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think that McMillan is no longer in control of his emotions, that what he is feeling is unstoppable, but also it instigates the sense that nothing seems quite normal around him, and that he is detached from reality. The final stanza is a rhyming couplet that summarises the grief and emptiness and the lack of will to go on without his mother. “Feeling that the story ends just here” conveys the idea that there isn't a story to continue without his mother, showing how depressed McMillan is feeling,

Hermia’s speech in Act 2, Scene 2, of Shakespeare 's A Midsummer Night’s Dream, contains an abundance of dream imagery. She has awoken from a terrible dream after falling asleep in the forest with Lysander. They were lost and tired so they decided to rest. Lysander wanted to sleep beside her but, she refused since they are not yet married and while they slept Puck applied a love potion on Lysander’s eyes thinking he was Demetrius. Lysander wakes and is repulsed by the sight of Hermia and never

Several poems in the anthology explore the intensity of human emotion. Explore this theme, referring to these three poems in detail and by referencing at least three other poems from your wider reading.’ The potent emotion of jealous love permeates throughout both Robert Browning’s ‘My Last Duchess’ and Carol Ann Duffy’s ‘Medusa.’ Jealous love forms a central concern of the poets, with each one focusing on different aspects, which the reader may come to identify the poems as exploring the intensity

Tupac Shakur released the song “Keep Ya Head Up” first in 1993 on his album “Strictly for my N.I.G.G.A.Z.”, then as a single in 1994. Tupac’s “Keep Ya Head Up”, one of his most notable and recognizable singles, received acclaim upon its release and continues to do so. The record centers on the social climate in the 90’s, and Tupac’s own experiences from his youth. Around the time of the song’s release, Tupac’s indictment in a rape case colored the reception of the song although it remained mainly

more accurately described as an emulation, believing it to be more an imitation made up from a variety of stories, as it borrows not only motifs but direct phrasing from Lay Le Freine. Not only do both texts share a similar rhyming scheme, rhyming couplets, and semi-alliterative lines, they are also similar in relation to common genre conventions. In this respect, the Breton Lay has been understood by many to be the predecessor to the modern fairy-tale, and indeed, Sir Degaré is enveloped in themes

If you have ever read a book or listened to music, you have probably experienced poetry. Poetry is a literary work in which special intensity is given to the expression of feelings and ideas by the use of distinctive style and rhythm. There are many types of poetry and each has its own effect on the words. There are over fifty types of poetry. Poetry is categorized by the number of lines in the poem, the words in the poem, whether it rhymes or not, and what it is about. Some types of poetry examples

most agonizing and challenging. “Traveling Through the Dark” is an free verse poem containing four-line stanzas and a couplet to end the poem. The way the poem is structured leaves us with a sense of incompletion, as the last couplet does follow the pattern of a four-line stanza. Throughout the poem, the lines feel very connected and smooth, however, near the end in the final couplet, it feels incomplete. This sense of incompletion represents the death of the deer as the driver “pushed her over the

A second conflict introduced in the first couplet is the gap between the old and the young due to the loss or change of language. The speaker states that the “old still remember” and contrasts this with the young, who “have fewer words.” In the fifth couplet, we see a similar situation with parents and children. The speaker gives us two ends of a spectrum to demonstrate the distance that the change

After Maggie, the names Milly and Molly are the next in order. The fact that Milly and Molly have the same number of letters shows, that both girls are getting further away from the natural world that contains individuality, and are entering the manmade world that is full of conventions that make people the same. The resulting sameness of the manmade world is reflected in that the names are similar in that they each have the same number of letters and also, they have the exact same letters with the

a cleverly ironic and heavily sarcastic poem on Phillis wheatley’s journey through her time in slavery. Written in a AABBCCDD rhyme scheme which creates a focus on each couplet. Each rhyme couplet in “On Being Brought from Africa to America” is used to show the irony forced on her and her race. *For example, in the first couplet Phillis stats how she was “brought” from “Pagan” lands. The way the line is written it is easy to assume she is referring to her history. However, Phillis Wheatley uses the