Poems analysis شرح و تحليل قصائد .

[O202]

السلااام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته
هذي بعض القصايد وشرحة

Meeting at Night


The gray sea and the long black land;
And the yellow half-moon large and low;
And the startled little waves that leap
In fiery ringlets from their sleep,
As I gain the cove with pushing prow,
And quench its speed i' the slushy sand.


Then a mile of warm sea-scented beach;
Three fields to cross till a farm appears;
A tap at the pane, the quick sharp scratch
And blue spurt of a lighted match,
And a voice less loud, through its joys and fears,
Than the two hearts beating each to each!

[O202]

الشرح

Meeting at Night
By Robert Browning
The meaning of the words:
Gray: color.
Half-moon: first weak of the month.
Startled: surprise.
Wave: water moving up and down.
Leap: jump.
Ringlets: small ring.
Fiery: full of fire, speedy.
Cove: a part of a land goes inside.
Prow: the front part of a ship or boat.
Slushy: full of water and sand.
Quench: make fewer ponds, things make it less.
Tap: a small nock.
Pane: the glass of the window.
Spurt: sudden flow of things.
Match: lighted.
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Paraphrasing + imagery:
The grey sea and the long black land;
The poet is describing the view in that night of the meeting. He says that the sea was gray and the land was long and black because the lover was afraid that anybody sees him.
And the yellow half-moon large and low;
The poet is describing the moon in that night; it was the first week of the month so the moon was yellow, not completed, large, and low. Here we have a visual image.
And the startled little waves that leap
In fiery ringlets from their sleep,
The little waves were leaping and were led by the star. There maxes were like ringlets as they were a weakened from there sleep.
As I gain the cove with pushing prow,
And quench its speed i' the slushy sand.
Here is an image to the water when it pushes the prow of the ship and crease it is speed with the sand.
Then a mile of warm sea-scented beach;
Than a mile of beach has the warm smell of the sea. Here we have an image of smell.
Three fields to cross till a farm appears;
The poet said that you have to cross three fields till you can find a farm that means the place of the meeting was far from the farmers and houses


A tap at the pane, the quick sharp scratch
And blue spurt of a lighted match,
When the lover arrived to the place, he made a small nock on the window so his sweet heart knows that he came.
And a voice less loud, through its joys and fears,
Than the tow heart beating each to each!
Even that the voice of the window was so loud, so it caused to them many feelings of joy and fear, but that voice was less loud than the voice of the beating of their hearts together.

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Purpose:
The poet is describing his feeling in a journey to meet his lover secretly. He tries to express the various feelings he has, such as romantic love, fear, and excitement. He is expressing his feelings through nature and all it is images as if nature can feels that.
Theme:
The main idea is the description of the lover's feelings which is fear, excitement, apprehensive, and full of romantic love just before he meets his lover secretly. He expresses his feeling in indirect way. He describes nature from his own point of view.

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"There is No Frigate Like a Book"

by Emily Dickinson

There is no frigate like a book
. To take us lands away,
Nor any coursers like a page
. Of prancing poetry.
This traverse may the poorest take
. Without oppress of toll;
How frugal is the chariot
. That bears a human soul


الشرح
There s no frigate like a book
By Emily Dickinson
The meaning of the words:

Denotation

Frigate: ship, boat, and small.
Land: km, miles.
Courser:horse.
Prance: jump.
Traverse: movement from one side to another.
Chariot: fly.



Connotation
Frigate: Quick, speed, exploration, and adventure.

Land: People, live, and experience.

Courser:Speed, agility, and beauty.

Prance: Elegant movement.

Traverse: Hard and athletic person.

Chariot: Romantic and imagery.





Paraphrasing:
There is no frigate like a book
To take us away,
Nor any coursers like a page
Of prancing poetry
This traverse my the poorest take
Without oppress of toll
How frugal is the chariot
That bears the human soul!
In this poem Emily Dickinson is considering the power of a book or of poetry to carry us a way, to take us from our immediate surrounding into a world of the imagination. To do this she compared literature to various means of transportation: a boat, a team horses, and a wheeled land vehicle. But she has been careful to choose kinds of transportation and names for them that have romantic connotation. She said that literature and poetry are much better than frigate. Book is the best kind of ships and a page of poetry is much better than a horse. It is movement may take the people to another place without cost money. Books are cheap and good.
Theme:
Literature may create experience to us as we have travel and seen people get to know other culture. But literature is much better than frigate because it is easy to read, cheep, and you can learn from it.

