Comparing Ode To The West Wind And Tintern Abbey
.... a woman tending to her garden with love and devotion. Along with a heart-rending tone and personification Shelley uses imagery to describe nature. He refers to the clouds in the sky as “angels of rain an lightning” and the dead leaves of Autumn as “ghosts from and enchanter fleeing,” he is amazed and mesmerized by the wind, and quietly wishes to one day become one with the wind, little did he know that one day that dream would one day become a reality, seeing as he was killed by the wind in a sail boat.
On the contrary William Wordsworth has a completely different conception of nature, one of love, happiness, and affection. .....
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Analysis Of Frost's "Home Burial"
.... to become destructive.In the poem “Home Burial”, Robert Frost talks about a couple in the verge of breaking up. I believe that the main issue in this poem is the death of a child that has not been addressed by the parents. A staircase, where the action of the poem occurs, symbolizes both the ability of husband and wife to come together and the distance between them.
In their first discussion, I believe that Frost is trying to tell the readers that the child was buried in the yard by the father, and as the child is being buried the mother watches from upstairs. The problem I think is caused because of the fathers carel .....
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Interpreting Poetry
.... breathe, or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
In the simplest terms possible, Shakespeare is saying that the woman of whom this poem speaks of is beautiful. But even more than that, the eloquence in which he expresses her beauty demonstrates that Shakespeare loves the woman he is addressing.
In what seems almost a response to Shakespeare’s sonnet, Elizabeth Barrett Browning wrote a poem titled, “If Thou Must Love Me, Let It Be For Naught”.
If thou must love me, let it be for naught
Except for love’s sake only. Do not say
“I love her for her smile – her look – her way
Of speaki .....
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Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven
.... of the night. At that point the man's mind went wild, wondering, fearing, and dreaming of what might lie beyond his front stoop. The only sound that was heard was the soft whisper of the name "Lenore", as if the man was expecting her to answer his faint plea. Jolting back into the chamber, the man hears another rapping. Only this time it is coming from the window lattice. He again tries to make up an excuse, " 'Tis the wind and nothing more!"
Finally the suspense inside the man is so great he can no longer take it. He slams open the shutters, and in steps the raven. The bird amuses, enchants, and almost intimidates the m .....
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The Power Of Images In Langston Hughes' Poems
.... struggle the blacks in-lets say the sixties went through during all those marches across the country. The pain and suffering they endured trying to become a part of the so-called "American dream". In many ways those efforts were null and void because we still are not equal, racial discrimination still exists. Black people still have one hand tied behind our back when we attempt to pursue what is rightfully ours.
He further uses the sense of smell to express his disgust with the dream. For instance, the smell of rotten meat can make you sick to your stomach. The lack of progress achieved by black people as whole is also .....
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The Fall Of The House Of Usher And The Cask Of Amontillado: Madness And Insanity
.... an inconsistency...habitual trepidancy, and excessive nervous agitation...His action was alternately vivacious and sullen. His voice varied rapidly from a tremulous indecision...to that...of the lost drunkard, or the irreclaimable eater of opium" (667). These are "the features of the mental disorder of [the narrator's] friend" (672). Roderick's state worsens throughout the story. He becomes increasingly restless and unstable, especially after the burial of his sister. He is not able to sleep and claims that he hears noises. All in all, he is an unbalanced man trying to maintain equilibrium in his life.
As perhaps Poe’s most tig .....
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Robert Frost's Themes Of Isolation, Extinction, And Limitations Of Man
.... why man can not live without walls, boundaries, limits and particularly self-limitations. “There where it is/ We do not need a wall”. Isolation of the individual links to our desire for barriers and boundaries as a form of separation from other people. We find in “Mending Wall” the desire of a rural farmer to mend a wall every spring between him and the persona “And set the wall between us as we go”. The persona in this poem interrogates his neighbour as to the necessity of the wall “What I was walling in or walling out” thus questioning his desire for isolation. Primitive as the neighbour is, the only answer he could give to this .....
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The Waste Land: Tiresias As Christ
.... between the characters. Tiresias states that, "And I Tiresias have foresuffered all / Enacted on this same divan or bed (ll.243-244)." Tiresias seems most Christ like at this moment in the poem. According to Steven Helmling in The Grin of Tiresias: humor in the Waste Land, "Tiresias participates in the suffering he sees, like Christ; and he has foresuffered all like Christ (pg.148)." Tiresias sees and feels all that the typist and her lover are going through.
God is a common figure throughout the poem The Waste Land. Tiresias is most God like in his emotions towards the lovers. According to Sukhbir Singh in Eliot's The W .....
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Song Of Myself: Divinity, Sexuality And The Self
.... Whitman as a being of desire and libido.
Whitman begins his synthesis of the soul and body through sexuality by establishing a relative equality between the two. He pronounces in previous stanzas, "You shall listen to all sides and filter them from yourself," and, "Not an inch nor a particle of an inch is vile, and none shall be less familiar than the rest." Here, he lays foundation for the basic egalitarianism with which he treats all aspects of his being for the rest of the poem. This equality includes not only his sexuality, but in broader terms, his soul and body. In the opening to section five, Whitman explicitly articul .....
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By Means Of Power
.... for miles"(9-10), "my mouth splits into dry lips"(12). With the death of her boy she is willing to sacrifice her own need of any quenching of her lips. She is "thirsting for the wetness of his blood"(14) but it is more important to resist the temptation, "trying to make power out of hatred and destruction"(18).
The power displayed in the third section of Lordes Power is that of hatred. A policeman has "shot down a 10-year-old in Queens"(21). This he justifies by saying "I didn’t notice the size or nothing else/only the color"(26-27). This officer has taken the power entrusted into him by the citizens and used it for .....
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Frost's "Desert Places" And "Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening"
.... else around except for the unfeeling snow and his lonely thoughts.
The speaker in this poem is jealous of the woods. "The woods around it have it - it is theirs." The woods symbolize people and society. They have something that belongs to them, something to feel a part of. The woods has its place in nature and it is also a part of a bigger picture. The speaker is so alone inside that he feels that he is not a part of anything. Nature has a way of bringing all of her parts together to act as one. Even the animals are a part of this wintry scene. "All animals are smothered in their lairs,/ I am too absent-spir .....
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Dulce Et Decorum Est: Analysis
.... title.
In stanza one, Owen describes the soldiers as they set off towards the army base camp after a spell at the battle front. His use of similes such as “Bent double, like old beggars,” and “coughing like hags,” help me to depict the soldiers’ poor health and depressed state of mind. Owen makes us picture the soldiers as ill, disturbed and utterly exhausted. He shows that this is not the government-projected stereotype of a soldier, in gleaming boots and crisp new uniform, but is the true illustration of the poor mental and physical state of the soldiers. By telling us that many of the platoon are barefoot, Owen gives us an .....
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