An Analysis Of "To A Friend Whose Work Has Come To Triumph"
.... tone than the
first 13 lines. The last line, "See him acclaiming the sun and come
plunging down while his sensible daddy goes straight into town.", seems
more mocking of Daedalus' flight. It seems that Sexton feels that
Daedalus' flight was a wasted chance and was in no way adventurous. She
might also be comparing her friend to Icarus, seeing as he too failed his
initial task but accomplished something greater on a global scale. I
believe Sexton thought that Icarus' flight was not foolish or a failure,
but adventurous and a great personal success, even though his satisfaction
and personal glory was short-lived. She w .....
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T.S. Eliot's "The Wasted Land"
.... Cuddy 30,
Mack 1743, Martin 41, Unger 8) .
Henry James influence on Eliot's poetry is evident in the Jamesian
qualities he uses. For example, the opening verse of The Waste Land ends
with the Jamesian note, "I read, much of the night, and go south in the
winter" (Mack, 1751). Although Lafourge, Conrad, and James were used as
sources for Eliot when he composed poetry, there is still a distinct
Eliotic quality whenever his work is read (Bergonzi 7, 50, Cuddy 55, Mack
1743, Martin 41, 97, Unger 10).
When Eliot began to compose The Waste Land, he used all the
different themes, techniques, and style's he had been de .....
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Allowing Evil To Triumph
.... group had attempted to stop the Hangman, he could have possibly been
stopped. Because only one person attempted to stop the evil, those who
kept quiet were killed for helping the Hangman without realizing it. If
the good men do nothing and make no attempt to halt the evil, then the evil
will triumph as a result of this lack of action.
In today's society, many people complain about all the political
corruption that occurs in government, but none are willing to step up and
take on this opposing evil. If one would look at the United States' voter
turnout in comparison with other nations, one would notice that the turnout
i .....
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Analysis Of Whitman's "Drum Taps" And "The Wound Dresser"
.... preceding,
clearing the way, The unpent enthusiasm, the wild cheers
of the crowd for their favorites…War! Be it weeks, months,
or years, an arm'd race is advancing to welcome it.
As we can see, like most Americans, Whitman was proud of the engagements to
come because at the time, war was only viewed by those who had never seen
the ugly side of it.
Like a diary of prose, "Drum Taps" follows the war and the
attitudes that accompany such an event. A further example of the author's
excitement for war and take no prisoners attitude can be read in "Beat!
Beat! Drums!"
Beat! Beat! Drums!- blow! Bugles! Blow!
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Subject Of War In The Poems Of Whitman, Crane, Longfellow, And Sandburg
.... prepared for sleepers at night in the
houses? no sleepers must sleep in those beds", "Make no parley - stop for
no expostulation." "Let not the child's voice be heard, nor the mother's
entreaties, Make even the trestles to shake the dead where they lie
awaiting the hearses,".
In "The Arsenal at Springfield", Longfellow notes the senselessness of
war. "The cries of agony, the endless groan, Which, through the ages that
have gone before us, In long reverberations reach our own." He also
indicates that war could be avoided if man would be more caring and try
harder to avoid it. ""Were half the power, that fills the world .....
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Whitman's Democracy
.... 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, and brough .....
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Not So Hidden Agendas: Wilfred Owen And His Early Editors
.... to publish more. It was then that
Sassoon became involved. Sitwell, in a letter dated 3 October 1919, wrote
to Susan Owen (Wilfred's mother) and told her,
I wrote to Captain Sassoon, to ask him if he could
help me about them. He came to see me; and told me
it would have been your son's wish that (Sassoon)
should see to the publication of the poems, because
they were such friends. In the circumstances I could do
nothing but offer to hand them over to him (Sitwell: 20).
Then in a letter from late January 1920, Sitwell tells Susan Owen that
Sassoon
has suddenly gone off to .....
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The Poetry Of William Blake
.... were created. The poem is nothing but
one wondering question to another (Harmon, p. 361).
"The Tiger" by William Blake describes the tiger as being an symbol
of evil. This is displayed when Blake says "What an anvil? what dread
grasp, Dare its deadly terrors clasp?" By repeating variations of the word
"dread" in the poem, he emphasizes the evil of tiger and the evil this
tiger possesses. The mighty beast is whole world of experience outside
ourselves, a world of igneous creation and destruction, faced with a
terrifying beauty (Harmon, p.360). This poem also contains the theme of
creation in that it also mentions the .....
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Elements Of Romanticism In Wordsworth's "London, 1802" And Blake's "The Lamb"
.... response. The poem's use of a
realistic setting occurs in line 2 with the reference of England as a
"fen." This particular adjective e describes England as a "land wholly or
partially covered by water, mud, clay, or dirt."(Oxford English Dictionary).
From this line a realistic setting is produced. The narrator further
conveys a visionary experience through the extensive uses of nature via
similes and metaphors within the poem. On lines 2, 9, 10, 11 it states,
England hath need of thee: she is a fen
Thy soul was like a Star
Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea
Pure as the naked heavens...
This frequen .....
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Analysis Of William Blake's Poetry
.... old." At
the age of seven, a young girl must be very scared alone in the wood with
out her mother and father. William Blake also in this stanza tells how
Lyca became lost in this wilderness. Lyca, being a young and playful girl
had saw beautiful birds singing and had followed them into the jungle,
enchanted by their song.
Lyca cannot go on. She is weary from walking and needs to lay down
for a moments rest. Lyca lies under a tree, and begins to think about her
parents whom she misses so much. She wonders if they are looking for her,
and if they are worried about her. These thoughts make Lyca very sad for
she loves her ca .....
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Blakes's "London": Your Beauty, My Despair
.... but failed miserably. Now she
just lives day by day thinking that there is no hope for her or her
children. Blake saw the pain of this and yet he did not rejoice in its
reality, but wept.
“And the hapless soldiers sigh Runs in blood down the Palace walls”
(lines 11-12). Yes. Explain how the truth of families unnecessarily loosing
loved ones to war can cause a merry celebration. A war of hatred or greed
that was not their war to begin with, but the war of governments that
didn't quite get what they wanted out of a verbal agreement and needed the
bloody LIBERTY of going into someone else's country and take them over.
What beast la .....
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Dante's Inferno
.... that the church was corrupt, believing it should only be involved
in spiritual affairs.
At the turn of the century, Dante rose from city councilman to
ambassador of Florence. His career ended in 1301 when the Black Guelph and
their French allies seized control of the city. They took Dante's
possessions and sentenced him to be permanently banished from Florence,
threatening the death penalty upon him if he returned.
Dante spent most of his time in exile writing new pieces of
literature. It is believed that around 1307 he interrupts his unfinished
work, Convivio, a reflection of his love poetry philosophy of the Roman
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