Analysis Of Lorca’s Lament For Ignacio Sanchez Mejias
.... ideas and realistic and nonrealistic images causing an uncanny, dreamlike effect on the reader. In addition, he included numerous symbols in this poem to represent a certain idea or mood that he was trying to create. Also, the poem contains a musical quality, which appeal to the reader’s senses. Next, this poem contains characteristics and ideas, which are indigenous to southern Spain, especially in Andalusia, where Garcia Lorca was born. Finally, Lorca makes it clear that the main theme of this peom is the death of his friend, Ignacio Sanchez Mejias. He attacked the subject of death from many different angles. In th .....
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Ode To The West Wind Essay
.... in the fifth stanza with an apostrophe. The speaker speaks to the West Wind, and asks this higher force to listen to his plea.
The second section of the poem deals with the wind as being a power of the wind in the heavens. He begins the second section of the poem by saying that the wind is "'mid the steep sky's commotion." Here he is commenting on the winds power by describing the commotion the wind produces. He then uses an image of death in describing the leaves as "decaying leaves", giving us the image of a dead decaying body. Here the speaker is trying to display the strength and destructiveness of the wind. It gives .....
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Nature In Frost's Poems
.... one less traveled. "The paths are wanted wear." He is saying no matter what which one, he goes he will have to take a path (Frost 84).
I should say this doubtfully because I know where I am going. "Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference." By taking this path Frost is saying he made the right choice to keep going and he didn't turn back. He took the path that people take less often (Frost 84).
In "Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening," Frost stops at the edge of a wood to think who's woods are he in. He just sits there waiting and watching.
"Whose woods t .....
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Poem: My Heart Aches
.... Away! for I will fly to thee,
Not charioted by Becchus and his pards,
But on the viewless wings of poesy,
Though the dull brain perplexes and retards:
Already with thee! tender is the night,
And haply the Queen-Moon is on her throne,
Clustered around by all her starry Fays;
But here there is no light,
Save what from heaven is with the breezes blown
Through verdurous glooms and winding mossy ways.
I cannot see what flowers are at my feet,
Nor what soft incense hangs upon the boughs,
But, in embalmet darkness, guess each sweet
Wherewith the seasonable month endows
The grass, the thicket, and the fruit thee wild;
White hawthor .....
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A Valediction Of Forbidding Mourning: The Truth About Mourning
.... virtuous men pass mildly away, And whispering their souls to go." Here the persona is trying to convey to his lover that she should deal with his leaving as though it is a death. Not a death in which she should be sad, but of a death of a man that was a very good human being who will go peacefully and calmly to heaven. Also, that she has nothing to fear because in actuality he is not dying but just going away and for her to remember that they are very much in love. But the lover sees this as the souls leaving going to another place and never returning.
Next, Donne states, "But we, by a love much refined" implying that their love .....
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"Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night": Death Through Repetition And Diction
.... of life.
Next, the references to "good men," "wild men," and "grave men" display the three basic stages of life: birth, life, and death. In stanza three, the stanza pertaining to "good men," the portion "the last wave by" depicts the old man's generation as fewer and fewer still live. The color symbolism of the "green bay" lets us know that the speaker refers to the young and new generation of yesterday. Stanza four's reference to "wild men" concerns the living part of life. It reveals the fact that men often learn too late to change their actions. The fifth stanza depicts the dying part of life in which the senses deterior .....
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Merry-Go-Round: Critical Analysis
.... I see the marvel they see" is informing the reader that he is "almost" caught up in the enchantment as the children are.
McAvley's clever use of diction and imagery add to the enchantment of the merry-go-round as the children see it as a magical fantasy world. It is continually likened to another world. For example, the first stanza deals with the excitement and attraction of the merry-go-round with adjectives such as "bright-coloured" and "mirror-plated" to describe it. The use of personification, "prancing wooden horses", is deliberately used to suggest the horses are alive in this surreal world. Personification is also us .....
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Upon The Burning Of Our House July 10th, 1666
.... what is happening and says a quick prayer to God to save her comfort, and what, at the time, she considers her “life”. As she leaves her house in stanza three, taking one last look she realizes that all that was giving to her from God and now he takes what belongs to him. Stanza four and five show how she does treasure the material things, as does most people. Her thoughts and feelings expressed in these two stanzas show how she knows she is going to miss the trunk, chest and all else that lies in the ruins, that was destroyed in the burning flame. She shows great sadness when she dreams of all the things that no longer will o .....
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Phillis Wheatley: Black Or White Poet?
.... her homeland to America. She lived as a domestic slave to a wealthy family in Boston where she was educated and made into a better person. In the poem, her use of such words like “scornful eye” and “refined” suggests acknowledgement on the part of the poet in regards to racial injustice. “Scornful eye” as Wheatley uses the phrase refers to the racial discrimination that exists towards blacks. Similarly, the description “refined” suggests that if you improve yourself you can better endure prejudices. The poet seems to say that one way of protesting captivity is to overcome the dehumanizing system of slavery by educating oneself. T .....
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Ozymandias
.... greatest king on earth.One immediate image is found in the second line, "trunkless legs.". One good comparison may be when the author equates the passions of the statue's frown, sneer, and wrinkled lip to the "lifeless things" remaining in the "desart." Another is when Shelley compares the "Works" of Ozymandias with "Nothing beside remains."
Ozymandias shows the reader that two things will mark the earth forever. First: the awesome power of mother nature is constant, everlasting and subject to no human works. Second: a mans actions are kept in the hearts of those he touches for eternity.
Nature's commanding presence in the po .....
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Dylan Thomas's Use Of Language
.... nineteenth century. It derives from peasant life, originally being a type of round sung. It progressed throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to its present form. For Dylan Thomas, its strictly disciplined rhyme scheme and verse format provided the framework through which he expresses "both a brilliant character analysis of his father and an ambivalent expression of his love towards him"(Magill 569 ).
In its standardized format, the poem consists of five tercets, having three lines, and a quatrain, having four lines, rhymed aba, aba, aba, aba, aba, abaa. In the first tercet, the first line "Do not go gentle i .....
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Critisism On Robert Burns (1759-1796)
.... and he have used is now read with a difficulty which greatly damps the pleasure of the reader: in England it cannot be read at all, without such a constant reference to a glossary, as nearly to destroy that pleasure. As Mackenzie states: "The power of genius is not less admirable in tracting the manners, than in painting the passions, or drawing the scenery of nature. That intuitive glance with which a writer like Shakespere discerns the characters of men, with which he catches the many changing hues of life, forms a sort of problem io the science of mind, of which it is easier to see the truth than to assign the cause."(L .....
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