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The pattern for the number of stresses in this poem is 3-3-4-4-4-3. Flow-er in the cran-nied wall, I pluck you out of the cran-nies, I hold you here, root and all, in my hand, Little flow-er—but if I could un-der-stand. What you are, root and all, and all in all, I should know what God and man is. The poem also follows an ABCCAB rhyme scheme.
Polyphemus first appeared as a savage man-eating giant in the ninth book of the Odyssey. The satyr play of Euripides is dependent on this episode apart from one detail; Polyphemus is made a pederast in the play. Later Classical writers presented him in their poems as heterosexual and linked his name with the nymph Galatea.
The two tones he generally avoids—on principle, I imagine, and by temperament—are the prophetic and the denunciatory, those standbys of political poetry. It is arresting to find a poetry so conscious of cultural and social facts which nonetheless remains chiefly a poetry of awareness, observation, and sorrow." [11]
A reader might use the tools and techniques of poetry analysis in order to discern all that the work has to offer, and thereby gain a fuller, more rewarding appreciation of the poem. [5] Finally, the full context of the poem might be analyzed in order to shed further light on the text, looking at such aspects as the author's biography and ...
The binary of friend and foe, good and evil, man and eater can be traced to this point in Western literature. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] Herman Melville 's Typee (1846) is a semi-factual account of Melville's voyage to the Pacific Island of Nuku Hiva , where he lived for several weeks among the island's cannibal inhabitants before fleeing.
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