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The Road Not Taken

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Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh

Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference
لشرح

The Road Not Taken
By Robert Frost
The meaning of the words:
Diverged: divided to branches.
Wood: forest.
Undergrowth: growth of the wood.
Fair: just.
Claim: to have a reason.
Grassy: full of grass.
Wear: being used.
Lay: to be but.
Trodden: to step on.
Should: would and not sure.
Sigh: sound that you make it when you are tired.
Hence: from now.
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Paraphrasing:
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
The speaker is a traveler. He is in the yellow forest where there is a two road branches. He said I feel sorry not able to take the tow roads and I am one person. I stood very long time and I looked with my eyes till I get information. There is a stage I could not see it and my image is limited.

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
Then I decide to take the other and I have a better reason because it is full of grass and wanted someone to use it. No one use it and when I step on it my step equal to other way.
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
Now he is remembering that morning. Both roads were not much used and they are very similar roads. But I still think of that road and I walked and it is difficult to turn back.

[O202]

Dream Deferred
What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up
Like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore—
And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over—
like a syrupy sweet?
Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load.
Or does it explode





الشرح

Dream Deferred

By Langston Hughes
The meaning of the words:
Faster: to get in flied.
Sore: painful.
Run: the liquid flow.
Rotten: something has gone.
Crust: (n) the cover.
(V) To form a crust means to form outside.
Syrupy: adj of syrup.
Sags: fall down because of the weight.
Explode: to worst up.
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Paraphrasing:
What happens to a dream deferred?
The poet is wondering of what will happen to a dream if it is delayed.
Does it dry up
Like a raisin in the sun?
He is wondering if it will dry up like a raisin that is put in the sun.
Or fester like a sore--
And then run?
Does it fester like an infected wounded.

Does it stink like rotten meat?
Does it become like a rotten meat that has a very bad smell.
Or crust and sugar over--
like a syrupy sweet?
Does it become UN useful syrupy sweet.
Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load.
Does it keep pulling you down just like a heavy load you are carrying.
Or does it explode?
At the end maybe it will become very dangers, violent, and explode liked a bomb that spread all over and cause death.
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Figure of speech:
1) Dream deferred compared to raisin in the sun.
The similarity is both of them dry, shrink, and become smaller. (Simile)
2) Dream deferred compared to sore.
The similarity is both of them faster, painful, unhealthy, and disgusting. (Simile)
3) Dream deferred compared to rotten meat.
The similarity is both of them stink, disgusting, disturbing, and unhealthy for people. (Simile)
4) Dream deferred compared to syrupy sweet.
The similarity is both of them inedible and unpleasant. (Simile)
5)Dream deferred compared to heavy load.
The similarity is both of them heavy and depressing. (Simile)
6) Dream deferred compared to bomb.
The similarity is both of them violent, explode, spread, and death. (Metaphor)
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Purpose:
The poet is trying to raise awareness about the reason of the violent created by black people in America and at the same time to try to sympathy with the case of the blacks.
Theme:
This poem decides the consequence of being unable to full felled your goal in life. If dreams are deleted and not full felled for along time they become UN pleasant or in the most cases they lead to violent. This theme expressed sex rhetorical questions each investigating one figure of speech simile and the last question that mentioned violent metaphor that is more forces and stress the possibility of violent.

[O202]

The Guitarist Tunes Up
الشرح

The guitarist Tunes Up
By Frances Cornford

The meaning of the words:

Courtesy: politeness.
Lordly: being a lord.
Command: give order.
Conqueror: the defeat attention.
Inquiring: to ask.
Essential: basic.
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Paraphrasing + simile:
With what attentive courtesy he bent
Over his instrument;
The poet says that the guitarist tunes his guitar with kindness and politeness. He loves his guitar and he takes care of it.
Not as a lordly conqueror who could
Command both wire and wood,
But as a man with a loved woman might,
Inquiring with delight
What slight essential things she had to say
Before they started, he and she, to play.
The guitarist plays his guitar not as lord who boss his soldiers and not as a peace of wood but as a man who loves a woman. This man is very happy with the woman and he asks her basic question in order to have a relation with her. Here we have a simile when the poet describes the guitarist as a man and the guitar as a woman. All this before they have a relationship.
Theme:
The theme of the poem is describing the relationship between the guitarist and the guitar. The poet expresses this theme by using one figure of speech simile. He describes the relationship between the guitarist and the guitar as the relationship between a man and a woman. He loves his guitar and he tunes it with care ness and politeness as he treat with woman.

