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- 2531: Analysis of "The Age of Anxiety"
- ... people of the city not on the basis of personality content, but on that of the surroundings of which he thinks so lowly (Nelson 122). The fifth stage is reached when the group sights "the big house" while riding on a trolley. Rosetta, with her false past as an outline, references the house to one in which she was imaginarily reared, and to which she shall return. During her visitation to ...
- 2532: Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven
- ... to the realm of the dead. Poe might have been alluding that there was the spirit of Lenore actually in the room. Poe used many literary techniques in his writingsRhyme and rhythm were definitely a big part of Poe's poems. He used alliteration to create the rhythm, and he used rhyme to create a musical quality. There is a definite rhyme scheme, and that scheme is ABCBBB. That rhyme scheme ...
- 2533: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
- ... a knight. When everything is all said and done Gawain finally realizes that he is not the true hero that all of his peers mistake him for. Gawain in this epic journey went through a big personal revelation step in his life. He realized that he was not a flawless true Christian that he though he was. He in a sense had been fooled out of his faith. In the end ...
- 2534: "The Black Cat" Essay
- ... his short story, "The Black Cat". Poe begins his short story by saying that "For the most wild, yet most homely narrative which I am about to pen, I neither expect nor solicit belief". A big characteristic of Romanticism is a willing suspension of disbelief. It is never even thought that the plot to the story would be taken as being true, but rather as a made up story to get ...
- 2535: Churchgoing: Poetry Analysis
- ... is a "what you read is what you get" title. People just go to church to go, not to worship or confess sins. The real meaning faded away in the past generations. People wear one big faηade to church that everyone has but no one sees. They act very Lutheran when in actuality they have as much knowledge about their religion as the cashier at the Piggly Wiggly has about thermodynamics ...
- 2536: Elizabeth Bishop and Her Poem "Filling Station"
- ... 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 mention of these words: In the fourth stanza, "big dim doily", to the second last stanza, "why, oh why, the doily? /Embroidered" to the last stanza, "somebody embroidered the doily". Whereas the [oi] sound created an oily sound of language throughout the poem, the ...
- 2537: Housman's "To An Athlete Dying Young"
- ... that early-laurelled head Will flock to gaze the strengthless dead, And find unwithered on its curls The garland briefer than a girls. (967) Any biography read on Housman should reveal that he was an big student of Latin, a very dense language in which much meaning can be condensed into a small word. F. W. Batesman states, "He edited volumes of poetry for the poets Juvenile and Lucan" (Ricks 144 ...
- 2538: Compare and Contrast: "Dead Man's Dump" by Rosenberg and "dulce et Decorum est" by Owen
- ... in that piece. The general picture that Rosenberg tries to get across to the reader is that of the bodies just lying around all over the ground. Carnage exists everywhere the reader can imagine. The big picture is death, but Owens places specific detail on the soldiers' wounds and the sounds of the poem. Bones crunching by the wagon looking for survivors. Wounded soldiers yelling for the wagon to come and ...
- 2539: Analysis of "The Age of Anxiety" by W.H. Auden
- ... people of the city not on the basis of personality content, but on that of the surroundings of which he thinks so lowly (Nelson 122). The fifth stage is reached when the group sights "the big house" while riding on a trolley. Rosetta, with her false past as an outline, references the house to one in which she was imaginarily reared, and to which she shall return. During her visitation to ...
- 2540: T. S. Eliot's "The Hollow Men"
- ... completion as the nursery rhyme again takes up its repetitive round, and terminates with the line that characterizes the evasive excuse. They are the whimpers of fear with which the hollow men end, neither the bang of Guy Fawkes day nor the "lost violent soul." In part Five the frustration of reality is described by the abstractions introduced in Part I; life is frustrated at every level, and this accounts for ...
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