Shakespeare's Sonnet 18
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his collection. It is a beautiful romantic love poem written to compare
summer to his love’s beauty. A beautiful piece of imagery is used in
lines1-3: “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou are more lovely
and more temperate. Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May:”
Shakespeare clearly ables the reader to picture a beautiful woman whose
beauty can not be taken away by any means. The reader, by reading on, can
than picture flowers blowing in a breeze.
Sonnet 18 is very typical of his writing style. Romantisicm runs
rmapid as a theme in many of his poems. He best shows this style in lines
10-14:
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Beginnings
.... be herself, her father, a mentor, or God, to help her achieve her
goals.
Booth is saying in this poem that the first lesson one needs to learn in
life is that we must prepare ourselves for the future. In doing so, we
must rely on a “higher being” for support, because we are not capable of
surviving on our own. A baby, or very young child, must have its parents
or caretakers guide them while they learn everything; to walk, talk, swim.
A beginning student of academics and/or athletics needs a mentor; a
teacher or a coach, to teach them as they learn a skill or technique. A
human being needs the Heavenly Father to guide them thr .....
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Frost's Home Burial
.... as though they both have been grieving the loss of their
child differently. Any feels her grieving is superior to her husband’s.
His anger emerges as he feels that she must be sadder than he is. It is
obvious at this point that they haven’t cried together and allowed
themselves to vent as a couple. It turns out that he dug the grave himself
while she watched. She seems bitter that friends could come to the grave
site, share their sympathies and then go back to their own lives. As the
poem comes to a close, their love for each other is evident as he says in
the last line, “I’ll follow and bring you back by force, I will!--- .....
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Comparison Of "Speaking Of Poetry" And "966"
.... his ancestry was barbarous, his
ways African his speech uncouth.” Dickinson implies how impossible their
relationship was in the simple phrase, “Overlooked I all-”, this I
interpret as how she ignored her senses. She knew it wouldn’t work yet
chose to ignore her better judgement.
Another thing that stands out is the styles that these are written
in (especially Mrs. Dickinson’s choice of style). Bishop was taking the
view of an outside party, to which thing are alway6s more clear, so his was
written in a clear, more traditional manner. However Dickinson’s poem was
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Analysis Of Langston Hughes'"The Negro Speaks Of Rivers," "I, Too," And "Mother And Son"
.... limits and possibilities of his body and soul.
In "I, Too," Hughes portrays utmost assurance and serenity. He
accepts the ways of today, but has faith in a change for tomorrow. He does
not offer much complaint; he goes his own way abidingly, but knows that
this is only temporary. He knows, without question, that there will be a
time when everyone is looked upon as equals and no one would dare have such
ill manners as to ask him to submit to any degrading ways. His spiritual
faith is so vivid and magnificent. He knows who he is and what he wants,
and is patiently waiting for a time when everyone is viewed the same.
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Analysis Of Plath's "Daddy"
.... her and drank her blood--sucking her dry of life. She tells her father to give up and be done, to lie back" (line 75) and in line 80, she says, "Daddy, daddy, you bastard,
Plath’s attitude towards men is expressed in this passage through her imagery of the villagers stamping and dancing on the dead vampire. The speaker says "If I’ve killed one man, I’ve killed two–" most likely meaning that all men are the same and ridding the world of one is equivalent to ridding the world of both.
She is also killing off the mature childish ideas of her father being her husband (Electra complex), and ridding herself of those feelings. In l .....
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The Second Coming: Analysis
.... has lost order and in turn lost faith in God.
The second metaphor conveys Yeats’ idea that anarchy has taken over. The metaphor begins with “The blood-dimmed tide is loosed," suggesting that the purity of the soul has been corrupted by the destruction that accompanies chaos. Yeats uses the second line of the metaphor, “...and everywhere the ceremony of innocence is drowned,” to show how the value of life, health of country, and civilized order have died. In this metaphor Yeats conveys his socio-religious idea that the deterioration of societal morals has led the way for anarchy to corrupt the religious purity of the individu .....
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“The Birds” By John Updike
.... things that lack conclusive proof. Updike’s experience at the end is somewhat religious because he is completely awed by something so mysterious (the birds).
Next the author’s organization of the poem also contributes to the climactic ending. In each stanza the author describes one specific part of his experience. In the first stanza the author depicts the setting, the second stanza talks about the trees and the beauty they possess, the third stanza discusses the author’s amazement about the birds. The fourth stanza then shows the real side to the birds, taking away some of their majesty. Then the concluding two stanza’s sho .....
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John Keats
.... Hampstead, now known as Keats House. There he met and fell deeply in love with a young neighbour, Fanny Brawne. During the following year, despite ill health and financial problems, he wrote an astonishing amount of poetry, including `The Eve of St Agnes', `La Belle Dame sans Merci', `Ode to a Nightingale' and `To Autumn'. His second volume of poems appeared in July 1820; soon afterwards, by now very ill with tuberculosis, he set off with a friend to Italy, where he died the following February.
Keats wrote 'To Autumn' directly after abandoning 'The Fall of Hyperion', during September of 1819. It is among the last of his poems and .....
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“I Had Been Hungry, All The Years”
.... it seems she speaks of what she was thinking as she touched the “Curious Wine” “’Twas this on Tables I had seen” tells of how she had seen wealth often, so her hunger was not for the unknown but the inexperienced. “Windows” tells of how she knew the wealth. She saw it but never touched it, she viewed it but never got an inch closer then she was the day before. It wasn’t just the fact that she saw the wealth from the “Windows” but that there was a vast amount of it, shown with the usage of the word “Wealth” which can mean vastness. This seeing of it had made her give up hope. Shown in the lines “I looked in the Windows, for the .....
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A Pregenerative Soul’s Fear Of Life
.... because God, who as the Clod of Clay says, “loves the lowly,” comes to her with a promise that, even though her life seems small and insignificant, she is not forgotten. She serves the lamb in nourishment and her perfume spreads across the grasses. Because of these and other services, she will someday “flourish in eternal vales.” The Cloud expresses a similar opinion when asked about the seeming futility and brevity of its life. The Cloud questions the veracity of both of Thel’s suppositions: “‘O maid, I tell thee, when I pass away, / It is to tenfold life, to love, to peace, and raptures holy’” (ll. 57-58). The Cloud explains to .....
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Confessions In Rhyme: Poetry Analysis
.... that fight two men had died
or at least it was thought to be
when they found out one was alive
they went on happily.
They tricked the captain and two of the crew
into thinking that Zachariah was dead,
but all that was thrown overboard
was some cloth in a hammock bed.
Because the captain thought he was dead
his secret was very big.
Every day the sailors would bring him food
while he was hiding in the brig.
This poem relates to the part of the novel when there is a big fight and two are thought to be dead. It tells what happens before, during, and after the fight.
Captain’s Triumph
The captain’s musket was once use .....
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