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Characteristics Of The Beowulf Poem
Number of Words: 1056 / Number of Pages: 4
... the monasteries, and
the destruction of their great libraries; since his name is written on one
of the folios, Lawrence Nowell, the sixteenth-century scholar, may have
been responsible for Beowulf's preservation."(Raffel ix) An interesting
fact that is unique about the poem is that "it is the sole survivor of what
may have been a thriving epic tradition, and it is great poetry."(Raffel
ix)
The poem was composed and performed orally. "Old English bards, or
scops, most likely began by piecing together traditional short songs,
called heroic lays; they then gradually added to that base until the poem ...
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The Personification And Criticism Of Death In John Donne's "Death Be Not Proud."
Number of Words: 573 / Number of Pages: 3
... thou think'st thou dost overthrow/ Die not, poor Death, nor
yet canst thou kill me" (ll 2-4), Donne defies death's power. He is so bold
as to mock death, calling it "poor death" (l 4), giving death the sense and
personification of being deficient in that it cannot kill Donne.
In the second quatrain, Donne continues his critique of death. He
questions death that if sleep or rest is a pleasure of life, then what
greater pleasure can death bring? "Much pleasure, then from thee much
pleasure must flow" (l 6). Donne also gives death credit that even the
virtuous go with death, "And soonest our best men ...
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Imagery In Mathers' "Black Marigolds"
Number of Words: 366 / Number of Pages: 2
... often throughout the poem which
adds a crisp flavor to the piece. The word "gold" is used frequently.
This image refers to the princess. It reflects and portrays everything
about her. She is gold; a rich, precious gem, unavailable to the poet.
The continued reference to this image symbolizes everything he lacks, but
yearns for. The poet elevates the princess to the value of gold, depicting
exactly how out of reach she is. "My thought is all of this gold-tinted
kings daughter"
A great paradox exists in this poem. "Black Marigolds" occurs as a
paradox because marigolds are depicted as a yello ...
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The Power Of Images In Langston Hughes' Poems
Number of Words: 592 / Number of Pages: 3
... of a sore. Of course, it is painful to get a sore. Such an act or thought could equate to the struggle the blacks in-lets say the sixties went through during all those marches across the country. The pain and suffering they endured trying to become a part of the so-called "American dream". In many ways those efforts were null and void because we still are not equal, racial discrimination still exists. Black people still have one hand tied behind our back when we attempt to pursue what is rightfully ours.
He further uses the sense of smell to express his disgust with the dream. For instance, ...
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Lesbian Poetry
Number of Words: 2459 / Number of Pages: 9
... 24). Her wealth gave her
the chance to live however she chose, and she chose to spend her life
studying the arts on the isle of Lesbos which was a cultural center in the
seventh century BC. Sappho spent a majority of her time here, but she also
traveled extensively through Greece (Robinson 35). She spent time in
Sicily too, because she was exiled due to certain activities of her family.
The residents of Syracuse were so honored of her presence that to pay
homage to her they built a statue of her because she had become a well-
known poet (Cantarello 56).
She was determined a lyrist because her poem ...
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Robert Frost's Themes Of Isolation, Extinction, And Limitations Of Man
Number of Words: 1375 / Number of Pages: 5
... wall, to conjure a much more universal theme that is isolation. The persona ponders at the fact why man can not live without walls, boundaries, limits and particularly self-limitations. “There where it is/ We do not need a wall”. Isolation of the individual links to our desire for barriers and boundaries as a form of separation from other people. We find in “Mending Wall” the desire of a rural farmer to mend a wall every spring between him and the persona “And set the wall between us as we go”. The persona in this poem interrogates his neighbour as to the necessity of the wall “What I was walling in or ...
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Frost's "Desert Places" And "Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening"
Number of Words: 1329 / Number of Pages: 5
... living. The blankness symbolizes the emptiness 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 symbolize 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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Prose And Style In D.H. Lawrence's Sons And Lovers
Number of Words: 1160 / Number of Pages: 5
... enveloped her. [11]But it did not keep her. [12]In
the morning it was not the same. [13]They had known, but she could not
keep the moment. [14]She wanted it again; she wanted something permanent.
[15]She had not realized fully. [16]She thought it was he whom she wanted.
[17]He was not safe to her. [18]This that had been between them might
never be again; he might leave her. [19]She had not got him; she was not
satisfied. [20]She had been there, but she had not gripped the—the
something—she knew not what—which she was mad to have. (336-337)
This passage, from D.H. Lawrence's novel, Son ...
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Essay Interpreting "One Art" By Elizabeth Bishop
Number of Words: 364 / Number of Pages: 2
... the realm to a large loss in her life. Finally, the statement in the
final quatrain "Even losing you" begins the irony in that stanza. The speaker
remarks that losing this person is not "too hard" to master. The shift in
attitude by adding the word "too" shows that the speaker has an ironic tone for
herself in her loss or perhaps her husband or someone else close to her.
Language and verse form show in "One Art" how the losses increase in importance
as the poem progresses, with the losses in lines 1-15 being mostly trivial or
not very important to the great loss in lines 16-19 or a beloved person.
Eli ...
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"My Papa's Waltz" By Theodor Roethke
Number of Words: 1036 / Number of Pages: 4
... the poem is the metaphor in which the beatings
are described as a waltz. The poet is led around the house, dancing - not
beaten around. Which is also brought throu by the meter - trecet iamb - the
beat of the waltz, thus the main image is shown through the meter as well,
giving the reader more of the feeling of a dance in contrast to the
'secondery images' which are more associated with the rough experiance of a
beating. Given such parameters the poet installs some sort of relaxation in
the reader ( maybe even in himself ), in order to make the subject - the
beating - more readable, and lessening the ...
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