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i heared that this site can help student in answer questions of home work , so i will write here in order to help me
i have a question it is about two poem
this is.......compare the following poems,wordworth,london 1802 and keats on first looking into chapman's homer.in your answer you should analze the poems,on language used(rhyme,rhytm,stress pattern,metaphor,imagery,tone,word order,appearance of the poem on the page,alliteration,point of view)plz i need help from you, iwill apreciate yours if you do
There is a discussion of both poems at the Wondering Minstrels:
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Les
thank you , but i need more sites or help in analyze the languge used for the both
Morpheus, use Google. Just type in the name of the poem, and you will get lots of sites.
Les
What's a 'tma'?
London, 1802
Milton! thou shouldst be living at this hour:
England hath need of thee: she is a fen
Of stagnant waters: altar, sword, and pen,
Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and bower,
Have forfeited their ancient English dower
Of inward happiness. We are selfish men;
Oh! raise us up, return to us again;
And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power.
Thy soul was like a Star, and dwelt apart:
Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea:
Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free,
So didst thou travel on life's common way,
In cheerful godliness; and yet the heart
The lowliest duties on herself did lay.
-- William Wordsworth
On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer
Much have I travell'd in the realms of gold,
And many goodly states and kingdoms seen;
Round many western islands have I been
Which bards in fealty to Apollo hold.
Oft of one wide expanse had I been told
That deep-brow'd Homer ruled as his demesne;
Yet never did I breathe its pure serene
Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold.
Then felt I like some watcher of the skies
When a new planet swims into his ken;
Or like stout Cortez, when with eagle eyes
He star'd at the Pacific - and all his men
Look'd at each other with a wild surmise -
Silent, upon a peak in Darien.
-- John Keats
First, they are both Petrarchan sonnets. See, for example,
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Look at the possible rhyme schemes and find out what iambic pentameter means, for your rhythm question.
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By language, I assume you mean 'tone', instead of English.
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I guess you could safely say they both have a 'solemn' tone, but one is praising Chapman's book on Homer, and the other deprecating London in 1802.
For alliteration and/or word order, look for words near each other that begin with the same letter(s), or repeat similar sounds. For example, look at the 's', 'z' and 'st' sounds here:
Thy soul was like a Star, and dwelt apart:
Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea:
Or like stout Cortez, when with eagle eyes
He star'd at the Pacific - and all his men
You will note similar vowel sounds in neighboring words as well. Here is the glossary page for the links above for your reference:
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thank you so much dear
first, tma is a short for tutorial marked assignment
and thanxxxx so much for your hel and clarification
That is a perfect description for a response from Hugh.
"Hel and Clary-fication"