Critical Analysis Of "The Indifferent" By John Donne
.... and refers to the first two stanzas as a
"song." The audience to which this poem was intended is very important
because it can drastically change the meaning of the poem, and has
therefore been debated among the critics. While most critics believe that
the audience changes from men, to women, then to a single woman, or
something along those lines, Gregory Machacek believes that the audience
remains throughout the poem as "two women who have discovered that they are
both lovers of the speaker and have .....
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Critical Analysis Of "The Eagle" By Lord Tennyson
.... name of the poem I am writing about is called “The Eagle” by
Alfred, Lord Tennyson. It is in figurative language form.
The poem is divided into 2 Stanza's with 3 lines each. And there
are an average of 9 feet a line. The 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 im .....
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The Theme Of Death In Poems
.... at her final destination, which was her grave, yet she describes
it as her house. In the end she is 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 qu .....
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"Dover Beach" By Arnold: Irony, Images, And Illusions
.... the tide is full” and “Of
pebbles which the waves draw back, and fling,” is an example of images that
appeal to the visual sense. While “ Where the sea meets the moon-blanched
land” and “With tremulous cadence slow, and bring...” uses an auditory
sense. “Come to the window, sweet is the night air,” can apply to both
senses. Sweet can mean angelic or precious to qualify to be an visual
image, or it can mean almost like a melodious tune.
Illusions are used in this poem as deception for the girl that th .....
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Housman's "To An Athlete Dying Young"
.... town the race
We chaired you through the market place;
Man and boy stood cheering by,
And home we brought you shoulder-high. (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:
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Elizabeth Bishop And Her Poem "Filling Station"
.... the oil sound around the passage. An
interesting seepage can also be clearly seen when looking specifically 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 mentio .....
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Emily Dickenson And The Theme Of Death
.... is the Hour of Lead--
Remembered, if outlived,
As Freezing persons, recollect the Snow--
First--Chill--then 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 .....
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Essay Interpreting "One Art" By Elizabeth Bishop
.... realms I owned." Since she could not own, much less lose a
realm, the speaker seems to be comparing the realm to a large loss in her
life. Finally, the statement in the final quatrain "Even losing you" begins
the irony in that stanza. The speaker remarks that losing this person is
not "too hard" to master. The shift in attitude by adding the word "too"
shows that the speaker has an ironic tone for herself in her loss or
perhaps her husband or someone else close to her.
Language and verse form show in "On .....
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Analysis Of The Poem "The Soldier" By Rupert Brooke
.... extremely strong and persuading. One
image is the line "Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam."
This line evokes images of a beautiful woman cherishing and caressing the
man who stands at her side. Another line is "Washed by the rivers, blest
by suns of home." This line creates a feeling of tranquillity and a unity
with nature.
Another line that evokes a feeling of peace and happiness is, "Her
sights and sounds; dreams happy as her day." Without such strong images,
the poem would probabl .....
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Sharpio's "Auto Wreck": The Theme Of Death
.... in the poem
help to suggest these other meanings by clearly stating what is being felt
by the speaker and the crowd around the accident. By stating clearly and
vividly the emotions of the scene, it is easy for the reader to identify
the theme itself, and also to identify with it.
In the first stanza, the speaker describes the ambulance arriving
on the scene more so than the actual scene itself. The ambulance is
described using words such as "wings", "dips", and "floating", giving the
impress .....
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Element Of God In Poetry
.... a weak creature; unable to protect it's self from the strength of an
evil predator. If we are the Lamb, then we must rely on the protection of
our Shepherd, God. Why would Blake call us a Lamb then? Aren't we stronger
than any other animal upon this earth? I think that God would tell us "No,"
for it is He who gives us life strength, as Blake says in the next few
lines… Gave thee life & bid thee feed, By the stream & o're the mead; Gave
thee clothing of delight, Softest clothing wooly bright, What strength .....
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Dover Beach: Conflicting Imagery
.... the poet talks about Sophocles and the Aegean he is clearly
reinforcing the idea of the sea being the bearer of misery. The reference
is to Sophocles tragic plays and the suffering that necessarily accompanied
them. This image becomes powerful as the reader realizes that the poet is
saying that he can hear the same message on Dover Beach that Sophocles
heard so many years ago by the Aegean. He is basically saying that the
nature of life doesn't change. There was suffering in the times of the
Gree .....
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Analysis Of Dickinson's "I Felt A Funeral In My Brain"
.... the waves of feeling
which numb the mind.
In the third stanza, the poet states that she hears 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 tol .....
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History In Langston Hughes's "Negro"
.... States. Finally, Hughes uses repetition of the
first and last stanza to conclude his poem. To thoroughly 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. Inst .....
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Lesbian Poetry
.... after 630BC. Aristocratic herself, she married a
merchant and had a daughter named Cleis (Robinson 24). Her wealth gave her
the chance to live however she chose, and she chose to spend her life
studying the arts on the isle of Lesbos which was a cultural center in the
seventh century BC. Sappho spent a majority of her time here, but she also
traveled extensively through Greece (Robinson 35). She spent time in
Sicily too, because she was exiled due to certain activities of her family.
The residents .....
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