THEME Older age: Older age is the central idea portrayed in the poem as the reader is made to understand how difficult things can become at old age if things are not set straight at the early stage of life. Youth: Stanza two of the poem started the description of human development starting from the… Continue reading The Panic of Growing Older – Theme, Structure, Diction, Tone/mood
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SHALL I COMPARE THEE TO A SUMMER’S DAY: themes, structure, diction, mood/tone and poetic devices
SHALL I COMPARE THEE TO A SUMMER’S DAY THEMES Admiration and love: the whole poem is about admiration and affection for the poetic persona’s object of admiration. This admiration is illustrated by the poetic persona by juxtaposing summer’s day limitations to the efficiencies of his object of admiration. Nature’s cruelty: This is another idea that… Continue reading SHALL I COMPARE THEE TO A SUMMER’S DAY: themes, structure, diction, mood/tone and poetic devices
The Dining Table by Gbanabom Hallowell – Analysis, themes, figures of speech, mood/tone, structure and diction
BIOGRAPHY The Dining Table by Gbanabom Hallowell THE DINING TABLE Dinner tonight comes with gun wounds. Our desert tongues lick the vegetable blood—the pepper strong enough to push scorpions up our heads. Guests look into the oceans of bowls as vegetables die on their tongues. The table that gathers us is an island where guerillas… Continue reading The Dining Table by Gbanabom Hallowell – Analysis, themes, figures of speech, mood/tone, structure and diction
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