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A Critical Analysis Of "The Parting" By Michael Drayton
Number of Words: 861 / Number of Pages: 4
... also adding to the ease of
understanding and therefore also to the meaning of the poem.
Another constraint of the sonnet is the length of the lines
themselves. In a sonnet, the rythem is always iambic pentameter, which
means that there must always be ten syllables per line, with each second
syllable being stressed. Where the author breaks this pattern, it must
obviously be for a good reason, when the author wants a certain word or
syllable to be stressed. This in itself will naturally add tot he meaning
of the poem. This, in addition, to the constraints of the number of lines,
again causes the poe ...
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The Real Me
Number of Words: 325 / Number of Pages: 2
... believing you’re superior
With all that you have, you still deserve more
Denying others-what wasn’t worked for.
You planned so well, I should have planned more
to make one mistake I could not afford.
How can you assume this is all true.
I’ve never seen your foot even near my shoe.
Until you’ve walked, a mile in my stead
How can you know-What pleasure would you take
in walking my street for even a day.
The only reason, I could ever see
would be for you- to know
the real me.
K. Sablan 1999 ...
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Masochism In Edgar Allen Poe
Number of Words: 1146 / Number of Pages: 5
... goes directly to the heart of him who has had a frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man ( The Black Cat 80) This citation I just went over shows how he loves his animals, but it also shows how he is foreshadowing. How he love the animals as pals, but how he also loves to abuse the animals. He loves to inflict pain on the animals because that is the way he shows his love. By seeing others in pain, he feels guilty, but he likes feeling that way. Because he is a masochist.
He also shows how he feels guilty for this observed behavior is he goes out and gets ...
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Matthew Arnolds Melancholy In Life, Religion, And Love
Number of Words: 1056 / Number of Pages: 4
... Where ignorant armies clash by night”
(Arnold, 830-831).
Matthew Arnold gives his views on life, love and the world. He explains that the world is similar to a land of dreams, and that it is something beautiful and peaceful, but in actuality, Arnold says that it is not. Arnold states that we are like the waves that crash and hit the shore, struggling and fighting for our place on this earth. He says that love is the cure for all of the struggling and fighting that takes place on earth. Love is the only thing that he can rely on right now, even though his love is not in his life. ...
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The Test Of Honor In Sir Gawain And The Green Knight
Number of Words: 573 / Number of Pages: 3
... is full of instances in which Gawain was forced to face difficult decisions. Gawain could have simply left Camelot never to return. He instead chose the option of keeping his word and searching for the Green Knight, even
though he knew he had to take what was coming to him. "Now, liege lord of my life, my leave I take; / The terms of this task too well you know / to count the cost over concerns me nothing. But I am bound forth betimes to bear a stroke / From the grim man in green, as God may direct." (Gawain, lines 545-549). During his travels he had every opportunity to turn around. Gawain, how ...
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Analysis Of WH Auden's Poem: Eternal Love
Number of Words: 395 / Number of Pages: 2
... every moment lost cannot be retrieved, that every second that goes by
is a second closer to the death of the body and to the death of love. The
images of the frozen, cracked landscapes, and the crack in the teacup are
examples of lost, passed time. The verdant valleys shall always be
sheathed in snow, they cannot resist; and the teacup, once cracked, cannot
be mended. All that is left is the memory of that thing still whole, and
even those fade with the unhalting passage of time.
At the conclusion of the poem, the author refers to the passage of
the lovers. They have succumbed as well to ...
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Analysis Of The Rubaiyat Of Omar Khayyam
Number of Words: 1449 / Number of Pages: 6
... taking "Jamshyd and Kaikobad away", and so
forth and so on ad nauseum. Again, in the fifty-third stanza: "You gaze
To-Day, while You are You-how then/ Tomorrow, You when shall be You no
more?" The poet seems to be in an incredible hurry to get this life going
before some cosmic deadline comes due, and more than willing to encourage
any of the laiety he encounters in the course of the poem to do the same.
Another recurring motif throughout the poem is the time-
honored act of downing a few drinks. It appears that either "Wine", the
"Cup" or "Bowl", and the "Grape" touch every stanza in the poem ...
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Poe's Poetic Imagery In "The Raven"
Number of Words: 571 / Number of Pages: 3
... in the first verse, and "December" in the second verse. Both midnight and December symbolize an end of something, and the anticipation of a transition to occur. The midnight in December could possibly be New Year's eve, a date with which most connect transition.
With Poe's extensive vocabulary, he is qualified to bestow an ancient and poetic language in "The Raven" which eloquently depicts a surreal yet romantic picture of a man spending an evening in his chamber. The word "Seraphim" in the fourteenth verse, "perfumed by an unseen censer / Swung by a seraphim whose footfalls tinkled on the tufted ...
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Bryon's "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage": The Byronic Hero
Number of Words: 984 / Number of Pages: 4
... mold into which he was born.
In the fourth stanza Harold tells us that Childe Harold is unhappy and
upset with the society around him. ÒThen loathed he in his native land to dwell,
which seemed to him more lone than Eremite's sad cell.Ó Childe Harold is
extremely miserable with the societyin which he is forced to live. He feels so
isolated that he compares his life to that of a hermit's. Stanza ten reads ÒIf
he had friends, he bade adieu to none.Ó This proves that Childe Harold did not
have many friends, and if he did their friendship was not highly valued. Bruce
Wayne too comes across as a ...
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