... consciousness, and the relationship of the present to the past. Whereas The Waste Land and others of Eliot's early works take an interest in the effects of time on culture, the Quartets are concerned with the conflict between individual mortality and the endless span of human existence. Accordingly ... first quartet-Burnt Norton-from a manor house he once visited in Gloucestershire, England, because its grounds inspired the poem's central image-the ethereal rose garden. For each of the quartets, Eliot chose a place name and together they function as "objective correlatives." Each quarte...

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... everything just to follow him as she is captivated by his courteous character. This is proven in the following line, "And I had put away" "My labor and my leisure too," "For His Civility-" Similarly, Frost also uses personification in his poem. For instance, "He gives his harness bells a shake" "To ask if there ... word "but" in the last stanza. "But I have promises to keep," If it was not for the "promises", the speaker might have entered the woods, for their darkness and depth which is "lovely", that suggests the peacefulness of death. Moreover, the final line of the poems emphasizes t...

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... 's attention, the writer made sure that specific words and questions stood out. For example the lengths of the lines vary and certain syllables are stressed in every line for example the first line in the poem. It is the longest line, it is separated from the rest of the poem, and it grabs the reader's attention. Langston Hughes wants the reader to understand that during ... can take away anybody's dream nor stop them from dreaming. It is a natural part of human life, in order for a human body to function properly or function at all it needs its rest and the number one way of refueling y...

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... lines leave the virgins to do as they please, but he departs them saying that should they not heed his warning, "they may forever tarry". Marriage is also spoken of in line 14, "Then be not coy, but use your time,/ And, while ye may, go marry;" implying that should these women "go marry" the marriage that they await will present itself ... Jews," which according to ancient tradition will happen just before the end of the world"(Hill 26). The phallic imagery in line 11 begins a new, more erotic, train of thought. The speaker mentions his longing to adore every part of her body. In line 1...

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... a failure, which needs to be rebuilt as a new body. The author most likely finds the book longwinded as she describes it as her "rambling brat" (8). In poetry form typically follows function. The fact that the function of this poem is to present one view and perspective: That the narrator views his or her "offspring" as deformed beyond repair means that the form of ... difficult situation. It is as we are standing next to the author while she is talking to her child. The punctuation helps dramatize certain thoughts being made. For example a comma in line 4 allows the reader to emotional...

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... from doing so. In this poem, Ted Hughes makes nature is brutal: it 'kills' and 'eats'. What's slightly disturbing is that the hawk views these as 'perfect' and 'rehearses them'. This almost gives the feel of a psychopath, yet he is only fulfilling his natural function. The repetition of ... 'hooked' from his head to his feet creates a feel of being captured, evoking his sharp, deadly beak and claws. These are the parts that the hawk emphasizes when he describes himself. The hawk deals in 'death'. Ted Hughes uses ... that its actions are based on pure instin...

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... the children not only makes a vision of innocence and play but creates the momentum, on the other hand, spaces between words, as in the three time repeated line "whistles / far and wee," halts the momentum and creates ambiguity to the atmosphere. The language has a nursery rhyme type quality where ... of "spring." The wide spaces separating the last three lines function as musical rests of varying length. The consequence is a great sudden stress on the word "spring," so that, in effect, it springs at us.... ...In a way which is, in the conventional sense of the term, clear--and yet poet...

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... only coma's to pause for breath, the narration continues. The poem contains eleven lines before the sentence ends with a firm period in the middle of the second to last line in the third stanza. By the time the reader gets to the end of this long sentence they need to take a breath physically ... written now "Dead Long Enough". Like the previous poem, this poem also has an exceptionally long first sentence continues through two verses into the 25th line of the poem which begins the third stanza. The reader can sense the purposeful stride of the narrator from the long length of this firs...

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... only coma's to pause for breath, the narration continues. The poem contains eleven lines before the sentence ends with a firm period in the middle of the second to last line in the third stanza. By the time the reader gets to the end of this long sentence they need to take a breath physically ... written now "Dead Long Enough". Like the previous poem, this poem also has an exceptionally long first sentence continues through two verses into the 25th line of the poem which begins the third stanza. The reader can sense the purposeful stride of the narrator from the long length of this firs...

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... he can not recall the life he is currently living. The poem begins the man is just leaving the hospital. As the poem progresses, he is back in his home being taken care of by his wife. He remembers the house as his own, but has no working memory of his wife. He even remembers ... him. Actually, This new life has been forced upon both of them because neither of them asked for this horrible disease. I find that there is a significance in the mention of the man's return from the hospital because it is much like a mother bringing her newborn back from the hospital. Alzheimer's disease takes a...

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... , four/ And four and a half.' The list of three emphasizes the rapidity in which these pike grew making them seem frightening as they are in a race to grow big enough to kill. The final line of this stanza uses punctuation to portray the menacing nature of pike as Hughes comments ... with indifference, as well as their mercilessness in killing their own kind. By presenting this account in such a short and concise way, Hughes seems to demonstrate a lack of judgment of the violence of pike; instead he admires them because they fulfill their function (to kill) with such authority. Hughes' .....

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... from the Portuguese: Number 43 by Browning's wife, Elizabeth Barrett Browning are as opposite from eachother as two poems can be. Both are written in different styles and both poems have completely opposite tones. However, they do share some similarities as well. Both poems are presented as lists. Sonnets ... by this deeply rooted hatred. The structure of the work reveals this hatred. The poem is arranged as a pair of lists, each with its own function. After a brief opening where the narrator reveals his bitter feelings, he presents a list of grievances against the hated Brother Lawrence....

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... , who his biggest influences were. Gertrude Stein's syntactical and Amy Lowell's imagistic experiments influenced Cummings greatly and are exceptionally clear in his writing. Cummings has a few trademark techniques which are apparent in all his poetry, in some way or another. Adverbs that function as nouns, lower case "i" instead of upper case "I", lyric form and simplistic views of the world are a few of ... his trademark techniques. Cummings has very unregulated structure to his poetry, in regards to his punctuation and form. He uses what appears ... to be random punctuation, although...

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... / What wealth the show had brought to me," clearly violating the strict rhyme scheme. The suggestion of imagery and mood is another important function served by the poet's word choice. "The subject of these stanzas is rather an elementary feeling and simple impression...upon the imaginative faculty..."( ... Brennan 140). As the speaker references the daffodils, he speaks of them being infinite in number. The word "host," when speaking of the golden daffodils, create a feeling of infinite numbers of the flowers, which then enables the ... magnificence" (Brennan 141). The imagery generated...

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... for the mind. Blake uses an adult to post his questions, in contrast to the child in "The Lamb". He questions the issue of creation and in the poem offers a strong comment on industry and its effect on society. The poem is written in four, four line rhyming stanzas. The treatment of language in Songs of experience is grimmer and more economical. The ordered rational stanzas ... night: What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry." As can be seen, the poem is packed with alliteration, even in the first stanza. This is evident in the repetition of the T and B sound in the fi...

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... we have not proofs of the existence of God. But in the following lines, the poet contradicts what he had said before in the first stanza, "we have but faith" and he writes that it is just for knowledge and trust that we believe in things we see "it comes from thee", moreover in line 22 when man has no fear, "we mock thee". Surely ... this cyclical time changes into a more linear time endowed by the immanence of death, represented by "the Shadow"; it is more explicit in another verse this concept of seasonal time "And every winter change to spring" in section 54 line 16. In my opinion...

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