"A Dream Within A Dream"
.... as himself that his life has not changed through the years. He questions the realness and significance of the everyday events of life and finally concludes that they are unimportant and superficial. "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream."
The second stanza takes on a more despairing tone. His air of carelessness begins to vanish. He realizes that everything he holds of value is quickly slipping away from him as, "Grains of golden sand [through his fingers.]" He reexamines his thoughts from the previous stanza and restates his philosophy as a puzzling question. " Is all that we see or seem, but a dream wi .....
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Siefried Sassoon And Counter-Attack
.... as an act of willful defiance of military authority, because I believe that the war is being deliberately prolonged by those who have the power to end it."
Sassoon's hostility to war was also reflected in his poetry. During the war Sassoon developed a harshly satirical style that he used to attack the incompetence and inhumanity of senior military officers. These poems caused great controversy when they were published in The Old Huntsman (1917) and Counter-Attack (1918). He published many more later on such as: Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man (1928), Memoirs of an Infantry Officer (1930) and Sherston's Progress (1936). This was .....
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The Lives And Works Of Elizabeth Barrett And Robert Browning
.... Byron was the first influence and inspiration to Browning’s first boyish attempts as a poet. Later after coming upon a copy of Shelly’s Queen Mab he fell under the fascination of this new poet. It was then that he started his formal career in poetry. In the 1930’s he met the actor William Macready and tried to write verse drama for stage. Macready regarded him as, “more like a youthful poet that any man I ever saw.” (Lovett, ix) At that time he discovered what his real talent was. Taking a single character and allowing him to discover himself by revealing more of himself in his speeches than he suspects. These beca .....
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John Donne And The Psychology Of Death
.... and patron. . . . Generally regarded as the foremost of the metaphysical poets, Donne was always an uneven writer. His secular poems were original, energetic, and highly rhetorical, full of passionate thought and intellectual juggling. . . . His adroitness in argument and his skill at impersonating different states of mind make Donne’s poetry intense and often riddling (Ousby, 266).
Holy Sonnet #10 is certainly Donne’s most famous poem, and possibly one of the most famous in English literature. “Death be not proud,” it begins: “though some have called thee/ mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so” (Donne, 89). Here Donne is .....
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The Real Me
.... all that you have, you still deserve more
Denying others-what wasn’t worked for.
You planned so well, I should have planned more
to make one mistake I could not afford.
How can you assume this is all true.
I’ve never seen your foot even near my shoe.
Until you’ve walked, a mile in my stead
How can you know-What pleasure would you take
in walking my street for even a day.
The only reason, I could ever see
would be for you- to know
the real me.
K. Sablan 1999
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Matthew Arnolds Melancholy In Life, Religion, And Love
.... armies clash by night”
(Arnold, 830-831).
Matthew Arnold gives his views on life, love and the world. He explains that the world is similar to a land of dreams, and that it is something beautiful and peaceful, but in actuality, Arnold says that it is not. Arnold states that we are like the waves that crash and hit the shore, struggling and fighting for our place on this earth. He says that love is the cure for all of the struggling and fighting that takes place on earth. Love is the only thing that he can rely on right now, even though his love is not in his life. Love is Arnold's way of escaping the harsh rea .....
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E.E. Cummings
.... being I" - that is, individuality - or "oneness", deriving the "one" from the lowercase roman numeral 'i' (200). Cummings could have simplified this poem drastically ("a leaf falls:/loneliness"), and still conveyed the same verbal message, but he has altered the normal syntax in order that each line should show a 'one' and highlight the theme of oneness. In fact, the whole poem is shaped like a '1' (200). The shape of the poem can also be seen as the path of a falling leaf; the poem drifts down, flipping and altering pairs of letters like a falling leaf gliding, back and forth, down to the ground. The beginning 'l(a' changes to ' .....
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"A World Of Light And Dark"
.... those who know it. Once someone is in love, they can not move on or change the object of their affection. Similarly, someone who is not in love is unable to fabricate the kind of devotion which such passion demands. It is this sense of definite, separate, and opposing archetypes which is the foundation of "Sonnet 116."
Shakespeare proceeds to elaborate on the duality which inherently accompanies a love of this magnitude. He proclaims that "It is the star to every wand'ring bark" (Shakespeare 7). Here the thematic power of the battle between light and dark is employed to solidify the writer's previous conviction concerning .....
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A Culture Destroyed
.... Slaves were not respected. They were treated like animals and they had no way to defend themselves. Their culture was not respected and if they even spoke one word of being treated like a citizen they could be killed on the spot. Whites brought black slaves over to the US like they were imported animals. Both the natives and the slaves were not noticed as a people. It was like they did not exist (in the whites' eyes).
Rose also writes “my seeds are stepped on and crushed as if there were no future”(569). To me this means that here children were killed and buried like they had no future anyway so it was all right for .....
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Compare And Contrasting Two Robert Frost Poems Of Spiritual Views
.... a Star" sticks with the word star to represent God. All of the adjectives that Frost uses to describe the star also go hand in hand with God. In the Poem "Love Calls Us to the Things of This World", Wilbur uses laundry on a clothesline to characterize the human spirit. Wilbur uses more nouns to describe the spiritual soul than Frost's usage of adjectives. Both Frost and Wilbur stress, however, theses everyday objects pronounce the power of God. "Some are in bed-sheets, some are in blouses, Some are in smocks: but truly there they [angels] are." -Willburr "O Star (fairest one in sight), We grant your loftiness the right to .....
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"The Black Cat" Essay
.... of his most beloved pets. His wife and the second cat are being run from merely for the disturbing conscious that they provide for him.
Bizarre and unusual plots are often found in the Romantic period, and Poe does not hold back in his efforts. To deliberately cut the cats eye out of its socket is both bizarre and unusual regardless of being intoxicated or not. Even further, to hang the cat by a noose is ranked borderline for insanity. But the most abnormal act is that of getting rid of your wife by creating a tomb in the walls of your home would definitely be insane.
Such acts are used in this literary piece to illust .....
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A Couple Of Frosted Poems
.... attempting to perfect his poetic voice. During this time, he met such literary figures as Ezra Pound, an American expatriate poet and champion of innovative literary approaches, and Edward Thomas, a young English poet associated with the Georgian poetry movement then popular in Great Britain. Frost soon published his first book of poetry, A Boy’s Will (1913), which received appreciative reviews. Following the success of the book, he relocated to Gloucestershire, England, and directed publication of a second collection, North of Boston (1914). Shortly after North of Boston was published in Great Britain, the family .....
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