” and “Incident.” These pieces of American literature, both depict the racial interaction between the blacks and the whites at this point in history. The interaction with the two is shown by the way they describe each other and the way that they interact. These poems both use many instances of figurative languages

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