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Analysis Of Dickinson's "I Felt A Funeral In My Brain"
Number of Words: 439 / Number of Pages: 2
... the mourners lift
the coffin. Again, they move slowly across her soul with feet which seem
encased in lead. Am intensification of attack on the mind by bringing
together images of sound and weight is suggested. She hears the mourners
as they lift the coffin and begin to move, and she feels their feet which
seem to be encased in lead.
In stanza four, the figure is continued in the sound of a tolling
bell. The heaven seems to have become a great bell which is ringin, and
all creation responds as though it were an ear. In the last two lines,
she introduces the images of a shipwreck. The poet pe ...
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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 ...
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An Examination Of Similes In The Iliad - And How Homer's Use Of Them Affected The Story
Number of Words: 1887 / Number of Pages: 7
... assumed that throughout time most of the knowledge of the battle
from the Trojan side had been lost.
Considering the ability to affect feelings with similes, and the one-sided
view of history, Homer could be using similes to guide the reader in the
direction of his personal views, as happens with modern day political "spin".
These views that Homer might be trying to get across might be trying to favor
Troy. It could easily be imagined that throughout time, only great things were
heard about the Greeks mettle in war, and that Homer is attempting to balance
the scales a bit by romanticizing the Tro ...
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Anne Bradstreet’s Expression Of Anger
Number of Words: 288 / Number of Pages: 2
... feelings on the events of her life. Anne Bradstreet’s poem
An Author to Her Book explains Bradstreet’s anger towards her brother-in-
law for publishingher personal poetry without her permission. In this poem
Bradstreet uses a combination of a metaphore, a paradox, and other literary
devices to express her anger.
Bradstreet expresses her anger mostly through the extended
metaphore which flows throughout the poem. This extended metaphore
compares Bradstreet’s poetry to an ill-formed child. “Thou ill-formed
offspring of my feeble brain,/ Who after birth didst by my side remain,/
Till snatched from ...
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Confessions In Rhyme: Poetry Analysis
Number of Words: 1834 / Number of Pages: 7
... no mercy,
because of this they had a fight
though hungry and very thirsty.
In that fight two men had died
or at least it was thought to be
when they found out one was alive
they went on happily.
They tricked the captain and two of the crew
into thinking that Zachariah was dead,
but all that was thrown overboard
was some cloth in a hammock bed.
Because the captain thought he was dead
his secret was very big.
Every day the sailors would bring him food
while he was hiding in the brig.
This poem relates to the part of the novel when there is a big fight and two are thought to be dead. It tells wh ...
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Poetry Analysis Of "No Loser, No Weeper"
Number of Words: 752 / Number of Pages: 3
... towards another female trying to steal her lover. Maya wants to make it clear to the woman not touch her "lover-boy." She explains her warning by stating that she hates to lose something "even a dime, I wish I was dead." We gather from that statement that losing something so small and worthless as a dime would make Maya wish she was dead is very serious and very threatening. This remark can be traced back to her background to when the trauma in her life made her think about suicide. Maya Angelo felt that if she did not speak that man who assaulted her would still be alive. She later solved that b ...
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In Depth Analysis Of Keats’ “Ode On A Grecian Urn”
Number of Words: 2071 / Number of Pages: 8
... marble scenes on the Grecian Urn, considered by may to be among the “best” of his poetry. Ex:
His best poetry is composed largely of representations of representations, meditations “on” objects or texts that are themselves reflections of other artists’ creative acts (Scott, xi).
The product of these artists are indeed timeless and eternal, something Keats was very aware, both in presence of other artists works and in the absence of his own. As Keats tries to create for himself a place among these eternal artists, he tries to perpetuate dialogue with both the past and the future by applying a style t ...
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Beowulf: The One Who Will Be King
Number of Words: 852 / Number of Pages: 4
... then killed two girls and
wounded two others.
Just as Bundy had done, Grendel watched and surveyed from the
distance. He waited outside the great hall, listening to the mirth and
celebration from within. He hated them. The revelers inside felt no "misery
of men." They were not uninvited, outcast, and below the social class of
Hrothgar's company. These feelings of inadequacy propel Grendel to
slaughter those who oppress him. For "twelve winters" he smashes bodies
and eats his victims, creating a bloody rampage and a dire need for a
savior.
The question of Grendel's origin is difficult to trace. T ...
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Wild Ride
Number of Words: 118 / Number of Pages: 1
... with friends all around
I was but a child with nothing to hide
But now that I look he's nowhere to be found
Now I wonder what's to become of me
The future is uncertain and clouded
People tell me that I soon will see
That my eyes will no longer be shrouded
In my youth I was my own guide
But now i'm an adult along for the ride ...
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A Culture Destroyed
Number of Words: 895 / Number of Pages: 4
... were intruders on the whites’ land. This, in some ways, was like slavery. Slaves were not respected. They were treated like animals and they had no way to defend themselves. Their culture was not respected and if they even spoke one word of being treated like a citizen they could be killed on the spot. Whites brought black slaves over to the US like they were imported animals. Both the natives and the slaves were not noticed as a people. It was like they did not exist (in the whites' eyes).
Rose also writes “my seeds are stepped on and crushed as if there were no future”(569). To me this means ...
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