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Andrew Marvell, "To His Coy Mistress"
Number of Words: 376 / Number of Pages: 2
... on this interpretation is that the speaker wants not only sex, but also to develop the spiritual aspects of their relationship--the two go together. In this view, his high-flown speech (especially in the first section) expresses the extremeness of his commitment to her. From this perspective, the speaker's final proposal about the lovers' taking control of their own fate (taking that control away from time) could be meant sincerely.
Throughout the class discussions, it became clear that this poem offers a particular view of gender relations: Women are silent objects of men's desires, and men use the ...
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Emily Dickinson: Individuality
Number of Words: 1301 / Number of Pages: 5
... answers lie in the individual. Emerson set the tone for the era when he said, “Insist on yourself; never imitate” (McMichael 691). Emily Dickinson believed and practiced this philosophy. When she was young, she was brought up by a stern and disciplined father. In her childhood she was shy and already different from the others. Like all the Dickinson children, male or female, Emily was sent for formal education in Amherst Academy. After attending Amherst Academy with many other conscientious thinkers, and after reading many of Emerson’s essays, she began to develop into a free willed person. ...
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Frost's “Desert Places”: Inner Darkness
Number of Words: 818 / Number of Pages: 3
... as his only companions, creates a lasting picture in the mind of the reader, of a man just beginning to reveal his inner “darkness”.
As the second stanza begins, the speaker has reached the borderline of the quickly darkening woods, and it seems as though he has paused in his walking, as if to stop and ponder his own vacancy and loneliness. In lines five and six, Frost alludes to what may be the cause of the speaker’s inner vacancy: “The woods around it have it – it is theirs/All animals are smothered in their lairs” (lines 5-6). “It” stands for the spirit that in line seven Frost states the spea ...
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T.S Eliot's "The Waste Land"
Number of Words: 492 / Number of Pages: 2
... of a new life to mind. The grave is lit by
moonlight, possibly referring to the white light many people see when they
have near-death experiences. You get a creepy feeling when the wind blows
and makes the “grass sing” in line 387. In these first three lines it
talks of tumbled graves, possibly disturbed by nature, which could tell of
troubled lives, or a troubled second life.
The empty chapel without windows is nearby, as you perceive from
lines 389 and 390:
There is the empty chapel, only the wind's home.
It has no windows, and the door swings
It's image makes you shiver. ...
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Lord Byron's Euthanasia
Number of Words: 941 / Number of Pages: 4
... London forever. Byron went to Switzerland where he befriended Percy Shelly, another promenent poet at the time, and became fairly obsessed with him. In 1824, after Byron had send over 4000 pounds to the Greek fleet, he sailed to join Prince Alexandros Mavrokordatos, to join his forces and fight with him. Byron contracted a fever and died on April 19th, 1824 in Missolonghi, Greece.
Lord Byron's poem "Euthanasia" was published in 1812. It reflects how Lord Byron felt about his life. It is it tells you an almost direct summary of his life when you read it.
In lines 5-8 Byron wrote:
"No band of frien ...
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The Poetry Of William Cullen Bryant And Emily Dickinson: The Theme Of Death
Number of Words: 454 / Number of Pages: 2
... i could not stop for Death,are somewhat
dissimilar , for instance when in Dickinsons poem when she says "We slowly drove
he knew no haste," she is referring about death taking her away and she sees
everything on this journey.william Cullen Bryant however sees Death a little
different ,like in his poem when he says " There comes a still voice yet a few
days . and thee you will see no more,"He is saying that it will be very peaceful
and fast. That when you hear the voice, all is gone. They both had different
romantic/trancendental connections,bryant used heavy Idealisation of Mature by
saying "To ...
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Understanding "Porphyria's Lover"
Number of Words: 1396 / Number of Pages: 6
... The
decision the jury must make between what is actually right and what the
lawyers imply to be right is the same one the reader of a dramatic
monologue must make. Browning's Dramatic Lyrics is a collection of poems
in which many are written in dramatic monologue. "Porphyria's Lover" is a
poem from Dramatic Lyrics critics often cite when explaining dramatic
monologue. Because of it, the reader is pulled between what the speaker
thinks is right and what really is. Robert Browning's perfection of
dramatic monologue and use of a dramatic mask in his poem "Porphyria's
Lover" create in his audienc ...
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The Theme Of Death In Poems
Number of Words: 817 / Number of Pages: 3
... looking back, and sees how
centuries have passed, yet she isn't passing by anymore, and to her this hundred
years seems as no time at all. Finally she accepts her death, and is able to
pass into eternity. To her death wasn't harsh like some see it, but a kindly,
gentle soul, taking her for a carriage ride to her final home.
A child experiences death much differently than an adult. Children
aren't quite able to see death as the sad even that it is. "First Death in Nova
Scotia" tells of a young boys death, and his cousins view of it. We are shown
Arthur's death through the eyes of a child. The l ...
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Housman's "To An Athlete Dying Young"
Number of Words: 1631 / Number of Pages: 6
... (Housman 967).
Stanza two describes a much more somber procession. The athlete is being carried
to his grave. In Leggett's opinion, "The parallels between this procession and
the former triumph are carefully drawn" (54). The reader should see that
Housman makes another reference to "shoulders" as an allusion to connect the
first two stanzas:
Today, the road all runners come,
Shoulder high we bring you home,
And set you at the threshold down,
Townsman of a stiller town. (967)
In stanza three Housman describes the laurel growing "early" yet dying "quicker ...
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History In Langston Hughes's "Negro"
Number of Words: 974 / Number of Pages: 4
... understand the
point that Hughes is making, one must take an enhanced inspection at
certain elements that Hughes uses throughout the poem.
In "Negro", Hughes gives the reader a compact visual exposé of the
historical life of blacks. He does not tell the reader in detail about
what has happened to blacks; therefore, Hughes allows these actual accounts
to marinate in the mind of the reader. Instead of saying that he[Hughes]
is a black man living in America, he simply says that "I am a Negro" (1 and
17). He does not create a mysterious aura about blacks, but leaves that up
to the reader. Th ...
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