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Sunday, April 4, 2010

Symbolism is Porphyria's Lover

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The poem Porphyria's Lover has a great deal of symbolism in it's context. The deranged speaker gives lots of hints that he is not a...

The Rock

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I would title my poem about young men and the struggles they have as "The Rock". The Rock who's real name is Dwyane Johnson i...
Friday, April 2, 2010

Ozymandias

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The poem Ozymandias reminded me of when the US marines pulled down the statue of Iraqi president Saddam Hussein. The poem developes the the...
Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Irony in "To His Coy Mistress"

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In the poem “To His Coy Mistress” by Andrew Marvell, the poet uses irony to convey the speaker’s will to his unwilling lover. There are man...

Barbie Doll

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Many people think that media influences, peer pressure, and social norms are only targeted towards women or girls but this is not true. Mal...

Porphyria's Lover

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In the poem “Porphyria’s Lover” by Robert Browning, the poem had me confused at first. After I read it a couple times it really made sense. ...

Tone in Porphyria's Lover

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The tone in Porphyria’s Lover is very mysterious and gloomy. When reading the poem, a person can’t help but realize the speaker is odd. It...

Ozymandias

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The poem “Ozymandias” by Percy Bysshe Shelley shows the theme “nothing lasts” in a variety of different ways. In the desert the king of king...

To His Coy Mistress

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In the poem, "To His Coy Mistress," there is some irony hidden within the lines. For example, early on in the poem, the writer tel...

Barbie Doll

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In the poem “Barbie Doll” by Marge Piercy, it reflects the life of a girl going through tough times where people judge her. They tell her wh...

Ozymandias

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When you read the poem "Ozymandias," you get the impression that the reader is saying that nothing lasts. You get a sense of sadne...

Tone in "To His Coy Mistress"

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In the poem, “To His Coy Mistress”, Andrew Marvell uses an almost fairy tale tone. It is somewhat difficult to understand on first reading b...

My Last Duchess

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The man/speaker in “My Last Duchess” seemed as if he was a controlling, possessive and jealous man who didn’t like others looking at his wif...

Barbie Doll

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The poem "Barbie Doll" is written in a very feminist point of view. If I were to change this poem to be about how men are influenc...

Symbolism in To His Coy Mistress

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In the second line of To His Coy Mistress, Marvell writes, This coyness, lady, were no crime. Crime meaning something bad that shouldn’t be ...

Barbie Doll

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If I had to rewrite this poem, I would name it “Ken” because Ken was also part of the Barbie doll world. I would talk about the difficultie...

Barbie Doll

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If this poem were rewritten for a young man, the title could be, Quarterback. Since there are social norms that put award a high level of im...

Ozymandias

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The first line in the poem says,” I met a traveler from an antique land.” This creates the imagery of someplace old. The traveler talks abou...

"Tone of To His Coy Mistress"

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This poem has a very light tone to it. It is not like most of the other serious poems that we have read yet. I'm usually much more inter...

Barbie Doll

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If I were to re-write this poem with a boy in mind I'd title it All Boy , a term we use so often to describe rough-and-tumble boys who p...
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