The Plight Of The Toads: An Analysis
.... A
second interpretation of the word toad can be found from fairy tales. In
these types of works the toad is often seen as something detestable on the
exterior and yet of great value or beauty on the interior. An example of
this is the toad that when kissed by the princess was turned into a prince.
In order for the real identity of this amphibian to be realized, one must
to get past the outer shell. In keeping with this explanation Larkin can
also be seen as saying that work at first appear as a hid .....
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Analysis Of The Poems Of William Wordsworth
.... pointed out by
biographers that Wordsworth's unhappy early life contrasts with the
idealized portrait of childhood that he presents in his writings
(Wordsworth, William DISCovering).
Wordsworth went to college at St. John's College in Cambridge and
later wrote that the highlight of those years was his walking tour of
France and Switzerland taken with his friend, Robert Jones (Watson 1421).
He graduated in 1791 when the French revolution was in its third year, but,
even though he had showed no prior inter .....
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An Analysis Of Frost's The Road Not Taken
.... that in
one lifetime, 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 othe .....
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Analysis Of The Rubaiyat Of Omar Khayyam
.... bird is on the Wing." The entire ninth stanza describes the summer
month "that brings the Rose" taking "Jamshyd and Kaikobad away", and so
forth and so on ad nauseum. Again, in the fifty-third stanza: "You gaze
To-Day, while You are You-how then/ Tomorrow, You when shall be You no
more?" The poet seems to be in an incredible hurry to get this life going
before some cosmic deadline comes due, and more than willing to encourage
any of the laiety he encounters in the course of the poem to do the .....
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A Review Of A Shakespearean Sonnet
.... day.
The sonnet is essentially made up of two different parts, the first
being the problem and the second part being an answer. The theme that
Shakespeare has chosen is love and this theme works well with the sonnet
format. The first half of this sonnet is written about how the subject is
like a summer's day, for example: "Thou art more lovely and more
temperate:" (line 2) and after line eight, Shakespeare concludes that the
subject cannot be a summer's day because they are more beautiful and .....
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Understanding "Porphyria's Lover"
.... and, thinking more abstractly, the
author, Robert Browning in this case, represents the case as a whole. 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 .....
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An Analysis Of "To A Friend Whose Work Has Come To Triumph"
.... "Think of the difference it made!"
referring to Icarus' flight. She might have wanted her friend to realize a
difference her defying her father made.
The final line of the poem has a comparably different tone than the
first 13 lines. The last line, "See him acclaiming the sun and come
plunging down while his sensible daddy goes straight into town.", seems
more mocking of Daedalus' flight. It seems that Sexton feels that
Daedalus' flight was a wasted chance and was in no way adventurous. She
might .....
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T.S. Eliot's "The Wasted Land"
.... Joseph Conrad. All of these poet's had the common themes of
estrangement from people and the world, isolationism, and the feeling that
they were failing to articulate their thoughts (Bergonzi 7, 50, Cuddy 30,
Mack 1743, Martin 41, Unger 8) .
Henry James influence on Eliot's poetry is evident in the Jamesian
qualities he uses. For example, the opening verse of The Waste Land ends
with the Jamesian note, "I read, much of the night, and go south in the
winter" (Mack, 1751). Although Lafourge, Con .....
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Allowing Evil To Triumph
.... As a consequence for this lack of action, each
person was killed because he serves the Hangman best. The way in which the
good served the Hangman was by letting the evil triumph over the town. If
a group had attempted to stop the Hangman, he could have possibly been
stopped. Because only one person attempted to stop the evil, those who
kept quiet were killed for helping the Hangman without realizing it. If
the good men do nothing and make no attempt to halt the evil, then the evil
will triumph as a re .....
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Analysis Of Whitman's "Drum Taps" And "The Wound Dresser"
.... first poem of "Drum Taps", "First O Songs For A Prelude" the poem
indicates to the reader that Whitman is staunchly enthusiastic towards the
first battle:
The tumultuous escort, the ranks of policemen preceding,
clearing the way, The unpent enthusiasm, the wild cheers
of the crowd for their favorites…War! Be it weeks, months,
or years, an arm'd race is advancing to welcome it.
As we can see, like most Americans, Whitman was proud of the engagements to
come because at the time, war was only viewe .....
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Subject Of War In The Poems Of Whitman, Crane, Longfellow, And Sandburg
.... war comes, everything
stops, including the sense and reason of the moment. No matter what is
happening, there is no excuse for attending to anything else. The urgency
of the moment rules. "Are beds prepared for sleepers at night in the
houses? no sleepers must sleep in those beds", "Make no parley - stop for
no expostulation." "Let not the child's voice be heard, nor the mother's
entreaties, Make even the trestles to shake the dead where they lie
awaiting the hearses,".
In "The Arsenal at Sprin .....
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Whitman's Democracy
.... He lets all
know that he embraces the people that others have rejected, as democracy
should embrace all. These people are part of America also, and should be
accepted as such. as democracy should embrace all.
Whitman commends the many people of America in "I Hear America
Singing." He writes of the mothers, and the carpenters. He says that they
all sing their own song of what belongs to them. In this poem Whitman
brings these people from all backgrounds together as Americans. In the
freedom of America .....
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Not So Hidden Agendas: Wilfred Owen And His Early Editors
.... over control of
the project. After the war, Edith Sitwell had begun to prepare the poems
for publication; she had even published seven of the poems in Wheels, the
magazine she edited, and was preparing to publish more. It was then that
Sassoon became involved. Sitwell, in a letter dated 3 October 1919, wrote
to Susan Owen (Wilfred's mother) and told her,
I wrote to Captain Sassoon, to ask him if he could
help me about them. He came to see me; and told me
it would have been your so .....
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The Poetry Of William Blake
.... Blake describes
the lamb as symbol of childhood innocence. He also questions about how the
lamb was brought into existence, which mentions another theme of divine
intervention and how all creatures were created. The poem is nothing but
one wondering question to another (Harmon, p. 361).
"The Tiger" by William Blake describes the tiger as being an symbol
of evil. This is displayed when Blake says "What an anvil? what dread
grasp, Dare its deadly terrors clasp?" By repeating variations of the .....
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Elements Of Romanticism In Wordsworth's "London, 1802" And Blake's "The Lamb"
.... when I could not but be struck...with
the vanity and parade of our own country
From this account it can be deduced that the poem was spontaneous
in nature and originated from an internal response. The poem's use of a
realistic setting occurs in line 2 with the reference of England as a
"fen." This particular adjective e describes England as a "land wholly or
partially covered by water, mud, clay, or dirt."(Oxford English Dictionary).
From this line a realistic setting is produced. Th .....
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