Blake's "The Fly"
.... at any time in his life just like a fly can be killed any time in
his life. Also, "The Hand of God" can strike down a man the same a fly is
struck down by the hand of man. This view by Blake is quite depressing.
One can be carefree about their life, yet thinking is the most
essential part of man. "If thought is life And strength and breath, And
the want Of thought is death;" By having thought shows that we have life.
Blake is saying that we must have thoughts and be able to think in order to
survive and have a healthy and fruitful life. Once one wants thought then
that person lacks thought. Therefore, the person who is .....
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Tumbleweed: Central Theme
.... are stuck in a
painful, difficult situation. They are prisoners of their surroundings,
helpless. “Like a riddled prisoner.” The words riddled prisoner are used to
give us a powerful, painful, picture of the lost and hopeless feeling of
the poet. He feels great pain at his situation, feels that there is no way
out. He is hanging there on the fence, exposed for everyone to see.
In the second stanza, the poet continues to use metaphors for his
life. “ Half the sharp seeds have fallen from this tumbler, knocked out for
good by head- stands and pratfalls between here and wherever it grew up.”
The seeds of the tumbleweed have been kno .....
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Analysis Of John Donne's Sonnet 10 And Meditation 17
.... we have after we
awaken from that sleep. Once we die the soul is alive and death no longer
presides. We are brought into eternal life. Death can no longer take us
because it already has.
Meditation 17, by John Donne
The passage that I chose that best demonstrates the theme is, “No
man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent,
a part of the main.” This passage says that no one is by themselves in
this world there are always people and spirits there to help and guide us.
We are not totally alone; we are part of the human race that was created by
God. This draws the whole poem together because it .....
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Beowulf: An Epic Hero
.... son's
death, he is able to slay her by slashing the monster's neck with a
Giant's sword that can only be lifted by a person as strong as Beowulf.
When he chops off her head, he carries it from the ocean with ease, but it
takes four men to lift and carry it back to Herot mead-hall. This strength
is a key trait of Beowulf's heroism.
Another heroic trait of Beowulf is his ability to put his peoples
welfare before his own. Beowulf's uncle is king of the Geats so he is sent
as an emissary to help rid the Danes of the evil Grendel. Beowulf risks
his own life for the Danes, asking help from no one. He realizes the
dangers but fea .....
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"Aunt Jennifer's Tigers": Women And Society
.... the leaders of the community nor her
husband. She demonstrates her confidence by standing up to a group of the
most respected men in town, when she hears they might take her daughter,
Pearl, away from her. She even has the courage to demand the minister for
his help. "I will not give her up!" She firmly states. "Speak thou for me…
Thou knowest what is in my heart, and what are a mother's rights…Look thou
to it! I will not lose the child! Look to it!" (Ch.8). She refuses to
let the power of the men intimidate her, and gets what she wants. While
most women of Hester's time did whatever their husband ordered them to do, .....
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Analysis Of Robinson's "Mr. Flood's Party"
.... great poem, you can clearly see that being old
and alone will not stop Mr. Flood from living life to the fullest. In
lines 9-13 of Robinson's masterpiece, Eben is having a ball at his party,
no matter if he is the only one in attendance.
“Well, Mr. Flood, we have the harvest moon
Again, and we may not have many more:
The bird is on the wing, the poet says,
And you and I have said it here before.
Drink to the bird.”
He seems to carry on conversation with a friend, that is nowhere around or
has been for some time. This is just one of the ways Eben .....
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Imagery In Mathers' "Black Marigolds"
.... image refers to the princess. It reflects and portrays everything
about her. She is gold; a rich, precious gem, unavailable to the poet.
The continued reference to this image symbolizes everything he lacks, but
yearns for. The poet elevates the princess to the value of gold, depicting
exactly how out of reach she is. "My thought is all of this gold-tinted
kings daughter"
A great paradox exists in this poem. "Black Marigolds" occurs as a
paradox because marigolds are depicted as a yellow, bright, happy flower of
life. This image contrasts to the black in the title because black is
associated with death. The o .....
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Blake's "London" And "The Garden Of Love"
.... "London," and "The Garden of Love."
In "London," Blake reveals that this hypocrisy has robbed the world
of innocence and spirit. In the first two lines, Blake repeats the word
"charter'd." He uses this repetition to stress the mechanical behavior of
the world around him. The word "charter" has connotations of something that
can be sold or hired for money. Blake is connecting this idea with the
chartered rights of
Englishmen given three hundred years ago by the crown and never to
be taken away. By using the subject “street,” and the river “Thames,”
Blake is announcing to the world that this structural societ .....
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Theme Presented In The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner
.... the Mariner experiences the
punishment that comes with the moral error of killing the Albatross--
isolation and alienation from everything but himself. Then, the
"Nightmare," the life in death, kills his crew. He is lost at sea, left
alone in the night to suffer, and he has detached from his natural cycle.
The Mariner proclaims his misery when he says: "Alone, alone, all, all
alone, Alone on a wide wide sea! And never a saint took pity on My soul in
agony." To the Mariner, nature has become foreign. This is a very low
point in his spiritual journey.
The Mariner then has a reversal of sentiment. While looking at the
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The Personification And Criticism Of Death In John Donne's "Death Be Not Proud."
.... it "poor death" (l 4), giving death the sense and
personification of being deficient in that it cannot kill Donne.
In the second quatrain, Donne continues his critique of death. He
questions death that if sleep or rest is a pleasure of life, then what
greater pleasure can death bring? "Much pleasure, then from thee much
pleasure must flow" (l 6). Donne also gives death credit that even the
virtuous go with death, "And soonest our best men with thee do go" (l 7),
to be delivered to an eternal rest and their soul's salvation, "Rest of our
bones, and soul's delivery" (l 8).
From the third quatrain comes Donne's second perceptio .....
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The Book Of Exodus
.... lasted a very long time. There were many obstacles to overcome as
well as internal affairs among the Hebrews.
Moses was born a Hebrew but was raised as the prince of Egypt.
Just like Odysseus, Moses was a man of nobility. Moses did not know he was
a Hebrew until he was a much older man. He was living a lie without even
realizing it.
“And it came to pass in those days, when Moses was grown, that he
went out unto his brethren, and looked on their burdens: and he spied an
Egyptian smiting an Hebrew, one of his brethren (Exodus 2. 11).
It was then that Moses realized who he was, but he was still
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Physical Artifacts In Adrienne Rich's "Aunt Jennifer's Tigers" And Seamus Heaney's "The Harvest Bow"
.... to
grasp the images that they create, each character in the poems gains a
sense of self awareness. These utopian moments expressed by the creations
are frozen, images that surpass the lives of their creators and remain
intact with meaning. Through the utilization of physical artifacts, Aunt
Jennifer and the Ornament maker depict idealized situations through the
use of visual imagery, applying symbolism onto the physical artifacts in
turn allowing the grasp of self awareness.
In each poem visual imagery is expressed through the intrinsic
detail provided in the making of a straw ornament and needle point screen.
In Aunt Jen .....
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