"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 .....
|
|
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 bet .....
|
|
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
featur .....
|
|
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 .....
|
|
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 .....
|
|
Analysis Of The Poem "The Soldier" By Rupert Brooke
.... at 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 t .....
|
|
Sharpio's "Auto Wreck": The Theme Of Death
.... scene, 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' mea .....
|
|
Element Of God In Poetry
.... Aren't we stronger
than any other animal upon this earth? I think that God would tell us "No,"
for it is He who gives us life strength, as Blake says in the next few
lines… Gave thee life & bid thee feed, By the stream & o're the mead; Gave
thee clothing of delight, Softest clothing wooly bright, What strength
could man have without the gifts of God: life, food, clothing. We would
have none! And Jesus said to them, "I am the bread of life. He who comes to
Me shall never hunger, and he who believes in Me shall never thirst." John
6:33 William Blake saw that the individual man was so removed from Nature
and his Creator. As science pr .....
|
|
Dover Beach: Conflicting Imagery
.... accompanied
them. This image becomes powerful as the reader realizes that the poet is
saying that he can hear the same message on Dover Beach that Sophocles
heard so many years ago by the Aegean. He is basically saying that the
nature of life doesn't change. There was suffering in the times of the
Greeks, suffering in his time, and there will be suffering after he is gone.
The poet finishes the poem of with several images that lend even
more power to the poem. At the end of the poem the sea has become the exact
opposite of what it was at the beginning. No longer calm, the image the
poet uses to describe it is that of two .....
|
|
Analysis Of Dickinson's "I Felt A Funeral In My Brain"
.... in lead. Am intensification of attack on the mind by bringing
together images of sound and weight is suggested. She hears the mourners
as they lift the coffin and begin to move, and she feels their feet which
seem to be encased in lead.
In stanza four, the figure is continued in the sound of a tolling
bell. The heaven seems to have become a great bell which is ringin, and
all creation responds as though it were an ear. In the last two lines,
she introduces the images of a shipwreck. The poet personifies silence,
and says that it seemed as though she and silence had been stranded
together, thus consulting an unusual .....
|
|
History In Langston Hughes's "Negro"
.... elements that Hughes uses throughout the poem.
In "Negro", Hughes gives the reader a compact visual exposé of the
historical life of blacks. He does not tell the reader in detail about
what has happened to blacks; therefore, Hughes allows these actual accounts
to marinate in the mind of the reader. Instead of saying that he[Hughes]
is a black man living in America, he simply says that "I am a Negro" (1 and
17). He does not create a mysterious aura about blacks, but leaves that up
to the reader. Thinking, on the reader's behalf, plays a major part in
understanding "Negro." The different meanings that this poem has is
entir .....
|
|
Lesbian Poetry
.... the arts on the isle of Lesbos which was a cultural center in the
seventh century BC. Sappho spent a majority of her time here, but she also
traveled extensively through Greece (Robinson 35). She spent time in
Sicily too, because she was exiled due to certain activities of her family.
The residents of Syracuse were so honored of her presence that to pay
homage to her they built a statue of her because she had become a well-
known poet (Cantarello 56).
She was determined a lyrist because her poems were to be performed
with the accompaniment of a lyre. She wrote her own music and adapted the
dominant meter to what is now .....
|
|
|
