T.S Eliot's "The Waste Land"
.... white light many people see when they
have near-death experiences. You get a creepy feeling when the wind blows
and makes the “grass sing” in line 387. In these first three lines it
talks of tumbled graves, possibly disturbed by nature, which could tell of
troubled lives, or a troubled second life.
The empty chapel without windows is nearby, as you perceive from
lines 389 and 390:
There is the empty chapel, only the wind's home.
It has no windows, and the door swings
It's image makes you shiver. It could possibly represent itself, in the
sense that many people die there, as in baptism, as well as dying, where
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The Lost Trees
.... how the destruction of
the rain forest in South America is affecting the percentage of oxygen
available around the globe. Man's wholesale destruction of these areas for
financial gain, despite the negative results, is a study of the nature of
man's inhumanity to man. Do we not all breathe, even those who fell the
trees?
Man is not completely in control, however. Nature's ability to
wreak havoc on the environment of all living things in the form of
earthquakes, floods, and other natural disasters should be a wake-up call
to humankind. Is this nature's way of reminding us where the true control
lies?
I think the answer lies .....
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"He Is More Than A Hero": The Love Of Lesbos
.... loving so much. She is hurt inside because she is not with
her love, and the emotional pain transforms to physical effects. "I drip
with sweat; trembling shakes my body and I turn paler than dry grass. At
such times death isn't far from me." The speaker goes so far as to consider
dying because of the emotional pain she is feeling inside. She gets
physically sick from hurting so much, and considers death the only escape.
"He Is More Than A Hero" gives readers a brief view of Ancient
Greece's views on love. From the poem, it is evident that Greek culture
valued love to the point of dying for it. It was a serious issue that
wasn't .....
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The Poetry Of John Keats
.... images of profound beauty.
In Ode to a Nightingale, Keats uses the central symbol of a bird to
exemplify the perfect beauty in nature. The nightingale sings to the poet's
senses whose ardour for it's song makes the bird eternal and thus reminds
him of how his own mortality separates him from this beauty. The poem
begins: "My heart aches, and a drowsey numbness pains" (Norton 1845). In
this first line Keats introduces his own immortality with the aching heart
- a machine of flesh with a fixed number of life-giving beats. He also
employs a common poetic device to indicate a visionary activity is about to
follow with th .....
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Beowulf: The One Who Will Be King
.... from the
distance. He waited outside the great hall, listening to the mirth and
celebration from within. He hated them. The revelers inside felt no "misery
of men." They were not uninvited, outcast, and below the social class of
Hrothgar's company. These feelings of inadequacy propel Grendel to
slaughter those who oppress him. For "twelve winters" he smashes bodies
and eats his victims, creating a bloody rampage and a dire need for a
savior.
The question of Grendel's origin is difficult to trace. The author
remains ambiguous throughout the poem, referring to Grendel as biblical,
but also suggesting that he is human. The ori .....
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An Analysis Of Updike's "Player Piano"
.... of rhythm or
harmony - pleasant sounds from the player piano.
The next stanza starts with an internal rhyme: "My paper can caper".
The simple rhyme suggests that the paper can leap and jump about like a
child. The connotation of the word "abandon" adds to this suggestion of
unrestrained movement or activity. The words "dint" and "din" are
alliterative, and the suggestion is that the "din" of the piano broadcasts
its sound far and wide. In line three of stanza two there is both internal
rhyme and assonance in "man", "band", and "hand". Updike tells us that the
piano has a sense of pride in its ability to produce its own musi .....
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The Plight Of The Toads: An Analysis
.... interior. An example of
this is the toad that when kissed by the princess was turned into a prince.
In order for the real identity of this amphibian to be realized, one must
to get past the outer shell. In keeping with this explanation Larkin can
also be seen as saying that work at first appear as a hideous and
burdensome beast and yet after careful inspection and acceptance its true
beauty is shown. Thus one sees the first toad and views its composition as
a combination of two interpretations.
A second item to note is the use of the verb "squat"(2) as the word
to carry the action of the toad. This word is definitely not .....
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Analysis Of The Poems Of William Wordsworth
.... to college at St. John's College in Cambridge and
later wrote that the highlight of those years was his walking tour of
France and Switzerland taken with his friend, Robert Jones (Watson 1421).
He graduated in 1791 when the French revolution was in its third year, but,
even though he had showed no prior interest, he quickly supported the
Revolution's goals. After Wordsworth was forced to flee France he became
involved with the studies of philosopher William Godwin; Godwin became one
of the most inveterate influences on Wordsworth's thought ("Wordsworth,
William" Compton's). In 1793 Wordsworth published his first two volumes
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An Analysis Of Frost's The Road Not Taken
.... unknown, as does any choice in life. As
much he may strain his eyes to see as far the road stretches, eventually
it surpasses his vision and he can never see where it is going to lead. It
is the way that he chooses here that sets him off on his journey and
decides where he is going.
"Then took the other, just as fair, and having perhaps the better
claim." What made it have the better claim is that "it was grassy and
wanted wear." It was something that was obviously not for everyone because
it seemed that the majority of people took the other path therefore he
calls it "the road less travelled by". The fact that the traveler .....
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Analysis Of The Rubaiyat Of Omar Khayyam
.... stanza: "You gaze
To-Day, while You are You-how then/ Tomorrow, You when shall be You no
more?" The poet seems to be in an incredible hurry to get this life going
before some cosmic deadline comes due, and more than willing to encourage
any of the laiety he encounters in the course of the poem to do the same.
Another recurring motif throughout the poem is the time-
honored act of downing a few drinks. It appears that either "Wine", the
"Cup" or "Bowl", and the "Grape" touch every stanza in the poem; the
narrator seems to be an alcoholic. In the fifty-sixth stanza he dismisses
everything so he can get drunk, having divorce .....
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A Review Of A Shakespearean Sonnet
.... well with the sonnet
format. The first half of this sonnet is written about how the subject is
like a summer's day, for example: "Thou art more lovely and more
temperate:" (line 2) and after line eight, Shakespeare concludes that the
subject cannot be a summer's day because they are more beautiful and will
last longer than summer itself. The sonnet form is suitable for this theme
because it allows the direct comparison of the subject to a summer's
day, and the thought division allows the author to change his mind and
reconsider the comparison.
Shakespeare uses many sound devices in this sonnet. The sound
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Understanding "Porphyria's Lover"
.... be right is the same one the reader of a dramatic
monologue must make. Browning's Dramatic Lyrics is a collection of poems
in which many are written in dramatic monologue. "Porphyria's Lover" is a
poem from Dramatic Lyrics critics often cite when explaining dramatic
monologue. Because of it, the reader is pulled between what the speaker
thinks is right and what really is. Robert Browning's perfection of
dramatic monologue and use of a dramatic mask in his poem "Porphyria's
Lover" create in his audience a conflict between sympathy and judgement
(Magill, 335).
To fully understand and comprehend Browning's "Porphyria's Lover,"
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