Poems Of William Wordsworth And Samuel Coleridge
.... all mankind and not only his personal response. He emphasized and focused on the common man in the Preface to Lyrical Ballads by writing in a common language that the ordinary man can easily understand and appreciate. There are no phrases or figures of speech in his poems that would not be found in conversation between the ordinary, working man. "Because men hourly communicate with the best objects from which the best object is derived; and because, from their rank in society and the sameness of their intercourse, being less influence of social vanity they convey their feelings and notions in simple and unelaborated expressions. .....
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Exploring The Theme Of Premature Death In Three Poems
.... as he is spending it grief-stricken over the death of his four-year old brother. If one examines this title on an interpretive level, the word “break” takes on a new meaning, as it could refer to the death of the child as breaking the heart or spirit of the family and the speaker.
The situations and tones in the poems are very similar, in that all the poems deal with the speaker in the poem expressing deep emotion over the death of their departed loved ones. However, each poem is different in the events that occur and in the attitude they convey. The speaker in Death of a Young Son by Drowning narrates the events of her son’s d .....
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Nature Imagery In Adrienne Rich's "Twenty-One Love Poems"
.... But we seek that experience, or recognize it when it is offered to us, because it reminds us in some way of our need. After that rearousal of desire, the task of acting on that truth, or making love, or meeting other needs, is ours. (Smith 590)
Thus, Rich highlights poetry's ability to connect with what many people believe to be--in contrast to restricted cultured disciplines such as poetry--"real life." In pointing to our common "struggle for existence" and accumulating emergencies, this proclamation pulls our attention toward the ways poetry is capable of being a compelling encounter with critical life issues. Yet .....
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"I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud"
.... cheerful, and energetic. When the speaker mentioned the daffodils dancing in the breeze, the poem became more lively and active. Throughout the poem, the daffodils were in such harmony with nature, being accompanied by the breeze, the stars, and the waves. The golden daffodils were so beautiful and eye-catching that the speaker takes his mind off of his depressing matters, and places it on the beauty of nature. The golden daffodils are very valuable and precious, with nothing taking their place. "Gay", "glee", "bliss", "jocund", and "pleasure" are words with the same meaning as "happy", and happy is the atmosphere brought .....
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Churchgoing: Poetry Analysis
.... poem going to church is like grocery shopping. It is something that must be done. Everyone knows it is the right thing to do, except in this case many people do not understand the concept behind it. Religion does not make a difference. If their parents shop at the Piggly Wiggly then they may also. If their parents are Luthern then they are also. People withdrew the meaning of religion over time. Almost like in Orwell’s 1984, how people just did things because it was expected of them. The people do not think about why they are going. They do not necessarily believe in the values in the church - if they even know what they ar .....
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Creating The Melancholic Tone In “The Raven”
.... at a young age, Poe’s beloved wife Virginnia, died after a long illness. The narrator’s sorrow for the lost Lenore is paralleled with Poe’s own grief regarding the death of his wife. Confined in the chamber are memories of her who had frequented it. These ghostly recollections cultivate an enormous motive in the reader to know and be relieved of the bewilderment that plagues the narrator and consequently Poe himself; the narrator ponders whether he will see his wife in the afterlife. After Virginnia’s lingering death, Poe tried to relieve his grief by drinking. A parallelism is formed in “The Raven” between the condescending .....
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The Tyger By William Blake
.... turn into an ugly thing like hate. The Tyger is obviously a representation of evil and of darkness.
In Blake’s words, it is also apparent that the Tyger is somewhat of a puzzle, or an enigma, if you will. It is a mysterious beast with unknown origins. It seems that the Tyger is a result of something inhumane, whereas the Lamb is a direct product of Christ. According to the poet himself, the Tyger is somewhat “immortal” and out of this world: “..What immortal hand or eye./Could frame they fearful symmetry?” (lines 3-4) Blake requires the reader to ponder the very roots of the Tyger; he leaves us with the impression that .....
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Matrix: A Man's Feelings
.... her dressings," (32-33) "One morning, I pressed my lips / to her chest until, at last, / she believed / and opened up to me" (35-37). In those lines he is showing his love to and for her. By kissing her scar on her chest he showed her that he really cares for her and that he will always be there for her.
Heyen uses "Matrix" for the title of this poem for its meaning of a mold, because there is a similarity between his wife's body and the turtle shell. He is showing the readers that no matter how the outer layer of a being changes, it shouldn't change your feelings about it or how you think of it. The turtle may not have respond .....
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William Blake's The Chimney Sweeper
.... in his manner of comforting little Tom, "Hush Tom never mind it, for when your head's bare/ You know that the soot cannot spoil your white hair."(7-8) Tom is quieted, yet that same night he is visited by a dream wherein thousands of other chimney sweeps like him are all locked up in black coffins. An angel arrives and sets all the boys free to laugh and play and clean themselves, "Then naked and white, all their bags left behind,/ …/ the Angel told Tom if he'd be a good boy,/ He'd have God for his father & never want joy."(17, 19-20) Tom is so uplifted by his dream of what all chimney sweeps could expect after they die (at lea .....
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Point Of View In Three Edgar Allan Poe's Poems
.... was a part of him.
In "Morella", it was said that she may have been a witch. Morella she is intelligent. Although, she did go to a school for the black arts. She represents surpassing knowledge that the husband doesn't have. He wants to have this so he starts to study with her. He becomes her pupil. He did not love Morella. He only loved her knowledge. Because her husband did not love her at all, she cast a spell on him. The spell was for her soul to go into her daughter. The spell was a reminder for the man to regret what he did to Morella. How he neglected her as a wife. When the daughter was born, she looked exactly like .....
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Love Is Forever
.... line was very good visual imagery "written with a pen sealed with a kiss". It show how it really happened and was done. Through out the whole poems was a loved filled mood. Lines 13, 15, 16, and 19 all start with "I'll". Every words has something rhyming with it except the first and third line. Most of the rhyming is "you" and "true".
This poems could be used for many metaphor. I have a personal metaphor. It is comparing my love to Nancy, to the poem as its self. The poems explain exactly how i feel about Nancy. i would be the guy who show his love to his girl. Making sure that she knew that i love her and i love her for th .....
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Emily Dickinson: Individuality
.... never imitate” (McMichael 691). Emily Dickinson believed and practiced this philosophy. When she was young, she was brought up by a stern and disciplined father. In her childhood she was shy and already different from the others. Like all the Dickinson children, male or female, Emily was sent for formal education in Amherst Academy. After attending Amherst Academy with many other conscientious thinkers, and after reading many of Emerson’s essays, she began to develop into a free willed person. Many of her friends had converted to Christianity. Her family was also putting an enormous amount of pressure for her to conve .....
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