Notes on “Ballad of Birmingham” 1. Plot summary: A young girl asks her mother for permission to attend a freedom march in downtown Birmingham with her friends. Her mother‚ fearing violence‚ refuses to let her go and suggests that the child go to church instead. After she leaves‚ the mother is relieved that the child is in a safe place; then‚ she hears the bomb explode and rushes out to make sure her child is ok. She goes to the site of the church‚ which is now a pile of broken glass and bricks‚ and
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use of excellent literary devices in two of his poems‚ “The Last laugh” and “The Next War”. The poem‚ “The Last Laugh” is full of onomatopoeic words and personification. The poet has given it regular stanza lengths but irregular line lengths and rhyme scheme. Three stanzas describe different reactions and exclamations by three different soldiers when these are hit by weapons. The soldiers’ responses are emotional but the weapons’ attacks are ferocious‚ callous and capricious. In the poem “The Next
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Siegfried Sassoon’s epic war poem "Base Details" focuses on a soldier’s bitterness toward the fact that old men wage war while young men fight it. Sassoon uses various literary devices to express his anger toward such injustice. The main ones being rhyme‚ strong connotative words and especially diction. The speaker‚ a soldier in World War I‚ contemplates what it would be like to be an officer in during war. By using a sarcastic and cynical tone‚ he is effectively able to condemn war. The beginning
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First Short Response – “First Poem for You” The Shakespearean sonnet “First Poem for You” has an iambic pentameter and consistent rhyme scheme. Every other line represents a true rhyme – the final accented vowels and all succeeding consonants or syllables are identical. For example the words “complete” and “neat” (Addonizio 1‚ 3). Every line of the poem has a basic stressed and unstressed syllable format‚ except the last line. The extension of the last line “but touch them‚ trying” implements a
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In the poem ’Mending Wall’ by Robert Frost‚ the poet considers the value or otherwise‚ of boundaries. In contemplating whether good fences make good neighbors‚ he is including all barriers and boundaries in that - including walls. He is concerned that the saying may be becoming so popular - and spouted so often - that it is fast becoming trite. He wonders whether properties are always of sufficient threat to each other as to always demand some kind of barrier. Apples are no threat to cattle for example
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Context Born in Fiji‚ Owen Sheers grew up in Wales. As well as poems‚ he has written plays‚ non-fiction and fiction‚ including a best-selling novel called ’Resistance’. He co-wrote the screenplay for the book when it was turned into a film and has even helped write an opera for children. He also appears on radio and television talking about the arts generally. He writes about places and landscapes but is really interested in people who live or have lived within them. The history and identity
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is entirely about her own feelings as she haplessly watches her house burning as thousands of kindles. Her writing makes readers as if they were experiencing same emotions and thoughts as she was at the time. Anna’s way of rhymes affects the way the entire poem flows as each rhyme has a unique feeling‚ emotion‚ and interpretation. Also‚ it abides the reader to process the two rhyming lines together before going on to the next few. As a very well educational woman‚ her choices of words are one of the
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The song ”Rain and Snow” is a studio recorded folk song and bluegrass murder ballad sung by Obray Ramsey. It’s a mix between a narrative and lyrical song as the singer/persona tells a story about his marriage to his wife‚ how she made him feel‚ and how this drove him to murder her. The verses in this song are four lines long and each weak syllable is followed by a strong syllable. That makes this a ballad that uses an iambic meter. More specifically‚ is the first line of each verse has 4 strong syllables
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“THE HUNTING SNAKE” Sun-warmed in this late season’s grace under the autumn’s gentlest sky we walked‚ and froze half-through a pace. The great black snake went reeling by. Head-down‚ tongue-flickering on the trail he quested through the parting grass; sun glazed his curves of diamond scale and we lost breath to watch him pass. What track he followed‚ what small food fled living from his fierce intent‚ we scarcely thought; still as we stood our eyes went with him as he went. Cold
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In the poem “The Garden of Love”‚ which has a figurative meaning‚ the writer makes a contrast of the experience of his childhood with that of his adult life. Which techniques does he use to achieve this objective? In the collection A Choice of Poets‚ the author‚ William Blake expresses his feelings about his childhood compared to his adulthood in the poem “The Garden of Love”. The disappointment of the poet is a dominant tone in this piece of literature. The poet used figurative language
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