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- 6541: Compare And Contrast The War Poems By Jessie Pope And Rupert Brooke To Those Of Wilfred Owen
- Compare And Contrast The War Poems By Jessie Pope And Rupert Brooke To Those Of Wilfred Owen World War One, or the Great War as it was sometimes known, took place between 1914 and 1918. During this time there were many emotions shown by people of all walks of life. Emotions, which could only be brought out by ... and well known for what they portrayed, by far the most famous war poems were written by Wilfred Owen. He was renowned for the alarming, chilling and startlingly effective poetry he wrote. Owen was a great soldier of the time and perhaps the most important war poet of all time. Owen shocked the world with his poems, portraying the suffering of the men on the front line and showing his detest ...
- 6542: A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
- ... emotional circumstances.( I find that this kind of thought is quite related to the background of the author-he was born into a Roman Catholic family and afterwards he has become a preacher and a great dean. He was a person that full of religious points of view.) The fourth and the fifth stanza present two different attitudes toward parting. The author used "Dull sublunary lover's love¡K" I think ... he meant the real owning is not that important. That's why he used "dull" and "sublunary". He thought those people are so shallow, they can not endure death( or separation) because it's a great change. They think they have lost something for sure. Then in the fifth stanza the author thought "inter-assured of the mind" is the kind of elegant love. They do not show too many feelings ...
- 6543: Harwood's "Impromptu for Ann Jennings" and "Home of Mercy"
- Harwood's "Impromptu for Ann Jennings" and "Home of Mercy" The poetry of Gwen Harwood reflects a great deal on the values of society and of Harwood herself. These values are clearly shown in her poems "Home of Mercy" and "An Impromptu for Ann Jennings". In both of these poems Harwood explores contrasting ... girls will never forget, that always the memories will be there. Also the use of the word "'burn' is very strong. It has connotations of pain and suffering, and death. The memories are causing them great amounts of anguish. The last line of this stanza is important "they turn faces of mischievous children in distress" the girls are once again referred to as children. They are merely children faced with adult ...
- 6544: "Not Waving but Drowning" and "Aunt Jennifer's Tigers"
- ... possible that he came from an abusive or unstable household, in which he was ashamed of. And when in the presence of others, he would put on an act that everything in his life was great. The shame he felt would have remained bottled inside and he would never have learned to express his feelings or reveal his true self. This could have carried on through adulthood, causing the man to ... represent her life of hard work. Her death has allowed her the freeness she has always wanted. "Bright topaz denizens of a world of green," acts as a symbol for the trees. There is a great deal of alliteration in this poem. For example, screen and green, wool and pull, band and hand, lie and by. The purpose of this alliteration is that it helps pull the poem together and helps ...
- 6545: Emily Dickinson: Individuality
- ... the state where Emily was born and raised, was the epicenter of religious practice before the transcendental period. Founded by the Puritans, the feeling of avenging had never left the people. After all of the “Great Awakenings” and religious revivals, the people of New England began to question the old ways. What used to be the focal point of all lives was now under speculation and often doubted. People began to ... expressed her deep sorrow in three successive poems in the years thereafter. I believe that although they were never romantically involved their relationship was apparently very profound. Emily’s feelings for him grew to such great extents that she sealed herself from the outside world. She felt that she had no one left to talk to on a philosophical level and it is in my opinion that this is what led ...
- 6546: Exploring The Theme Of Premature Death In Three Poems
- ... air supply, (16) drowns, (17) is retrieved from the river,(18) and is buried by his mother. (29) In On My First Son, Ben Johnson, the author, addresses his dead son directly, which conveys a great deal of emotion, and seems to make the poem more personal, inspiring more empathy than the other two. The poem starts with the father saying goodbye to his son (1). He then questions himself and ... at his brother as he lies in his coffin. (16-22). The speaker’s tone in Death of a Young Son by Drowning is bitter at first. The loss of her child whom she had great expectations for fills her with grief, as it is evident in the line “cairn of my plans and future charts” (19). Finally, she tiredly accepts the loss and buries him, in the springtime “like a ...
- 6547: The Works of Poet Carl Sandburg and His Effect on American Poetry
- ... beans in their ears when told not to. The People, Yes covers everyday dilemmas encountered by the common man, but have not been expressed, and it is mandated by none other than Carl Sandburg, the great American poet. "The people is a myth, an abstraction. And what myth would you put in place of the people? And what abstraction would you exchange for this one? And when has creative man not ... Sandburg actually mentions thoughts based on Lincoln. "As labor is the common burden of our race, so the effort of some to shift their share of the burden onto the shoulders of others is the great durable curse of the race." What is so interesting about the works of Carl Sandburg is how they are all so strongly connected to each other. All of his poem's include an analysis on ...
- 6548: Byron's Don Juan
- ... his concern to be the best poet around and to be famous was consistently deep and serious. Ambition for power and popularity came first and remained always the principle reason for writing. Byron had a great range of interests and experiences of ideas and emotion than your average man ever did (Boyd 4). Don Juan is, all-in-all, a legendary lover. Familiar with the Don Juan legend, Byron deliberately altered ... epic themes are love and war (Joseph 74). The first two cantos of the poem Byron wrote were published without an author or a publisher. Many thought the poem was novel and powerful, and caused great misgivings for Byron's publisher. Others hoped for the poem to be discontinued. The first sample of Don Juan got a very mixed reception. Byron's publisher, Murray, told him the poem was too outrageously ...
- 6549: The Influence of Personal Experiences In Emily Dickinson's Poetry
- ... century ago, yet most of those same readers feel as if they know her closely. Her reclusive life made understanding her quite difficult. However, taking a close look at her verses, one can learn a great deal about this remarkable woman. The poetry of Emily Dickinson delves deep into her mind, exposing her personal experiences and their influence on her thoughts about religion, love, and death. By examining her life some ... confrontation with loss and death. Emily is “ ...estimating the ‘size' of death - distancing it, coming to terms with it, and finding no fear in it” (Sewall 665). The personal experiences of Emily Dickinson had a great influence on her poetry. Through her verses we can understand and relate to her much more easily. Without them, her withdrawal from society would have kept her unknown. Once she wrote: This is my letter ...
- 6550: The Book of Exodus
- ... god. Moses had a special covenant with God. It was as if Moses was Gods' body on earth. Moses spoke Gods' words and acted upon his request. Moses possessed many characteristics that made him a great man. In the Exodus there were many examples where Moses showed his great wisdom. He also possessed somewhat magical power given to him by God. He also had a divine purpose in life. Moses was on a “mission from god” so to speak to deliver his people from ...
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