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    In what way has the theme of death been depicted in any three poems that you have studied in the anthology, and in another three of your choosing. Comment on weather or not. Death is a part of life. It has many aspects. Death is shown in different ways in the three chosen poems. Everyone will face death at one point, whether it is a family member or a friend or even themselves. Death is one of the main turning points in life. Death is where we understand the truth of our lives. Firstly by showing

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    Outcasts An Analysis of Themes of Alienation in Three Poems by Robert Frost Mike Birbiglia, an American actor and filmmaker once said, “Alienation, I suppose, cannot be hackneyed because it will always exist.” It is always interesting to hear what others think an outcast is. To some, and outcast is someone who does not dress nice or smell good all the time, while to others an outcast is a person who is shy and quiet. Outcast have been around since the beginning of civilization. In ancient times

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    different. Something that we all are to blind to see. Walt Whitman, this man has written so many poems on life. He always relates to them in some weird shape or form. I’m going to tell you how he relates to three of his poems. The first one is I HEAR SINGING IN AMERICA. This poem is about how the workers keep America going. The sounds of them working are what keep America’s heart beating. In this poem Walt is basically saying get a job or join the army. He believed that nobody should be sitting on

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    Three Messages From My Three Favorites Poems (“A critical Analysis of My Three Favorite Poems”) Throughout life we can always experience the never end ticking of time and peer pressure, this is true for everyone. In some form or another people will experience pressure from someone, it just the way that this world works and especially socially, Socially the world will be faced with pressure. We as humans are also faced with time, no matter what we can escape it, we can find comfort in the fact that

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    In Three Poems, the entrance three paragraphs talks about Hannah’s story and how she got her inspiration for the poems. Her story is completely different from the fact that she was able to escape the persecution from Nazis before they got to her village. She was given the mission to parachute behind enemy lines and disrupt Nazi operations. Hannah wanted to save Jewish refugees and rescue British airmen. Eventually she was caught and executed in a Nazi prison at twenty three years old. The poem is

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    use of personification, repetition, and irony. These literary elements make the narrator 's pain become more prominent and have more of an impact on the reader. Personification appeared often throughout Faiz Ahmed Faiz’s poems. The use of personification throughout his poems

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    their reader’s head in order to bring a story to life. William Shakespeare was nowhere shy of doing these things. He compared aspects of life such as love, time, nature, death and even sickness to each other to create themes and importance to his poems. Many of them show strong feelings which showed the strong passion he had for writing. His passion carries along today because it painted a picture for new writers to create works that would change literature and views of life altogether. What made

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    There is a great similarity between the three elegiac poems, The Wanderer, The Wife of Lament, and The Seafarer. This similarity is the theme of exile. Exile means separation, or banishment from ones native country, region, or home. During the Anglo Saxon period, exile caused a great amount of pain and grief. The theme is shown to have put great sadness into literature of this time period. The majority of the world's literature from the past contains the theme of exile.     The

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    The three most common words of the poem “Mariana” are: “aweary,” “dead,” and “dreary”. These three words are the most common because they make up two separate refrains at the end of each stanza. “Aweary” and “dreary” are used to establish the alternate rhyme in the poem. The word “aweary” is most commonly associated with itself. By repeating the word next to itself it becomes highly emphasized showing how deeply exhausted the speaker has become of living. “Aweary” is then most commonly associated

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    1. Illustrate how all three of the Housman poems assigned deal with time and the passing of time. In The Loveliest of Trees, Housman uses a cherry tree to relate the passage of time. He begins the poem in springtime when the cherry is in bloom, “wearing white for Eastertide.” The image of white and the blossoming tree give the reader of feeling of rejuvenation and rebirth, both feelings associated with spring. The next stanza uses clever word play to describe the passing of decades and scores

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