In the author's view, the garden of his father's house was not very appropriately done up and had a large stone occupying the central portion. Though the stone gave it some similarity with a Japanese garden, it was somewhat incomplete, since the stone was the only piece that contributed to this semblance. ...
The change occurs reassuring the persona and the readers with repetition "Safe – safe, at Nammoora gate, I fell, and lay like a stone." The simile of the stone tells the readers that the persona is becoming part of the land spiritually. By comparing to a stone, the persona is lifeless as though she is deep in thoughts of regret and guilt. ...
In 'Nothing's Changed', a dark, sinister tone is used to convey the fear that the black and coloured people had in South Africa during and after the apartheid, as shown in the line "Hands burn for a stone, as bomb, to shiver down the glass. ... If anything, the situation seems to be getting worse as the poem goes on, as evidenced by the words 'Hands burn for a stone, a bomb, to shiver down the glass. ...
The poem leaves us with a sense of impending doom and hopelessness on part of the poet and people in the house as they feel the roots of the house move but don't run out as the window seems as if it is about to break and stones are flying all around the house. ... In a true sense, the stones, trees and mountains have been personified as if the whole landscape is suffering because of the storm....
"It would be easy to be clever/ and tell the stones: Men hate to die," (line 14) reveals the main theme of the poem. ... "It would be easy to be clever/ and to tell the stones: Men hate to die/ and have stopped dying forever/ I think they would believe the lie," (lines 13-16) clearly depicts personification, humor, and motifs. ...
A stone wall separates the speaker's property from his neighbor's. ... It involves "spells" to offset the "elves," and the neighbor appears a Stone-Age savage while he hoists and transports a boulder. ... In any case, there is something about "walking the line" and building it, mending it, balancing each stone with equal parts skill and spell that made Frost write this, kind of, mysterious poem. ...
The Good Neighbors All people are different. Some like to be around others, and some only wish to be left alone. Robert Frost's poem entitled "Mending Wall" shows how two neighbors interpret the reason as to why they have to come together each year to rebuild a wall. The poem by Robert Frost is ...
His description begins: "His flanks are the flanks of a fawn, his legs like an ostriches look from behind, and he bares his legs' gap with a full tail, not askew, reaching almost to the ground; his back, as he stands beside the tent, seems the pounding-slab of a bride's perfumes, or the smooth stone a colocynth's broken on. (65.12-17)" The description of his horse is reminiscent of Fatimah one of his former lovers, whom he describes a few lines before. ... He describes his horse as smelling like a bride and related his skin to a smooth stone used to break a colocynth,...
The images dramatically symbolize a lifeless terrain: This is the dead land This is the cactus land Here the stone images Are raised Under the twinkle of a fading star. ... The only objects that remain are once again, lifeless "stone images." ...
In the next stanza, the speaker shows how the light brightens the colors of the church "in the light colors of morning brown- stone and slate shine orange and dark blue"" (33- 36). The speaker points out how the light brighten up the colors of the stone and slate. ...
On Robert Frost Robert Frost was born in San Francisco, California. The Frost family moved to Massachusetts when he was 11 yrs old after his father died of tuberculosis. He began to write poetry. Robert Frost focuses his poetry on his experiences of life. They include irony and imagery th...
William Wordsworth Romantic Poetry started in the late 18th century. Romanticism dealt with the freedom to write about anything, the human mind, nature. Romantics became explicit with pantheism or pan-psychism, the feeling that soul pervades over all matter (http://members.aol.com/heraklit1/poet...
"Picture her dancing with tall men, puzzled by my faint, persistent scent beneath her french perfume, her milky stones " (10-12). ... The author also appeals to the scent of smell when the maid says "puzzled by my faint, persistent scent beneath her french perfume, her milky stones " (11-12). ...
John Keats, a poet who attained extraordinary achievement for his short lifetime, was born the son of a London stableman. He grew up in relative poverty compared to many of the other poets of this time. Keats lived to be only 24 years old and his writing career lasted only five years. One of his...
Since Yeats is earthbound, the swans are then contrasted ass being 'among the stones' and on the 'brimming water' who by nature are uninhibited to 'climb the air' The alliteration of the hard 'c' sound emphasises Yeats frustration, as an image of regret augmented by the aural harshness of the plosive letter. ...
The "quest" genre has an enduring quality. In its various forms it has maintained it value and popularity throughout literary history. Discuss this statement with reference to TWO texts studied this year- one pre-1900 and one twentieth century. Defined as a "search or pursuit made in order to...
He uses "blood-shod" to show that the soldier's feet were caked in blood, due to them having lost their boots from being trapped in the mud - walking through the trenches bare footed across sharp stones, grit and dead bodies, and also to show how weak their feet were with all the walking they had to do through the trenches. ...
In the poem, "Home Burial" by Robert Frost, the use of dialogue creates a movie-like reading, engaging the reader in a new approach to experiencing poetry. Through the dialogue the reader is able to intensely feel the emotion between the two speakers. Rather than circuiting around the issue being ad...
In the 1960's, centralized in Greenwich Village, a group of individuals known as "Beatniks" rose amongst the masses of the 1950's conformed society, harshly critiquing American living standards. Of the most prominent, was Allen Ginsberg. ""Back on Times Square, Dreaming of Times Square"" is quite ...
The third decade of the twentieth century brought on more explicit writers than ever before, but none were as expressive as Anne Sexton. Her style of writing, her works, the image that she created, and the crazy life that she led are all prime examples of this. Known as one of the most "confession...
