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- 1411: Robert Frost Used Many Elements Of Nature To Show Fear And Uncertainty
- ... the speaker has a doubt whether they will survive unaided. The final example of fear and uncertainty is in “To the Thawing Wind.” In it Frost shows a theme of uncertainty through chaos. Come with rain, O loud Southwester! …Burst into my narrow stall; Swing the picture on the wall; Run the rattling pages o’er; Turn the poet out of door. The Southwester is spring destroying winter, causing uncertainty for ...
- 1412: Porphyrias Lover
- ... describing the weather. I think they describe his feeling at that moment in time. This is so because the words sullen and spite are used which are not words usually associated with the weather: "The rain set early in tonight The sullen wind was soon awake, It tore the elm tops down for spite. And it did its worst to vex the lake: I listened with heart fit to break" He ...
- 1413: Interpreting Poetry
- ... St. Vincent Millay, expresses her confusion about the subject of love in the poem, “Love Is Not All”. Love is not all: it is not meat or drink Nor slumber nor a roof against the rain: Nor yet a floating spar to men that sink And rise and sink and rise and sink again Love can not fill the thickened lung with breath, Nor clean the blood, nor set the fractured ...
- 1414: Comparing Ode to the West Wind and Tintern Abbey
- ... a woman tending to her garden with love and devotion. Along with a heart-rending tone and personification Shelley uses imagery to describe nature. He refers to the clouds in the sky as “angels of rain an lightning” and the dead leaves of Autumn as “ghosts from and enchanter fleeing,” he is amazed and mesmerized by the wind, and quietly wishes to one day become one with the wind, little did ...
- 1415: Catullus
- ... When describing Lesbia, Catullus wanted her to know of his affections and he related the thought of love with the actual act involved, “Kiss me and kiss again, Nor spare thy kisses, Let thousand kisses rain, A thousand blisses. Then, when ten thousand more, Their strength have wasted, Let’s wipe out all the score, Of what we’ve tasted.” (Havelock, pg. 17) Most of his poems hint at, but does ...
- 1416: Siefried Sassoon And Counter-Attack
- ... smoke but still everything seemed all right. They had certain guns set up in different places to keep them away. It shows alot of soldiers dead and just laying in the mud and then "the rain". Siegfried Sassoon was born on 8th September 1886 at Weirleigh, near Paddock Wood in Kent. After Marlborough College he went to Clare College, Cambridge but left without a degree. For the next eight years lived ...
- 1417: Shelley's "Ode To the West Wind": Analysis
- ... the reader to visualize the "dome" as having a presence like a volcano. And when the "dome" does "burst," it will act as a "Destroyer and Preserver" and creator. The use of the words "Black rain and fire and hail..." (28) also helps the reader prepare for the apocalyptic climax which Shelley intended. As the rising action continues, Shelley talks of the "Mediterranean" (31) and its "summer dreams" (30). In the ...
- 1418: Unbroken
- ... at him, grateful to be sitting on the floor. I write terrible poetry all the time for him. I'm stronger with a pen in my hand. My mind spins with thoughts that are like rain, I can't catch them all. I wish I could, I feel a drought coming. I'll weed through the mess later. Right now I have buckets to fill. Our roof is leaking, it's ...
- 1419: The Point of View in "Porphyria's Lover"
- ... Porphyria. Although the introduction refers to the weather, it also does an effective job in describing the speaker. In this case, it is nighttime, and the thunder is roaring. The speaker starts by saying: "The rain set early in tonight,/The sullen wind was soon awake,/ It tore the elm-tops down for spite,/ And did its worst to vex the lake(Barnet 567):" This description gives the reader the first ...
- 1420: Poetry: The Sky is Filled With Laughter
- ... With Laughter The sky is filled with laughter Like a little kid at a fair With streaks of blue and white It paints a canvas of happiness The day it all turned gray And the rain came out to play The sun was hidden for many days But once again the sky turned blue And all the little children came out To play, with the sky so blue With its pretty ...
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