Secret Lion: Analysis
.... a lion. That is what makes this passage a
metaphor.
The fourth passage is a simile. The passage said that everything
had changed. That it had changed so fast like the tablecloths magicians
pull from under stuff on the table but the gasp from the audience makes it
not matter. The passage was comparing going to junior high school to a
tablecloth the magicians pull because junior high school was a big change
to the boys. The gasp! from the audience meant the change did not matter
because in the long run .....
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"Life Is A Series Of Tests And Challenges": A Critical Analysis Of Sir Gawain And The Green Knight
.... one of the things that knighthood represented,
fearlessness. People accept those kind of challenges everyday. This could
possibly be where the term "sticking your neck out" could have come from.
When people accept challenges, most do not want to accept the consequences
as a result of being unsuccessful. Gawain was not like this. When the year
passed he gallantly mounted his horse and set off for the Green Chapel.
This showed that Gawain was brave. This was preceded by the warning "Beware,
Gawain .....
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Sir Gawain And The Green Knight
.... He demonstrates throughout the work a need for
balance. As symbolied by the pentangle worn by Sir Gawain, representing
the balanced points of chivalric virture, each being codependent of the
other in order to remain a whole, the narrative could be considered as a
What accompanies an appreciation for the seemingly sudden shift
from the typical romance at the end of the piece is the raised awareness
that the change does only seem to be sudden. Careful exlporation of the
plot, setting, and character desc .....
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Stoutenburg's Reel One: An Analysis
.... or corners: just white and more white…" (lines 13-15). It feels
that once the movie is gone so is all the excitement in his life, that
through the movies he can explore something that he cannot in real life.
Stoutenburg or the person he is writing about does not seem to want to live
outside of this fantastic dreamscape.
Although Stoutenburg is with his girl friend throughout the whole
poem, he does not make mention of her until the second body paragraph, "I
held my girl's hand," (line 9). He i .....
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"The Love Song Of J. Alfred Prufrock": Surrealism And T.S. Eliot
.... of the symbolic suggestions of objects
and images." Its unusual, sometimes startling juxtapositions often
characterize surrealism, by which it tries to transcend logic and habitual
thinking, to reveal deeper levels of meaning and of unconscious
associations. Although scholars might not classify Eliot as a Surrealist,
the surreal landscape, defined as "an attempt to express the workings of
the subconscious mind by images without order, as in a dream " is
exemplified in "The Love Song of J. Alfr .....
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Analysis Of Bryant's "Thanatopsis"
.... “And make their bed with thee.” This connection
between death and sleep creates an intriguing metaphor which adds depth and
meaning to the poem.
By using this strange metaphor I believe Bryant wishes to suggest
his faith in an afterlife. While examining the differences and
similarities of death and sleep the reader is left with some very thought
provoking questions. The answers to these questions reassure some readers
while confusing others. Sleep is a time of rest. It allows preparation
for th .....
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Thanatopsis: An Analysis
.... kings and others. The reader should get the most out
of living he/she can possibly get because it is good, and do not be afraid
to die but go pleasantly. This is described in lines thirty-one through
eighty. The best example of this is when Bryants writes: ..."approach thy
grave like one who wraps the drapery of his coach about him and lies down
to pleasant dreams"(79-80)
This poem has taught the reader that death is not a bad thing. It
is just a ticket to a pleasant life after death. So have fun .....
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Edgar Allan Poe's "The Bells": Analysis
.... uses the words clanging, clashing, and roaring to give a sense of alarm.
He describes how the bells clamor and clangor out of tune in order to send
the message of alarm to those around it.
In the forth stanza there are bells that are rung for the diseased.
He says that the noises they make are mainly moans, and groans, from their
rusty iron throats. This gives the feeling of sadness and sorrow. He
also makes it seem like the bells are alive, and they want to be rung
making more people dead. Which mea .....
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Analysis Of Jarrell's "The Death Of The Ball Turret Gunner"
.... the
preeminent likelihood of his death during the "State" of war (line 1). He
describes the disconnection he feels from Earth and what he calls it "dream
of life" as if life only existed in birth and death (line 3). When he
awakens to "black flak" and "nighmare fighters" he seems to imply that all
that lies between birth and death is war (line 4).
The theme to this poem emerges in the last line with almost a plea
that he not be forgotten. When he says "they washed me out of the turret
with a h .....
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T.S Eliot's "The Waste Land"
.... probably
refers to an empty grave that brings images of death and the end of life,
or possibly the beginning 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 empt .....
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The Lost Trees
.... promises.
Levertov is implying there should be harmony between man and nature
and the nature of how mankind conducts itself can have long-range effects
on the course of nature. For example, we now know how the destruction of
the rain forest in South America is affecting the percentage of oxygen
available around the globe. Man's wholesale destruction of these areas for
financial gain, despite the negative results, is a study of the nature of
man's inhumanity to man. Do we not all breathe, even those who .....
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"He Is More Than A Hero": The Love Of Lesbos
.... the same relationship with
her love that he has.
The Greeks believed that love was so strong of an emotional
feeling that it could have physical effects. In the poem, the speaker
becomes ill from loving so much. She is hurt inside because she is not with
her love, and the emotional pain transforms to physical effects. "I drip
with sweat; trembling shakes my body and I turn paler than dry grass. At
such times death isn't far from me." The speaker goes so far as to consider
dying because of the emotio .....
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The Poetry Of John Keats
.... transfigured forever in the Grecian Urn - and in the Ode
to Autumn it is the exquisiteness of the season - idealised and
immortalised as part of the natural cycle - which symbolise eternal and
idealistic images of profound beauty.
In Ode to a Nightingale, Keats uses the central symbol of a bird to
exemplify the perfect beauty in nature. The nightingale sings to the poet's
senses whose ardour for it's song makes the bird eternal and thus reminds
him of how his own mortality separates him from this .....
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Beowulf: The One Who Will Be King
.... left the bar and traveled to the Chi Omega sorority
house where he watched from outside, entered, and 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 .....
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An Analysis Of Updike's "Player Piano"
.... in this poem. In the last line of the first stanza, there
is consonance in "these", "keys", and "melodies". The repeat of the smooth
"s" sound in these three consecutive words evokes a feeling of rhythm or
harmony - pleasant sounds from the player piano.
The next stanza starts with an internal rhyme: "My paper can caper".
The simple rhyme suggests that the paper can leap and jump about like a
child. The connotation of the word "abandon" adds to this suggestion of
unrestrained movement or act .....
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