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- 8641: I've Learned
- ... it's not what you have in your life but who you have in your life that counts. I've learned - That you can get by on charm for about fifteen minutes. After that, you'd better know something. I've learned - That you shouldn't compare yourself to the best others can do but to the best you can do. I've learned - That it's not what happens to ...
- 8642: Analysis of The Vietnam Wall
- ... of emotions one experiences when visiting the wall. Rios uses this technique frequently and effectively throughout this poem. The Vietnam Wall tells the story of the poets visit to the Vietnam War Memorial in Washington D. C.. Rios takes the reader with him on his journey down the wall explaining each detail as he goes from the shape of the wall to the physical appearance of it. An example of this ...
- 8643: Dickinson's "Because I Could Not Stop For Death" and "I heard A Fly Buzz When I Died"
- ... and final stanza where the audience obtains conclusive evidence that "Because I Could Not Stop For Death" believes in an afterlife. The woman recalls how it has been "...Centuries- and yet feels shorter than the Day I first surmised the Horses' Heads were toward Eternity-" (913). To the woman, it has been a few hundred years since Death visited her, but to her, it has felt like less than 24 hours ...
- 8644: Dulce et Decorum est: Analysis of Military Life
- ... war instead of watching at a distance or hearing about it from a third party knew better. While the solders' part in the war was viewed by some as serving some kind of obligation, I'd be willing to bet that most of these people, including Horace( the Roman poet who coined this phrase), the writers of the army brochure and people who told little kids about the grandeur of war ...
- 8645: Frank Lloyd Wright
- ... pg.96) In 1909, the first phase of Wright s career ended sadly, when he left his lover, Mamah Borthwick Chaney, the wife of a former client, and his five children alone at Taliesin. That day, a crazed servant murdered Mrs. Chaney and six others, also setting a fire that destroyed much of Taliesin. This incident caused a setback in his career for a short period of time. In 1916, Wright ...
- 8646: The Road Not Taken - An Analyis
- ... to make a choice, it is new to them, somewhere they have never been and they tend to feel as though no one else had ever been there either. "I kept the first for another day!" The desire to travel down both paths is expressed and is not unusual, but "knowing how way leads on to way", the speaker of this poem realizes that the decision is not just a temporary ...
- 8647: Analysis of the Poem "The Soldier" by Rupert Brooke
- ... by suns of home." This line creates a feeling of tranquillity and a unity with nature. Another line that evokes a feeling of peace and happiness is, "Her sights and sounds; dreams happy as her day." Without such strong images, the poem would probably not have such a great effect on the reader. Lines such as this one force the reader to see the land in the same light as the ...
- 8648: Essay Interpreting "One Art" by Elizabeth Bishop
- ... The verse form in "One Art" is villanelle. The poem has tercet stanzas until the last, which is four lines. In the first three stanzas, the poem is told in second person. "Lose something every day." seems to command one to practice the art of losing things. In the three stanzas, first person is used, and the speaker relates how she "lost her mother's watch" and other life incidents. However ...
- 8649: Emily Dickenson And the Theme of Death
- ... he was taking her out on a date. "We paused before a House that seemed A Swelling of the Ground-- The Roof was scarcely visible-- Since then--'Tis Centuries--and yet Feels shorter than the Day I first surmised the Horses Heads Were toward Eternity--" The "House that seemed/ A swelling of the ground--" is obviously a coffin, or some other burial vessel. In the next stanza, the narrator tells us ...
- 8650: The British Renaissance Produced Many Types of Literature and Was Influenced By Shakespeare, Marlow, and Spenser
- ... fall. The last two lines of the preceding passage are also quite interesting. The Nymph in these lines says that the Shepherd is lying and that he's only dreaming that he loves her. Some day, just like the seasons, a winter will fall upon the relationship. The most assertive thing that the Nymph says in Raleigh's poem is the rejection of all the niceties that the Shepherd will to ...
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