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Themes of Romance in "Winter Swans" and "Neutral Tones"

This literary analysis examines "Winter Swans" by Owen Sheers and "Neutral Tones" by Thomas Hardy to understand how each poet presents romantic feelings. The student analyzes the literary devices used by each poet to put forth two contrasting messages: Sheers' optimistic treatment of love and Hardy's pessimistic associations of love with betrayal.
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Bridget's feedback:

"You've really dug into the two poems, excavating elements at the thematic, didactic, and craft levels. Your navigation of literary device and effect demonstrates your familiarity with the project of analysis, and the reader's sense of this, via the details of the discussion, creates ethos.

This draft looks ready for refinement at the level of sentence and word choice; I encourage you to streamline and tighten up the syntax for a more efficient delivery of ideas. Shifting out of the passive voice will be one way to trim words and make each sentence more intentional. For example, a revision of the sentence "This view is reinforced by..." (bottom of para. 1) might read like this, where we also fuse it with the next sentence: Sheers' use of plural pronouns ("we" and "us"), rather than dividing the pair as two separate people, reinforces the underlying sense of stability and unity...

As a final note, do make sure to proofread before any final submission and properly format all titles of poems using quotation marks, both for the sake of the style guide and your reader, who looks for those cues to know when you are referring to the text (and what type of text it is)."

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