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Beginnings
Number of Words: 725 / Number of Pages: 3
... past, to continue to set
her goals high and to open herself up to help from a higher being, which
may be herself, her father, a mentor, or God, to help her achieve her
goals.
Booth is saying in this poem that the first lesson one needs to learn in
life is that we must prepare ourselves for the future. In doing so, we
must rely on a “higher being” for support, because we are not capable of
surviving on our own. A baby, or very young child, must have its parents
or caretakers guide them while they learn everything; to walk, talk, swim.
A beginning student of academics and/or athletics needs a mentor; a ...
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"Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night": Death Through Repetition And Diction
Number of Words: 563 / Number of Pages: 3
... the end, the two last lines join together as the old man and his son accept that death is a part of life.
Next, the references to "good men," "wild men," and "grave men" display the three basic stages of life: birth, life, and death. In stanza three, the stanza pertaining to "good men," the portion "the last wave by" depicts the old man's generation as fewer and fewer still live. The color symbolism of the "green bay" lets us know that the speaker refers to the young and new generation of yesterday. Stanza four's reference to "wild men" concerns the living part of life. It reveals the fact that m ...
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Haughton: Am I A Gryphon Or A Queen?
Number of Words: 700 / Number of Pages: 3
... the whole thing. And let’s not forget Mr. Haughton's Queens, the type who like to sit down and analyze the complete meaning of a book, ripping it apart page by page until they come into this complete feeling of self-actualization. Anyway, there are so many more types of reading styles out there, so many combinations. So the answer to the question as whether I am a Gryphon or a Queen, I would say neither but I'll go with the nearest. I am a Gryphon of sorts I presume.
According to Haughton's definitions of readers I would have to say that my style of reading mostly resembles that of the Gryphon. ...
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Elizabeth Bishop And Her Poem "Filling Station"
Number of Words: 971 / Number of Pages: 4
... at the words "oil-soaked", "oil-permeated" and "grease-
impregnated". These words connect the [oi] in oily with the word following it
and heighten the spreading of the sound. Moreover, when studying the [oi]
atmosphere throughout the poem the [oi] in doily and embroidered seems to
particularly stand out. The oozing of the grease in the filling station moves
to each new stanza with the mention of these words: In the fourth stanza, "big
dim doily", to the second last stanza, "why, oh why, the doily? /Embroidered"
to the last stanza, "somebody embroidered the doily".
Whereas the [oi] sound cre ...
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The Influence Of Personal Experiences In Emily Dickinson's Poetry
Number of Words: 2268 / Number of Pages: 9
... Dickinson, points out that
Emily “knew every line of the Bible intimately, quoted from it extensively, and
referred to it many more times than she referred to any other work... yet in
this regard she was not unusual by Amherst's standards” (72). The most
prominent figure of religious virtues in her life was her father, Edward
Dickinson. Reading the Bible to his children and speaking in town of religious
ethics were daily events in his life. At home, he tried to raise his children
in the rigorous religion of their ancestors, however his methods appeared quite
harsh. People who knew the Dickinsons re ...
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Analysis Of "Because I Could Not Stop For Death"
Number of Words: 1954 / Number of Pages: 8
... journey with a slow, forward
movement, which can be seen as she writes, "We slowly drove-He knew no
haste." The third quatrain seems to speed up as the trinity of death,
immortality, and the speaker pass the children playing, the fields of grain,
and the setting sun one after another. The poem seems to get faster and
faster as life goes through its course. In lines 17 and 18, however, the
poem seems to slow down as Dickinson writes, "We paused before a House that
seemed / A Swelling of the Ground-." The reader is given a feeling of life
slowly ending. Another way in which Dickinson uses the form ...
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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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Blake's "London" And "The Garden Of Love"
Number of Words: 1810 / Number of Pages: 7
... poems
condemning the hypocrisy between these two worlds, for example, "The
Chimney Sweeper," "London," and "The Garden of Love."
In "London," Blake reveals that this hypocrisy has robbed the world
of innocence and spirit. In the first two lines, Blake repeats the word
"charter'd." He uses this repetition to stress the mechanical behavior of
the world around him. The word "charter" has connotations of something that
can be sold or hired for money. Blake is connecting this idea with the
chartered rights of
Englishmen given three hundred years ago by the crown and never to
be taken a ...
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Education Of Ee Cummings
Number of Words: 1714 / Number of Pages: 7
... stanzas
2.lone consonants forming a sort of rhyme themselves
3.trees & agains; (whi) & sky; te, rees, & le
b.falling of a leaf
1.the whole poem's syntax
2.line and word spacing
3.IrlI
3.Images
a.comma after sky and trees
b.black against white
D.swi(
1.Theme – differentiate b/w perception and conception
2.Syntax
a.swi(
b.terseness, primary lang., and ...
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The Waste Land: Tiresias As Christ
Number of Words: 544 / Number of Pages: 2
... in the poem as the observer of the typist and her young lover. He sees all of the hurt going on between the characters. Tiresias states that, "And I Tiresias have foresuffered all / Enacted on this same divan or bed (ll.243-244)." Tiresias seems most Christ like at this moment in the poem. According to Steven Helmling in The Grin of Tiresias: humor in the Waste Land, "Tiresias participates in the suffering he sees, like Christ; and he has foresuffered all like Christ (pg.148)." Tiresias sees and feels all that the typist and her lover are going through.
God is a common figure throughout the poem ...
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