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- 9581: John Keats
- ... in the spring of the following year. Keats toured the north of England and Scotland in the summer of 1818, returning home to nurse his brother Tom, who was ill with tuberculosis. After Tom's death in December he moved into a friend's house in Hampstead, now known as Keats House. There he met and fell deeply in love with a young neighbour, Fanny Brawne. During the following year, despite ...
- 9582: Poetry Analysis of "No Loser, No Weeper"
- ... must first understand her background. Maya Angelo grew up with her grandmother in Stamps, Arkansas, along with her brother. Angelo has experienced a lot of negative things in her life. The Great Depression, her parents' death, racism, being sexually abused at an early age, becoming a single mother in her middle teenage years and bad marriages. This period in Maya's life constitutes much of the pain that is included in ...
- 9583: Sonnet 71: Forget Me When I’m Gone?
- ... didn’t get the point in Sonnet 71, it’s made even clearer in Sonnet 72. All together I’d say this was a great sonnet. It really relates to how people really feel about death. I mean, who wouldn’t want to be remembered after they were gone? I know I would.
- 9584: You Should Really Read This Poem
- ... sword and cuts open the ketta's neck. The epic says Beowulf, "Thrust at the throat (the ketta's), broke through the bone-rings; / The stout blade stabbed through her fated flesh. / She sank into death; the sword was bloody" (l. 1055-1057). It has such great suspense. The last action series of the story is when Beowulf clashes with the fire-drake. After someone steals the worm's jeweled cup ...
- 9585: By Means of Power
- ... where her son has been shot, probably in the face. Although "blood from his punctured cheeks and shoulders/is the only liquid 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 ...
- 9586: Robert Frost's Themes of Isolation, Extinction, and Limitations of Man
- ... extinct when our mortal body is extinct “What form of my dreaming was about to take”. The theme of extinction in this poem is only tangent to the desire to be released from life, into death despite the incompleteness and disappointments in life In the “Road not Taken”, the final limitations of man are presented and assessed to explore life’s different possibilities. The poem is a tale of a monumental ...
- 9587: The Fall of the House of Usher and The Cask of Amontillado: Madness and Insanity
- ... manipulates the thoughts and desires of Fortunato in much the same way that Poe’s language and style manipulate the reader. Using reverse psychology, Montressor is able to deceive Fortunato and lead him to his death All of them suffer from insanity, yet each responds differently. Lady Madeline seems to accept the fact that she is insane and continues her life with that knowledge. Roderick Usher appears realize his mental state ...
- 9588: Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven
- Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven When I hear the name Edgar Allan Poe I think of darkness, death, solitude, and depression. I'm not sure what brings about these words whether it be his short stories, scary poems or his cryptic appearance, but they all describe one brilliant man.Edgar Allan Poe, the ...
- 9589: Mother and Child In Sylvia Plath Poems
- ... enlightened. She feels that she can envisage the future because "The fat/ Sacrifices its opacity" while it cooks, allowing her to see clearly what lies ahead. The tone is rather morbid, with many references to death and the horrible events of the second world war ("the cicatrix of Poland, burnt out/ Germany".) Alongside the glorification of her child, she also acknowledges its vulnerability and isolation: "the high/ Precipice/ That emptied one ...
- 9590: Compare And Contrast The War Poems By Jessie Pope And Rupert Brooke To Those Of Wilfred Owen
- ... ends with the notion that dying for their country is better than the men carrying on living their normal lives. A good way to sum up “Peace” would be to say that it is glorifying death for one’s country. Although it is partly true- the country is awaken by the dawn of war, it is still a piece of propaganda, intentionally or not, that gives the atrocity of war a ...
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