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- 10661: Poe's "The Conqueror Worm": Deeper Meaning To the Poem
- ... have meaning. They represent the background in everyone's life by "playing the music of the spheres." A third set of characters that show hidden meaning is the "Mimes, in the form of God on high." They denote the people that inhabit the earth. Poe describes them as "Mere puppets they, who come and go at bidding of vast formless things." The vast formless things are the ideas that we have ...
- 10662: The Influence of Personal Experiences In Emily Dickinson's Poetry
- ... with previous lives, and gained a morbid equality, such as that described in this poem: ...there was a little figure plump For every little knoll - Busy needles, and spools of thread - And trudging feet from school - Playmates, and holidays, and nuts - And visions vast and small - Strange that the feet so precious charged Should reach so small a goal! The cemetery is filled with the dead and under every little knoll ...
- 10663: The Poetry of William Cullen Bryant and Emily Dickinson: The Theme of Death
- ... that both authors present there poems in first person view,but the way they describe what happens to you after death is what is very dissimilar. In the poem when she says "We passed the school where children played ,We passed the the fields of blazing grain," shows her use of Idealisation of Nature.Bryants whole poem is Idealisation of nature, by choosing but one sentence would be cutting the poem ...
- 10664: Element of God In Poetry
- ... poetry and the words of God. Five seemingly very different poems all have this one aspect alike. Is it just a coincidence? God often talks to men on earth in many subtle ways. Every Sunday school student learns that God has granted each and every one of us a special gift or talent, that God may work his miracles through. The sight of a beautiful painting or the sound of a ...
- 10665: The Theme of Death in Poems
- ... t hasty, he doesn't take her quickly. He drives her past things that the narrator had not taken the time to notice in a while. The narrator watched as he drives her past a school, where children are playing, and then on they go past fields. She sees the sun go down, and the carriage driver past the sun, but she realizes they weren't passing the sun, it was ...
- 10666: Critical Analysis of "The Eagle" by Lord Tennyson
- ... sea, which means the waves in the ocean. And one simile is like a thunderbolt he falls, it is saying how fast a eagle dives. The poems theme is how an eagle can fly so high and dive so fast. And how free an eagle is. I thought that this was a nice poem. I like the way he uses the words. I think the rhyming scheme he used was appropriate ...
- 10667: Characteristics of the Beowulf Poem
- ... justice rather than love. There is controversy about whether the Christian elements are intrinsic or are interpolations by a tenth century monastic scribe. In any case, the Christianity does not much resemble that of the High Middle Ages or of the modern world. Frequently the poem seems a reflection of the traditional pagan value system from the moral point of view of the new, incompletely assimilated Christianity."(Foster 502) In Britannica ...
- 10668: Ozymandias (1818): An Analysis
- ... made some "Mighty" people despair -- before time took away the threat. The Ramesseum contains the shattered statue that Shelley was most likely writing about. It was a seated statue which would have stood 57 feet high and must have weighed about 1,000 tons -- a truly colossal figure. However, Diodorus Siculus does not tell of a pedestal, and it must be assumed that the haughty epitaph was Shelley's addition. "Ozymandias ...
- 10669: Beowulf: First Literary Superhero
- ... worth boasting about, they were humbled. To prove Beowulf was powerful, he hung Grendel's arm, claw, and shoulders from the rafters of the meeting hall.No Dane doubted The victory, for the proof, hanging high From the rafters where Beowulf had hung it, was the monster's Arm, claw and shoulder and all.(line 485-488) Had Beowulf attacked Grendel with a sword, the events would not have turned out ...
- 10670: Analysis of "Because I Could Not Stop for Death"
- ... the literary elements that Dickinson uses to help convey hidden messages to the reader. Alliteration is used several times throughout the poem. An example of alliteration occurs in lines 9 through 12: We passed the School, where Children strove At Recess-in the Ring- We passed the Fields of Gazing Grain- We passed the Setting Sun- Alliteration is used four times in the third quatrain alone. Bettina Knapp states that, "the ...
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