"Babi Yar" By Yevgeny Yevtushenko: An Analysis
.... There is
still terrible persecution of the Jews in present times because of their
religion. These lines serve as the transition from the Biblical and ancient
examples he gives to the allusions of more recent acts of hatred. The lines also
allude to the fact that these Russian Jews who were murdered at Babi Yar were
martyrs as well.
The next stanza reminds us of another event in Jewish history where a Jew was
persecuted solely because of his religious beliefs. The poet refers to the
"pettiness" (line 11) of anti-Semitism as the cause of Dreyfus' imprisonment.
Anti-Semitism is his "betrayer" (line 12) when he is framed, and anti-S .....
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The British Renaissance Produced Many Types Of Literature And Was Influenced By Shakespeare, Marlow, And Spenser
.... to win the girl's heart. Notice the word ‘hopes.'
If these delights thy mind may move,
Then live with me and be my love.
And so the last two lines of the poem end. Putting these lines at the very end
of the poem emphasizes the unsure gestures of the Shepherd. His age also
brings up another very interesting view of Marlowe's. In the poem, Marlowe
expresses the idea that age has no influence upon love and a person's feelings.
The shallow rivers, waterfalls, birds singing, and flowers all personify the
Shepherd's feeling that age has nothing to do with love and his hopes of winning
the younger .....
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Byron's Don Juan
.... of Byron's passions developed early. In 1803 he had his first
serious and abortive romance with Mary Chaworth. At the age of15 he fell
platonically but violently in love with a young distant cousin, Mary Duff
(Parker 10). He soon had another affair with a woman named Mary Gray. Soon
hereafter he was involved with many liaisons with such women as Lady Caroline
Lamb and then Lady Oxford.
Then just as Byron was beginning to live his life the way he had always
wanted to, his mother dies in 1811. The following year he became immensely
fashionable and notorious. By 1813 he had began another affair with his half-
sister Augusta. C .....
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The Works Of Poet Carl Sandburg And His Effect On American Poetry
.... a long line of
poets and authors to use the words and phrases that he created in his poetry.
Sandburg's style of writing is what changed the course of American
poetry. Before Sandburg, most poetry and other literary works were considerably
similar, along with dull and boring. He carried poetry to "new horizons." He,
many times, wrote of reality, which was not always what people wanted to read,
but it was reality and it had to be dealt with. This is how his writing became
so known, because he dealt with what was real in our fantasy world.
Sandburg was not afraid to express his true feelings and thought on
people, society, na .....
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For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/ When The Rainbow Is Enuf: Style And Theme
.... None of the characters have names or any type of identity except for
the color of their clothes. When the piece is done on stage the characters are
never introduced they are just eventually recognized by the color of their
dresses. This makes it a little difficult to follow for the reader or spectator
at first but after the work is under way each individual may find they relate to
a certain color and begin to follow the specific character wearing that certain
color. This is another literary tactic that Shange uses to separate herself
from other writers. Shange writes much of her work from personal experience
which makes her .....
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How Does Coleridge In 'The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner' And 'Kubla Khan' Show The Interrelatedness Between Mankind, Nature And The Poetic Experience?
.... of rituals and rules by the human-
being and the obeying of the cycle of life to death, again and again. The
running theme of freedom and release for man is emphasised in both poems,
escaping from criticism, in the case of KK, and from blame and regret, in RAM.
They both explore the tendency to be impulsive for reasons accumulated through
the traits of human and social instinct, in contrast to that obtained naturally.
An example of this purely natural expression is that of the senses. KK is an
extremely sensual and sexual poem, appealing to maybe the animalistic part of
the human rather than to the section which recognises it .....
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Comparison And Contrast Of William Blake's Poems
.... "Night is worn,
"And the morn
"Rises from the slumberous mass.
"Turn away no more;
"Why wilt thou turn away?
"The starry floor,
"The wat'ry shore,
"Is giv'n thee till the break of day."
The Chimney Sweeper (Innocence)
When my mother died I was very young,
And my father sold me while yet my tongue
Could scarcely cry "'weep! 'weep! 'weep! 'weep!"
So your chimneys I sweep & in soot I sleep.
There's little Tom Dacre, who cried when his head,
That curl'd like a lamb's back, was shav'd: so I said
"Hush, Tom! nev .....
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Compare And Contrast: "Dead Man's Dump" By Rosenberg And "dulce Et Decorum Est" By Owen
.... In "Dulce," the regiment are tired and marching like "old
hags" because they are fatigued. As the enemy discovers them they attack by
dropping a gas bomb on the men. As they scatter for their masks one man doesn't
quite make it. He goes through an agonizing process of dying. Like the
soldier in Rosenberg's poem his cries out for his troops, his friends, to help
him. To no avail does he get any help and the whole squad is forced watching
his excruciating process of death.
In both of these poems death comes, but in two different forms. In
"Dulce" death is the gas that is thrown upon them. In "Dead Man's Dump" death
are t .....
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Critical Analysis Of "The Indifferent" By John Donne
.... among
the critics. While most critics believe that the audience changes from men, to
women, then to a single woman, or something along those lines, Gregory Machacek
believes that the audience remains throughout the poem as "two women who have
discovered that they are both lovers of the speaker and have confronted him
concerning his infidelity" (1). His strongest argument is that when the
speaker says, "I can love her, and her, and you and you," he first points out
two random nearby women for "her, and her", then at the two that he is talking
to for "you and you."
The first stanza begins rather simply. Donne starts every l .....
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Critical Analysis Of "The Eagle" By Lord Tennyson
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The Theme Of Death In Poems
.... this hundred
years seems as no time at all. Finally she accepts her death, and is able to
pass into eternity. To her death wasn't harsh like some see it, but a kindly,
gentle soul, taking her for a carriage ride to her final home.
A child experiences death much differently than an adult. Children
aren't quite able to see death as the sad even that it is. "First Death in Nova
Scotia" tells of a young boys death, and his cousins view of it. We are shown
Arthur's death through the eyes of a child. The little girl, our narrator,
describes the scene of her cousins funeral. Her focus however is not how we
might think that she wou .....
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"Dover Beach" By Arnold: Irony, Images, And Illusions
.... cadence slow, and bring...” uses an auditory sense. “Come to the
window, sweet is the night air,” can apply to both senses. Sweet can mean
angelic or precious to qualify to be an visual image, or it can mean almost like
a melodious tune.
Illusions are used in this poem as deception for the girl that the man
is trying to hold a non-romantic conversation with. A theory is portrayed in
this poem by Plato, the world is an illusion. In many case this that falls true.
In the first stanza of the poem , the surrounds of the two people is discussed.
Words like calm, tranquil, sweet, and eternal, are used which seem to foreshadow
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