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Shakespeare's Sonnet 18
Number of Words: 521 / Number of Pages: 2
... sound more like a song without
musical instruments than a poem. Sonnet 18 is one of the most admired of
his collection. It is a beautiful romantic love poem written to compare
summer to his love’s beauty. A beautiful piece of imagery is used in
lines1-3: “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou are more lovely
and more temperate. Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May:”
Shakespeare clearly ables the reader to picture a beautiful woman whose
beauty can not be taken away by any means. The reader, by reading on, can
than picture flowers blowing in a breeze.
Sonnet 18 is very typical ...
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Birches: Poetry Review
Number of Words: 417 / Number of Pages: 2
... where he was secluded but still content because he was creating his own happiness.
Soon into his pleasant fantasy, reality takes over. What has he accomplished or become? Why does he not have the same feelings he once had? Because “They are dragged to the withered bracken by the load” of his harsh life (14). His life of hard ships has erased all happiness in life. The line “From a twig’s having lashed across it open” (47) means something severely emotional has happened in the man’s life to cause him to harden. This event has led him to believe that his life is like a pathless wood. In o ...
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Dover Beach: Conflicting Imagery
Number of Words: 516 / Number of Pages: 2
... of misery. The reference
is to Sophocles tragic plays and the suffering that necessarily accompanied
them. This image becomes powerful as the reader realizes that the poet is
saying that he can hear the same message on Dover Beach that Sophocles
heard so many years ago by the Aegean. He is basically saying that the
nature of life doesn't change. There was suffering in the times of the
Greeks, suffering in his time, and there will be suffering after he is gone.
The poet finishes the poem of with several images that lend even
more power to the poem. At the end of the poem the sea has become the exac ...
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Matrix: A Man's Feelings
Number of Words: 512 / Number of Pages: 2
... her husband every time he tries to get close to her: "In the widows before us,/ as we changed her dressings," (32-33) "One morning, I pressed my lips / to her chest until, at last, / she believed / and opened up to me" (35-37). In those lines he is showing his love to and for her. By kissing her scar on her chest he showed her that he really cares for her and that he will always be there for her.
Heyen uses "Matrix" for the title of this poem for its meaning of a mold, because there is a similarity between his wife's body and the turtle shell. He is showing the readers that no matter how the outer lay ...
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Beowulf: An Epic Hero
Number of Words: 716 / Number of Pages: 3
... ripping off his arm. When
Beowulf is fighting Grendel's mother, who is seeking revenge on her son's
death, he is able to slay her by slashing the monster's neck with a
Giant's sword that can only be lifted by a person as strong as Beowulf.
When he chops off her head, he carries it from the ocean with ease, but it
takes four men to lift and carry it back to Herot mead-hall. This strength
is a key trait of Beowulf's heroism.
Another heroic trait of Beowulf is his ability to put his peoples
welfare before his own. Beowulf's uncle is king of the Geats so he is sent
as an emissary to help rid the Da ...
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Analysis Of Frost's "Desert Places" And "Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening"
Number of Words: 1047 / Number of Pages: 4
... living. The blankness sybolizes the emptyness that the
speaker feels. To him there is nothing else around except for the unfeeling snow
and his lonely thoughts.
The speaker in this poem is jealous of the woods. "The woods around it
have it - it is theirs." The woods symbolizes people and society. They have
something that belongs to them, something to feel a part of. The woods has its
place in nature and it is also a part of a bigger picture. The speaker is so
alone inside that he feels that he is not a part of anything. Nature has a way
of bringing all of her parts together to act as one. Even ...
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Edgar Allen Poe's The Raven: An Analysis
Number of Words: 880 / Number of Pages: 4
... have. The raven represents death so in
saying “nevermore” he means that no matter what disappointments have
befallen you, one can always rely on death. It is the one thing that will
always be there.
In the fourth instance “nevermore” is used the student wants to
believe that the raven escaped from a crazy, old sick man that used to
repeat the word “nevermore”. This is showing how the student is trying to
escape from the reality that the bird came to him to give him a message. “
Nevermore” is telling the student that even if the bird did escape from an
old crazy man the word didn’t help him esc ...
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Comparison And Contrast Of William Blake's Poems
Number of Words: 2744 / Number of Pages: 10
... "O Earth, O Earth, return!
"Arise from out the dewy grass;
"Night is worn,
"And the morn
"Rises from the slumberous mass.
"Turn away no more;
"Why wilt thou turn away?
"The starry floor,
"The wat'ry shore,
"Is giv'n thee till the break of day."
The Chimney Sweeper (Innocence)
When my mother died I was very young,
And my father sold me while yet my tongue
Could scarcely cry "'weep! 'weep! 'weep! 'weep!"
So your chimneys I sweep & in soot I sleep.
There's little Tom Dacre, who cr ...
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"The Ruined Maid” By Thomas Hardy
Number of Words: 511 / Number of Pages: 2
... there is a reference to not-knowing melancholy, and yet she defends that with “one’s pretty lively when ruined” (20), which contradicts with the melancholy tone of the poem, to some extent.
The recall of the conversation between the two girls comes to a climax when the narrator describes her fantasies as being like the other girl, she says, “I wish I had feathers…delicate face and could strut about Town” (21,22). Very quickly her excitement is suppressed by “My dear – a raw country girl, such as you be, cannot quite expect that” (23,24), and then a reasoning of being ruined is given, and in desperat ...
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Edgar Allan Poe's "The Black Cat"
Number of Words: 4194 / Number of Pages: 16
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