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- 8611: Dickinson's Poem #465: Buzzing Bye
- ... ultimate closure is when the soul leaves the body and the mind ceases to see. In lines 7-8: “For the last Onset-when the King Be witnessed-," the speaker is referring to her last day on earth when she will meet with her king, Jesus, who will take her to heaven. Lines 13-14: “-uncertain-stumbling Buzz-Between the light-and me-” is an image that represents the speaker’s ...
- 8612: Hurricane Floyd
- ... region has names that are of a Polynesian flavor, such as Akoni, Ema, and Keli. In the 19th century the hurricanes were named after Saints. They done this by naming them after the Saint s day that was closest to the date that the hurricane happened. During World War II they were typically named after wives and girlfriends of the meteorologists. They use people names rather than locations just as an ...
- 8613: Robert Frost Used Many Elements Of Nature To Show Fear And Uncertainty
- ... poem confusion and uncertainty breaks loose: I count our strength, Two and a child… …Till even the comforting barn grows far away, And my heart owns a doubt Whether ‘tis in us to arise with day And save ourselves unaided. “The speaker’s strength – “Two and a child” – seems ironic when measured against the inexorably creeping storm” (Greiner 54: 101). Uncertainty is also shown in the last three lines when the ...
- 8614: The Poetry of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and John Greenleaf Whittier
- ... Learning to read and write gave Douglass the burning need for freedom. After trying to escape, he was sent to a slave breaker who worked and whipped him mercilessly. He endured the treatment until one day he could take it no longer and fought back. Smith’s and Frederick’s experiences in the slavery system seemed to parallel. Thomas Stanton, Smiths master, beat and treated Smith like a dog and helped ...
- 8615: Elie Wiesel
- ... and many stories and words were running around in his mind. Elie Wiesel went on during the Holocaust keeping hope and faith no matter how hard it was and kept in mind that God one day will do him good. In a world of absurdity, we must invent reason, we must create beauty out of nothingless. And because there is murder in the world and we know how helpless our battle ...
- 8616: Phillis Wheatley: Black or White Poet?
- ... were alive to clear the confusion and tell her readers what she really meant. She was a black poet and never pretended to be anything other than that or deny her culture. Works Cited Mason, D. Julian. The Poems of Phillis Wheatley. Durham: University of North Carolina, 1966. Robinson, H. William. Interpretive Essays on Phillis Wheatley. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1982.
- 8617: Ode to the West Wind Essay
- ... didst waken" seeming to say that the wind has the ability to make the sea come alive. Then in the second stanza of the third section he speaks of "Quivering within the wave's intenser day." This gives the reader two images. First, that the wind is making the water move with intensity. Secondly, quiver can be taken as an action when someone is scared. The water is "quivering" with fear ...
- 8618: Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven
- ... my loneliness unbroken!-quit the bust above my chamber door!" In other words the man was sick and tired of the raven's relentless uncooperativness and his eerie presents. Quoth the raven, "Nevermore!"To this day the raven is still perched above the chamber door on the bust of Pallas, and will never leave. The man will always have this lingering weight on his shoulders, and will always be depressed and ...
- 8619: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
- ... is the first test that Gawain has to endure. After Gawain cuts off the head of the Green Knight, the knight tells him that he must meet him at his castle one-year and a day from now. He tells Gawain that if he does not show then he is a coward like he expected from King Arthur. After the Green Knight leaves all of the other members of the court ...
- 8620: Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening: An Analysis
- ... delay. Instead, he became captivated by the tranquility of the snowfall in the woods. As he watched the fill up the woods he knew that there was no chance of his friend seeing him that day. The easygoing snowfall occupied the speaker's attention even though he had a prior obligation to meet. In the poem, the speaker expressed his thoughts through his horse. An example of this was demonstrated in ...
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