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people pity the dead, not Death itself. In the end Donnes message is that there is little reason to fear death and that in the end...
sexually anxious and shy. The whole poem, then, is a testimonial to his incapacity to act on his desire to meet someone with whom ...
and symbolism. As Arnold embraces God along with the seas that the maker has created, he questions things. The church is often the...
shalt die"(Donne 812). In this poem, then, the literary devices used include personification, sonnet form, and irony. Irony is mo...
in every ban" (line 7). Here again, the footnotes provided by the Norton editors are instructive as inform the reader as to the va...
has overtaken their owners" (Bartleby.com). In many ways "The poem throws an interesting light on the close nature of the relation...
the simplicity of the life that he foresees for himself, as well as its self-sufficiency. The sense of solitude that Yeats create...
this book. Baca runs the gamut of emotions in this text that is true, but what the reader finds within Healing Earthquakes is onl...
Chinese poetry is replete with metaphor, simile, comparison, and personification as well with other linguistic contrivances which ...
merely an attendant. Prufrock states, "No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be;/Am an attendant loud, one that will do/To ...
is in the village though; He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods...
/ And every fair from fair sometimes declines, / By chance, or natures changing course untrimmd; / But thy eternal summer shall no...
The urn it seems, inanimate or not, is alive in some peculiar sense. In...
own anguish, illustrating the poets "mastery of weaving spontaneously narrative, meditative, and descriptive elements into a seemi...
Lord once of shed, garage and garden, Each with its proper compliment of tackle"...
Iin five pages this poetic analysis of 'The Solitary Reaper' by William Wordsworth focuses upon the sights and language that sugge...
elements used by the author. The work begins as follows: BEHOLD her, single in the field, Yon solitary Highland Lass! Reapi...
Indeed, it is these characteristics which may account for Yeats continuing appeal to readers who dont normally pay much attention ...
Friendship, within which the members each assumed classical pseudonyms. Katherine was known as Orinda," and in her "her poetry, sh...
she is dead. This interpretation is substantiated in the next stanza when she describes hearing the mourners lift a box, which c...
understands that youth and life cannot remain, for "nothing gold can stay." Metaphor When we take the poem in its entirety, and...
In five pages this paper presents a poetic explication of the work by Langston Hughes in a discussion of what exactly 'land of the...
see their beauty, and youth, start to fade. This idea is reiterated and emphasized in the second verse, which speaks of the suns q...
upon the very nature of man to enjoy learning something about others and in return about him or herself. In this way, he argues, w...
("Deconstruction"). For this reason, deconstructionists focus on very close and careful readings of particular texts, and can also...
"obey God; nor trust in him; nor confess that nothing is our own" (White 218). There is nothing, literally nothing, that the narra...
be expected that the earlier writing would be more explicit, because of Augustus reputation for demanding morality. This is not t...
behind. Gas! GAS! Quick, boys!--An ecstasy of fumbling Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time, But someone still was yelling out...
to Whitmans own estimates, he aided over 100,000 soldiers during this period, many of whom became his devoted friends (Valiumas 70...
important, yet we are not really told who it is. We are puzzled at one point for the narrator uses the word I in such a way that i...