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Thanatopsis: An Analysis
Number of Words: 318 / Number of Pages: 2
... is good, and do not be afraid
to die but go pleasantly. This is described in lines thirty-one through
eighty. The best example of this is when Bryants writes: ..."approach thy
grave like one who wraps the drapery of his coach about him and lies down
to pleasant dreams"(79-80)
This poem has taught the reader that death is not a bad thing. It
is just a ticket to a pleasant life after death. So have fun in your life
and live life to its fullest. When you are sad and need a friend look to
nature and he will always be there. Even after you are dead. ...
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Analysis Of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Poetry
Number of Words: 1846 / Number of Pages: 7
... poems in which
reference is made with fine particularity to certain places. They were
composed as the expression of feelings which were occasioned by quite
definite events. Between the lines, when we know their meaning, we catch
glimpses of those delightful people who formed the golden inner circle of
his friends in the days of his young manhood. They may all be termed, as
Coleridge himself names one or two of them, Conversation Poems, for even
when they are soliloquies the sociable man who wrote them could not even
think without supposing a listener. They require and reward considerable
knowle ...
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Analysis Of Plath's "Daddy"
Number of Words: 568 / Number of Pages: 3
... 71-80 the speaker compares her father and her husband to vampires saying how they betrayed her and drank her blood--sucking her dry of life. She tells her father to give up and be done, to lie back" (line 75) and in line 80, she says, "Daddy, daddy, you bastard,
Plath’s attitude towards men is expressed in this passage through her imagery of the villagers stamping and dancing on the dead vampire. The speaker says "If I’ve killed one man, I’ve killed two–" most likely meaning that all men are the same and ridding the world of one is equivalent to ridding the world of both.
She is also killing of ...
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Romanticism, Poe, And "The Raven"
Number of Words: 490 / Number of Pages: 2
... that was liable to topple over into some delirium or an abyss
of melancholy, from the continuity of one unvaried emotion.” Edgar Allen
Poe, author of “The Raven,” played on the reader's emotions. The man in “
The Raven” was attempting to find comfort from the remembrance of his lost
love. By turning his mind to Lenore and recalling how her frame will never
again bless the chair in which he now reposes, he is suddenly overcome with
grief, whereby the reader immediately feels sorry for the lonely man. The
reader pities the man's state of mind.
In addition to an emotional characteristic, ...
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Shapiro's "Auto Wreck": Interpretation
Number of Words: 529 / Number of Pages: 2
... This depiction of
the auto wreck is extravag ant and almost unreal. Using metaphors, Shapiro
portrays the fantasy-like auto wreck in which wildness is indispensable.
In addition to Shapiro's use of metaphorical phrases, he emphasizes
the lack of comprehension of the on-lookers as a result of death's
inconsistency with logic. Shapiro directly tells the reader, "We are
deranged." The word "we" symbolizes u s, as a whole institution or better
yet -- society. He goes on further to say, "Our throats were tight as
tourniquets." By this he means that the on-lookers were stopped, almost
spe ...
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The Love Song Of J. Alfred Prufrock: The Pitiful Prufrock
Number of Words: 1293 / Number of Pages: 5
... the imagery of the "etherised patient" denotes a person waiting for
treatment. It seems this treatment will be Prufrock's examination of himself and
his life. Prufrock repeats his invitation and asks the reader to follow him
through a cold and lonely setting that seems to be the Prufrock's domain. The
imagery of the journey through the city is described as pointed to lead the
reader (and more accurately Prufrock) to an overwhelming question. Prufrock's
description of the urban city is quite dreary: " Let us go, through certain
half-deserted streets,/ The muttering retreats/ Of restles ...
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Shakespeare's Sonnet 19
Number of Words: 387 / Number of Pages: 2
... that in its fleet passage
Time does "Make glad and sorry seasons. n For the first time one sees Time in
other than a destructive capacity--in its cycLical change of seasons, some Time
does "make glad" with blooming sweets. So the lover changes his epithet from
devouring to swift-footed, certainly more neutral in tone. For now the lover
makes his most assertive command: "But I forbid thee one most heinous crime. n
The final quatrain finds the lover ordering Time to stay its antic "antique
pen" from aging or marring his love. It is a heinous crime to carve and draw
lines on youth and beauty. ere the ...
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Harwood's "Impromptu For Ann Jennings" And "Home Of Mercy"
Number of Words: 1690 / Number of Pages: 7
... have become emotionally stronger. There is no mention of the husband's in the poem which also leads the reader to believe that the women are independent and strong.
The opening two stanzas are very reflective of their times together.
"Sing, memory, sing those seasons in the freezing
suburb of Fern Tree, a rock-shaded place
with tree ferns, gullies, snowfalls and eye-pleasing
prospects from paths along the mountain-face"
The first stanza in particular describes the setting in wonderful imagery. From this we are able to create an image of the environments that Gwen Harwood and Ann Jennings lived ...
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I Knew A Woman: An Analysis
Number of Words: 967 / Number of Pages: 4
... the poem as well as the natural softness to her disposition. In the third stanza, this is most obvious: "She played it quick, she played it light and loose; / My eyes, they dazzled at her flowing knees; / Her several parts could keep a pure repose, / Or one hip quiver with a mobile nose / (She moved in circles, and those circles moved)." Here, there are almost a dozen leading or strong trailing "s"'s weaving through the words, outlining the form one can picture as her "several parts keep a pure repose" and "one hip quiver"s as she "moved in circles, those circles moving." Roethke clearly paid close at ...
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Beowulf: First Literary Superhero
Number of Words: 455 / Number of Pages: 2
... at his
hands.”(line 464-466)
Beowulf's unusual and courageous method of killing Grendel
demonstrates his bravery and physical strength. Before, Unferth had taunted
Beowulf about his foolish bravery but when he and all the rest of the Geats
saw that Beowulf's strength and power were worth boasting about, they were
humbled. To prove Beowulf was powerful, he hung Grendel's arm, claw, and
shoulders from the rafters of the meeting hall.”No Dane doubted The victory,
for the proof, hanging high From the rafters where Beowulf had hung it, was
the monster's Arm, claw and shoulder and all.”(line 485-488) ...
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