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- 9621: Analysis of the Poem "The Soldier" by Rupert Brooke
- ... land other than England that the soil would be made better because there would now be a piece of England within it. The plot of this poem reinforces it's meaning because it deals with death and love. These are two powerful things that evoke feeling in people. It helps to create an image in the poem of a man who is very brave and would do anything for his country ...
- 9622: Blakes's "London": Your Beauty, My Despair
- ... the beauty in the truth of these poor lives? The truth that their mentality screams no matter how hard they work and try, they can never earn enough to enjoy life, that rest comes with death, that money and power will always rule and that they will never rule anything. As Blake writes in The Chimney Sweeper, When my mother died I was very young, And my father sold me while ...
- 9623: "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock": Surrealism and T.S. Eliot
- ... from Dante's Inferno. The main character, Guido de Montefeltro, confesses his sins to Dante, assuming that "none has ever returned alive from this depth"; this "depth" being Hell. As the reader has never experienced death and the passage through the Underworld, he must rely on his own imagination (and/or subconscious) to place a proper reference onto this cryptic opening. Images of a landscape of fire and brimstone come to ...
- 9624: Comparison and Contrast of William Blake's Poems
- ... thy father & mother? say?" "They are both gone up to the church to pray. "Because I was happy upon the heath, "And smil'd among the winter's snow, "They clothed me in clothes of death, "And taught me to sing the notes of woe. "And because I am happy & dance & sing, "They think they have done me no injury, "And are gone to praise God & his Priest & King, "Who make ...
- 9625: Beowulf - A Noble
- ... that Beowolf is not completly moral because he lets some knights be killed by Grendel before he attacks. Beowulf and Grendel fight and the monster's arm is ripped off causing a slow and painful death.Even though Beowolf didn't do this heroic and noble act for the reward ing Hrothgar gave him a sword and eight horses with golden cheek plates. The second act of Beowolf's conflict with ...
- 9626: Allowing Evil to Triumph
- ... By attempting to do nothing, the good shows little concern for what the evil is capable of doing. In the above paragraphs, there are examples of good allowing the evil to triumph that result in death. Also, there are examples of things in which the evil does not offer as horrendous a consequence. Within either extremity, there always has and always will be problems of evil triumphing to an easy victory ...
- 9627: Understanding "Porphyria's Lover"
- ... how / Her darling one wish would be heard" (56-7). The wish, in that line, being her wish to be with him. The speaker figures that now they'll be together forever, not realizing that death means that Porphyria is gone forever. The way the reader of Browning's dramatic monologue must make a decision of the speaker's moral character, is parallel to the way the juror must make a ...
- 9628: Beowulf: Character Analysis
- ... loss of strength, and the battle was disheartening to Beowulf, however he took it in stride. After his battle with the dragon Beowulf realized his time was over. However, he used the time on his death bed to reflect on his life. He also used this time to regain some glory, in reminding his thanes of all the great battles he fought. This is a sign of Beowulf's self assurance ...
- 9629: Beowulf and Hrothgar: Anglo-Saxon Ideal Code of Conduct
- ... warrior, You shall lack no earthly riches I can offer you. The people of the land also trust their king, who holds a strong belief in God. In the scene where Hrothgar celebrates Grendel's death, he holds the monsters hand as he says, Let us give thanks at once to God Almighty for this sight. The followers of the king both respect and trust their ruler, and through his generosity ...
- 9630: A Critical Analysis of Tension's In Memorial A. H. H.
- ... H. H., written in memory of his deceased friend, Arthur Hallam. The poem seemed to be cathartic for Tennyson, for through its writing he not only found an outlet for his grief over Hallam's death, but also managed to regain the faith which seemed at times to have abandoned him. Tennyson regained and firmly reestablished his faith through the formation of the idea that God is reconciled with the mechanistic ...
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