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...written essay or thoughts on poetry in general. My regular readers will know that I’m a great lover of this Art and write a fair bit myself. Lately I have been looking on poetry sites and dabbling in a few new forms of poetry. This is a great way to widen your knowledge and maybe even find a style that suits you perfectly. I write mostly rhyming poetry by choice, but I have tried my hand at Haiku and found the concept challenging. Recently I have ...
...my welcome. Both of these poetry terms are ones I have never heard of. I think they both set a good challenge, although I imagine most people would find the second easier. One pointer here is to remember to use a simple word at the end as you have to get it to rhyme and it needs to flow. I’m not setting a challenge but would be interested to see the result if anyone tries these. Once again, thanks for reading. Lisa. ...

Elffriend 07.02.2005 · Read full review
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...exerted the strongest influence on poetry in the post-liberation period. The vast majority of poems known as poems of being [chonjae ûi si] or poems investigating interiority [naemyôn t'amgu ûi si] owe an enormous debt to Kim Ch'un-Su poetic explorations." THE SNOW FALLING ON CHAGALL'S VILLAGE contains a selection of translated poems (arranged in chronological order, but with no dates) spanning Kim Ch'un-Su's long and prolific career, from his first ...
...his latest, THE WOODS THAT SLEEP STANDING (1993). Anyway, in this essay, I will focus and located the subject of reviewing merely on theme of love that comes as the plastic essence of his symbolic diction of the flower in Kim's poetry. Let us begin with his Sketches of a Flower. He wrote: "… Even amidst the flames of love,/ I was lonely and sad.// Flower, having burned/ without love,/ you smile in immortal/ nakedness.// O thousand eyes of radiant ...

cs.hari 20.11.2007 · Read full review
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...Armitage, whilst Carol Ann Duffy's poetry is published by Macmillan. Gillian Clarke is published by Carcanet Press Ltd. Analysing poetry obviously involves more than just discussing figures of speech; style, structure, rhythm, and rhyme are all important. Being able to recognise figures of speech will, however, help in understanding the imagery and meaning of a poem and encourage students perhaps to use figurative language in their own writing. ...

denella 25.11.2006 · Read full review
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...from the standard forms of poetry around this times. The main ideas that must be explored are the language features, the form of the poem and the themes which are consistent through the poem. The author of 'The Emulation' is Sarah Egerton. This is the first key idea that must be addressed about the stereotypical poetry of the 18th century, because it was not a common occurrence for women to be accepted in creative roles of society, such as poets. ...
...as a base to her poetry of 'The Emulation'. This is a combination of the language features, the structure and form, and the consistent themes which she has used through the poem. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for reading. Jodie xxx I personally love this poem, and was thrilled that a question specifically about this poem came up in my A level exam the other week, ooooh hope I get a ...

groovybaby3002 26.06.2005 · Read full review
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A comparison of 'London' by William Blake and 'Composed upon Westminster Bridge' by William Wordsworth. These two poems were written within eight years of one another, the first being 'London' in 1794 and then 'Composed upon Westminster Bridge' in 1802. They are both Romantics and typical of the style, both have an emotional and expressive freedom in the way they are written and a seemingly honest view of real life. Both poems have an immediate link ...
...related to London in the tittle, this means that even before reading the poem you would expect that London or some aspect of life in London would be a theme in both poems. London could be considered a major theme of both poems but for completely contrasting reasons; 'London's theme is more about the people of London and the conditions of the urban poor and their physical and spiritual misery. 'Composed upon Westminster Bridge' however, is a more ...

j22o2 02.03.2007 · Read full review
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Essay on The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Coleridge This was part of my first year Uni course. The hours I sweated on this lol. (I have also published this on the Helium site) The Rime of the Ancient Mariner was the opening poem of the first edition of the Lyrical Ballads (1798), published anonymously with William Wordsworth, as a joint volume of poetry. The construction of the Ancient Mariner is that of a narrative-based medieval ballad, ...
...regular quatrains, with a 8 syllable tetrameter structure, creating the impression that it is a product of oral tradition rather than a written culture. The use of short sentence structure and internal rhyme, as in, 'The ship was cheered, the harbour cleared', the use of simile, 'And listens like a three years child:' and repetition as in, below the Kirk, below the hill, below the lighthouse top', reported speech, "By thy long grey beard and glittering ...

Pablothehat 12.07.2007 · Read full review
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I have recently discovered the pleasure there is to be had by looking at amateurish attempts at poetry. Take this anonymous example from an in-house magazine published by the Royal Infirmary, Leicester. My Stay At The Royal (June 2004) The Nurses down at the “Royal” Are all angels in disguise Their hands are so gentle and tender And caring reflects in their eyes They all do so many duties To make our stay easy to bear We’re washed and we’re ...
...These angels are all special people With smiles for the weak and the lame They all do their best for the patients Without asking for medals or fame They ask us for blood and for water And inject us with things in our arms They then give us pills by the dozen And smile with all tender and charm I know I’ll go home feeling better As the nurses continue their toil All hiding their wings under aprons At the hospital known as the “Royal” The ...

