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John Keats
Number of Words: 1297 / Number of Pages: 5
... marriage from the start. As a result, the children were sent to their grandmother’s and will later be joined by Frances when she left William with the family business. Frances died from tuberculosis when John was fourteen years of age. Frances’s death furthered financial problems for the family, which started when her father died. Now, John and his siblings were left with a guardian to live their lives.
John never had any interest in books at his young age and it was only until he was at the age of fourteen that he was passionate towards literature. Though his interest was in poetry, John ...
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Poem "Lucifer In The Starlight": New Meanings And Ideas
Number of Words: 780 / Number of Pages: 3
... Lucifer
honorably, as a "Prince", while in the second line he is tagged as a fiend. This
leaves the reader feeling perplexed, yet still thinking of Lucifer as the enemy.
At first it may seem as Lucifer has risen to the Earth, but it is further
clarified that he has elevated himself above the "rolling ball". However, god
imagined the world as planar, with heaven on a higher plane, and hell on a lower
plane, not spherical as defined here. From his place in the stars above earth,
Lucifer looks down through the clouds, and observes the sinners. He is talking
about the denizens of the earth, for since Adam ...
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Allowing Evil To Triumph
Number of Words: 716 / Number of Pages: 3
... in which the
good served the Hangman was by letting the evil triumph over the town. If
a group had attempted to stop the Hangman, he could have possibly been
stopped. Because only one person attempted to stop the evil, those who
kept quiet were killed for helping the Hangman without realizing it. If
the good men do nothing and make no attempt to halt the evil, then the evil
will triumph as a result of this lack of action.
In today's society, many people complain about all the political
corruption that occurs in government, but none are willing to step up and
take on this opposing evil. If ...
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The Differences In Fathers
Number of Words: 2132 / Number of Pages: 8
... language, rhyme, tone, situation, and speaker to express their opinions. These differences allow us as readers to understand the authors intent and main idea of each poem.
The first obvious difference in each poem is the gender of the speaker. This difference may be reflected in the opinions and body of each poem. Sons have different experiences with a father than daughters do with their fathers. Sons and fathers most commonly share a much closer bond than fathers and daughters. This relationship may have had some bearing on the opinions and feeling of each speaker. Cofers removed relationship wit ...
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"A Dream Within A Dream"
Number of Words: 503 / Number of Pages: 2
... who has seen him through some rough times. He is trying to convince her as well as himself that his life has not changed through the years. He questions the realness and significance of the everyday events of life and finally concludes that they are unimportant and superficial. "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream."
The second stanza takes on a more despairing tone. His air of carelessness begins to vanish. He realizes that everything he holds of value is quickly slipping away from him as, "Grains of golden sand [through his fingers.]" He reexamines his thoughts from the prev ...
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"A Small Elegy"
Number of Words: 713 / Number of Pages: 3
... someone to be protected. "Matku," he says tenderly in Czech, "Mon maminku," my little mommy, which the translator has rendered as "my diminutive mom." He imagines that after all these years she's still sitting back there, quietly uncomplaining, thinking about his father who died so long ago. It is the next moment in the poem, when the tense radically changes, that I find especially compelling. "And then she is skinning fruit for me," he says, "I am in the room. Sitting right next to her." He doesn't say "And then she was skinning fruit for me," but instead finds himself catapulted into the past ...
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A Critical Analysis Of The Poem Entitled "Tract" By William Carlos Williams
Number of Words: 1984 / Number of Pages: 8
... is known by:
his old clothes-a few books perhaps-
God knows what! You realize
how we are about these things
my townspeople-
something will be found-anything
even flowers if he had come to that.
So much for the hearse.
For heaven's sake though see to the driver!
Take off the silk hat! In fact
that's no place at all for him-
up there unceremoniously
dragging our friend out to his own dignity!
Bring him down-bring him down!
Low and inconspicuous! Id not have him ride
on the wagon at all-damn him-
the undertaker's understrapper!
Let him hold the reins
and walk at the side
and inconspicuously too!
Th ...
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The Fish By Elizabeth Bishop: Gone Fishin'
Number of Words: 935 / Number of Pages: 4
... age." She uses another simile here paired with
descriptive phrases, and these effectively depict a personal image of the fish.
She uses the familiar "wallpaper" comparison because it is something the
readers can relate to their own lives. Also the "ancient wallpaper" analogy can
refer to the fish's age. Although faded and aged he withstood the test of time,
like the wallp aper. Bishop uses highly descriptive words like "speckled" and
"infested" to create an even clearer mental picture. The word "terrible" is
used to describe oxygen, and this is ironic because oxygen is usually beneficial,
but in ...
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Analysis Of Frost's "Home Burial"
Number of Words: 444 / Number of Pages: 2
... or discussion of loss by those involved. When no reconciliation occurs, the loss intensifies to become destructive.In the poem “Home Burial”, Robert Frost talks about a couple in the verge of breaking up. I believe that the main issue in this poem is the death of a child that has not been addressed by the parents. A staircase, where the action of the poem occurs, symbolizes both the ability of husband and wife to come together and the distance between them.
In their first discussion, I believe that Frost is trying to tell the readers that the child was buried in the yard by the father, and ...
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"The Love Song Of J. Alfred Prufrock": Surrealism And T.S. Eliot
Number of Words: 906 / Number of Pages: 4
... often
characterize surrealism, by which it tries to transcend logic and habitual
thinking, to reveal deeper levels of meaning and of unconscious
associations. Although scholars might not classify Eliot as a Surrealist,
the surreal landscape, defined as "an attempt to express the workings of
the subconscious mind by images without order, as in a dream " is
exemplified in "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock."
"Prufrock presents a symbolic landscape where the meaning emerges
from the mutual interaction of the images, and that meaning is enlarged by
echoes, often heroic," of other writers.
Th ...
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