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- 10641: Sylvia Plath's Poetry: Feminine Perfection
- ... Sylvia Plath says, "Dying Is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. (43-45)". Many women can relate to this ideal and can see themselves in Plath's poetry. Sylvia Plath had high expectations for herself and suffered from anxiety and self-doubt when it appeared that she would not reach her goals. Many women feel that their homes, children and marriages are not perfect and perceive themselves ...
- 10642: You Should Really Read This Poem
- ... of the difference in time is that they had celebrations, feasts, and entertainment by way of scops in meadhalls. The meadhall of the story is Heorot and they describe it saying, "The great hall rose / high and horn-gabled" (l. 55-56). The phrase ‘horn-gabled' is referring to the group called the Scyldings which were always associated with the stag. They also probably decorated the hall with horns. Some further ...
- 10643: "The Ruined Maid” by Thomas Hardy
- ... wealthy, it can be understood by “you left us in tatters” and so she looks up with jealousy to her friend who has managed to change and to become a part of a higher society “high compa-ny” (11). Far more, there is a reference to not-knowing melancholy, and yet she defends that with “one’s pretty lively when ruined” (20), which contradicts with the melancholy tone of the poem ...
- 10644: Compare And Contrast The War Poems By Jessie Pope And Rupert Brooke To Those Of Wilfred Owen
- ... war. Owen even refers to Pope (as You) in the poem directly, after he has describe one of the many gruesome deaths men die in the trenches. “My Friend, you would not tell with such high zest...” “Dulce et Decorum est” mocks the images of soldiers portrayed by Pope. Instead of marching proudly to victory like ‘real’ soldiers, the men in this poem are “Bent double, like old beggars under sacks ...
- 10645: A Duke's Dominance Dooms Duchess
- ... comes naturally to her. She always has a kind word or reaction for all things, be it the sunset, a kind jesture by someone, or an animal. She views life positively, and holds all in high reguard. Her words of kindness are given freely to anyone, and not reserved specifically for her husband. He can not fathom her having such little respect for his power to treat him the same as ...
- 10646: Andrew Marvell, "To His Coy Mistress"
- ... is, again, empty rhetoric. A variation on this interpretation is that the speaker wants not only sex, but also to develop the spiritual aspects of their relationship--the two go together. In this view, his high-flown speech (especially in the first section) expresses the extremeness of his commitment to her. From this perspective, the speaker's final proposal about the lovers' taking control of their own fate (taking that control ...
- 10647: 'Sea Fever' - Analysis
- ... the sea through its theme, but also through use of complex figures of speech, imagery, and meter. "Sea Fever" is an excellent example of varied meter which follows the actions of a tall ship through high seas and strong wind. Lines one and two contain the common iambic meter found throughout the poem. "Sea Fever" may be categorized as a sea chantey due to its iambic meter and natural rhythm which ...
- 10648: Lord Byron's Euthanasia
- ... the estate of the "wicked" Lord Byron, George Gordon's uncle. The estste was called Newstead Abbey. During Byron's youth he was plagued by his foot and batteled constantly with obesity. He went to school in Dulwich, in 1799, and to Harrow in 1801. In 1803 he went back to Newstead Abbey to live with his tenant, Lord Grey. It was here that he started to court his distatnt cousin ...
- 10649: Edgar Allan Poe's "The Black Cat"
- ... dispositions might appear. - By Martha Womack Martha Womack, better known to Internet users as Precisely Poe, has a BA degree in English from Longwood College in Virginia, and teaches English and Theatre Arts at Fuqua School in Farmville, Virginia. When Martha first began teaching American literature, she found so much conflicting information about Edgar Allan Poe that she became confused about what to teach her students. As she began to research ...
- 10650: Matthew Arnolds Melancholy In Life, Religion, And Love
- ... from the long line of spray Where the sea meets the moon-blanch’d land, Listen! You hear the grating roar Of pebbles which the waves draw back, and fling, At their return, up the high strand, Begin, and cease, and then again begin, With tremulous cadence slow, and bring The eternal note of sadness in” (Arnold, 830-831). Johnson states that to Matthew Arnold, love is the most important idea ...
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