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- 7041: Mother and Child In Sylvia Plath Poems
- ... because "The fat/ Sacrifices its opacity" while it cooks, allowing her to see clearly what lies ahead. The tone is rather morbid, with many references to death and the horrible events of the second world war ("the cicatrix of Poland, burnt out/ Germany".) Alongside the glorification of her child, she also acknowledges its vulnerability and isolation: "the high/ Precipice/ That emptied one man into space". She appreciates its significance as well ...
- 7042: Analysis of Blake's "London"
- ... dirtying itself by using these young boys to clean their chimneys. Blake then moves on to talk about soldiers and how their blood is running down the palace walls. This is a reference to the war with France, Blake is saying that the soldiers are forced to give their lives for the royal family, who stays safely behind their palace walls. In the fourth stanza, the speaker offers the most startling ...
- 7043: The Lives and Works of Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning
- ... Women were in the fruit of these years. Almost a year after Men and Women Mrs. Browning’s Aurora Leigh appeared before a public much relieved by that Treaty of Paris that terminated the Crimean War. The people were at the peace of mind to enjoy her book. Through Aurora Leigh she gave expression to her observation, her sympathy, her convictions on beauty and truth, and the relations of the sexes ...
- 7044: A Review of Dudley Randall’s “Ballad of Birmingham”
- ... after the event took place, it must have made an impression on him. The 1960’s were a decade of political instability and radical change. The early half of the decade saw much of the civil rights action, and the later half of the decade saw more of the opposition to Vietnam. Perhaps during 1969, the author witnessed some of these demonstrations and was reminded of the earlier tragedies. The structure ...
- 7045: What Really Happened at Roswell, New Mexico?
- ... S. military wouldn't want the Soviets to know that they could detect if they were detonating nuclear devices. Apparently, the Air Force thought it safe enough in to release this information, since the Cold War was over. After all, the United States and Russia are friends now. Something definitely happened in Roswell in 1947. However, it may not be what some people think. Not everyone believes what the military says ...
- 7046: Henry David Thoreau
- ... devotion to nature and his writing was a key to his excellence in writing. Henry David Thoreau also felt that individualism was a great necessity to his writing style. In his piece of literature titled "Civil Disobedience", he expressed his belief in the power and the obligation of the individual to determine right from wrong, independent of the dictates of society. Thoreau's friends agreed with his views, but few practiced ...
- 7047: Sharpio's "Auto Wreck": The Theme of Death
- ... the poem, talking about the questions "Who shall die?" and "Who is innocent?". The randomness of death is further presented in lines 33 and 34, which basically mean that in this crash as opposed to war where death is imminent, and suicide where death has a reason and logic(both examples in the poem), the fatality was not necessary and not preventable either. Lines 35 through 39 also reflect theme by ...
- 7048: The Works of Poet Carl Sandburg and His Effect on American Poetry
- ... the life and atmosphere surrounding Lincoln and put it all into poetic words, just as he did in The People, Yes and Chicago. He spoke of reality during the time of Lincoln, his life, and war, but in a manner that was enjoyed by the reader. From Sandburg's pages one sees Lincoln as never before, in his homely, rough, pioneer society; and from the poet's pictures one feels that ...
- 7049: "Babi Yar" by Yevgeny Yevtushenko: An Analysis
- ... shows the reader Anne's denial of what is going on around her. She tries to drown out the noise of the Nazis coming to get her. When her precious spring comes, so do the war and the Nazis to take her to her death. Stanza V brings us back to the ravine of Babi Yar. In line 40, the poet chooses to personify the trees. They "stare down" on him ...
- 7050: The Personification and Criticism of Death in John Donne's "Death Be Not Proud."
- ... quatrain comes Donne's second perception about death, painting death as the associate of all the evil in life by saying "Thou art slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men,/ And dost with poison, war, and sickness dwell" (l 9-10). "The poet [Donne] even notes that narcotics or witchcraft ("poppies or charms" [l 11]) can outdo death in making people sleep, since drug-induced or hex-generated trances are ...
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