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Lover's Mistress In Petrarchan
617 wordsIn Elizabethan Age, the sonnets had advanced into a form with new metric and rhyme scheme that was departing from Petrarchan sonnets. Yet, Elizabethan sonnets still carried the tradition of Petrarchan conceit. Petrarchan conceit was a figure used in love poems consisting detailed yet exaggerated comparisons to the lover's mistress that often emphasized the use of blazon. The application of blazon would emphasize more on the metaphorical perfection of the mistresses due to the natural objects wer...
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London Churches
1,782 wordsExplication of William Blake's "London" William Blake's poem "London" takes a complex look at life in London, England during the late seventeen hundreds into the early eighteen hundreds as he lived and experienced it. Blake's use of ambiguous and double meaning words makes this poem both complex and interesting. Through the following explication I will unravel these complexities to show how this is an interesting poem. To better understand this poem some history about London during the time the ...
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Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening
2,281 wordsThis essay is included my own understanding, plus some information that I gathered from a lot of researches and critics' comments on this poem. I, myself interpret this poem through the first perspective I would explain about, and in two other perspectives my ideas hardly is included. 'Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening " Complete Text Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village, though; He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow. My little hors...
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Poem Of Death
1,211 words'Because I could not stop for Death-,' A Poem of Both Marriage and Death When thinking of both marriage and death, the word "eternity" comes to mind. Marriage is looked at as a symbol of eternal love, and death is looked at as a state of eternal rest. Also, Christians consider life after death as an eternal state. In "Because I could not stop for Death-", Emily Dickinson portrays death by describing an eternal marriage. On the literal level, the speaker remembers a time where she was carried off...
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Sad Tone As The Speaker
567 wordsUpon a first reading of Emily Dickinson's poem's I found them very difficult to understand due to her unique style of writing. Once I was able to comprehend the general theme of her poems, they became clearer with profound meaning. Dickinson's writing style, leaving words absent and not completing sentences, allows the reader to fill in the gaps through reflection of their own life and experiences. Dickinson writes from experiences that have occurred in and around her life, her writing technique...
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Poem Exudes Innocence And First Time Love
963 wordsA first date, a tender touch, a gentle kiss, can all be described as expressions of affection. Innocence often has to do with the fondness and adoration displayed in relationships. The movie, Love Actually, starring Hugh Grant, focuses on different ways of making love work by showing the lives of different people. The film, from time to time, shows a little boy who is falling in love with a girl in his school. He thinks that the best way to win her heart is to become a rock star and so he joins ...
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Speaker's Perception Of The Fly
5,615 wordsGerhard Friedrich This poem seems to present two major problems to the interpreter. First, what is the significance of the buzzing fly in relation to the dying person, and second, what is the meaning of the double use of "see" in the last line An analysis of the context helps to clear up these apparent obscurities, and a close parallel found in another Dickinson poem reinforces such interpretation. In an atmosphere of outward quiet and inner calm, the dying person collectedly proceeds to bequeat...
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Second And The Third Stanza The Speaker
882 wordsThe Ambiguity of Death Since the creation of man, certain primal urges have been imprinted into the human being's psyche. Out of many of those the instinct of death is included, probably stemming from the necessity of killing to obtain one's food. The instinct of death remains today and has been changed, adapted, suppressed and exemplified. In 'A Formal Application' the ironic theory of applying death as a way of life is portrayed through a man's act of killing a bird. The poem flows through the...
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Wordsworth's Miscellaneous Sonnets
684 wordsSurprised by joy - impatient as the Wind (a) I turned to share the transport-Oh! with whom (b) But Thee, deep buried in the silent tomb, (b) That spot which no vicissitude can find (a) Love, faithful love, recalled thee to my mind (a) But how could I forget thee Through what power, (c) Even for the least division of an hour, (c) Have I been so beguiled as to be blind (a) To my most grievous loss-That thought's return (d) Was the worst pang that sorrow ever bore, (e) Save one, one only, when I st...
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To His Coy Mistress And The Flea
645 wordsSeduction has been the game most played through out the centuries, as males attempt to convince and invite females into their beds. In Marvell's 'To His Coy Mistress' and Donne's 'The Flea', the speakers, propose a peccadilloes offer, which is so cunningly backed up by a liberalistic argument and is presented to each female when the generous request has been declined. These arguments are designed to induce thoughts of a carnal nature. The persuasions used by each are completely different but are...
