Unbroken
.... his visions on sheets that hang from the eaves or painting me with
psychedelic designs. It doesn't matter which. All of it makes me want him
more.
Some things I say to him are like sour notes played too often. I'm out
of tune. He always sings along. Our waltz is better than most, I suppose. We
know the steps by heart. The world moves quickly around us and our quiet
drunken pace, but we don't care. Our minds move quickly despite this world's
petty distractions. It's us and them, and we're the only two sane people left.
He makes me nervous, still. His dreams are bigger than both of us.
When we speak the words fal .....
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Whitman's Democracy
.... should embrace all.
Whitman commends the many people of America in "I Hear America Singing."
He writes of the mothers, and the carpenters. He says that they all sing their
own song of what belongs to them. In this poem Whitman brings these people from
all backgrounds together as Americans. In the freedom of American democracy
they are allowed to sing of what is theirs.
In these poems Whitman has described those held in the lowest esteem.
He has also described the common man, the mothers, and the soldiers. He speaks
for all these people, liberating them. He has taken them out from the ranks
that society had put them in, an .....
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A Comparison And Contrast Of Love In Christopher Marlowe's "The Passionate Shepherd To His Love" And C. Day Lewis's "Song"
.... He also utilizes the power of speech to attempt
to gain the will of his love. In contrast, the poem "Song" is set in what is
indicative of a twentieth century depression, with an urban backdrop that is
characteristically unromantic. The speaker "handle(s) dainties on the docks"
(5) , showing that his work likely consists of moving crates as a dock worker.
He extends his affection through the emphasis of his love and how it has endured
and survived all hardships. He uses the truth of his poor and difficult
situation as a tool to entice his love.
In the "Passionate Shepherd", the speaker offers his lover a multitude
of del .....
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A Critical Analysis Of "The Parting" By Michael Drayton
.... constraint of the sonnet is the length of the lines themselves.
In a sonnet, the rythem is always iambic pentameter, which means that there must
always be ten syllables per line, with each second syllable being stressed.
Where the author breaks this pattern, it must obviously be for a good reason,
when the author wants a certain word or syllable to be stressed. This in itself
will naturally add tot he meaning of the poem. This, in addition, to the
constraints of the number of lines, again causes the poem to have to be
compressed, clarifying the poem's meaning, and thereby enhance it. For example,
in the first line, there should .....
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Poetry: Always And Forever
.... I feel.
So I close my eyes,
And let my heart guide my hand.
Perhaps the tears that falls from my eyes,
Will show you my love and how much it means to me.
To me our love is everything.
I believe love will find it's way and show us the answers
To the questions being revealed,
I promise you that I will always love you
And I never meant to hurt you.
I know you love me,
I can see it in your eyes and feel it in your touch,
I promise I will never forget it.
For out of everything in my life I have earned and acquired,
Your l .....
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Analysis Of "13 Ways Of Looking At A Blackbird"
.... He makes this connection even more
clear in the fourth stanza when he says that “A man and a woman Are one. A man
and a woman and a blackbird are one." In the sixth stanza he goes back to being
the poet observer as he watches the blackbird fly by his icy window. Again in
the next stanza he goes back to the point of view of the blackbird wondering why
the men of Haddam only imagine golden birds instead of realizing the value of
the common blackbird. At this time, he makes the connection that in seeing and
knowing the blackbird it becomes a part of himself. When he says in the eighth
stanza “I know noble accents And lucid, ine .....
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Analysis Of Frost's "Desert Places" And "Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening"
.... else around except for the unfeeling snow
and his lonely thoughts.
The speaker in this poem is jealous of the woods. "The woods around it
have it - it is theirs." The woods symbolizes people and society. They have
something that belongs to them, something to feel a part of. The woods has its
place in nature and it is also a part of a bigger picture. The speaker is so
alone inside that he feels that he is not a part of anything. Nature has a way
of bringing all of her parts together to act as one. Even the animals are a
part of this wintery scene. "All animals are smothered in their lairs,/ I am
too absent-spirited to c .....
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Analysis Of "Because I Could Not Stop For Death"
.... no haste." The third quatrain
seems to speed up as the trinity of death, immortality, and the speaker pass the
children playing, the fields of grain, and the setting sun one after another.
The poem seems to get faster and faster as life goes through its course. In
lines 17 and 18, however, the poem seems to slow down as Dickinson writes, "We
paused before a House that seemed / A Swelling of the Ground-." The reader is
given a feeling of life slowly ending. Another way in which Dickinson uses the
form of the poem to convey a message to the reader occurs on line four as she
writes, "And Immortality." Eunice Glenn believes th .....
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Analysis Of "The Age Of Anxiety" By W.H. Auden
.... support Malin's theories by drawing from past, present, and
potential future experiences
C. The ages
1. The first age
a. Malin asks the reader to "Behold the infant"
b. Child is "helpless in cradle and / Righteous still"
but already has a "Dread in his dreams"
2. The second age
a. Youth, as Malin describes it
b. Age at which man realizes "his life-bet with a lying
self"
c. Naive belief in self and place in life is boundless
d. It is the age of belief in the possibility of a
future
3. Th .....
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A Prose Analysis On Milton's "Sonnet XIX"
.... it. At the lord's return, he cast
the servant into the "outer darkness" and deprived all he had. Hence, Milton
devoted his life in writing; however, his blindness raped his God's gift away.
A tremendous cloud casted over him and darkened his reality of life and the
world. Like the servant, Milton was flung into the darkness.
Line seven, "Doth God exact day-labor, light denied?" describes the
limitations and burdens of a person who has lost his sense of place in life.
Obviously, Milton is making a reference to his blindness in relation to line
seven. Line seven implies that once the usefulness of a man has diminished,
then is .....
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A Study Of Wordsworth's Poetry
.... his sister in his poem, 'Lines Composed a Few Miles
Above Tintern Abbey', to gain an interest in nature. 'For this, for everything,
we are out of tune;' (8:TW) Wordsworth also makes reference to the Greek gods of
the sea in this sonnet, who are associated with the pristine nature of the world.
The gods represent a time when people were more vulnerable and exposed to nature,
and through adversity have learned to respect nature. 'I'd rather be / A Pagan
suckled in a creed outworn;' (10:TW) In the sonnet, he contrasts nature with the
world of materialism. He implies that we are insensitive to the richness of
nature, and that we may .....
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Shelley's "Ode To The West Wind": Analysis
.... sister of the Spring shall blow" (7-9). In the first line, Shelley use
the phrase "winged seeds" which presents images of flying and freedom. The
only problem is that they lay "cold and low" or unnourished or not elevated.
He likens this with a feeling of being trapped. The important word is "seeds"
for it shows that even in death, new life will grow out of the "grave." The
phrase "winged seeds" also brings images of religions, angels, and/or souls
that continue to create new life. Heavenly images are confirmed by his use of
the word "azure" which besides meaning sky blue, also is defined, in Webster's
Dictionary, as .....
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