Analysis Of "The Age Of Anxiety"
.... search for the meaning of self and, in essence, the meaning of life, but because their search is triggered by intoxication due to alchohol, the quest is doomed from the start. Throughout the quest, the characters believe themselves to be in a form of Purgatory when they are allegorically in Hell. They fail to realize this due to "the modern human condition which denies possibility but refuses to call it impossible" (Nelson 117).
In "The Age of Anxiety", there are four characters of significance. Quant, the first to be introduced, addresses himself in a mirror, an action typical to a drunken man. He is an aging homosexua .....
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Frost's Narrow Individualism In Two Tramps In Mud Time
.... statement,
along with many others, seems to focus on "me" or "my", indicating the
apparrent selfishness and arrogance of the narrator: "The blows that a
life of self-control/Spares to strike for the common good/That day, giving
a loose to my soul,/I spent on the unimportant wood." The narrator refers
to releasing his suppressed anger not upon evils that threaten "the common
good", but upon the "unimportant wood". The appparent arrogance of the
narrator is revealed as well by his reference to himself as a Herculean
figure standing not alongside nature, but over it: "The grip on earth of
outspread feet,/The life of muscles rocking .....
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The Road Not Taken - An Analyis
.... life. As much he may
strain his eyes to see as far the road stretches, eventually it surpasses
his vision and he can never see where it is going to lead. It is the way
that he chooses here that sets him off on his journey and decides where he
is going.
"Then took the other, just as fair, and having perhaps the better claim."
What made it have the better claim is that "it was grassy and wanted wear."
It was something that was obviously not for everyone because it seemed that
the majority of people took the other path therefore he calls it "the road
less travelled by". The fact that the traveler took this path over the more
popular .....
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Owen's “Dulce Et Decorum Est”
.... the wagon reveals the urgency and occupation with fighting.
The only thing they can do is toss him into a wagon. The fact one word can
add to the meaning so much shows how the diction of this poem adds greatly
to its effectiveness. Likewise, the use of figurative language in this poem
also helps to emphasize the points that are being made. As Perrine says,
people use metaphors because they say "...what we want to say more vividly
and forcefully..." Owen capitalizes greatly on this by using strong
metaphors and similes. Right off in the first line, he describes the troops
as being "like old beggars under sacks." This not only says t .....
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Edgar Allen Poe's The Raven: An Analysis
.... have
befallen you, one can always rely on death. It is the one thing that will
always be there.
In the fourth instance “nevermore” is used the student wants to
believe that the raven escaped from a crazy, old sick man that used to
repeat the word “nevermore”. This is showing how the student is trying to
escape from the reality that the bird came to him to give him a message. “
Nevermore” is telling the student that even if the bird did escape from an
old crazy man the word didn’t help him escape his agony so it’s not going
to help him.
In the fifth instance “nevermore” is used in Poe stages the student
in an imaginat .....
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Andrea Del Sarto: A Statement Worthy Of Examination
.... mood of the statement must be identified. For to understand
the implications of the quote, the pessimism needs to be understood.
Browning is writing from the point of view of del Sarto, a severely
depressed painter, yet comments like these come from the mind of Browning.
How is Browning to know del Sarto’s particular beliefs? In fact, Browning’
s knowledge of del Sarto is confined to one, single biography of the
painter that Browning read. Andrea del Sarto is as much Browning speaking
as it is del Sarto’s life. This poem, in essence, is a portrait of the
painter with commentary provided by Browning.
Next, the implications of .....
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Anne Bradstreet’s Expression Of Anger
.... “I
washed thy face, but more defects I saw”(13). Bradstreet compares washing
the face of her child to trying to erase her own problems. With this
paradox, Bradstreet expresses her failing efforts to make her problems
wash away. She expresses her desperation about her inability to get her
life back to how it was.
Bradstreet expresses her anger through paradoxs, metaphores, and
other literary devices in An Author to Her Book. She makes her anger and
frustration clear throughout the poem. Anne Bradstreet makes her anger
clear through her powerful literary devices.
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Songs Of Innocence And Experience: An Analysis
.... is that they both concern the loss of innocence.
Of his most well known poems are “The Lamb” from Songs of Innocence,
and “The Tyger”, from Songs of Experience. Both poems contain many
similarities according to their themes. "The Lamb" is an emblem of
innocence, corresponding to "The Tyger" as the emblem of experience. In
the poem "The Lamb", William Blake discusses many points questioning
creation and religion. He describes the lamb as being an object of
innocence and fragility when he says "Gave thee clothing of delight,
Softest clothing, woolly, bright; Gave thee such a tender voice" (line 5). “
The Lamb” is full of simple di .....
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Dulce Et Decorum Est: Analysis Of Military Life
.... soldiers in combat while describing his chimera, for
they were "knock-kneed, coughing like hags"and "bent double, like old
beggars under sacks". These words don't necessarily bring to mind a
healthy 17-year old boy, does it? The other words he used- "drunk" "lame"
and "blind,"- all showed soldiers' impaired state, and held both
denotative meanings and connotative meanings in their vagueness, especially
the word "blind," which, in my opinion, was ambigious because not only
were they "blind" in the sense that they couldn't see because of the gas,
night and fog, but also "blind" in the sense of not having the foresight
or un .....
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A Review Of Dudley Randall’s “Ballad Of Birmingham”
.... tells the story of a young girl who
asks her mother if she can participate in a Freedom March on the streets of
Birmingham. Her mother refuses to let her go due to the fact that there is
a high risk that the march is potentially dangerous. Instead of a march in
the streets, the mother suggests that the daughter go to church and sing in
the choir, where she will be safe. The poem takes an unexpected turn when
the mother hears an explosion. Instead of performing a hate crime at the
demonstration, the church was bombed.
The speakers of the poem are describing a specific event that is
taking place in the present time. Aside fro .....
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Dickinson's "Because I Could Not Stop For Death" And "I Heard A Fly Buzz When I Died"
.... the one who is
looking at the "house." Spirits and souls usually mean there is an
afterlife involved.
It isn't until the sixth and final stanza where the audience obtains
conclusive evidence that "Because I Could Not Stop For Death" believes in
an afterlife. The woman recalls how it has been "...Centuries- and yet
feels shorter than the Day I first surmised the Horses' Heads were toward
Eternity-" (913). To the woman, it has been a few hundred years since
Death visited her, but to her, it has felt like less than 24 hours. Since
the body cannot live on for hundreds of years, then it must be none other
then the soul who has come to .....
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Analysis Of “The Vietnam Wall”
.... when visiting the wall. Rios uses this technique frequently
and effectively throughout this poem.
“The Vietnam Wall” tells the story of the poets visit to the Vietnam
War Memorial in Washington D. C.. Rios takes the reader with him on his
journey down the wall explaining each detail as he goes from the shape of
the wall to the physical appearance of it. An example of this is when:
The walk is slow at first,
Easy a little black Marble wall
A smoothness, a shine
The boys in the street want to give.
One Name And then more
Names long lines of names until
They are the shape of the U.N. Building
Taller than I am I .....
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