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Essays on Poetry and Poets
Title: Emily Dickenson And The Theme Of Death
Details: Words: 621, Pages: 3... passage conveys a resplendent physical
sense of coldness as someone is frozen to death:
"This is the Hour of Lead--
Remembered, if outlived,
As Freezing persons, recollect the Snow--
First--Chill--then Stupor--then the letting go--"
The innovative diction in this passage creates an eerie atmosphere all by itself.
The effect of this passage is reminiscent of the famous macabre monologue at
the end of Michael Jackson's Thriller. Dickenson also excellently portrays the
restlessness of the mourners in this following passage:
"The Feet, mechanical, go round--
Of Ground, or Air, or Ought--"
Describing the feet as "mechanical" shows the agitation and displaceme ...
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Title: Analysis Of Frost's "Desert Places" And "Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening"
Details: Words: 1047, Pages: 4... With no expression,
nothing to express". Whiteness and blankness are two key ideas in this poem.
The white sybolizes open and empty spaces. The snow is a white blanket that
covers up everything living. The blankness sybolizes the emptyness that the
speaker feels. To him there is nothing else around except for the unfeeling snow
and his lonely thoughts.
The speaker in this poem is jealous of the woods. "The woods around it
have it - it is theirs." The woods symbolizes people and society. They have
something that belongs to them, something to feel a part of. The woods has its
place in nature and it is also a part of a bigger picture. The speaker is so
alo ...
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Title: Beowulf: The Ultimate Hero
Details: Words: 1771, Pages: 7... heroism can be seen when he takes 14 of the bravest in
his land to go help Hrothgar. Hrothgar was Beowulf's father's close friend
who had been plagued by attacks for twelve years that threatened an entire
kingdom. Beowulf did not have to offer Hrothgar's kingdom help, but does
so because he wants to uses his God given strength to the best of his
ability. As soon as Beowulf heard of the troubles in this land he set sail
immediately. Beowulf continues to show his thankfulness by thanking God
for giving them safe travel across the sea. Beowulf is lead to Hrothgar
and offers him is "services."
"-Now sit down to the feast, and, in due time, listen to lays ...
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Title: Sir Gawain And The Green Knight
Details: Words: 1153, Pages: 5... then he is a coward like he expected from King Arthur. After the Green Knight leaves all of the other members of the court cheer Gawain for his bravery. They see him as a hero and a savior of their leader King Arthur. Gawain only sees himself, as a normal everyday soldier that is only doing his duty by protecting faith in the monarchy that he is apart of. Gawain is a very humble person who will refuse to view himself as a hero.
The main test that Gawain is going to have to face is a test within himself. During the time before he had to make the journey to meet the Green
Knight Gawain heard from fellow knights that he was brave and strong. In reality they were ver ...
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Title: Poetry: The Sky Is Filled With Laughter
Details: Words: 118, Pages: 1... was hidden for many days
But once again the sky turned blue
And all the little children came out
To play, with the sky so blue
With its pretty picture of laughter
Haiku
I went on a walk
And saw all that I can see
From flowers to trees
The grass was bright green
And the flowers were bright yellow
Everything was calm ...
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Title: Poetry: Always And Forever
Details: Words: 393, Pages: 2... and simple form.
All I have to offer you is me and my love,
Though both are simple I promise they are true.
Even as I write this,
I think of how to describe to you.
Something I hardly understand,
But I must tell you how I feel.
So I close my eyes,
And let my heart guide my hand.
Perhaps the tears that falls from my eyes,
Will show you my love and how much it means to me.
To me our love is everything.
I believe love will find it's way and show us the answers
To the questions being revealed,
I promise you that I will always love you
And I never mea ...
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Title: Poem: My Heart Aches
Details: Words: 368, Pages: 2... where men sit and hear each other groan;
Where palsy shakes a few, sad, last gray hairs,
Where youth grows pale and spacter--thin, and dies;
Where but to think is to be full of sorrow
And leaden-eyed despairs,
Where Beauty cannot keep her lustrous eyes
Or new Love pine at them beyond tomorrow.
Away! Away! for I will fly to thee,
Not charioted by Becchus and his pards,
But on the viewless wings of poesy,
Though the dull brain perplexes and retards:
Already with thee! tender is the night,
And haply the Queen-Moon is on her throne,
Clustered around by all her starry Fays;
But here there is no light,
Save what from heaven is with the breezes blown
Through verdurous ...
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Title: Harlem By Langston Hughs: Analysis
Details: Words: 442, Pages: 2... used “can’t”.
The tone Hughs expressed in writing “Harlem” can be confusing to the reader. The tone seems to be of anger and then almost threatening or hostile. Hughs is expressing the frustration he and many other black people had to put up with. He talks about how prices of food are going up, tax increases, and jobs black could never get just because they are colored. In the first and second stanza the tone is one of anger and frustration, but in the last stanza however, it seems to be a threat or a warning to white society. The last several lines state, “ And wonder what we’re gonna do in the face of what we remember.
Finally, the poem, ...
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Title: Poe's "The Conqueror Worm": Deeper Meaning To The Poem
Details: Words: 760, Pages: 3... everyone also has their personal fears.
The characters of the poem are also some very meaningful keys in showing
the hidden meaning. The first stanza describes the crowd that has gathered to
watch the enactment of our human lives. Lines three and four states "an angel
throng, bewinged, and bedight in veils, and drowned in tears." Poe is stating
that a group of angels is going to watch the spectacle put on for them, although
they are already drowning in the tears from plays before. The orchestra that
plays for them is another set of characters that have meaning. They represent
the background in everyone's life by "playing the music of the spheres." A
third set ...
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Title: Shakespeare's Sonnet 18
Details: Words: 521, Pages: 2... in love with, a rival
poet, advice, and his long absence from London (World Book Encyclopedia)
Sonnets are the most famous of Shakespeare’s works. Sonnets are
lyric poems made up of fourteen lines and sound more like a song without
musical instruments than a poem. Sonnet 18 is one of the most admired of
his collection. It is a beautiful romantic love poem written to compare
summer to his love’s beauty. A beautiful piece of imagery is used in
lines1-3: “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou are more lovely
and more temperate. Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May:”
Shakespeare clearly ables the reader to picture a beautiful woman wh ...
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