[O202]

The Hound

Life the hound
Equivocal
Comes at a bound
Either to rend me
Or to befriend me.
I cannot tell
The hound's intent
Till he has sprung
At my bare hand
With teeth or tongue.

Meanwhile I stand
And wait the event.

الشرح

The Hound
By Robert Francis
The meaning of the words:
Hound: dog.
Equivocal: difficult to understand or to explain.
Bound: jump.
Befriend: friend.
To rend: to turn.
Bare: naked.
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Paraphrasing:
Life the hound
Equivocal
The poet says that life is a dog. He uses a metaphor when he says that life is a dog and the similarity between them they can not be understood.
Comes at a bound
Either to rend me
Or to befriend me.
I cannot tell
The hound’s intent
Till he has sprung
At my bare hand
With teeth or tongue.
Meanwhile I stand
And wait the event.
The poet says that life or dog comes at a jump either to destroy me or to be friend with me. He can not tell the life's aim till the life or the dog jumps at my naked hands and I have to give my hands to the dog or life. I have to stay and wait the events.
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Purpose:
The poet wants to express his mixed feelings about life. One optimism when he feels life will nice and friend to him. The other is pessimism when he thinks life will destroy and turn him.
Theme:
Life is uncertain. One can not tell his destiny in life. Life either gives to human being or to destroy the person. No one can expect what will happen to him till he is going throw this life. While he is living he will be apprehensive.
How the poets express this theme?
The poet expresses this theme through one main figure of speech metaphor. This metaphor controls the whole poem. The first line has two words that one element of the metaphor A is B. the second line has one word that is the similarity A and B unlike. The rest of the poem explains that similarity where life compared to dog.

[O202]

Winter


When icicles hang by the wall
And Dick the shepherd blows his nail
And Tom bears logs into the hall
And milk comes frozen home in pail,
When blood is nipp'd and ways be foul,
Then nightly sings the staring owl,
Tu-whit; Tu-who, a merry note,
While greasy Joan doth keel the pot.

When all aloud the wind doth blow

And coughing drowns the parson's saw
And birds sit brooding in the snow
And Marian's nose looks red and raw,
When roasted crabs hiss in the bowl,
Then nightly sings the staring owl,
Tu-whit; Tu-who, a merry note,
While greasy Joan doth keel the pot

الشرح

Winter


This poem by Shakespeare is divided in to stanzas with nine lines each.


The meaning of the words:


Icicle: thin point stick of ice that hangs down from something such as a roof.


Dick: name of person.


Shepherd: someone whose job is to take care of sheep.


Blow: wind moving.


Log: peace of cut trees.


Hall: a room or passage that is just inside the front entrance of a house or public building.


Pail: bucket.


Nipped: frozen.


Foul: disgusting, very ugly.

Nightly: every night.

Stare: to look at someone or something for a long time without moving your eyes.


Owl: kind of bird hunts at night and has large eyes.


Merry: happy.


Greasy: full of oil.


Keel: cooling.


Blow: to remove.


Cough: pushing air out of your throat with tough sound because you are sick.


Parson: the man of the church.


Saw: a tool with sharp points, used for cutting wood.


Brood: to think sadly.


Marian: name of a girl.


Raw: uncooked.


Roasted: to cook or be cooked in an oven or over a fire.


Crabs: a wild fruit (green apple).


Hiss: sound (hiss).


Bowl: a wide round container that is open at the top, used for holding liquids, food etc.



Paraphrasing + imagery + figure of speech:


When icicles hang by the wall


The poet describes the ice that hangs down from the roof in a way to describe how cold the weather is. Here we have visual image.


And Dick the shepherd blows his nail


He is talking about a shepherd called Dick who is sitting out side suffering from the cold weather and he is trying to warm his hand. Here we have image of feeling the skin (very cold).


And Tom bears logs into the hall


Another man called Tom is carrying the peaces of wood that he cut to store. He is working extremely hard in cutting the wood. Here we have visual image (hard work, very cold).


And milk comes frozen home in pail


Even the milk becomes frozen from the very cold weather. The image here is visual.


When blood is nipped and ways be foul


The blood in the veins of the people is also becomes frozen and all the roads are very dirty. The image is feeling because you feel it in your skin and visual image (dirty roads).



Then nightly sings the staring owl


Every night the owl is singing it is song "Tu-with_tu-who". The image is hearing.

"Tu-with.tu-who"

This is the song that the owl is singing every night. It is a scary sound and not nice. Here we have hearing image.


