An Examination Of Similes In The Iliad - And How Homer's Use Of Them Affected The Story
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view of history, Homer could be using similes to guide the reader in the
direction of his personal views, as happens with modern day political "spin".
These views that Homer might be trying to get across might be trying to favor
Troy. It could easily be imagined that throughout time, only great things were
heard about the Greeks mettle in war, and that Homer is attempting to balance
the scales a bit by romanticizing the Trojan peoples, especially Hector, and
bringing to light the lesser-heard tales of Greek stupidity.
Shortly into Book Two, Agamemnon gives the speech to his assembly about his
plan to rally the troop .....
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The Influence Of Personal Experiences In Emily Dickinson's Poetry
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referred to it many more times than she referred to any other work... yet in
this regard she was not unusual by Amherst's standards” (72). The most
prominent figure of religious virtues in her life was her father, Edward
Dickinson. Reading the Bible to his children and speaking in town of religious
ethics were daily events in his life. At home, he tried to raise his children
in the rigorous religion of their ancestors, however his methods appeared quite
harsh. People who knew the Dickinsons referred to Edward as a “severe, latter-
day Puritan, a power-minded tyrant...”, and his home was often depicted as a “
gloomy pr .....
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Poem "Lucifer In The Starlight": New Meanings And Ideas
.... reader feeling perplexed, yet still thinking of Lucifer as the enemy.
At first it may seem as Lucifer has risen to the Earth, but it is further
clarified that he has elevated himself above the "rolling ball". However, god
imagined the world as planar, with heaven on a higher plane, and hell on a lower
plane, not spherical as defined here. From his place in the stars above earth,
Lucifer looks down through the clouds, and observes the sinners. He is talking
about the denizens of the earth, for since Adam sinned in the beginning, all of
his sons and daughters are also sinners. Perhaps he can relate to them, as he
is also trying f .....
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How Do Textual Features Combine To Convey A Theme Of The Poem?
.... Milton
wonders as to the meaning of his blindness; Does God want him to continue to
write, even with his blindness, or what does God really mean? At first his tone
seems harsh, but his feelings are redirected as he answers his own questions in
time. His last question to God, was answered by himself as he realizes that he
cannot blame God for his actions. His figurative language from the point he
begins to question, up to where he begins to answer his own questions are full
of implications of his thought. These implications must be picked out in order
to make sense of the feeling and statement Milton is trying to make.
Furthermore, .....
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In Poems "The Man He Killed", "Reconciliation", And "Dreamers", The Authors Show That Man Kills Because He Must
.... the death of his foe. He rejoices over the ultimate death of war
"Beautiful that war and all its deeds of carnage must...be utterly lost." He
also feels great remorse over his so called enemy's death "For my enemy...a man
divine as myself is dead." He then shows his love for the enemy "I...bend down
and touch lightly with my lips the white face in the coffin." He shows war
twisting the mind of a soldier who then deeply regretted his actions.
In Dreamers, Sassoon shows the soldiers dreaming of heavenly places,
while at the same time they are at war. Yet these heavenly places are things we
take for granted everyday, such a .....
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Differences Between 18th Century Literature And Romantic Poetry Seen Through The Works From Alexander Pope And John Keats
.... has written an eighteenth-century poem which he calls, "An Hero-
Comical Poem." This poem has exalted an over all sense of worthlessness for
common rules. The mentioning of Achilles and the ever-popular Aeneas, are
symbols of Pope's Gothic style. Pope speaks (almost) G-D like throughout, "The
Rape of Lock." Contrary to Keats, who is more down-to-earth with his sense of
realism in his writings. In the beginning of Keats romantic premise to life in
St. Agnes, all is cold. The opening sequence brings a sense of realism to this
bitter cold scene. Cold owls, rabbit's, and numb fingers on a holy, "Beads
man." The Beads ma .....
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Robert Frost's "Two Tramps In Mud Time"
.... 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 soft/And smooth and moist in
vernal heat."
Unexpectedly, the narrator then turns toward nature, apparently abandoning his
initial train of thought. He reveals the unpredictability of nature, saying
that even in the middle of spring, it can be "two months back in the middle of
March." Even the fauna of the land is involved with this chicanery; the arrival
of the bluebird would to most indicate the arrival of spring, yet "he wouldn .....
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Romantic Sonnet
.... and dark which ties the speaker in with the setting as the scene
applies to the tone of the poem as well. Also characteristic of the Romantic
sonnet is the retreat from the neo-classical age and its significant historical
references into a new age where it becomes common to speak of "nothing." In
William Wordsworth's "Composed Upon Westminster Bridge," there is no deeper
meaning to be grasped other than the beauty of the day's dawning. The speaker's
view of the morning and its "majesty" and the "calm" that comes over the speaker
are central ideas in the poem (ll. 3, 11). In this sonnet, it is again apparent
how influenti .....
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Poe's "The Conqueror Worm": Deeper Meaning To The Poem
.... in veils, and drowned in tears." Poe is stating
that a group of angels is going to watch the spectacle put on for them, although
they are already drowning in the tears from plays before. The orchestra that
plays for them is another set of characters that have meaning. They represent
the background in everyone's life by "playing the music of the spheres." A
third set of characters that show hidden meaning is the "Mimes, in the form of
God on high." They denote the people that inhabit the earth. Poe describes
them as "Mere puppets they, who come and go at bidding of vast formless things."
The vast formless things are the id .....
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Poetry: The Law Makes Me Go
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The Point Of View In "Porphyria's Lover"
.... of clothing that Porphyria is wearing helps the
reader know that Porphyria is from an upper-class family. She was wearing a
cloak and shawl, a hat, and gloves. It is apparent that the speaker works for
Porphyria's family. He lives in a cottage, somewhat distant from the main house.
The cottage is cold until Porphyria warms up the room with her presence and by
stirring up the fire. The way the speaker introduces Porphyria is very unique.
He states that Porphyria "glided" into the room. With this description, the
lover insinuates to the reader that the he sees Porphyria as some kind of angel
who moves swiftly and gracefully .....
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T. S. Eliot's "The Hollow Men"
.... in the meanings it set up because of its relationship to other images.
Eliot's real novelty was his deliberate elimination of all merely connective
and transitional passages, his building up of the total pattern of meaning
through the immediate comparison of images without overt explanation of what
they are doing, together with his use of indirect references to other works of
literature (some at times quite obscure).
Eliot starts his poem "The Hollow Men" with a quote from Joseph Conrad's
novel the Heart of Darkness. The line "Mistah Kurtz-he dead" refers to a Mr.
Kurtz who was a European trader who had gone in the .....
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