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The Flea: Analysis
Number of Words: 815 / Number of Pages: 3
... this would not be adultery suggests that she has a strong faith and is ethically bound to abide by the principals of her religion. His argument is to put down the religion by saying even the flea is mixing our blood, so why shouldn't we? That suggests that the flea is one of God's creatures and so it should follow the principals of God as well because it was created by God, so the mixing of their blood isn't wrong.
In the third stanza Donne's girlfriend is on the virge of killing the flea and he says let it live. To him it represents their union as man and woman. He is scared that she will sin wh ...
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Poetry Analysis: Holmes' Old Ironsides
Number of Words: 311 / Number of Pages: 2
... you can see Oliver Wendell Holmes Old Ironsides was not only a success for him but also a success for the battleship. This poem was written in such a way that people like me 100 years later can still see the point that he is trying to show us. This was one of the things that the Fireside poets were known for, writing in such a manner that the common man could understand it. The poem Old Ironsides was truly a great poem that made Holmes a star and also fits him with the other Fireside poets. ...
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Herrick Vs. Marvell
Number of Words: 533 / Number of Pages: 2
... speaking to all virgins. He never addresses anybody personally. In “To His Coy Mistress” Marvell is addressing his mistress personally. He wrote the poem for his mistress to convince her to become intimate with him. The difference makes a change because now Herrick’s poem affects the reader (depending on if she is female) since it refers to all virgins. However, Marvell’s poem does not since he is referring to one particular individual.
The them of “To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time” and “To His Coy Mistress” is carpe diem. The carpe diem them states, “life is brief, so let us seize the day.” In ...
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The Poetry Of John Keats
Number of Words: 1473 / Number of Pages: 6
... and
immortalised as part of the natural cycle - which symbolise eternal and
idealistic images of profound beauty.
In Ode to a Nightingale, Keats uses the central symbol of a bird to
exemplify the perfect beauty in nature. The nightingale sings to the poet's
senses whose ardour for it's song makes the bird eternal and thus reminds
him of how his own mortality separates him from this beauty. The poem
begins: "My heart aches, and a drowsey numbness pains" (Norton 1845). In
this first line Keats introduces his own immortality with the aching heart
- a machine of flesh with a fixed number ...
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Compare And Contrast: "Dead Man's Dump" By Rosenberg And "dulce Et Decorum Est" By Owen
Number of Words: 1155 / Number of Pages: 5
... the cavalry to hasten their search and find him. The troops hear him and
begin to come barreling around the bend only to hear the dying soldier murmur
his last screams. In "Dulce," the regiment are tired and marching like "old
hags" because they are fatigued. As the enemy discovers them they attack by
dropping a gas bomb on the men. As they scatter for their masks one man doesn't
quite make it. He goes through an agonizing process of dying. Like the
soldier in Rosenberg's poem his cries out for his troops, his friends, to help
him. To no avail does he get any help and the whole squad is ...
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Poem: My Heart Aches
Number of Words: 368 / Number of Pages: 2
... despairs,
Where Beauty cannot keep her lustrous eyes
Or new Love pine at them beyond tomorrow.
Away! Away! for I will fly to thee,
Not charioted by Becchus and his pards,
But on the viewless wings of poesy,
Though the dull brain perplexes and retards:
Already with thee! tender is the night,
And haply the Queen-Moon is on her throne,
Clustered around by all her starry Fays;
But here there is no light,
Save what from heaven is with the breezes blown
Through verdurous glooms and winding mossy ways.
I cannot see what flowers are at my feet,
Nor what soft incense hangs upon the boughs,
But, in embalme ...
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Alexander Pope's "The Rape Of The Lock"
Number of Words: 558 / Number of Pages: 3
... but most beware of Man!” He was telling her to watch out for man because he will try to take her chastity. When Belinda awoke she thought deeply about what was said to her in her dream but then she forgot all about the lesson when she started to think about Baron. This is the gaining of wisdom aspect of the epic poem.
The greatest aspect of an epic poem is the quest and the battle. Pope uses both of these in a quite different manner in his poem. Baron is questing for the love of Belinda and his trophy a lock of her hair. This quest engulfs Baron’s life. All he can think about is conquering ...
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Sharpio's "Auto Wreck": The Theme Of Death
Number of Words: 1076 / Number of Pages: 4
... speaker and the crowd around the accident. By stating clearly and
vividly the emotions of the scene, it is easy for the reader to identify
the theme itself, and also to identify with it.
In the first stanza, the speaker describes the ambulance arriving
on the scene more so than the actual scene itself. The ambulance is
described using words such as "wings", "dips", and "floating", giving the
impression of the hectic nature of its business at an accident. When the
ambulance arrives and breaks through the crowd, "the doors leap open" to
further convey the hurried state it's in. In line 5, as the ...
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The British Renaissance Produced Many Types Of Literature And Was Influenced By Shakespeare, Marlow, And Spenser
Number of Words: 1014 / Number of Pages: 4
... This theory is the premise
of Christopher Marlowe's "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love." The Shepherd in
his poem offers the world to his Love and everything with it. He is an old man
and hopes to win the girl's heart. Notice the word ‘hopes.'
If these delights thy mind may move,
Then live with me and be my love.
And so the last two lines of the poem end. Putting these lines at the very end
of the poem emphasizes the unsure gestures of the Shepherd. His age also
brings up another very interesting view of Marlowe's. In the poem, Marlowe
expresses the ide ...
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By Means Of Power
Number of Words: 784 / Number of Pages: 3
... the face. Although "blood from his punctured cheeks and shoulders/is the only liquid for miles"(9-10), "my mouth splits into dry lips"(12). With the death of her boy she is willing to sacrifice her own need of any quenching of her lips. She is "thirsting for the wetness of his blood"(14) but it is more important to resist the temptation, "trying to make power out of hatred and destruction"(18).
The power displayed in the third section of Lordes Power is that of hatred. A policeman has "shot down a 10-year-old in Queens"(21). This he justifies by saying "I didn’t notice the size or nothing else/onl ...
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