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- 4831: 'Sea Fever' - Analysis
- ... creates an image of powerful ocean swells. In addition to the meter suggesting the repeated slap of the waves, "the wheels kick" is a reference to the ships steering wheel spinning out of control. To further support the theory of the waves slapping against the bow, "The wheels kick" suggests that the tall ship is traversing very storm seas. Through the combining of iambic and spondaic meter, "Sea Fever ...
- 4832: Edgar Allan Poe's "The Black Cat"
- ... feelings of others." He cursed at his wife, and eventually he "offered her personal violence." His pets began to feel the change in his disposition--a change brought about by the "Fiend Intemperance [lack of control in consuming alcohol]." "One night, returning home, much intoxicated...[he] fancied that the cat avoided [his] presence." He grabbed Pluto, who out of fear, "inflicted a slight wound upon [his owner's] hand with his ...
- 4833: "Not Waving but Drowning" and "Aunt Jennifer's Tigers"
- ... of its meaning. "Not Waving but Drowning," is referring to the man's struggle for help in his everyday existence. People perceive him, as being one who has everything desired in life; financial stability, strength, control, happiness, and independence. While in actuality, this man is emotionally bankrupt. But the front he has put on for so long prevents people from seeing the weakness and struggle he is enduring. In a sense ...
- 4834: "A Dream Within A Dream"
- ... well as his relationship with his foster father. He married his cousin Virginia. She was his sanity and his life. When she died of tuberculosis, he lost everything. He felt as though he had no control in his life. . . . I hold within my hand Grains of golden sand- . . . they creep through my fingers . . . O God! Can I not grasp Them with a tighter clasp? In the first stanza of his poem ...
- 4835: Emily Dickinson: Individuality
- ... not stop for Death- He kindly stopped for me- The Carriage held but just Ourselves- And Immortality. (Johnson 177-78) Life according to Emily is brief and the people living out their lives have little control. In this short life That only lasts an hour, How much, how little, Is within our power! (Kirby 63) However non-religious she may appear and however insignificant she believes life to be, she does ...
- 4836: Point Of View In Three Edgar Allan Poe's Poems
- ... of his imagination. The man was merely insane. He created Ligeia. "The narrator is obsessed with his Ideal to the point where it takes on a life of its own, and had no ability to control his mind"(Piethman 45). The narrator was always absorbed in the features of Ligeia and how wonderful she always looked. She was so perfect in every way that she could not possibly be human. This ...
- 4837: "I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud"
- ... as a cloud. He tries to express his loneliness, solitude, and isolation. Clouds are lonely, fluttering anywhere in the cosmic sky. They have no companion and no concrete destination to drift. A cloud has no control or apparent direction; they are moved and directed by wind, as the speaker feels moved and directed by his emotions. The cloud in this poem looks over vales and hills, "vale" not only meaning valley ...
- 4838: I've Learned
- ... learned - That you can keep going long after you think you can't. I've learned - That we are responsible for what we do, no matter how we feel. I've learned - That either you control your attitude or it controls you. I've learned - That regardless of how hot and steamy a relationship is at first, the passion fades and there had better be something else to take its place ...
- 4839: How Does Coleridge in 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' and 'Kubla Khan' Show the Interrelatedness Between Mankind, Nature and the Poetic Experience?
- ... passionate, soothing and caressing, or steadfast and dependant. All these traits of nature can also be traits of the human being, and if forced together, are likely to retaliate and react. One always tries to control and overrun the other. In KK, there is the creation of the dome concealing the perfect world and in RAM, the boat of the mariner is thrust in all directions by nature. Therefore, the emphasis ...
- 4840: A Comparison and Contrast of Love in Christopher Marlowe's "The Passionate Shepherd to his Love" and C. Day Lewis's "Song"
- ... women where by they can be manipulated with gifts and promises, and in turn shows a sign of his possible sexual intentions. The speaker is possibly trying to obscure his love long enough to take control and have his way with her. This idea is reinforced in the line "I will make thee a bed of roses" (9) , which contains underlying sexual connotations. These intentions are masked in the speaker's ...
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