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    to experience the war‚ and therefore feel almost as decisively about it as he does. The three stanzas within this poem all serve a different purpose‚ each strengthening the influence the poem has on the readers‚ and developing the messages in a different way. The poem makes such a strong impression because of the effectiveness of each stanza and how successfully the go with each other. The first stanza is dedicated to establishing in the readers mind just how horrendous the soldiers’ surroundings

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    Leaving Belfast

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    the poem‚ the narrators explains what is the thing most annoying for him. His beloved city doesn’t seem to be on the way of the change so‚ unfortunately‚ he has to leave from Belfast and let it behind. Leaving Belfast is a 7 stanzas poem consisted of 4 lines in each stanza‚ what we call a quatrain. The feet analyzed in the poem don’t seem to have any relation between them‚ but we could say that although the position of the stressed syllable doesn’t seem to have any concordance‚ most of them are

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    protection and maternal love for her little sister. The poem is divided into 3 stanza’s n stanza 1‚ Liz Lochhead explains about how her little sister likes to try on her grown-up shoes. In stanza 2 though she tells us about how she likes to watch her little sister plays kid games and how good she is at them. Finally‚ in stanza 3‚ Liz Lochhead warns her sister away from wearing unsuitable shoes. In the first stanza she opens the poem by a metaphor ‘My little sister likes to try my shoes’ this is a metaphor

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    experience. The first two stanzas both end with a line “on the echoing green”. In both cases it shows the setting in a green area. Old John still has a place in society‚ even though in the city he might be displaced or pensioned off. Similarly‚ the way city children might be brought up is implicitly contrasted with the “natural” cycle of the countryside whereby children rest when they are tired and “sport” naturally ends with the closing of the day. The last part of the second stanza consists of memories

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    believe that she favors the Willow tree more‚ until you read the last stanza where the poet says that her heart goes to the Ginkgo tree. In “Simile‚ Willow and Ginkgo”‚ Eve Merriam uses form‚ figurative language‚ and sound devices to show the reader that some things may be ugly on the outside but beautiful on the inside. The poet uses traditional form. This is true because there is the same number of lines in stanzas one through five. Another way to tell that the poem is traditional form

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     but it could just be humans in general. Frost  utilizes the first stanza to establish most of the poem’s framework‚ revealing the time of year/season:  “ The darkest  evening of the year”‚  where this traveler has stopped: “Between the woods and frozen lake”‚ and what is happening:  “To watch his woods fill up with snow”.      II. Notice that the poem is constructed with four very similar stanzas. Frost cleverly composed the poem using the  Rubaiyat Stanza‚ Rubaiyat meaning a stanza composed of four lines. This kind of form has a rhyme scheme of AABA 

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    Men At forty analysis

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    father’s inspiration also comes into play. In the first stanza in lines 2-4 when the author states that “Men at forty learn to close softly the doors to rooms they will not be coming back to”‚ the author is referring to the thought of moving forward and the idea that the past must be left behind. In other words men at forty tend to have many regrets which now have no remedy‚ therefore they learn to simply live with that regret. In the following stanza‚ the author is speaking about the health issues that

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    first half of the poem‚ in the first two stanzas. Here‚ there are three important images constructed by Bishop. The first of these is dirt; in the first line of the poem‚ Bishop writes‚ “Oh‚ but it is dirty!” This is followed by ‘black translucency’ in line 5‚ ‘dirty’ monkey suit in line 2 of the second stanza and ‘dirty dog’ in the last line of the third stanza. Imagery of oil is also present in the first half of the poem‚ especially in the first stanza. Bishop writes‚ “- this little filling

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    key terms within the last stanza‚ we can infer the speaker is approaching death. Therefore‚ the tone of the poem should be that of sadness or despair‚ but as one can see‚ the speaker is trying to convey hope towards the end of the poem (representing the end of life). The rhyme scheme is identical in both stanzas; however‚ it does not follow any standard pattern. The rhyming sequence is unique. If counting the lines‚ all of the even numbered lines from the second stanza follow the same rhyme sequence

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    significant to the woman. The poem is sixteen lines‚ written in Iambic Tetrameter‚ and follows the abcbdefeghihjklk rhyme scheme. The poet starts the first stanza by using references to jewels to describe the appearance of the sunrise as it comes over a hill. She first describes the colors as “rubies” (3) and later‚ “topaz” (7). In the same stanza‚ after describing the sunrise‚ the poet mentions that “A sudden musket spills” (4)‚ there is no mention of a year or an era‚ but the sound of a gunshot from

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