Housman's "To An Athlete Dying Young"
.... more somber procession. The athlete is being carried
to his grave. In Leggett's opinion, "The parallels between this procession and
the former triumph are carefully drawn" (54). The reader should see that
Housman makes another reference to "shoulders" as an allusion to connect the
first two stanzas:
Today, the road all runners come,
Shoulder high we bring you home,
And set you at the threshold down,
Townsman of a stiller town. (967)
In stanza three Housman describes the laurel growing "early" yet dying "quicker
than a rose." (967) This parallels "the 'smart lad' who chose to 'slip beti .....
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Elizabeth Bishop And Her Poem "Filling Station"
.... the [oi] in oily with the word following it
and heighten the spreading of the sound. Moreover, when studying the [oi]
atmosphere throughout the poem the [oi] in doily and embroidered seems to
particularly stand out. The oozing of the grease in the filling station moves
to each new stanza with the mention of these words: In the fourth stanza, "big
dim doily", to the second last stanza, "why, oh why, the doily? /Embroidered"
to the last stanza, "somebody embroidered the doily".
Whereas the [oi] sound created an oily sound of language throughout the
poem, the repetitive [ow] sound achieves a very different syntactical featu .....
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Emily Dickinson: Her View Of God
.... and God answers all of her questions, Dickinson then says:
" I shall forget the drop of anguish
That scalds me now-that scalds me now!"
This shows Dickinson's anger toward God. She does not want to have to die to
have her questions answered. She wants to be able to live without these
questions of what God wants, because they are deeply affecting her.
As time goes by, one could say that Dickinson is learning to live with
the questions she has for God. She does not look at death as a bad thing, she
starts to look at it in a positive way. She slowly starts to seclude herself
from others, which is apparent in her po .....
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Emily Dickenson And The Theme Of Death
.... an eerie atmosphere all by itself.
The effect of this passage is reminiscent of the famous macabre monologue at
the end of Michael Jackson's Thriller. Dickenson also excellently portrays the
restlessness of the mourners in this following passage:
"The Feet, mechanical, go round--
Of Ground, or Air, or Ought--"
Describing the feet as "mechanical" shows the agitation and displacement of the
mourners. Also, in the next line, "Ought" most closely means "Emptiness."
Dickenson artistically shows us how the mourners are dealing with their loss in
this next passage:
"A Wooden way
Regardless grown,
A Quartz contentment, like a .....
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Essay Interpreting "One Art" By Elizabeth Bishop
.... begins the irony in that stanza. The speaker
remarks that losing this person is not "too hard" to master. The shift in
attitude by adding the word "too" shows that the speaker has an ironic tone for
herself in her loss or perhaps her husband or someone else close to her.
Language and verse form show in "One Art" how the losses increase in importance
as the poem progresses, with the losses in lines 1-15 being mostly trivial or
not very important to the great loss in lines 16-19 or a beloved person.
Elizabeth Bishop suggests then that mastering the art of losing objects, such as
car keys, does not prepare one for the loss of a pe .....
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Marvell's "To His Coy Mistress": The Essence Of Time
.... love. He leads her to
believe he would give all he has to her as long as time will permit. During
the second stanza, Marvell plays on her fear of getting old. He warns her that
her beauty isn't everlasting and that she will end up unhappy alone if she
doesn't give in. Marvell's use of optimum time, the best time, show's his
emotions. He appears to become aggravated. This seems to be his ace in the
hole. In my opinion, he uses what he believes to be the dearest thing to her,
the situation of right here, right now.
This entire poem can be compared to a drunks last resort, the famous
"line" used to pick up women. Ma .....
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Humanity's Fall In The Garden Of Eden In Paradise Lost
.... 75,
108-110). Satan's moral state further decays in Book nine as detailed in a
soliloquy at the beginning of the book by Satan. Satan recognizes his descent
into bestiality after once being in contention with the gods to sit on top of
the hierarchy of angels. He is unhappy with this "foul descent" and in turn
wants to take out his grief on humanity. Despite recognizing that revenge
eventually becomes bitter, Satan wants to make others as miserable as he is. It
is i n destruction that he finds comfort for his ceaseless thoughts. (Bk. 9,
lines 129-130, 163-165). Satan is described at length in an epic simile that
compares .....
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Analysis Of The Poem "The Soldier" By Rupert Brooke
.... her side. Another line is "Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home."
This line creates a feeling of tranquillity and a unity with nature.
Another line that evokes a feeling of peace and happiness is, "Her
sights and sounds; dreams happy as her day." Without such strong images, the
poem would probably not have such a great effect on the reader. Lines such as
this one force the reader to see the land in the same light as the poet.
Symbolism also plays a key role in this poem. Some of the more obvious
uses of symbolism are apparent in the line "And laughter, learnt of friends;
and gentleness." Obviously we realize that th .....
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Sharpio's "Auto Wreck": The Theme Of Death
.... it is easy for the reader to identify the theme itself,
and also to identify with it.
In the first stanza, the speaker describes the ambulance arriving on the
scene more so than the actual scene itself. The ambulance is described using
words such as "wings", "dips", and "floating", giving the impression of the
hectic nature of its business at an accident. When the ambulance arrives and
breaks through the crowd, "the doors leap open" to further convey the hurried
state it's in. In line 5, as the ambulance passes the beacons and illuminated
clocks, it gives the reader an obvious clue about setting. To take the words'
meani .....
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A Comparison And Contrast Of Love In Christopher Marlowe's "The Passionate
.... 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 de .....
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A Critical Analysis Of Tension's In Memorial A. H. H.
.... in the poem In Memorial A. H. H.,
written in memory of his deceased friend, Arthur Hallam. The poem seemed
to be cathartic for Tennyson, for through its writing he not only found an
outlet for his grief over Hallam's death, but also managed to regain the
faith which seemed at times to have abandoned him. Tennyson regained and
firmly reestablished his faith through the formation of the idea that God
is reconciled with the mechanistic universe through a divine plan of
evolution, with Hallam as the potential link to a greater race of humans
yet to come.
In the first of many lyric units, Tennyson's faith in God and Jesus
se .....
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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
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