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Shelley's "Ode To The West Wind": Analysis
Number of Words: 1450 / Number of Pages: 6
... "The winged seeds,
where they lie cold and low/ Each like a corpse within its grave, until/ Thine
azure sister of the Spring shall blow" (7-9). In the first line, Shelley use
the phrase "winged seeds" which presents images of flying and freedom. The
only problem is that they lay "cold and low" or unnourished or not elevated.
He likens this with a feeling of being trapped. The important word is "seeds"
for it shows that even in death, new life will grow out of the "grave." The
phrase "winged seeds" also brings images of religions, angels, and/or souls
that continue to create new life. Heavenly ...
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Analysis Of Robinson's "Mr. Flood's Party"
Number of Words: 948 / Number of Pages: 4
... felt while reading
his work, Robison does not venture far from the pointat hand.
While reading this great poem, you can clearly see that being old
and alone will not stop Mr. Flood from living life to the fullest. In
lines 9-13 of Robinson's masterpiece, Eben is having a ball at his party,
no matter if he is the only one in attendance.
“Well, Mr. Flood, we have the harvest moon
Again, and we may not have many more:
The bird is on the wing, the poet says,
And you and I have said it here before.
Drink to the bird.”
He se ...
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An Analysis Of Frost's The Road Not Taken
Number of Words: 791 / Number of Pages: 3
... "looks down one as far as I could". The road
that will be chosen leads to the unknown, as does any choice in life. As
much he may strain his eyes to see as far the road stretches, eventually
it surpasses his vision and he can never see where it is going to lead. It
is the way that he chooses here that sets him off on his journey and
decides where he is going.
"Then took the other, just as fair, and having perhaps the better
claim." What made it have the better claim is that "it was grassy and
wanted wear." It was something that was obviously not for everyone because
it seemed that the major ...
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Sir Gawain And The Green Knight
Number of Words: 556 / Number of Pages: 3
... of chivalric virture, each being codependent of the
other in order to remain a whole, the narrative could be considered as a
What accompanies an appreciation for the seemingly sudden shift
from the typical romance at the end of the piece is the raised awareness
that the change does only seem to be sudden. Careful exlporation of the
plot, setting, and character descriptions illuminates several deviations
from the established convention of the ideal society existing within the
text. The effect is then a type of balancing act-- blah blah blah
The opening of the piece sets a fairly typical sta ...
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Owen's “Dulce Et Decorum Est”
Number of Words: 1871 / Number of Pages: 7
... been on their
feet for days, never resting. Also, the fact that the gassed man was
"flung" into the wagon reveals the urgency and occupation with fighting.
The only thing they can do is toss him into a wagon. The fact one word can
add to the meaning so much shows how the diction of this poem adds greatly
to its effectiveness. Likewise, the use of figurative language in this poem
also helps to emphasize the points that are being made. As Perrine says,
people use metaphors because they say "...what we want to say more vividly
and forcefully..." Owen capitalizes greatly on this by using strong
metaphors ...
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"Gunpowder Plot" By Vernon Scannell
Number of Words: 582 / Number of Pages: 3
... man's brother had dies in the
war as the line reads : "I hear a corpse's sons -- 'Who's scared of
bangers!' 'Uncle, John's afraid!'
In the story the author uses a lot of comparisons, the first one we
come across is between fireworks and "Curious cardboard buds" where he
describes them as flowers that have yet to blossom and show their beauty.
Again later in the same verse he describes the fireworks as orchids, a
very beautiful flower that is very expensive, has a short life and it
used on special occasions, the same description can be used effectively on
fireworks.
The story ...
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A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
Number of Words: 747 / Number of Pages: 3
... The movement of the heavenly spheres is far greater, fiercer, 'cause it is harmless, people consider it innocent. I think (I do not know if I was right?) the author intended to indicate that death is just like the earthquake-brings harms and sorrow. Earthquake is not so common, when it happens, people are scared of it. On the other hand, when facing the death, human always feel nervous and sad, all they think is the miserable separation, seldom of them think that people can still promote the form of love to a higher spiritual standard. Death is not so serious-it is a way that every human being must ...
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Sylvia Plath's Poetry: Feminine Perfection
Number of Words: 885 / Number of Pages: 4
... of a diabetic condition that he refused to treat), Plath was only eight years old, this was the crucial event of her childhood. In her poem "Daddy" we see Plath's imaginative transformations of experience into myths where the figure of her Prussian father is transformed into an emblem for masculine authority.
"Every woman adores a fascist,
The boot in the face the brute
Brute heart of a brute like you." (48-50)
Sylvia Plath wanted to become a writer at a time when women were expected to devote their lives to homemaking and mothering; this added to Sylvia Plath's self-doubt in her choi ...
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Ode To The West Wind Essay
Number of Words: 1691 / Number of Pages: 7
... the power of the wind when he describes it as a "Destroyer and Preserver." He ends the first part in the fifth stanza with an apostrophe. The speaker speaks to the West Wind, and asks this higher force to listen to his plea.
The second section of the poem deals with the wind as being a power of the wind in the heavens. He begins the second section of the poem by saying that the wind is "'mid the steep sky's commotion." Here he is commenting on the winds power by describing the commotion the wind produces. He then uses an image of death in describing the leaves as "decaying leaves", giving us the ...
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“I Had Been Hungry, All The Years”
Number of Words: 796 / Number of Pages: 3
... as money is to those that do not have it.
In the second stanza it seems she speaks of what she was thinking as she touched the “Curious Wine” “’Twas this on Tables I had seen” tells of how she had seen wealth often, so her hunger was not for the unknown but the inexperienced. “Windows” tells of how she knew the wealth. She saw it but never touched it, she viewed it but never got an inch closer then she was the day before. It wasn’t just the fact that she saw the wealth from the “Windows” but that there was a vast amount of it, shown with the usage of the word “Wealth” which can mean vastness. This ...
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