"Dearest Mother, So thick is the smoke in this cellar that I can hardly see by candle twelve inches away. ... Passing bells, Orisons, voice of mourning, choirs and candles are all part of Christian upbringing and are used throughout this poem. ...
This eventually becomes too honest and too blunt for the woman and "she turns to those liars, the candles or the moon" for a distorted image of herself in order to not see her ageing in the soft focus. ... But then "she turns to those liars, the candles or to the moon." because she wants to avoid the seeing her aged face, the old woman she has become and the unhappiness that brings. ...
She then continues and supports her first two lines with, "Lost as a candle lit at noon, Lost as a snowflake in the sea"" (3-4). ... She expects to be so close that her lover and she became one, like the light from a candle blending with the light of day, or a drop of water in the sea. ...
BEFORE DYING "Death is not darkness; it is just putting of candle because dawn is here." Tagore The above lines suggest the optimism that is reflected in the existence of life itself. For each one of us is to one day shed our physical existence but that does not mark the end of our journeys. It ...
In the poem "Mirror"," Sylvia Plath uses strong metaphors and objects as things reflected in a mirror. Plath uses these reflections, along with water and color, as images that personify the use of the mirror. The poem describes a woman who seeks and yet denies the truth about herself and it reveals...
Beowulf is a classic epic that dates back to the Anglo-Saxon time period. It is probably the first known work of English literature. There are many ways to evaluate this piece of literature in its various levels, beginning with level one, the story literally. The story of Beowulf is that which is si...
Essay #2 Seamus Heany "Mid-term Break" "Mid-Term Break" is about a boy who explains his experience, when a close member of his family dies. The author explains what the boy is feeling through the funeral. When I first saw the title I was not expecting it to be about a funeral because a lot of peopl...
It has a similar meaning to the word "spluttering", as well as sounding similar, and is often applied to candles. Candles often splutter before they extinguish, as if they are finally accepting defeat, and this is the way the adjective is used in this case. ...
Hardy wrote "During the Wind and Rain" in 1917, five years after his wife Emma Hardy's death in 1912. Like lots of his poetry after her death, Thomas Hardy's poem reminisces Emma's life. In this poem Hardy focuses on her family and the inevitability of death. All four stanzas have a repeating format...
As a little girl growing up, I spent a lot of time with a Hispanic lady because my mother worked all the time. She was like a grandmother to me. I loved to hear her speak of her late husband and how much she loved him. Her voice would change when she spoke of him. She described how she would sit and...
From the Selection of Poetry about Nuclear Disaster and Possible Aftermath, Choose to Poems to Compare and Contrast For this essay, we were given a selection of poems by different authors, and asked to choose two to compare and contrast. The two I have chosen are "Your Attention Plea...
For example, Donne uses imagery in "The Apparition" when he writes "Then thy sick taper will being to wink," meaning that when I am dead and I come back as a ghost, I am going to flicker the candle light so that you will know that it is me. ...
