Lord Byron's Euthanasia
.... Augusta Ada, on December 10, 1811. Byron and Anne Milbanke divorced one year later and Byron left London forever. Byron went to Switzerland where he befriended Percy Shelly, another promenent poet at the time, and became fairly obsessed with him. In 1824, after Byron had send over 4000 pounds to the Greek fleet, he sailed to join Prince Alexandros Mavrokordatos, to join his forces and fight with him. Byron contracted a fever and died on April 19th, 1824 in Missolonghi, Greece.
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E. E. Cummings
.... In the analysis of the poems, “Anyone Lived in a Pretty How Town”, “Once like a Spark”, “Up into the Silence the Green” as well as any other of Cummings poems, it necessary to remember that he is best understood when approached on his own terms. In trying to understand meaning in his work it is necessary to avoid simple linguistic interpretation and focus on what the deeper meaning is.
In “Once Like a Spark”, he uses the charcters and calls them strangers. While using this name he is in fact sta .....
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Home Burial: Analysis
.... The husband seems to not be phased by the great loss that they have endured. Later on in the poem the husband begins to talk again, stating: “We could have some arrangement, By which I’d bind myself to keep hands off, Anything special you’re a-mind to name. Though I don’t like such things ‘’twixt those that love. Two that don’t love can’t live together without them. But two can not live together with them.”
Right here he is saying that he should have just stopped having children with her. That pe .....
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'Sea Fever' - Analysis
.... of complex figures of speech, imagery, and meter.
"Sea Fever" is an excellent example of varied meter which follows the actions of a tall ship through high seas and strong wind. Lines one and two contain the common iambic meter found throughout the poem. "Sea Fever" may be categorized as a sea chantey due to its iambic meter and natural rhythm which gives it a song like quality. This song like quality is created through the use of iambic meter and alliteration. For example, lines three and ten contain .....
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Analysis Of Heaney's Punishment
.... is seen throughout the poem, where the reader initially could perceive the poem to solely be about the life, and appearance of a 'bog woman'. However at a deeper level, Heaney looks at the very human society functions, both in ancient and present times. This us summed up at the end of the poem;
"who would connive
in civilized outrage
yet understand the exact
and tribal, intimate revenge" (Stanza 11)
Heaney here, writes that he does not only feel empathy and sympathy towards the "little .....
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What Is Poetry
.... either walk away sympathetic or jealous of the love they had.
Poetry is also a mystery. How is one to tell whether Shakespear intended for the reader to feel sympathetic or jealous when he wrote “Romeo and Juliet”? Poetry allows the reader to explore his own emotions and judge his own heart and desires because they have been brought to his attention by the poetry.
Overall, poetry is an outlet. It allows us to express the unfathomable thoughts that race through our human minds. The w .....
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Analysis Of Blake's "London"
.... he moves on in his poem he also refers to the "charter'd" Thames, he is telling us in this second line that even a river which is a force of nature, is owned in London. When Blake says that he sees "marks of weakness, marks of woe" in "every face" he meets, he means that he can see how this commercialism is affecting everyone rich and poor.
Yet, despite the divisions that the word charter'd suggests, the speaker contends that no one in London, neither rich or poor, escapes a pervasive sense of misery an .....
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Harwood's "Impromptu For Ann Jennings" And "Home Of Mercy"
.... presents to us the women in this poem are that through childbirth they have been bought closer together and have become emotionally stronger. There is no mention of the husband's in the poem which also leads the reader to believe that the women are independent and strong.
The opening two stanzas are very reflective of their times together.
"Sing, memory, sing those seasons in the freezing
suburb of Fern Tree, a rock-shaded place
with tree ferns, gullies, snowfalls and eye-pleasing
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Beginnings--The Idea
.... is relatively rare and delicate; it needs to be treated with care. Being "newly sprung" implies that, as a fresh bloom, the rose is young. So what do these traits have to do with his beloved? Maybe she's uncommon ("rare"). Maybe she should be treated with courtesy and gentleness. Maybe she's young, or young to love (innocent), or just new to him.
So translating the images takes quite a bit of time and thought to figure out what meanings probably fit the poem's context and to reject those that probably .....
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My Interpretation Of Frost's "Birches"
.... and compares it to the "dome of heaven" shattering. I enjoy how he offers such different interpretations for the appearance of the bark. My personal favorite is the shattering of the dome in heaven. I think this creates a vivid image for the reader. He goes on to say that once the branches are bent, they never return completely upright again, but they are so flexible that they never break. “You may see their trunks arching in the woods/ Years afterwards, trailing their leaves on the ground." These are s .....
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Alexander Pope's "The Rape Of The Lock"
.... Sylph that guides Belinda. When Belinda was asleep Ariel came into her dream to tell her to “Beware of all, but most beware of Man!” He was telling her to watch out for man because he will try to take her chastity. When Belinda awoke she thought deeply about what was said to her in her dream but then she forgot all about the lesson when she started to think about Baron. This is the gaining of wisdom aspect of the epic poem.
The greatest aspect of an epic poem is the quest and the battle. Pope uses .....
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Comparing "The Chimney Sweeper" And "Songs Of Innocence And Of Experience"
.... “Songs of Experience”, the boys viewpoint on religion changes. His optimistic view has changed into a dissapointed grudge towards God and the heavens. He has come to the harsh reality that being a child in a profession where help is needed, because the child can not help himself, God has let him down since he has not released him and the other boys from their coffins of black. He reveals this to the reader in the last stanza of “Songs of Experience” when he makes his parents think that he is still happy. .....
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Ceremonies In "The Waste Land"
.... was living is now dead" shows the passing of the primal ceremony; the connection to it that was once viable is now dead. The language used to describe the event is very rich and vivid: red, sweaty, stony. These words evoke an event that is without the cares of modern life- it is primal and hot. A couple of lines later Eliot talks of "red sullen faces sneer and snarl/ From doors of mudcracked houses" (ll. 344-345). These lines too seem to contain language that has a primal quality to it.
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Andrew Marvell, "To His Coy Mistress"
.... will turn the tables on time, but it's not clear if this idea is, again, empty rhetoric.
A variation on this interpretation is that the speaker wants not only sex, but also to develop the spiritual aspects of their relationship--the two go together. In this view, his high-flown speech (especially in the first section) expresses the extremeness of his commitment to her. From this perspective, the speaker's final proposal about the lovers' taking control of their own fate (taking that control away from .....
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A Duke's Dominance Dooms Duchess
.... her heartfelt expression in but one day, showcasing her for all eternity. He directs his guest to look upon the painting. There is limited access to the art since the duke keeps it covered by a curtain, and only permits those to his liking to look at her. He states that in the past, those he has let see the fresco, have asked where such an expression on her puss originated. He goes on to admit that it was not him alone that provided her with such joy, but perhaps it was flattery from the monk that .....
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