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 * "I don't know whether a poem has to be there to help to develop something. I think it's there for itself, for what the reader finds in it." **~ Marilyn Hacker

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By John Lennon
== Imagine there's no Heaven ==

<span style="color: rgb(0, 106, 255); font-size: 11pt; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; text-align: center; display: block;">Living for today...
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 106, 255); font-size: 11pt; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; text-align: center; display: block;">Living life in peace...
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 106, 255); font-size: 11pt; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; text-align: center; display: block;">And the world will be as one
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 106, 255); font-size: 11pt; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; text-align: center; display: block;">Sharing all the world...
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 106, 255); font-size: 11pt; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; text-align: center; display: block;">And the world will live as one
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**<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128); font-family: eurostile; font-size: 120%;">Lennon mainly wrote "Imagine" to express his desire for world peace. He wants us to look at the world as the wonderful place it could be and how we could make it this wonderful place. Lennon is trying to express in lines 1-6 that if people put aside their beliefs of an afterlife they can live for today and not for tomorrow. Lines 7-12 show that if there were not countries or religion there would be nothing worth fighting over because most of the wars in our world were over country or religious differences. By putting religion and country issues aside he believes achieving world peace can only be easier for the people in the world. Lines 13-16 and 23-26 are saying how people may think that John Lennon is dreaming and that his world peace idea is ridiculous. He then goes on to show people that he is not the only one out there with these beliefs, and he hopes that through this song more people will come to realize that his dream of world peace really is possible. Lines 17 through 22 are expressing how if we let go of our possessions and of our greed we really would be able to, as a world, act as brothers and share the resources in the world equally. **

<span style="color: rgb(31, 193, 54); text-align: center; display: block;">Missing one today
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<span style="color: rgb(31, 193, 54); text-align: center; display: block;">Missing is a piece...
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<span style="color: rgb(31, 193, 54); text-align: center; display: block;">And the numbers will be done
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<span style="color: rgb(31, 193, 54); text-align: center; display: block;">Missing from the world
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<span style="color: rgb(31, 193, 54); text-align: center; display: block;">And the numbers now are done
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<span style="color: rgb(128, 0, 128); font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">**<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> I am not there. I do not sleep. **
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<span style="color: rgb(128, 0, 128); font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">**<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> I am the gentle autumn rain. **
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<span style="color: rgb(128, 0, 128); font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">**<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> I am the soft stars that shine at night. **
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Eurostile; color: rgb(255, 51, 153);">**"Do Not Stand At My Grave and Weep" by Mary Elizabeth Frye is written in the point of view of a deceased person. The person is explaining in the first line, "Do not stand at my grave and weep", how they do not want their loved ones to be upset and crying at their grave. They want their loved ones to know that although their body may be in the grave, their soul is not there which is expressed in line two as "I am not there. I do not sleep.". Lines three through ten describe how he/she is still around and watching over their loved ones. Their spirit is forever going to be with them and on the Earth. The final line means he/she is not in their grave dead, but is spiritually still living. Frye uses a series of 6 couplets all with end rhymes. The poem contains a rhyme scheme of a a, b b, c c, d d, e e, f f. Figurative language is used to express the narrator's feelings about his/her afterlife.**

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: left; display: block; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center; color: rgb(0, 0, 128);"> **By Robert Frost**

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==<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center; display: block;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Georgia,serif;">Some say the world will end in <span style="color: rgb(255, 60, 0); font-family: Georgia,serif;">fire <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">, ==

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==<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center; display: block;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> Some say in <span style="color: rgb(120, 203, 252); font-family: Georgia,serif;">ice <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">. ==

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==<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center; display: block;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> From what I've tasted of <span style="color: rgb(255, 60, 0); font-family: Georgia,serif;">desire ==

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==<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center; display: block;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> I hold with those who favor <span style="color: rgb(255, 60, 0); font-family: Georgia,serif;">fire <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">. ==

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==<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center; display: block;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> I think I know enough of <span style="color: rgb(120, 203, 252); font-family: Georgia,serif;">hate ==

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==<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center; display: block;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> To say that for destruction <span style="color: rgb(120, 203, 252); font-family: Georgia,serif;">ice ==

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center; display: block;"> And would suffice.
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= = = // **<span style="font-size: 140%; color: rgb(255, 108, 0); text-align: center; display: block;">Analysis ** <span style="font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(46, 46, 250);"> //= =<span style="font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(46, 46, 250);"> = <span style="font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(46, 46, 250);"> <span style="font-size: 110%; color: rgb(46, 46, 250); font-family: eurostile;"> **<span style="font-size: 120%; color: rgb(46, 46, 250); font-family: eurostile;">"Fire and Ice" by Robert Frost is contemplating how the world is going to end. Frost is considering the world will either end by fire or end in ice. He then goes on to compare fire to the human emotion of desire and to compare ice to the human emotion of hate. Personally he would rather have the world end because of desires than to have it end in hate, but lines 5 and 6 show that he believes it is possible for the world to end because of hatred. Lines 7-8 then confirm his belief that the world ending due to hatred or ice makes sense and is suitable. ****<span style="font-size: 120%; color: rgb(46, 46, 250); font-family: eurostile;"> This poem is an imperfect rhyme with a rhyme scheme of a, b, a, a, b, c, b, c, b. Frost also uses a satirical tone and alliteration. **