No results matched every word — showing papers matching any of them.
... filled with his resentment against war, the futility of it and the high price that had to be paid. Sassoon's feelings towards the officers are best described in the poem 'Base Details'. In this poem, Sassoon shows his resentment towards the officers by describing them drinking in the best hotels, and reading the names of those who died, saying 'poor young ... ...
... Gwen Harwood has picked up on this idiosyncrasy of the female mind and displayed it masterfully in only a few lines. The final image that she leaves with the reader is a strong, impacting one - "They have eaten me alive" - the woman believes that she is no longer an individual and that her children have gobbled up her mind and life. Harwood displays ... scattered round the room. A glossy magazine the children bought her lies open: How to keep your husband's love. She stands and stares, as if in recollection, at her own staring acid-pink reflection. The simple fact is, she's too tired to...
... has a greater pull than another. This symbolizes its beauty as well as its role to keep a unit together. Around the base of the tent an emphasis has been placed on the plant growth. The grass has seemed to bloom around the base and is more noticeable once the poet is has drawn close. This represents the role of the woman as a motherly ... figure. She has helped different people in her life (perhaps her family) to grow in different ways whether physically or emotionally. It is important not to forget that tent represents a woman. Next, is the presence of the strong and ... ...
... scope and of tremendous significance to anything the world has known before. In order to set himself up as 'The American Poet' Whitman needed to base all of his poems on America and praising the country in as many ways as possible. Whitman tries to show how great America is by ... his native land on the verge of phenomenal growth and wealth finds expression in this short poem. This poem is about how America has emerged as a strong and youthful power and it is full of Happy, healthy young men fit for industry and agriculture. The first line of the poem says 'I hear ... America singing, t...
... by President Theodore Roosevelt, and thereafter Robinson's poetry received more attention. D. Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950) - American poet, who used traditional verse forms in the expression of simple, strong emotions. Millay was born in Rockland, Maine, and educated at Vassar College. In 1917 her collection Renascence and Other Poems was published. She wrote several plays for the experimental theater ... first with the imagist movement (see Imagism), but she later developed her own rhyme patterns and verse forms using the arrangement of syllables, rather than conventional stress...
... why she is a great poet. Wright's best known and most loved poems deal with Australian themes and issues, in particular those of conservation, heritage, ancestry, environment. As well as these base issues she also deals with life issues which affect all people such as love, death, life, birth. This coupled with her use of different poetic devices and different styles of ... growth and decay. As well as accepting this as a issue of heritage Wright also accepts it as an issue of ancestry. Ancestry is important to Wright as she feels so strong about her "australianess." Ancestry is a commo...
... of the world may stain when heaven's sun staineth. -William Shakespeare Sonnet #34 Why didst thou promise such a beauteous day, And make me travel forth without my cloak, To let base clouds o'ertake me in my way, Hiding thy bravery in their rotten smoke? 'Tis not enough that through the cloud thou break, To dry the rain on my storm-beaten ... disgrace: Nor can thy shame give physic to my grief; Though thou repent, yet I have still the loss: The offender's sorrow lends but weak relief To him that bears the strong offence's cross. Ah! but those tears are pearl which thy love sheds, And th...
... hellfire ranting and Ginsberg begins by asking "What sphinx of cement and aluminum bashed open their skulls and ate up their and imagination?" His answer - Moloch! It becomes the repeated base word for a series of exclamatory phrases in which Ginsberg seeks to exorcise this demonic power by naming it correctly and exposing its true nature. Moloch is an ancient deity to ... rhetoric to a simple, colloquial line, destructive and creative impulses, is sought. "Carl Solomon! I'm with you in Rockland," affectionate and reassuring in its gently rocking rhythm. Repeated, this line becomes the ...
... to express his meaning in passages in his work. For example a passage from Hamlet that is very expressive, "Or to the dreadful summit of the cliff, That beetles o'er his base into the sea. -- Hamlet, i. 4."Shakespeare framed the expressive verb "beetles," to indicate a cliffs summit that juts out prominently, that projects beyond its wave worn ... base like the head of a wooden beetle or mallet. Another important verse from Hamlet, "As, by the same co-mart, and carriage of the article design"d, His fell to Hamlet -Hamlet, i. 1." ... ...
... by people in better social situations in society and feel ashamed of themselves. Also, the use of terms that are offensive or untrue can damage people. Overall, Morriseau-Leroy touches base on the mistreatment of Haitians in Haiti and in the United States. Morriseau-Leroy was known for popularizing the Creole language in his literature. He wrote both poems in a first ... ...
