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Unbroken
Number of Words: 640 / Number of Pages: 3
... down his thoughts.
Funny stories about Elvis and his followers, the Elvi, or dirty poetry.
Painting his visions on sheets that hang from the eaves or painting me with
psychedelic designs. It doesn't matter which. All of it makes me want him
more.
Some things I say to him are like sour notes played too often. I'm out
of tune. He always sings along. Our waltz is better than most, I suppose. We
know the steps by heart. The world moves quickly around us and our quiet
drunken pace, but we don't care. Our minds move quickly despite this world's
petty distractions. It's us and them, and we're t ...
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Comparison Of Shakespeare's Sonnet 73 And Sonnet 116
Number of Words: 862 / Number of Pages: 4
... as a temple- a "Bare ruined choir[s]"- where sweet
birds used to sing, but it is a body now going to ruin.
In Sonnet 116, love is seen as the North Star, the fixed point of
guidance to ships lost upon the endless sea of the world. It is the point of
reference and repose in this stormy, troubled world, "an ever-fixed mark That
looks on tempests and is never shaken;..."
He personifies the coming of the end of his life as night, which is
described as "Death's second self" in sonnet 73. However, in Sonnet 116 death
appears in the guise of the grim reaper, Father Time, who mows down all of our
yout ...
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Dickinson's "Because I Could Not Stop For Death" And "I Heard A Fly Buzz When I Died"
Number of Words: 622 / Number of Pages: 3
... this grave is the woman's own. It is also
possible the woman's body already rests beneath the soil in a casket. If
this is at all accurate, then her spirit or soul may be the one who is
looking at the "house." Spirits and souls usually mean there is an
afterlife involved.
It isn't until the sixth and final stanza where the audience obtains
conclusive evidence that "Because I Could Not Stop For Death" believes in
an afterlife. The woman recalls how it has been "...Centuries- and yet
feels shorter than the Day I first surmised the Horses' Heads were toward
Eternity-" (913). To the woman, it has been a ...
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The Theme Of Death In Poems
Number of Words: 817 / Number of Pages: 3
... looking back, and sees how centuries
have passed, yet she isn't passing by anymore, and to her this hundred
years seems as no time at all. Finally she accepts her death, and is able
to pass into eternity. To her death wasn't harsh like some see it, but a
kindly, gentle soul, taking her for a carriage ride to her final home.
A child experiences death much differently than an adult. Children
aren't quite able to see death as the sad even that it is. "First Death in
Nova Scotia" tells of a young boys death, and his cousins view of it. We
are shown Arthur's death through the eyes of a child. The l ...
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The Works Of Poet Carl Sandburg And His Effect On American Poetry
Number of Words: 1870 / Number of Pages: 7
... poetry that emphasized
key phrases and images.(clc 35, 338) Sandburg was the first of a long line of
poets and authors to use the words and phrases that he created in his poetry.
Sandburg's style of writing is what changed the course of American
poetry. Before Sandburg, most poetry and other literary works were considerably
similar, along with dull and boring. He carried poetry to "new horizons." He,
many times, wrote of reality, which was not always what people wanted to read,
but it was reality and it had to be dealt with. This is how his writing became
so known, because he dealt with wha ...
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Analysis Of "The Age Of Anxiety"
Number of Words: 1728 / Number of Pages: 7
... the ideal quest, however, this quest accomplishes nothing. The characters search for the meaning of self and, in essence, the meaning of life, but because their search is triggered by intoxication due to alchohol, the quest is doomed from the start. Throughout the quest, the characters believe themselves to be in a form of Purgatory when they are allegorically in Hell. They fail to realize this due to "the modern human condition which denies possibility but refuses to call it impossible" (Nelson 117).
In "The Age of Anxiety", there are four characters of significance. Quant, the first to be introd ...
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"Babi Yar" By Yevgeny Yevtushenko: An Analysis
Number of Words: 983 / 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 1 ...
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Maxine Kumin And Her Poetry
Number of Words: 484 / Number of Pages: 2
... “pods of the
soul”. These similes show what she sees and feels.
“The Longing to be Saved”, is a dream, where her barn catches fire. “In
and out of dreams as thin as acetate.” She visualizes herself getting the
horses out, but they “wrench free, wheel, dash back”.
In, “Family Reunion”, she writes that “nothing is cost efficient here”.
Vegetables are grown on the farm, and animals are raised to be killed. “The
electric fence ticks like the slow heart of something we fed and bedded for a
year, then killed with kindness' one bullet and paid Jake Mott to do the
butchering.”
“Waiting for the End in New ...
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Analysis Of Bryant's "Thanatopsis"
Number of Words: 570 / Number of Pages: 3
... which adds depth and
meaning to the poem.
By using this strange metaphor I believe Bryant wishes to suggest
his faith in an afterlife. While examining the differences and
similarities of death and sleep the reader is left with some very thought
provoking questions. The answers to these questions reassure some readers
while confusing others. Sleep is a time of rest. It allows preparation
for the next day or event, and by relating this definition to death Bryant
gives new insight on one's fate after earthly existence. When identifying
sleep with death Bryant gives death many characteristics ...
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A Review Of A Shakespearean Sonnet
Number of Words: 628 / Number of Pages: 3
... part being an answer. The theme that
Shakespeare has chosen is love and this theme works well with the sonnet
format. The first half of this sonnet is written about how the subject is
like a summer's day, for example: "Thou art more lovely and more
temperate:" (line 2) and after line eight, Shakespeare concludes that the
subject cannot be a summer's day because they are more beautiful and will
last longer than summer itself. The sonnet form is suitable for this theme
because it allows the direct comparison of the subject to a summer's
day, and the thought division allows the author to change ...
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