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Critical Analysis Of "The Eagle" By Lord Tennyson
Number of Words: 186 / Number of Pages: 1
... rhyme scheme is every last word in
each stanza rhyme's.
Some of the imagery is with sight and sound. For sight they are “
Close to the sun”, “Azure world”, azure mean the blue color in a clear
daytime sky. “Wrinkled sea beneath”, and “mountain walls”. The only one
that was imagery of sight & sound was “like a thunderbolt he falls”.
The figures of speech are “wrinkled sea”, which means the waves in
the ocean. And one simile is “like a thunderbolt he falls”, it is saying
how fast a eagle dives.
The poems theme is how an eagle can fly so high and dive so fast.
And how free an eagle is. I tho ...
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Samuel Coleridge's "Frost At Midnight"
Number of Words: 356 / Number of Pages: 2
... the
loneliness in his life, "For still I hoped to see the stranger's face."
Though his mood begins to change there still is a calm and somber feeling.
In paragraph three, Colridge is holding his son, while appreciating
nature and what it will give to his child, "it thrills my heart with tender
gladness, thus to look at thee, and think that thou shalt learn for other
lore…" He also shows his appreciation of God and what he has given us.
This is the first paragraph where I felt he showed consistent happiness and
a faster-paced mood.
Coleridge concludes his poem by showing his appreciation for all ...
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Dulce Et Decorum Est: Analysis Of Military Life
Number of Words: 695 / Number of Pages: 3
... if they relied on Owen's descriptive text alone concerning the
way he saw his fellow soldiers in combat while describing his chimera, for
they were "knock-kneed, coughing like hags"and "bent double, like old
beggars under sacks". These words don't necessarily bring to mind a
healthy 17-year old boy, does it? The other words he used- "drunk" "lame"
and "blind,"- all showed soldiers' impaired state, and held both
denotative meanings and connotative meanings in their vagueness, especially
the word "blind," which, in my opinion, was ambigious because not only
were they "blind" in the se ...
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"Life Is A Series Of Tests And Challenges": A Critical Analysis Of Sir Gawain And The Green Knight
Number of Words: 812 / Number of Pages: 3
... People accept those kind of challenges everyday. This could
possibly be where the term "sticking your neck out" could have come from.
When people accept challenges, most do not want to accept the consequences
as a result of being unsuccessful. Gawain was not like this. When the year
passed he gallantly mounted his horse and set off for the Green Chapel.
This showed that Gawain was brave. This was preceded by the warning "Beware,
Gawain, that you not end a betrayer of your bargain through fear."
Along this journey Gawain faces peril and self-reluctance in the
form of the elements and ...
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Sir Gawain And The Green Knight
Number of Words: 1153 / Number of Pages: 5
... King Arthur. Gawain only sees himself, as a normal everyday soldier that is only doing his duty by protecting faith in the monarchy that he is apart of. Gawain is a very humble person who will refuse to view himself as a hero.
The main test that Gawain is going to have to face is a test within himself. During the time before he had to make the journey to meet the Green
Knight Gawain heard from fellow knights that he was brave and strong. In reality they were very happy that it was not they making the journey, and they had no expectations of seeing Gawain again. When it came time for him to leav ...
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Robert Frost's Use Of Nature In His Poetry
Number of Words: 423 / Number of Pages: 2
... turn his back completely on any possibility" (Barry 13) of returning
when the poems reads "Oh, I kept the first for another day!" (line 13). He
also knew that the possibilities of him actually returning to ever walk the
path not chosen were very slim. He made a decision and "took the other"
(line 6) path. It is obvious that these two roads in the woods symbolize
paths in life and choices that people make in the journey of life itself.
Decisions that people make, large or small, have an impact on their future.
The speaker says that the path he choose "made all the difference" (line
20) in his ...
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"Not Waving But Drowning" And "Aunt Jennifer's Tigers"
Number of Words: 1477 / Number of Pages: 6
... In a sense, he is secretly drowning.
The line, "It must have been too cold for him his heart gave way," refers to the loneliness in this man's life. Perhaps he pushed people away from him and lived his life in isolation. Maybe he never opened himself up enough to engage in personal relationships and to love and feel love for another. Or, perhaps he was active in society and took part in social gatherings and hosted parties. And by doing this, he was seen as being happy. But he may have done this just to further disguise who he really was or how he really felt inside. No one really kn ...
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For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/ When The Rainbow Is Enuf: Style And Theme
Number of Words: 746 / Number of Pages: 3
... never mixes them. This creates a style that she is
personally known for. It sets her apart from other writers and makes her work
original. None of the characters have names or any type of identity except for
the color of their clothes. When the piece is done on stage the characters are
never introduced they are just eventually recognized by the color of their
dresses. This makes it a little difficult to follow for the reader or spectator
at first but after the work is under way each individual may find they relate to
a certain color and begin to follow the specific character wearing that certain
col ...
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Stoutenburg's Reel One: An Analysis
Number of Words: 553 / Number of Pages: 3
... excitement in his life, that
through the movies he can explore something that he cannot in real life.
Stoutenburg or the person he is writing about does not seem to want to live
outside of this fantastic dreamscape.
Although Stoutenburg is with his girl friend throughout the whole
poem, he does not make mention of her until the second body paragraph, "I
held my girl's hand," (line 9). He is so caught up in the movie that he
fails to acknowledges her existence. In lines sixteen through eighteen you
can feel Stoutenburg's obsession for the movies. Although it is beautiful
writing, the image i ...
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Emily Dickenson And The Theme Of Death
Number of Words: 621 / Number of Pages: 3
... Stupor--then the letting go--"
The innovative diction in this passage creates an eerie atmosphere all by itself.
The effect of this passage is reminiscent of the famous macabre monologue at
the end of Michael Jackson's Thriller. Dickenson also excellently portrays the
restlessness of the mourners in this following passage:
"The Feet, mechanical, go round--
Of Ground, or Air, or Ought--"
Describing the feet as "mechanical" shows the agitation and displacement of the
mourners. Also, in the next line, "Ought" most closely means "Emptiness."
Dickenson artistically shows us how the mourners a ...
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