A merry note


He found the song is very happy. There is an irony (figure of speech) in this line because the sound of the owl is very ugly and scary but he found it happy because it is the only sound he could hear at night in the winter. The image is hearing.


While greasy Joan doth keel the pot


In the time that dirty Joan is keeling the pot, this is a pleasant image for John who is preparing the warm food in a cold winter. In other hand, Joan looks dirty because cleaning clothes is a very hard work in winter. We have here visual image. …………………………………………� �………………………………



When all aloud the wind doth blow

It is a description for the loud sound of the wind, it is a sound imagery because in this line you can imagine that you are hearing the wind blows. The image is hearing.
And coughing drowns the parsons saw
The voice of the sick people in the church while they are coughing is very loud and annoying so he describes it as the sound of the saw and no one can hear the parsons talking. Here we have hearing image and metaphor.
And birds sit brooding in the snow
The birds are sitting sadly and not singing because of the snowy weather. The image is visual.
And Marian's nose looks red and row
The little girl Marian has a red and row nose because of the very cold weather and sickness. Here we have visual image and metaphor.
When roasted crabs hiss in the bowl
Heated green apples are making a hissing sound in the dish because of the cold weather. The image is hearing.
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Theme:
Poetry should not just deals exclusively with beauty like sunset, flowers, or love. The function of poetry is sometimes to be ugly rather than beautiful, and poetry may deal with common goals and grassy cooks as good as with sunset and flowers.
The poem contains no moral, no lessons, no messages like some readers wants.
The main theme in this poem is about the tough and extremely cold winter. It is descriptive poem for conditions that people went through in the cold winter in that time.

[O202]

A Study of Reading Habits

When getting my nose in a book

Cured most things short of school,
It was worth ruining my eyes
To know I could still keep cool,
And deal out the old right hook
To dirty dogs twice my size.

Later, with inch-thick specs,
Evil was just my lark:
Me and my coat and fangs
Had ripping times in the dark.
The women I clubbed with sex!
I broke them up like meringues.

't read much now: the dude
Who lets the girl down before
The hero arrives, the chap
Who's yellow and keeps the store
Seem far too familiar. Get stewed:
Books are a load of crap.

Philip Larkin

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الشرح

A Study of Reading Habits


By Philip Larkin

The meaning of the words:


Getting: to put something inside.


Cured: to solve.


Short: not having enough of something you need.


Ruining: to have short vision.


Cool: relax.


Deal out: to rutting.


Hook: a curved piece of metal with a sharp point that you use for catching fish.



Size: how big or small something is.


Specs: eye glasses.


Evil: the opposite of virtue.


Lark: a bird or be happy.


Cloak: a warm piece of clothing like a coat that hangs from your shoulders and does not have sleeves.


Ripping: to rip a woman.


Club: heavy stick that is used as a weapon.


Meringues: peace of cake which is mix of sugar and egg.


Dude: city man who is elegant.


Far too: extremely familiar.


Get stewed: get drunk.


Crap: trash.


Paraphrasing:


When getting my nose in a book


Cured most things short of school,


The speaker is talking about the time when reading was one way he could avoid almost all his troubles except for school.


It was worth ruining my eyes


To know I could still keep cool,


And deal out the old right hook


To dirty dogs twice my size


Reading too much cause the speaker short eyes sight, but it seemed worth the danger of ruining his eyes to read stories which he could imagine himself a hero with skills and experience needed to defeat bullies who wear twice his sizes.


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Later, with inch-thick specs,


When he became a teen-age he had to wear thick glasses because his eye sight had become so poor.


Evil was just my lark:


He felt that evil is all around him and controlling his act.


Me and my cloak and fangs

Had ripping times in the dark.

Then he imagines himself with cloak and fangs having a bad time and doing dirty things in the dark.


The women I clubbed with sex!


I broke them up like meringues.


He fancied himself a rapist who beat and tortured his vulnerable victims, leaving them broken and destroyed.


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’t read much now: the dude


Who lets the girl down before


The hero arrives, the chap


Who's yellow and keeps the store,


Seem far too familiar. Get stewed:


Books are a load of crap.


When he became adult he doesn't read anymore because he becomes a secondary character who doesn’t the girl until the hero come to her rescue and that was the store keeper whose face is yellow. Then he get drunk and said that it is better than reading because books are just full of useless lies.