More Than Baseball Pitchers and poets all have the same goal; to be eccentric, avoid the obvious, to be a moment misunderstood, and no to be errant, arrant, or wild. Robert Francis" poem, "The Pitcher," (653) uses these words to describe a baseball pitcher. Not only is he describing a pitcher, he is describing the criteria of writing a poem. This poem was published in 1953 during baseball's peak in popularity and back when the game was still innocent. Francis" use of the paradox in "The Pitcher," seizes this normal poem about a baseball position and coverts it into something much more unique. ...
... ). However if that person is tempted by bad things the sweetness in life is lost, for it is that persons nature to succumb to temptations. "But if that flower with base infection meet, / The basest weed outbraves his dignity:" (Line 12). This poem adheres to the structure of a typical Shakespearian sonnet in that it is written in iambic pentameter, it contains ... ...
... " revolves around the ice cream maker. The ice cream maker is the one with the power to oblige human flesh. He is the one with the ability to satiate all base human appetites therefore allowing him to be ruler of every individual. Therefore, whatever insignificant regard the mourners have for the deceased is covered and replaced by selfish blissful human nature ... ...
... state that it is a flyer of some sort, there is a lot more behind the word than meets the odd. Leaflet gives the reader the impressions of nature, deriving from its base word of leaf; and single or a few bundles of leaves is but a weak and pitiful stand point from mother nature's part to convince the man in his world of technology ... ...
... clearly see each point of view of the characters coming from their own story. But you answer the question for yourself. Is Grendel the devil is disguise, appealing to our base instincts? Or is he a witty creature with a sick sense of humor? ...
... . The vibrant green of rolling hills is as lush as the garden you tend on your weekends. As line is the building block of visual design, it is also the base of poetry. As you create lines of words to express a feeling or event it begins to bring life to your work. You try to put as much of yourself in ... ...
... the depression and/or fear which the poet is experiencing. Keats has a very unique style of conveying his ideas, often finding an object, period or person on which to effectively base his story on. In the "Ode to a Grecian Urn," he uses an Urn carved with figures to convey his feelings about the topic of immortality. While he wrote this poem ... ...
... look like a mess of sprung strings. The vines subtly elaborate on the idea of dregs, both as the residuals of summer fertility and harvest, and the idea of lees, the base remainder of wine. The verbscored? has several meanings: the idea of tallying up or recording costs or grudges or numbers in a competition as in time's losses and gains reduced to ... ...
... speaker taunts Death by stating that Death, rather than habiting a powerful place in society, dwells in the gutter with "poison, war, and sickness" (10). He explains that Death is so base and lowly that it should be mocked instead of feared. The speaker also explains that earthly inventions allow people to experience the pleasures of death without actually dying. Mortal beings ... ...
... . In the second quatrain, the persona speaks of each of his senses being displeased by his lover-- "Nor are mine ears with thy tongue's tune delighted, Nor tender feeling, to base touches prone, Nor taste, nor smell - None of the persona's senses are pleased-- not by the sound of her voice, or her "taste- and "smell,"" or is she stimulating his ... ...
... , a lot of material damage will take place, but love, an immaterial thing, will survive. The word "marriage" represents evidence of the theme of eternity in Sonnet 116. Marriage, at its base, means an agreement between two lovers. Furthermore, this agreement specifies that the two lovers love each other in sickness and in health until death do them part. It means promising ... ...
... the toxic fumes and thick, murky smoke. The description of the anguished soldier induces compassion from the audience in an attempt to make them reconsider the myths of war, which base it solely on honor and glory. The poet sees the soldier "guttering, choking, [and] drowning- in the gas before his eyes. This is apparently a very personal experience for the poet ... ...
... for a Doomed Youth, Disabled. The poem futility describes the futility of war. In the first stanza Owen describes the death of a friend. He uses the sun as a metaphorical framework to base his ideas. The way Owen has written this first stanza gives you the feeling of calmness and tenderness. The second stanza is more in tune with the name of the ... ...
... entity. Who rules over the earth and is the divine power; just as a king would see himself. "Gilding pale streams with heavenly alchemy- pertains to the art of alchemy, where a base metal would be turned into the most treasured of metals - gold. This reference to alchemy gives rise to the idea of illusion, as alchemy was a deceptive art. There is a word ... ...
... there. Although it was common for the "poem to partake in the extensive tradition of erotic poems centred on flea's", and was not entirely innovative, it still seems odd that a base insect could be used as ordinary imagery of love. The speaker tells of no shame in the result of their union officiated by the flea. However his language connotes a different ... ...
