Tony Harrison's Poetry And His Relationship With His Parents
.... is great love, for both the mother and the poet, yet the father is unable to show this love, he feels the obligation to be the emotional rock of the family, his role as the father. Harrison’s father had great love for him, however Harrison resented the way that he put him down, however the father was proud of the son but had no way of conveying this emotion. In later life Harrison did not think of his father as an illiterate wreck, who had no chance of glory. The father could not keep the same social gro .....
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Marking Time Versus Enduring In Gwendolyn Brook's "The Bean Eater's"
.... isolated routine of the couple's life is something Brooks draws attention to with a separate stanza:
Two who are Mostly Good.
Two who have lived their day,
But keep on putting on their clothes
And putting things away. (5-8)
Brooks emphasizes how isolated the couple is by repeating "Two who." Then she emphasizes how routine their life is by reating"putting."
A pessimistic reading of this poem seems justified. The critic Harry B. Shaw reads the .....
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Comparing "We Wear The Mask" By Dunbar And "Richard Cory"
.... that everyone in town admires. "When ever Richard Cory went down town, We people on the pavement looked at him: He was a gentlemen from sole to crown" (1-3). He stood out in a crowd because of his polished fashion. "And he was always quietly arrayed, and he was always human when he talked" (5-6). He was rich and had advantages over others, but he did not conduct himself in a "holier-than-thou" manner. "In fine, we thought that he was everything to make us wish that we were in his place." Everyone not .....
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To Autumn By John Keats
.... next line curves with the lushness of “swell the ground,” but any excess is checked neatly by the astonishing “plump” appearing as a verb and wonderfully solid and nutty to touch (line 7). The last three lines in the first stanza move heavily and lazily to that most summary of the sounds; the distant buzzing of bees, “later flowers for the bees” (line 9). The low sibilants and thrice repeated the sound of “mm” of the last line bring hearing activity into play, along with the sight, taste and touch are mobi .....
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Poetry Analysis: “An Irish Airman Foresees His Death”
.... because the do not have their own country. He then tells how no outcome of the war would do any harm to Britain, The Irish were the only ones with something to lose. And, that nothing would make the Irish forget the war. They would never be as happy as they were before they fought. Yeats’ then writes “Nor law, nor duty bade me fight, Nor public men, nor cheering crowds,” which was portraying that the Irish were not forced to fight, but it was a custom for a country to fight for there motherland. The .....
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Poetry Analysis Of "No Loser, No Weeper"
.... just hates to lose something, whether is small like a watch or a toy. Moreover this poem is directed 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 .....
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Analysis Of "The Age Of Anxiety"
.... "dichotomy between the rich and the poor" (Barrows 317).
"The Age of Anxiety" is, in general, a quest poem. Unlike the ideal quest, however, this quest accomplishes nothing. The characters search for the meaning of self and, in essence, the meaning of life, but because their search is triggered by intoxication due to alchohol, the quest is doomed from the start. Throughout the quest, the characters believe themselves to be in a form of Purgatory when they are allegorically in Hell. They fail t .....
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Frost's Narrow Individualism In Two Tramps In Mud Time
.... the outset of the poem, the narrator gives a very superficial
view of himself, almost seeming angered when one of the tramps interferes
with his wood chopping: "one of them put me off my aim". This statement,
along with many others, seems to focus on "me" or "my", indicating the
apparrent selfishness and arrogance of the narrator: "The blows that a
life of self-control/Spares to strike for the common good/That day, giving
a loose to my soul,/I spent on the unimportant wood." The narrator refers
to relea .....
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The Road Not Taken - An Analyis
.... it
is impossible to travel down every path. In an attempt to make a decision,
the traveler "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 t .....
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Owen's “Dulce Et Decorum Est”
.... precisely how the man is being tormented.
Moreover, the phrase "blood shod" shows how the troops have 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 t .....
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Edgar Allen Poe's The Raven: An Analysis
.... evil.
The third instance “nevermore is used the student speaks of the
bird flying away just as his hopes have. The raven represents death so in
saying “nevermore” he means that no matter what disappointments have
befallen you, one can always rely on death. It is the one thing that will
always be there.
In the fourth instance “nevermore” is used the student wants to
believe that the raven escaped from a crazy, old sick man that used to
repeat the word “nevermore”. This is showing how the student is try .....
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Andrea Del Sarto: A Statement Worthy Of Examination
.... understood. Several themes can be
inferred from these relatively simple lines. They seem straightforward
enough, yet contain deeper, more specific meaning. First of course, the
pessimistic mood of the statement must be identified. For to understand
the implications of the quote, the pessimism needs to be understood.
Browning is writing from the point of view of del Sarto, a severely
depressed painter, yet comments like these come from the mind of Browning.
How is Browning to know del Sarto’s .....
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Anne Bradstreet’s Expression Of Anger
.... to the exposure of her ugly child to public view and humiliation.
Bradstreet uses this comparison as a major way to express her anger.
Bradstreet also uses a paradox to express her frustration, “I
washed thy face, but more defects I saw”(13). Bradstreet compares washing
the face of her child to trying to erase her own problems. With this
paradox, Bradstreet expresses her failing efforts to make her problems
wash away. She expresses her desperation about her inability to get her
life back to how .....
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Songs Of Innocence And Experience: An Analysis
.... are presented from the
views of the world as filtered through the eyes and mind of a child. It can
also be inferred that evil can bring forth the loss of innocence. Therefore,
one existing similarity is that they both concern the loss of innocence.
Of his most well known poems are “The Lamb” from Songs of Innocence,
and “The Tyger”, from Songs of Experience. Both poems contain many
similarities according to their themes. "The Lamb" is an emblem of
innocence, corresponding to "The Tyger" as the emblem of .....
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Dulce Et Decorum Est: Analysis Of Military Life
.... to fight during the World Wars could be
classified as men at all. A person would be oblivious to this fact,
however, 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' i .....
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