Shakespeare's Sonnet Number 126: Critique
.... of himself as being out of luck, and/or money and not well
received by his fellow man. He has taken to crying about his social ostracism
in line two. In an attempt to clarify for himself why he is in such a state he “
troubles” heaven with his “bootless” or useless cries. But as the poet has made
clear heaven turns a deaf ear and no response is forthcoming. Again he becomes
introspective and curses his fate. This first quatrain has given us an image of
a grown man “down and out” if you will, who is .....
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Millay Vs Cummings
.... forgotton just why. The wife is trying to forget about her husbands death:
"and the dead be forgottne" (16). The tone of (since feeling is first" is a
happy tone. A man is telling his girlfriend to enjoy life and stop being so
serious.
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Criticism Of "The Sick Rose"
.... "corresponding realities" (40). For example, he states that the
"flower or the fruit is a variant of the worm's dwelling constructed through
destruction. Thus, as a word, worm is meaningful only in the context of flower,
and flower only in the context of worm" (41). After Riffaterre's reading and in
terpretation of the poem, he concludes that "The Sick Rose" is composed of
"polarized polarities" (44) which convey the central object of the poem, the
actual phrase, "the sick rose" (44). He asserts that "b .....
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"Dover Bitch": Mockery Of Victorian Values In "Dover Beach"
.... a
reaction to the Victorian idea that the wife should be there for her husband. It
could also be a scary reality in Hecht's mind that times were changing and women
wouuld not be at every beaconing call of their husband. Hecht reinforces his
Ideas of change by taking Arnold's "...the cliffs of England stand, glimmering
and vast" and transforms the Victorian idea of women into "...cliffs of England
crumbling away behind them,". This supports the idea that Hecht is aware of the
changes that are happening .....
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The Fish By Elizabeth Bishop: Gone Fishin'
.... to clearly
illustrate what she means by "wallpaper": "shapes like full-blown roses /
stained and lost through age." She uses another simile here paired with
descriptive phrases, and these effectively depict a personal image of the fish.
She uses the familiar "wallpaper" comparison because it is something the
readers can relate to their own lives. Also the "ancient wallpaper" analogy can
refer to the fish's age. Although faded and aged he withstood the test of time,
like the wallp aper. Bishop uses hig .....
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Ballad Of Birmingham
.... important. The little child is in a desperate situation and wants to help
better the lives of the African Americans. Randall also focuses on specific
culture here. The speaker is allowing the reader to make a mental picture of one
specific march in Birmingham (Hunter 17). But, you know as well as I, that with
peace marches and rallies comes violence and hostility. This is exactly what the
little girls mother is afraid of, this is why she will not let her go to the
march. It also seems weird that he .....
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An Examination Of Similes In The Iliad - And How Homer's Use Of Them Affected The Story
.... course. It
could almost be assumed that throughout time most of the knowledge of the battle
from the Trojan side had been lost.
Considering the ability to affect feelings with similes, and the one-sided
view of history, Homer could be using similes to guide the reader in the
direction of his personal views, as happens with modern day political "spin".
These views that Homer might be trying to get across might be trying to favor
Troy. It could easily be imagined that throughout time, only great thin .....
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The Influence Of Personal Experiences In Emily Dickinson's Poetry
.... to be labeled, she was very much of a “New
Englander”. Cynthia Griffen Wolff, author of Emily Dickinson, points out that
Emily “knew every line of the Bible intimately, quoted from it extensively, and
referred to it many more times than she referred to any other work... yet in
this regard she was not unusual by Amherst's standards” (72). The most
prominent figure of religious virtues in her life was her father, Edward
Dickinson. Reading the Bible to his children and speaking in town of religious
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Poem "Lucifer In The Starlight": New Meanings And Ideas
.... that he is doing so because
he is tired of his ‘dark dominion." Ironically, the first line refers to Lucifer
honorably, as a "Prince", while in the second line he is tagged as a fiend. This
leaves the reader feeling perplexed, yet still thinking of Lucifer as the enemy.
At first it may seem as Lucifer has risen to the Earth, but it is further
clarified that he has elevated himself above the "rolling ball". However, god
imagined the world as planar, with heaven on a higher plane, and hell on a lower
plane .....
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How Do Textual Features Combine To Convey A Theme Of The Poem?
.... away (“...one talent which is death to hide..”), “
lodged... useless” within him because of his new blindness. As a result, Milton
begins to question God, “Doth God exact day-labour, light denied?” Milton
wonders as to the meaning of his blindness; Does God want him to continue to
write, even with his blindness, or what does God really mean? At first his tone
seems harsh, but his feelings are redirected as he answers his own questions in
time. His last question to God, was answered by himself as he reali .....
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In Poems "The Man He Killed", "Reconciliation", And "Dreamers", The Authors Show That Man Kills Because He Must
.... you have no personal vendetta against.
In Reconciliation, Whitman shows the devastation of war. In a war, you
kill someone and even if you win, you lose. Whitman describes a man mourning
over the death of his foe. He rejoices over the ultimate death of war
"Beautiful that war and all its deeds of carnage must...be utterly lost." He
also feels great remorse over his so called enemy's death "For my enemy...a man
divine as myself is dead." He then shows his love for the enemy "I...bend down
and tou .....
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Differences Between 18th Century Literature And Romantic Poetry Seen Through The Works From Alexander Pope And John Keats
.... which can be compared
with popes' efforts by the difference in eighteenth century literature and
romantic poems, their descriptive natures and ideas they portray to the reader
through their writing.
Pope has written an eighteenth-century poem which he calls, "An Hero-
Comical Poem." This poem has exalted an over all sense of worthlessness for
common rules. The mentioning of Achilles and the ever-popular Aeneas, are
symbols of Pope's Gothic style. Pope speaks (almost) G-D like throughout, "The
Rape o .....
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Robert Frost's "Two Tramps In Mud Time"
.... to my soul,/I spent on the unimportant
wood." The narrator refers to releasing his suppressed anger not upon evils
that threaten "the common good", but upon the "unimportant wood". The appparent
arrogance of the narrator is revealed as well by his reference to himself as a
Herculean figure standing not alongside nature, but over it: "The grip on earth
of outspread feet,/The life of muscles rocking soft/And smooth and moist in
vernal heat."
Unexpectedly, the narrator then turns toward nature, apparently .....
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Romantic Sonnet
.... Smith, for example, uses the water
to aid the reader's comprehension of the speaker's state of mind. Included in
this traditional natural setting is the use of the sea as stormy, deep,
extensive, and dark which ties the speaker in with the setting as the scene
applies to the tone of the poem as well. Also characteristic of the Romantic
sonnet is the retreat from the neo-classical age and its significant historical
references into a new age where it becomes common to speak of "nothing." In
Will .....
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Poe's "The Conqueror Worm": Deeper Meaning To The Poem
.... keys in showing
the hidden meaning. The first stanza describes the crowd that has gathered to
watch the enactment of our human lives. Lines three and four states "an angel
throng, bewinged, and bedight in veils, and drowned in tears." Poe is stating
that a group of angels is going to watch the spectacle put on for them, although
they are already drowning in the tears from plays before. The orchestra that
plays for them is another set of characters that have meaning. They represent
the background in ev .....
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