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Rudyard Kipling was a great poet and also a great author. He contributed much in the world of literature. One of his poems was called “Gunga Din”, and I personally enjoyed it. Warfare has always fascinated me, and the setting for this poem was in a battle scene. Well, Gunga Din is actually a character,…

In “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry” the story follows the narrator’s experience with life as he takes a beautiful ferry ride. The man talks about the meaning of his life to other people. In this crowd he brings together all of the strangers and finds a connection. His journey through “space and time” is focused on the…

I chose the poem Going Blind by Rainer Maria Wilke. Essentially, the poem outlines an observer’s thoughts about a girl at a party who is blind. My initial feeling during the first few lines was pity for the blind girl, as the poem talks about her hesitant smile and how she holds her cup differently…

The color yellow is a very significant part of Rata Dove’s “Thomas and Bellay. ” Just simply the sights of the various ways the color yellow is used throughout poems like “Courtship” and “Taking in Wash” and also with the second section title “Canary in Bloom” can completely change the tone and setting of the…

The greater a man’s talents, the greater his power to lead astray’ Haley page 22. -discuss the irony the brave new world people believe that everyone belongs to someone else. They are born with different caste and appointed jobs. They do not have to or cannot think and worry about anything, because the controllers need…

In the poem, Remember, by Joy Harsh, the theme is to always remember where you came from and to never take anything for granted. The theme is told throughout the story by the use of figurative language, sound and imagery. Joy uses figurative language to relay the message of the poem. One example is when…

“Break, Break, Break” Is one of the poems written by Alfred, Lord, Tennyson after the death of his friend, Arthur Henry Hall. He was the Tennyson best friend from college and he was also engaged to get married to Tennyson sister. However, he died because of brain hemorrhage in 1833. After his death, Tennyson’s poem…

The first page of Beowulf The earliest known English poem is a hymn on the creation; Bede attributes this to Cædmon (fl. 658–680), who was, according to legend, an illiterate herdsman who produced extemporaneous poetry at a monastery at Whitby. [1] This is generally taken as marking the beginning of Anglo-Saxon poetry. Much of the…

The speaks r uses imagery of exploration and curiosity to show what he feels is the appropriate way to analyze, as well as images of torture to show the inappropriate way. There is also strong imagery of a teacher ammo g his students, which adds to the “learning” aspect of the poem. Collins uses a…

Introduction: “Homo Suburbiensis” is every bit much a verse form about the human status. as it is a record of one man’s flight from the demands of his being. “Homo Suburbiensis” uses one man’s flight from his demands to stand for our cosmopolitan demand to contemplate and decide our ain uncertainnesss in life in our…