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- 8681: Samuel Coleridge's "Frost at Midnight"
- ... indeed", and "my low-burnt fire." In this first paragraph, Coleridge is talking about winter and how everything is peaceful and there is "extreme silentness." In the second paragraph, Coleridge begins reminiscing about a certain day in school, when he was fairly young, "How oft, at school, with most believing mind
have I gazed upon the bars." At first, it appears he was very happy, "So sweetly, that they stirred and ...
- 8682: Robert Frost's Use of Nature In His Poetry
- ... line 9-10). It seems as if he is expressing an "inability to turn his back completely on any possibility" (Barry 13) of returning when the poems reads "Oh, I kept the first for another day!" (line 13). He also knew that the possibilities of him actually returning to ever walk the path not chosen were very slim. He made a decision and "took the other" (line 6) path. It is ...
- 8683: Hurricanes 3
- ... at that stage an un-named tropical depression with maximum sustained winds around 30kt, was first spotted on Thursday 8 September some 300km east of Barbados. It brushed past Barbados and St Lucia the following day with limited wind-damage and some flooding, and was upgraded to tropical storm status (means winds 34kt or more). Gathering strength over the warm waters of the eastern Caribbean, Gilbert achieved hurricane status (means winds ...
- 8684: 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 ...
- 8685: From The Floutings Of The Cooperative Principle To Communica
- ... conversing. Yet under certain circumstances parallelism does have its place in oral communication. Typical examples are speeches before rallies, debates in contests ,and concluding statements in courts. EXAMPLE 11 "I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight, and the glory of the Lord shall ...
- 8686: Beowulf: First Literary Superhero
- Beowulf: First Literary Superhero Beowulf was the first literary super hero. Like the common day superman, Beowulf has ordinary human characteristics, as well as superhuman powers. Like the Anglo-Saxons of Beowulf's time, he is boastful, manly, and willing to outdo his fellow neighbor. The only difference between him ...
- 8687: Shelley's "Ode To the West Wind": Analysis
- ... its "summer dreams" (30). In the dream, the reader finds the sea laying "Beside a pumice isle in Baiae's bay/ And saw in sleep old palaces and towers/ Quivering within the wave's intenser day" (32-34). Shelley implants the idea of a volcano with the word "pumice." The "old palaces and towers" stir vivid images of ancient Rome and Greece in the readers mind. Shelley also uses these images ...
- 8688: Analysis of "Because I Could Not Stop for Death"
- ... once a person dies and enters eternity, time is irrelevant. The irrelevancy of time can be seen as Dickinson writes in lines 21 and 22, "Since then-'tis Centuries-and yet / Feels shorter than the Day." In another interpretation of the poem, death is viewed as being her suitor. He is described as being a kind gentleman taking her for a ride in a carriage. Her marriage to her suitor represents ...
- 8689: Geoffery Chaucer
- ... which are accepted as genuine, and another scientific essay, the Equatorie of the Planets, dating from the year 1392. This piece of work was discovered after WWII. In the Library of Peterhouse, Cambridge, by Dr. D.J. Price, who has attributed it ot Chaucer. (Grose 97) No incontrovertible evidence has appeared either to prove or disporve this, so the quesitno is still open. (Grose 97) These works belong to science more ...
- 8690: Huckleberry Finn: Separation From Society
- ... a runaway slave, he goes through another moral debate. He believes that, "it would be a thousand times better for Jim to be a slave at home where his family was, as long as he'd got to be a slave." (p. 235) He writes a letter to Miss Watson letting her know that Jim had been found, but ends up tearing it to bits. In his final decision to remain ...
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