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- 2411: A Critical Analysis of the Poem Entitled "Tract" by William Carlos Williams
- ... my townspeople what are you thinking of? A rough plain hearse then with gilt wheels and no top at all. On this the coffin lies by its own weight. No wreaths please- especially no hot house flowers. Some common memento is better, something he prized and is known by: his old clothes-a few books perhaps- God knows what! You realize how we are about these things my townspeople- something will ... dignity to his death. Death should not be dressed up. It should be viewed as it is, an end to the natural culmination of a life. The "I" pleads, "No wreaths please-especially not hot house flowers. Some common memento is better, something he prized and is known by: his old clothes-a few books perhaps--." This appears to be another comment on not using artificial trappings in death. One understands ...
- 2412: The Lives and Works of Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning
- ... End, Herefordshire, where she studied with a tutor. She was sickly during her childhood and at age 15 became an invalid as the result of an accident. She was confined to her domineering fathers house on Wimpole Street. Her mother was meek in contrast to her possessive father. She bore him twelve children, four daughters and eight sons. Elizabeth was the first in 1806. Mr. Barrett fixed his attention on ... the closest playmates and were tutored together during childhood. Elizabeth was an avid reader of books. Through this reading she began to realize how much of life she was not living being in her fathers house all her life. At age twenty-seven she was experiencing curiosity about love and marriage with the hopes of one day finding it. Then after receiving news that her brother Samuel had died of yellow ...
- 2413: Dickinson's "Because I Could Not Stop For Death" and "I heard A Fly Buzz When I Died"
- ... there is a grim reaper like specter, this entity will deliver a person's soul to another place, usually a heaven or a hell. In the fifth stanza, Death and the woman pause before "...a House that seemed A Swelling of the Ground- The Roof was scarcely visible- The Cornice in the Ground-" (913). Although the poem does not directly say it, it is highly probable that this grave is the ... is also possible the woman's body already rests beneath the soil in a casket. If this is at all accurate, then her spirit or soul may be the one who is looking at the "house." Spirits and souls usually mean there is an afterlife involved. It isn't until the sixth and final stanza where the audience obtains conclusive evidence that "Because I Could Not Stop For Death" believes in ...
- 2414: Emily Dickenson And the Theme of Death
- ... in the night, Death comes to pick the narrator up in a carriage. Like a gentleman, he then waits for her patiently, like 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 that she has been waiting for centuries; It appears that she ...
- 2415: Essay On Telemachos In The Odd
- ... Telemachos? No way. With the help of Athena, he sailed off as a boy, and returned as a man. Our first impression of Telemachos is a skinny, whiney, helpless little boy. Men have invaded his house, taken his food, and are wooing his mother. Athena comes and visits him to ask of his situation. He cowardly tells her: " ' These [men] eating up my substance waste it away; and soon they will ... do it alone, mind you now Athena is still on his side. She gets the men and a boat, he gets the provisions. When all is ready, Athena tells him to sneak out of his house, a sign that Telemachos is still a boy and needs assistance. Telemachos goes to see Nestor. A fine king who was a friend off his father's. Nestor treats Telemachos royally, but has no news ...
- 2416: The Point of View in "Porphyria's Lover"
- ... upper-class family. She was wearing a cloak and shawl, a hat, and gloves. It is apparent that the speaker works for Porphyria's family. He lives in a cottage, somewhat distant from the main house. The cottage is cold until Porphyria warms up the room with her presence and by stirring up the fire. The way the speaker introduces Porphyria is very unique. He states that Porphyria "glided" into the ... lover insinuates to the reader that the he sees Porphyria as some kind of angel who moves swiftly and gracefully across the floor. The speaker is upset about the party going on in the main house. Porphyria will be married soon, and he feels that if he were an upper-class citizen, Porphyria would be able to marry him. There is definitely much love felt between the two, and the speaker ...
- 2417: Title Of The Great Gatsby
- ... his dream of Daisy relentlessly. Jordan Baker, in a conversation with Nick Carraway, lets him know that Gatsby wanted to let Daisy know how rich and powerful was; how he [wanted] her to see his house, which is extravagant. Gatsby wants to impress Daisy with his newfound wealth in order to bring her back to him. Gatsby is also highly optimistic about achieving his goal, and thinks that he is going ... in taking the blame for Daisy when she kills Myrtle ends up getting Gatsby himself hurt. When Wilson finds out the so-called truth of the car accident, he quickly speeds over to Gatsby s house and kills the man. Gatsby s noble quest results in many people becoming hurt. By choosing the title of The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald chose to highlight Gatsby s greatness, which underneath the surface ...
- 2418: Exile And Illusion In Araby
- ... in Understanding Fiction, 1947] "The quest for the father, for the church, has been thwarted by reality. The bazaar turns out to be just as cold, as dark, and as man-made as the gloomy house of the dead priest on his own street."(Fitzgerald) The dreary and sordid life Joyce recollects, does not only comes from his religious disappointments but also from his social shortcomings as well. Joyce felt that ... family from well off, to poverty in the matter of a few years. Joyce in the story tells of this extreme poverty through his usage of negative words or phrases. He tells of "an uninhabited house of two storeys that stood at the blind end of his street."(Paragraph 1) Or when he refers to the decaying neighborhood and the "dark dripping gardens where odorous arose from the asphits."(Paragraph 3 ...
- 2419: Gender Roles
- ... to play with dolls, they learn how to care for the dolls and treat them well, and those are the practices females carry on into motherhood. Surpassingly, in a class room experiment done with a doll called Baby, Think Again, which is a computerized doll, which is programmed to cry at certain times of the day for certain reasons, male participants were vary successful with their child. The computer can tell someone how many times the baby cried, what the ...
- 2420: The Psychological Effects Of G
- ... to play with dolls, they learn how to care for the dolls and treat them well, and those are the practices females carry on into motherhood. Surpassingly, in a class room experiment done with a doll called Baby, Think Again, which is a computerized doll, which is programmed to cry at certain times of the day for certain reasons, male participants were vary successful with their child. The computer can tell someone how many times the baby cried, what the ...
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