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Figure of speech:
1) In the first line there is a hyperbole. When he said "my nose in a book" he means that the book is too close.
2) In line six there is a metaphor when he described the bullies at the school as they are dirty dogs.
3) In line seven there is a hyperbole when he said that his glasses are inch-thick and here he meant that his eye sight becomes very poor.
4) In line eleven and twelve there is a metaphor when he described the women he is rapping like the meringues because he left them weak and destroyed.
5) In the last line there is a metaphor when he described the book as a crap because both of them are useless and full of rubbish.
Theme:
Analysis the wrong reading habits. It shows the damage that melodrama cause .These books are too simple, not realistic enough, and if a person is deficit to them he will be separated from reality he will learn the wrong lesson of life. He will identify with character that they do not really exist. Such a person will miss out the real life experience and he will grow to be a lonely, unsocial, and looser.
Purpose:
The poet aim to warn people about the bad affects of some kind of literature mainly the melodramatic works.
The speaker:
The speaker is a person who loves reading. At the first stage of his life he looks chubby, small, has no friend, wearing thick glasses, not strong enough, and has no experience. At the second stage of his life he used to read a lot of heroic books and identify himself as a hero. He has a sense of power. At the third stage of his life he has no friend and he is being drunker

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The Man He Killed ~Thomas Hardy

"Had he and I but met
By some old ancient inn,
We should have sat us down to wet
Right many a nipperkin!
"But ranged as infantry,
And staring face to face,
I shot at him and he at me,
And killed him in his place.
"I shot him dead because –
Because he was my foe,
Just so – my foe of course he was;
That's clear enough; although
"He thought he'd 'list perhaps,
Off-hand like – just as I –
Was out of work – had sold his traps –
No other reason why.
"Yes; quaint and curious war is!
You shoot a fellow down
You'd treat if met where any bar is,
Or help to half-a-crown."


الشرح
The Man He Killed
By Thomas Hardy
The meaning of the words:
Inn: place where people come together and drink.
To wet: to make full of liquid.
Ranged: employed in army.
Infantry: soldier.
Foe: enemy.
Off-hand: not that thought, did not really think about.
Traps: belonging.
Quaint: strange.
Curious: strange mysterious.
Treat: reward.
Crow: a coin, a part of pound, insentient.
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Paraphrasing:
Had he and I but met
By some old ancient inn,
We should have sat us down to wet
Right many a nipperkin!
The speaker says that if we had met in some inn we might have become friends and drinks together many glasses and has good relation.
But ranged as infantry,
And staring face to face,
I shot at him as he at me,
And killed him in his place.
As I am recruited in the army I found myself in front of his face and we both shoot at each other but I killed him directly.
I shot him dead because- -
Because he was my foe,
Just so: foe of course he was:
That’s clear enough: although
I killed him because he was my enemy there is no other reason. It is simple that he is conforming himself that what he did is the right thing. As a reader I understand that he is not convinced by what he did that he can not complete the sentence.
He thought he'd list, perhaps,
Off-hand-like- just as I –
Was out of work- had sold his traps-
No other reason why.
May be joined the army without a lot of consideration just as I- I was so poor I did not have a job. I sold everything from my stuff. There is mo other reason.
Yes: quaint and curious war is!
You shoot a fellow down
You'd treat, if met where any bar is,
Or help to half-a-crown
If I met the person in a different situation, I would invite him to drink. Or if I found him extremely poor I would have give him money. I am not actually a criminal I am actually a caring and friendly person.
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The speaker:
The speaker is a solider. He is uneducated man and poor. He is trying to convince himself of what he did. That he killed person because he is his enemy. But really deep inside he is not convinced. The mistakes in his language shows that the speaker is so confused that he can not complete a whole sentence. The conclusion of that war is a very mysterious and strange state of affairs that turns us to criminals, even we are friendly people.
Purpose:
The poet wants us to realize that war is inhuman. To do this purpose he put a solider as the speaker.
Theme:
This poem presents war as an abnormal and inhuman state of affairs. It uses simple people who have no grudge and convinces them that they are enemies to each other, puts them in a situation where they instantly kill each other. These young men have in fact no reason to hate each other they just joined the war mainly because they are extremely poor and needed some income. It is very sad that they find themselves turned into killers

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السلام عليكم لو سمحتو حابه احد يساعدني لازم اعمل بوربوينت عن قصيدتين واقارن بينهم
in the characteristic and symbols and any elements . i really need before sunday if anyone can help me , thnx

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السلام عليكم لو سمحتو حابه احد يساعدني لازم اعمل بوربوينت عن قصيدتين واقارن بينهم
in the characteristic and symbols and any elements . i really need before sunday if anyone can help me , thnx
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