drewish 28.12.2004 · Read full review
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Just below you can find the poem and after that there is my critical analysis. I had written this as an assignment for school, however I think its preety good and definately interesting. I really hope you like it :) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Design by Robert Frost I found a dimpled spider, fat and white, On a white heal-all, holding up a moth Like a white piece of rigid satin cloth-- ...
...to begin the morning right, Like the ingredients of a witches' broth-- A snow-drop spider, a flower like a froth, And dead wings carried like a paper kite. What had that flower to do with being white, The wayside blue and innocent heal-all? What brought the kindred spider to that height, Then steered the white moth thither in the night? What but design of darkness to appall?-- If design govern in a thing so small. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ...

jeffe 09.03.2005 · Read full review
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Below is another of my GCSE coursework pieces. It explores the way in which different poets treat the theme of war. Using a Selection of Poems from the Anthology, Discuss How the Various Poets Treated the Theme of War. I have chosen 4 war poems to analyse, each from different wars. This will show how different wars were perceived by people at the time and the way different poets use to assess the wars. I am going to examine the poems in reverse ...
...Head-Brass by Edward Thomas during the First World War in the 20th century. Next I will study The Charge of the Light Brigade by Alfred, Lord Tennyson from the 19th century written about the Crimean war. Then I will analyse Tommy’s Dead written by Sydney Dobell in the 19th century. Finally I’ll look at After Blenheim by Robert Southey. It was written in the 18th century about the Battle of Blenheim, although the poem wasn’t written till after the ...

pumpkin_pie2002 13.02.2005 · Read full review
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Below is an essay which I wrote as part of my GCSE English coursework, the three poems being analysed are good pieces of work and so I wanted to include this as a review. A Critical Analysis Of Three World War One Poems. ‘The Soldier’ Rupert Brooke ‘The General’ Siegfried Sassoon ‘Dulce Et Decorum Est’ Wilfred Owen. Sassoon and Owen where treated at the same mental hospital during world war one. Do their poems appear to be the work of madmen? ...
...the start of World War One, this was before the horror of the trenches was known. The poem is a traditional sonnet in which Brooke expresses his love for England and how he believes it is right to fight and die for his country. However Brooke never discovered what war was like in reality as he died in 1915, before he actually got to fight in the war. Therefore his poem is very idealistic and has a very traditional viewpoint. Brooke’s poem is written ...

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...1850 he had influenced English poetry as a whole by producing some of the greatest works in history. He was educated at grammar school and lived much of his life in amongst the northern lakes in the heart of the Lake District. The poet, artist, and printmaker William Blake on the other hand was not quite as orthodox. Largely unrecognized during his lifetime, Blake's work is today considered seminal and significant in the history of both poetry and ...
...Blake is highly regarded today for his expressiveness and creativity, and the philosophical vision that underlies his work, which was, in the most part, not as ordinary as that of William Wordsworth, who indeed wrote brilliant poetry, but yet did not write with quite such sincerity. Blake believed that he could converse aloud with the prophets of the Old Testament, but despite his love of God and the Bible, utterly disliked the established church, ...

joewcarpenter 28.05.2008 · Read full review
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I will be looking in the future to release a book of poems tell me your thought on these poems Love I looked into your eyes and saw stars twinkling, they seemed more beautiful than the stars themselves. As I looked, I could not help but wonder, such a sparkle came from them. My heart started to melt and I knew that love had grown inside of me for you. I looked again, it was a cloudless night and there were fireworks in the distance. Sitting there ...
...but notice your beauty and the happiness of your smile which reflected in the water of the lake before us. Oh such a wondrous place of peace, where we could just sit together: in that moment in time, knowing that we had each other was enough. I knew that you loved me and that your love for me was pure. I knew that our lips would meet soon and kiss tenderly so that love could endure. There were things that I did not know, yet still I yearned for ...

purest2uk 27.09.2005 · Read full review
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i would like people to read the following poem and let me know what they really think of it, and what would it mean to them if they wrote it, as i am writing a new book and would like to know if this poem is worth publishing, thank you. Playing Games with Hearts Why do people play games? They hide behind fear They behind jobs, beliefs Can't they just say what they want? Can't they just say? I love you, I need you But I can't be with you. ...

ddraig86 01.10.2007 · Read full review
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...the most important thing about poetry is the subject of rhyming The second most important is the words you use; the third is all about timing Put them all together and hey - tell me what have you got? You've got the rhythm and the rhyme of a subject that hits the spot! You see, it's not so much the subject as what you say about it You can dress it up or dress it down, recite it but definitely don't shout it Because the fourth most important ...
...Is the art of delivering it to other people who really want to hear it The seventh rule is to include your grammar so people will know how to read They establish the rhythm, like a piece of music; hear the silent beat and the speed I maybe slightly obsessional about my passion for verse But I will maintain my rules to the death, and I will continue to curse When I see a passage of non-rhyming verse that one dares to call the same When they've ...

vikkislater 16.12.2004 · Read full review
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To compare the way in which two poets, writing at different times, how they have expressed their views about war and to show how these views reflect the period in which they were written. Different generations are inspired by the experience of war because of the heroics, bravery and waste of life. In this essay I will compare two poems "Charge of the Light Brigade" by Alfred Lord Tennyson and "Dulce et Decorum Est" by Wilfred Owen. "Charge of the ...
...et decorum est" being written the World War one. "The Charge of the Light Brigade" was a poem written by a man who was poet Laureate for the Queen; his job was to write poems about famous events. The poem is in six verses, each verse tells a different stage in the poem, the first verse begins with the British troops charging into the "valley of death." An order is made to the light brigade: "Forward the light brigade! Charge for the guns" The ...

louisacrompton 15.06.2006 · Read full review
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