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Calvin_10620045_4SA01_Vclass Pengkajian Puisi (Imagery)

  A Song of Despair Poem (1924) by Pablo Neruda   The memory of you emerges from the night around me. The river mingles its stubborn lament with the sea.   Deserted like the wharves at dawn. It is the hour of departure, oh deserted one!   Cold flower heads are raining over my heart. Oh pit of debris, fierce cave of the shipwrecked.   In you the wars and the flights accumulated. From you the wings of the song birds rose.   You swallowed everything, like distance. Like the sea, like time. In you everything sank!   It was the happy hour of assault and the kiss. The hour of the spell that blazed like a lighthouse.   Pilot's dread, fury of blind driver, turbulent drunkenness of love, in you everything sank!   In the childhood of mist my soul, winged and wounded. Lost discoverer, in you everything sank!   You girdled sorrow, you clung to desire, sadness stunned you, in you everything sank! ...
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Calvin 10620045 4SA01   I Dream A World (1941) by Langston Hughes I dream a world where man No other man will scorn, Where love will bless the earth And peace its paths adorn I dream a world where all Will know sweet freedom's way, Where greed no longer saps the soul Nor avarice blights our day. A world I dream where black or white, Whatever race you be, Will share the bounties of the earth And every man is free, Where wretchedness will hang its head And joy, like a pearl, Attends the needs of all mankind- Of such I dream, my world!     Analysis: The poem is about someone’s hope for a perfect world where people from any race and cultural background can live together peacefully, without hatred or injustice. There are figurative languages such as personification, antithesis, and simile discovered in this poem.   Personification gives human characteristics to non-human and inanimate objects, such as emotions.   “Where love will b...
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