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- 6201: Poetry Analysis: “My Papa’s Waltz”
- ... But I hung on like death” (3). This proves that the boy was thinking about death, but dangling on to prevent it. During this whole incident the boy’s mother sits and watches as the abuse continues. Furthermore, the mother’s apathy towards the battering of her son is even more depressing and negative. The author says, “My mother’s countenance / Could not unfrown itself”(7-8). This suggests that the ...
- 6202: Marlowe’s “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love”
- ... past, present and possible future. In the modern pastoral the figure of the shepherd whether idealised or real, vanishes entirely, his place been taken by some relatively simple figure, sometimes the worker, more usually the child. Another example of pastoral could be “Lycidas”. It is considered a pastoral elegy. It uses a lot of pastoral conventions but it also switches from pastoral to another genres. Between the pastoral convention, as Lanyer ...
- 6203: Critisism On Robert Burns (1759-1796)
- ... the better of the man, in which the desire of shining and blazing, and passion, are less frequent in the letters of Burns than perhaps of any other professed writer. Burns was in truth the child of passion and feeling. His character ws not simply that of a peasant exalted into notice by uncommon literary attainments, but bore a stamp which must have distinguished him in the highest as in the ...
- 6204: Merry-Go-Round: Critical Analysis
- ... views between the cynicism of adults and innocence of children. The structure and stylistic devices are shown to support the themes, thus making the poem more meaningful for the reader. It shows that once a child develops into an adult their innocent views are apprehensive to the cynical views of adults.
- 6205: Poem: My Heart Aches
- ... guess each sweet Wherewith the seasonable month endows The grass, the thicket, and the fruit thee wild; White hawthorn, and the pastoral eglantine; Fast fading violets covered up in leaves; And mid-May's eldest child, The coming musk rose, full of dewy wine, The murmurous haunt of flies on summer eves.
- 6206: Masochism in Edgar Allen Poe
- ... Cat 80) This citation I just went over shows how he loves his animals, but it also shows how he is foreshadowing. How he love the animals as pals, but how he also loves to abuse the animals. He loves to inflict pain on the animals because that is the way he shows his love. By seeing others in pain, he feels guilty, but he likes feeling that way. Because he ...
- 6207: Dulce et Decorum Est: Analysis
- ... gassed. Owen has arranged the poem in three sections, each dealing with a different stage of this experience. He makes use of a simple, regular rhyme scheme, which makes the poem sound almost like a child's poem or nursery rhyme. This technique serves to emphasise the solemn and serious content, and the irony of “the old lie,” of the title. In stanza one, Owen describes the soldiers as they set ...
- 6208: By Means of Power
- ... their poems. In the opening lines of Lordes Power, "The difference between poetry and rhetoric/is being/ready to kill/yourself/instead of your children"(1-5), she immediately stresses the importance of putting your child before yourself. This is a metaphor for putting the needs of what is truly important before the needs of oneself. It is not only stated simply and bluntly, but the way the lines are broken ...
- 6209: "Ode on a Grecian Urn"
- ... s saying that the urn will be explored from different standpoints, at different times, and by different individuals. Although a "bride," it can never be entirely fulfilled. In the next line it is the "foster-child of silence and slow time," the urn exists in time because it is only throughout time and its events that we can even begin to understand the scenes it presents in their relation to our ...
- 6210: Harwood's "Impromptu for Ann Jennings" and "Home of Mercy"
- ... negative. Over the next two stanzas' Harwood discusses the negative side of childbirth rather than the positives, where she talks of the terror of childhood illness "… or with anguish running wild when sickness… … touched a child" These two stanzas show the endurance of the mothers and how important their friendship was to each of them. The tone of the poem seems to change in stanza five, as the children have become ...
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