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Hongo's First Poetry Collection
1,130 wordsSamuel Maio Garrett Hongo, for example, has used in his two books-Yellow Light (1982) and The River of Heaven (1987) -the confessional voice in many poems that are less narrative and more reliant on images... Perhaps, too, they are more given to sound. The principal concerns of Yellow Light, a book of carefully ordered poems, are: the discovery of the history of the Issei (the first generation of Japanese immigrants to America), the forging of myths regarding the Issei and succeeding families, a...
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Ode To The West Wind
494 wordsAnalysis of Shelly's "Ode to the West Wind"Ode to the West Wind" is a poem of deep despair as well as one of vivid imagery. The first section is fairly straightforward with constant references to death, corpses and destruction that Shelly uses as a metaphor for autumn. The allusion to disease and darkness describes the West Wind in this first section. Shelly sees it as a sort of 'grim reaper' but seems to come back from the whole topic by also calling it the "preserver". In the second section Sh...
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Small Elegy
758 wordsThe title of this specific piece of poetry is "A Small Elegy". Now, this title does not really give a reader much to go on. The only thing one would know about this poem is that it is a small one and that it may be about a deceased person or someone who new someone who dies. I say this because elegy is derived from the Latin elegiac, which means; A poem or song composed especially as a lament for a deceased person. From the beginning, "A Small Elegy" dramatically establishes that the speaker a s...
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Hopkins And Johnson's Ideas Of Grief
1,877 wordsThe Geometry of Grief: Analysis of Poems by Denis Johnson and Gerard Manley Hopkins Among the most potent subject matter for any writer is grief. In secret, in the dark, we have all felt a pain too powerful to convey. It is for this reason that describing a poem as mournful is generally a compliment. Why do we rave about books and films that make us cry We love these works because they give us a glimpse into another soul, one with some of the same problems and vulnerabilities as we have. We cry ...
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Funeral In My Brain For The Poem
6,502 words280 in Manuscript from The Manuscript Books of Emily Dickinson, Volume I. Ed. R.W. Franklin. Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1981. Copyright 1981 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College 340 I felt a funeral in my brain MANUS CRI PT: About summer 1862, in Fascicle 16 (H 53) I felt a Funeral, in my Brain, And Mourners to and fro Kept treading - treading - till it seemed That Sense was breaking through - And when they all were seated, A Service, like a Drum - K...
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Mistress Servant Relationship
699 wordsIn the poem When In Rome, Marie Evans depicts a conversation between two people who, through use of dialect and implied images, share a mistress-servant relationship. As the poem opens, a direct statement of Mattie dear is expressed. This choice of wording, which relates an implied condescending tone, gives evidence as to the type of relationship that the speaker and the servant, Mattie, share. In the following lines, the speaker is further characterized through the description of the box is ful...
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Dickinson's Child Speaker Surfaces Through A Voice
4,551 wordsAdrienne Rich Now, this poem partakes of the imagery of being "twice-born" or, in Christian liturgy, "confirmed"-and if this poem had been written by Christina Rossetti I would be inclined to give more weight to a theological reading. But it was written by Emily Dickinson, who used the Christian metaphor far more than she let it use her. This is a poem of great pride-not pridefulness, but self-confirmation-and it is curious how little Dickinson's critics, perhaps misled by her diminutives, have ...
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Beautiful Beach In Dover
907 wordsAs "Dover Beach" by Matthew Arnold begins, the speaker is standing upon the shore near the white cliffs of Dover, England, while viewing the English Channel and the French shore on the other side. The calm night as described in the first stanza is misleading as what seems to be a peaceful and tranquil world actually contains violent action, represented by the waves crashing down on the beach. The speaker believes the collapsing waves represent the human misery. Our world has become full of this ...
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Scene For The Poem Porphyrias Lover
1,697 wordsIn Browning's poems 'My Last Duchess' and 'Porphyrias Lover' it is evident that the same theme runs through both of these poems; men and their power over women. In Victorian society, the time when these poems were written the woman's role was to stay at home and become a faithful and obedient wife and a caring mother. The most important figure in a relationship was the man. Therefore women's role and self worth was based of that of her husbands social status in the Victorian community. This kind...
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Housman's Poems
3,349 wordsA.E. Housman: Scholar and Poet Alfred Edward Housman, a classical scholar and poet, was born in Fock bury in the county of Worcestershire, England on March 26, 1859. His poems are variations on the themes of mortality and the miseries of human condition (Magill 1411). Most of Housman's poems were written in the 1890's when he was under great psychological stress, which made the tone of his poems characteristically mournful and the mood dispirited (Magill 1411).? In the world of Housman's poetry,...
