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Analysis Of The Poem "The Soldier" By Rupert Brooke
Number of Words: 487 / Number of Pages: 2
... roam."
This line evokes images of a beautiful woman cherishing and caressing the
man who stands at her side. Another line is "Washed by the rivers, blest
by suns of home." This line creates a feeling of tranquillity and a unity
with nature.
Another line that evokes a feeling of peace and happiness is, "Her
sights and sounds; dreams happy as her day." Without such strong images,
the poem would probably not have such a great effect on the reader. Lines
such as this one force the reader to see the land in the same light as the
poet.
Symbolism also plays a key role in this poem. Some of the more
o ...
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How Does Coleridge In 'The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner' And 'Kubla Khan' Show The Interrelatedness Between Mankind, Nature And The Poetic Experience?
Number of Words: 809 / Number of Pages: 3
... spiritual and internal rationality, and this goal is
expressed in the poem as a type of blessing or relief which he must earn. In
'Kubla Khan', Coleridge expresses man's social instinct to conform and belong to
a group. This also relates to the creation of rituals and rules by the human-
being and the obeying of the cycle of life to death, again and again. The
running theme of freedom and release for man is emphasised in both poems,
escaping from criticism, in the case of KK, and from blame and regret, in RAM.
They both explore the tendency to be impulsive for reasons accumulated through
the traits of ...
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"Dover Beach" By Arnold: Irony, Images, And Illusions
Number of Words: 477 / Number of Pages: 2
... to the visual sense. While “ Where the sea meets the moon-blanched
land” and “With tremulous cadence slow, and bring...” uses an auditory
sense. “Come to the window, sweet is the night air,” can apply to both
senses. Sweet can mean angelic or precious to qualify to be an visual
image, or it can mean almost like a melodious tune.
Illusions are used in this poem as deception for the girl that the
man is trying to hold a non-romantic conversation with. A theory is
portrayed in this poem by Plato, the world is an illusion. In many case
this that falls true. In the first stanza of the poem , the su ...
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Critical Analysis Of "The Indifferent" By John Donne
Number of Words: 1136 / Number of Pages: 5
... it can drastically change the meaning of the poem, and has
therefore been debated among the critics. While most critics believe that
the audience changes from men, to women, then to a single woman, or
something along those lines, Gregory Machacek believes that the audience
remains throughout the poem as "two women who have discovered that they are
both lovers of the speaker and have confronted him concerning his
infidelity" (1). His strongest argument is that when the speaker says, "I
can love her, and her, and you and you," he first points out two random
nearby women for "her, and he ...
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"Ode On A Grecian Urn"
Number of Words: 725 / Number of Pages: 3
... understand the scenes it presents in their relation to our own experience. "The Sylvan historian, describes the panels on the urn that present ancient woodland scenes, they probably tell the history of a past way of life.
In the second and third stanzas Keats is talking about the music that is playing to the spirits, because he says "it's sweeter unheard." Also, that is must be young and very rich in love, because its love will never stop pursuit and will never fade away or leave. He is probably describing a love relationship between a man and woman who seem as if they have just met each other, beca ...
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Ballad Of Birmingham
Number of Words: 1087 / Number of Pages: 4
... Randall also focuses on specific
culture here. The speaker is allowing the reader to make a mental picture of one
specific march in Birmingham (Hunter 17). But, you know as well as I, that with
peace marches and rallies comes violence and hostility. This is exactly what the
little girls mother is afraid of, this is why she will not let her go to the
march. It also seems weird that her mother is so sure that going to church,
instead of going to the march, will be the best thing for her. (Hunter 19-20).
Typically, a church is to be a very safe and sacred place where no-one would
imagine a bombing or an ...
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Analysis Of The Poem "The Soldier" By Rupert Brooke
Number of Words: 487 / Number of Pages: 2
... roam." This line
evokes images of a beautiful woman cherishing and caressing the man who stands
at her side. Another line is "Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home."
This line creates a feeling of tranquillity and a unity with nature.
Another line that evokes a feeling of peace and happiness is, "Her
sights and sounds; dreams happy as her day." Without such strong images, the
poem would probably not have such a great effect on the reader. Lines such as
this one force the reader to see the land in the same light as the poet.
Symbolism also plays a key role in this poem. Some of the more ob ...
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“The Birds” By John Updike
Number of Words: 539 / Number of Pages: 2
... because they both have a completely different set of beliefs. They are both very mysterious things that lack conclusive proof. Updike’s experience at the end is somewhat religious because he is completely awed by something so mysterious (the birds).
Next the author’s organization of the poem also contributes to the climactic ending. In each stanza the author describes one specific part of his experience. In the first stanza the author depicts the setting, the second stanza talks about the trees and the beauty they possess, the third stanza discusses the author’s amazement about the birds. The fo ...
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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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Nature Imagery In Adrienne Rich's "Twenty-One Love Poems"
Number of Words: 2002 / Number of Pages: 8
... philosophical or psychological blueprint; it's an instrument for embodied experience. But we seek that experience, or recognize it when it is offered to us, because it reminds us in some way of our need. After that rearousal of desire, the task of acting on that truth, or making love, or meeting other needs, is ours. (Smith 590)
Thus, Rich highlights poetry's ability to connect with what many people believe to be--in contrast to restricted cultured disciplines such as poetry--"real life." In pointing to our common "struggle for existence" and accumulating emergencies, this proclamation pulls o ...
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