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Analysis Of Frost's "Desert Places" And "Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening"
Number of Words: 1060 / Number of Pages: 4
... empty spaces. The snow is a
white blanket that covers up everything living. The blankness sybolizes
the emptyness that the speaker feels. To him there is nothing else around
except for the unfeeling snow and his lonely thoughts.
The speaker in this poem is jealous of the woods. "The woods
around it have it - it is theirs." The woods symbolizes people and society.
They have something that belongs to them, something to feel a part of.
The woods has its place in nature and it is also a part of a bigger picture.
The speaker is so alone inside that he feels that he is not a part of
anything. Nature ...
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"Babi Yar" By Yevgeny Yevtushenko: An Analysis
Number of Words: 985 / Number of Pages: 4
... of
his religion. In lines 7-8, he claims that he still bars the marks of the
persecution of the past. There is still terrible persecution of the Jews in
present times because of their religion. These lines serve as the
transition from the Biblical and ancient examples he gives to the allusions
of more recent acts of hatred. The lines also allude to the fact that these
Russian Jews who were murdered at Babi Yar were martyrs as well.
The next stanza reminds us of another event in Jewish history where a Jew
was persecuted solely because of his religious beliefs. The poet refers to
the "pettiness" (line ...
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Emily Dickinson: Her View Of God
Number of Words: 919 / Number of Pages: 4
... will explain each separate anguish
In the fair schoolroom of the sky- (78)".
After she dies and God answers all of her questions, Dickinson then says:
" I shall forget the drop of anguish
That scalds me now-that scalds me now!"
This shows Dickinson's anger toward God. She does not want to have to die to
have her questions answered. She wants to be able to live without these
questions of what God wants, because they are deeply affecting her.
As time goes by, one could say that Dickinson is learning to live with
the questions she has for God. She does not look at death as a bad t ...
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"He Is More Than A Hero": The Love Of Lesbos
Number of Words: 382 / Number of Pages: 2
... emotional
feeling that it could have physical effects. In the poem, the speaker
becomes ill from loving so much. She is hurt inside because she is not with
her love, and the emotional pain transforms to physical effects. "I drip
with sweat; trembling shakes my body and I turn paler than dry grass. At
such times death isn't far from me." The speaker goes so far as to consider
dying because of the emotional pain she is feeling inside. She gets
physically sick from hurting so much, and considers death the only escape.
"He Is More Than A Hero" gives readers a brief view of Ancient
Greece's views on lo ...
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Critical Analysis Of Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening
Number of Words: 1110 / Number of Pages: 5
... absorb the tranquillity of the snow falling in the woods. The appreciative tone appropriately expresses his purpose for stopping. He wants to truly appreciate this moment.
“The darkest evening of the year” (8)
“The only other sound’s the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake” (11)
“The woods are lovely, dark and deep” (14)
Most people would find woods that are quiet, dark and deep to be frightening. The positive appreciative attitude of this poem makes the woods “lovely (14)” and peaceful. He enjoys the quietness of “easy wind (11)” and falling snow. He even enjoys the darkness.
The theme of t ...
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Analysis Of "Because I Could Not Stop For Death"
Number of Words: 1954 / Number of Pages: 8
... journey with a slow, forward movement, which can be
seen as she writes, "We slowly drove-He knew no haste." The third quatrain
seems to speed up as the trinity of death, immortality, and the speaker pass the
children playing, the fields of grain, and the setting sun one after another.
The poem seems to get faster and faster as life goes through its course. In
lines 17 and 18, however, the poem seems to slow down as Dickinson writes, "We
paused before a House that seemed / A Swelling of the Ground-." The reader is
given a feeling of life slowly ending. Another way in which Dickinson uses the
for ...
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Tumbleweed: Central Theme
Number of Words: 758 / Number of Pages: 3
... wire of life. This is another metaphor for
the poet's difficult life. The poet and the tumbleweed are stuck in a
painful, difficult situation. They are prisoners of their surroundings,
helpless. “Like a riddled prisoner.” The words riddled prisoner are used to
give us a powerful, painful, picture of the lost and hopeless feeling of
the poet. He feels great pain at his situation, feels that there is no way
out. He is hanging there on the fence, exposed for everyone to see.
In the second stanza, the poet continues to use metaphors for his
life. “ Half the sharp seeds have fallen from this tumbler, knoc ...
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Comparing Ode To The West Wind And Tintern Abbey
Number of Words: 688 / Number of Pages: 3
... like flocks to feed in air) With loving hues and odors plain and hill,” can be paralleled with a woman tending to her garden with love and devotion. Along with a heart-rending tone and personification Shelley uses imagery to describe nature. He refers to the clouds in the sky as “angels of rain an lightning” and the dead leaves of Autumn as “ghosts from and enchanter fleeing,” he is amazed and mesmerized by the wind, and quietly wishes to one day become one with the wind, little did he know that one day that dream would one day become a reality, seeing as he was killed by the wind in a sail boat.
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Comparing "The Chimney Sweeper" And "Songs Of Innocence And Of Experience"
Number of Words: 525 / Number of Pages: 2
... dissapointed grudge towards God and the heavens. He has come to the harsh reality that being a child in a profession where help is needed, because the child can not help himself, God has let him down since he has not released him and the other boys from their coffins of black. He reveals this to the reader in the last stanza of “Songs of Experience” when he makes his parents think that he is still happy. Therefore they forget about the boy and go “praise God & his Preist & King who make up a heaven of our misery”(p36 L 11-12). The three most important role models the boy has are not there and in his m ...
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Porphyrias Lover
Number of Words: 903 / Number of Pages: 4
... is too weak to give up this other man. I feel that Porphyria is definitely in love with him, but seems to be too weak to act seriously on her feelings. Porphyria traveled at night in a storm to meet her Lover which shows that she is certainly interested and devoted to him.
I also think they are having an affair because the poem is called "Porphyria's Lover". It would explain why the relationship was so clandestine.
Her Lover was not sure if Porphyria truly loved him. When he discovered that she did he killed her so they would always be together.
Is the poem uttered by one speaker who is not the ...
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