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Poe's Literary Vengence
Number of Words: 1277 / Number of Pages: 5
... in his community. I feel that is how Poe relates Forutnato to his step- father. Martha Womack quotes from Kenneth Silverman's book Edgar A. Poe: A Never-Ending Remembrance. "Allan much resembled Fortunato being a rich man, respected, admired, beloved, interested in the wines, and a member of the Masons." Womack goes on to quote from Silverman's book "Even the Allan name can be seen as an anagram in Amontillado." In the second paragraph of the story I feel this is where Poe expresses how he dealt with his father's estrangement. Montressor says "It must be understood that neither by wo ...
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Ozymandias
Number of Words: 630 / Number of Pages: 3
... beside remains," that is, there is nothing left of the reign of the greatest king on earth.One immediate image is found in the second line, "trunkless legs.". One good comparison may be when the author equates the passions of the statue's frown, sneer, and wrinkled lip to the "lifeless things" remaining in the "desart." Another is when Shelley compares the "Works" of with "Nothing beside remains."
shows the reader that two things will mark the earth forever. First: the awesome power of mother nature is constant, everlasting and subject to no human works. Second: a mans actions are kept in the heart ...
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Poetry Analysis: “My Papa’s Waltz”
Number of Words: 561 / Number of Pages: 3
... compares it to a dance when you would “miss a step” and stumble. Roethke then states, “You beat time on my head”, as if he were keeping time for a dance or a rhythm on the boys head (13). This all enlarges the negativity and sadness of the poem. The small boy also states, “But I hung on like death” (3). This proves that the boy was thinking about death, but dangling on to prevent it. During this whole incident the boy’s mother sits and watches as the abuse continues.
Furthermore, the mother’s apathy towards the battering of her son is even more depressing and negative. The author says, “My mo ...
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A Study Of Wordsworth's Poetry
Number of Words: 445 / Number of Pages: 2
... Wordsworth also hopes that the world would find more of itself in nature,
similar to his desire for his sister in his poem, 'Lines Composed a Few Miles
Above Tintern Abbey', to gain an interest in nature. 'For this, for everything,
we are out of tune;' (8:TW) Wordsworth also makes reference to the Greek gods of
the sea in this sonnet, who are associated with the pristine nature of the world.
The gods represent a time when people were more vulnerable and exposed to nature,
and through adversity have learned to respect nature. 'I'd rather be / A Pagan
suckled in a creed outworn;' (10:TW) In the sonnet, h ...
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Philip Larkin's "Sad Steps" And Sir Philip Sidney Of Sonnet 31 From Astrophel And Stella: The Moon
Number of Words: 543 / Number of Pages: 2
... moon is omniscient. He further believes that
the moon “can judge of love”, and can solve his love troubles, as a “
lozenge of love” (Sad Steps, line 11) would. Sir Philip Sidney's attitude
toward the moon is quite serious, which is also the tone of the essay. He
takes the moon very seriously, as if it were divine. He adds character to
the moon, as if it were a person. He describes the moon's “love acquainted
eyes” (line 5) and remarks how “wan a face” (line 2) it has. This imagery
makes the moon more real and praiseworthy, for how can you admire a person
without a face? The imagery adds a face ...
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Humanity's Fall In The Garden Of Eden In Paradise Lost
Number of Words: 1138 / Number of Pages: 5
... that Satan is hell
and that evil is his good because good has been lost to him. (Bk. 4, lines 75,
108-110). Satan's moral state further decays in Book nine as detailed in a
soliloquy at the beginning of the book by Satan. Satan recognizes his descent
into bestiality after once being in contention with the gods to sit on top of
the hierarchy of angels. He is unhappy with this "foul descent" and in turn
wants to take out his grief on humanity. Despite recognizing that revenge
eventually becomes bitter, Satan wants to make others as miserable as he is. It
is i n destruction that he finds comfort fo ...
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Frost's Narrow Individualism In Two Tramps In Mud Time
Number of Words: 561 / Number of Pages: 3
... when one of the tramps interferes
with his wood chopping: "one of them put me off my aim". This statement,
along with many others, seems to focus on "me" or "my", indicating the
apparrent selfishness and arrogance of the narrator: "The blows that a
life of self-control/Spares to strike for the common good/That day, giving
a loose to my soul,/I spent on the unimportant wood." The narrator refers
to releasing his suppressed anger not upon evils that threaten "the common
good", but upon the "unimportant wood". The appparent arrogance of the
narrator is revealed as well by his reference to himself as ...
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Sonnet 18
Number of Words: 612 / Number of Pages: 3
... "…shake the darling buds of May"(ll. 3); which hot weather magnified because it is coming from heaven and the seasons are changing. Shakespeare has taken the idea of a warm breezy summer day and twisted it into a sweltering day with the sun beating down on us.
However, in the lines after the destruction of a nice day, he twists things back by the comments he showers on his love. He tells us that his love's beauty shall remain the same at all times, "…thy…shall not fade"(ll. 9). He places an exclamation on that line by using the word eternal. It gives us the feeling that her beauty is one that wil ...
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Lawrence Ferlinghetti's Politics
Number of Words: 1659 / Number of Pages: 7
... was able to
reach a vast audience including those whom he was criticizing. Through his
poetry, Lawrence Ferlinghetti blatantly and subtly criticized the American
democratic system and politicians.
In 1957, Ferlinghetti received his first national attention.
Ferlinghetti was arrested and brought to trial as the publisher of a collection
of obscene poetry, Howl and Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg (Alspaugh 1148).
Eventually he was cleared of the charges of “publishing and sale of obscene
writings.” Since his involvement in the obscenity trial, Ferlinghetti became
quite cynical of the government. Aft ...
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Beowulf
Number of Words: 434 / Number of Pages: 2
... of
the story is vast scope covering great lands and far off places. Beowulf said
that his father was favored far and wide because he was a very noble lord. "The
swift current , the surging water carried me to the far off Land of the Lapps ,"
said Beowulf as he told a story to one of Hroathgars' retainers. When Beowulf
talked of where Grendel lived he said ,"These two live in a little known country
with wolf-slopes , windswept headlands where a mountain stream plunges."
The protagonist of Beowulf , Beowulf , is a figure of national and
international importance with great historical and lege ...
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