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…Throughout Craig Raine's seventeen-stanza poem several functional devices become apparent with defamiliarisation being the most prominent. Raine also utilises alienation to enable the audience to observe Earth and human behaviour from a Martian's "alien…

…. When I died they washed me out of the turret with a hose. 'The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner' by Randall Jarrell is a poem about a soldier dying in the ball turret of a fighter plane during what was most likely World War II. The poem tells…

…Turret Gunner” really has no verse nor does it have a rhyme scheme, so it would be classified as a regular meter. It has five lines, and is a good poem. It could really have many different meanings, depending on who the reader is. The main meaning…

…Edgar Allan Poe uses horror and gloomy moods throughout all of his poems. Horror, revulsion, depressing, and bleak are words that can describe the mood of the poems "Annabel Lee" and "For Annie". In the Poem "Annabel Lee", the Narrator has passionate…

…Poem Analysis -This poem features images taken from the Canadian landscape. i.e. “as crisp and as white as our snow” “ strong as a jack pine” “young as a trillium” “the spirit of the mountains” “the spirit of the prairie” “The North, as a deed…

…Poem Analysis -This poem features images taken from the Canadian landscape. i.e. “as crisp and as white as our snow” “ strong as a jack pine” “young as a trillium” “the spirit of the mountains” “the spirit of the prairie” “The North, as a deed…

…The poem “The Unknown Citizen” by W.H. Auden portrays a community which follows basic communist rules. The citizen is a man who had many accomplishments in life- all of which were for the betterment of the community- and at his death he was regarded…

…This poem “Killed at the Ford” written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow is about a solider who was killed in battle during the civil war. The man that was killed was a person all the other solider looked up to. He was a leader and could lighten the most…

…Ethics In Linda Pastan's poem "Ethics," the speaker recounts a moral dilemma that her teacher would ask every fall, which has been haunting her for a long time. The question was "if there were a fire in a museum, which would you save, a Rembrandt…

…The Road Not Taken 1998 "The Road Not Taken" Rather Than "The Road Taken?" A Title, A Choice The title of a poem often reflects the author's theme. In his poem "The Road Not Taken" Frost's theme is about choices. He had two roads to chose from…